Second to Last week in Evry!
Monday:
Today we had the Elder's from Melun come and play the Evry elders in
soccer. Before the mission I didn't like soccer at all, but it's kind of
growin' on me. The FHE was pretty good also. A less active member that
we found showed up and he was hittin' it off with the members.
Tuesday:
Today we taught Charly the restoration again and taught him about the
priesthood because he received the priesthood last Sunday. I was pretty
surprised how fast people can get the priesthood after the baptism. But
he is doing really well and is still reading everything but the Book of
Mormon. he told us that he started another book Preach my Gospel right
after he finished True To The Faith! ha
Wednesday: Today we
talked to a Muslim dude in the park about the restoration. He didn't
try to bash us at all either which was super weird.. He said he was
interested to hear more and we set up an appointment for the next day.
First time setting up an appointment with a Muslim dude on my mission!
Thursday:
Today we went less active finding in a place called Le Ferté Allais and
the 3 less actives we were trying to find were so far away from
each other so we had to walk like an hour to each one. We found all three
of the houses, but they weren't there.
After that we couldn't make any appointments so we just contacted the rest of the night.
Friday: Today we set an appointment with a referral from one of the members in Antony, but he didn't show up...
After
that we taught Jean-Louis. It went well but he said he hasn't stopped
drinking coffee yet. He said it is too hard for him... I am kind of
getting frustrated with him because he thinks the only thing we can do
about the coffee addiction is pray. He is from an evangelic background so
he thinks that praying really loud all day every day will make the
addiction go away, so he will just pray and then do the same sin over
and over again.
I went pretty hard on him about repentance, but at the end he said again, "pray for me, that is all we can do..". Super frustrating
Saturday: Today we got frooged 3 times. (Frooged is a word that the mission uses to mean that the guy didn't show up)
But
we ended up being able to do some service for a less active member. He
is building a fence for his chickens, so we helped him clean out the
part in the backyard where he was going to put the fence in, and started
putting up the fence. I will take a picture of it next week and show it
to you guys, it looks pretty good already.
Sunday:
Today I had to give a talk in church. I decided to tell the story that
Gordan B. Hinckley shared a while back when the two kids put the 2
silver dollars in the farmers boots and talked about charity along with the
story. It went really well. I was preparing it every day this week an
hour a day during language study and it payed off. I am probably gonna
keep it for every other ward here that I have to give a talk in. ha
Thanks everyone for all of the birthday letters! I love you guys and miss you!
love, Elder Carson
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