4/22/13
Hello Everyone!
So this week Elder Adams and I went to
Rennes for a zone conference which was awesome. President Poznanski and his
wife gave us all some great council. We also got to sit down one on one with
both President and Sister Poznanski for interviews so that was great too. They
gave me some really good advice in the interviews and they both told me my French
was really good so that was nice for the ego!
After zone conference I stayed in Rennes
for the day with Elder Lerdahl for my exchange with him. This was my second
exchange with elder Lerdahl; and he is as legit as ever! He's one of our zone
leaders and I always get pumped when I serve with him. We worked hard together
in Rennes (which is a big French college town) and did lots of finding and
taught a good lesson.
Church was pretty intense yesterday. There
were only 20 people there in total so that was kind of discouraging. Elder
Adams and I taught priesthood for the first hour, then we taught our
investigator who was at church for the second hour with a member, then we gave
talks in church for the third hour. Basically we were teaching in each of the 3
hour blocks yesterday and on top of that we needed to translate and I had to
play the piano. It was really good though, I'm thankful for all the chances we
had to serve yesterday.
That was the first legit talk I've given in
French. I think it went pretty well. I talked for about 20 minutes about Faith
and got to share some cool stories and scriptures from the Book or Mormon and
Bible. Everyone look up Moroni 7:33, that's a super good verse on faith. After
my talk Elder Adams gave a 20 minute talk on prayer. While he was giving his
talk I had to translate. Since half of the members in the Branch are from
England and don't speak French, either Elder Adams or I have to sit in the back
of the congregation and translate the message into a microphone. Translating is
super mentally exhausting, but it's great practice for the French
Overall we didn't have a ton of success
this week as far as numbers go, but we definitely worked our hardest at the
things we can control. I guess that's all we can do. Please keep the French
people in your prayers.
Oh I heard about the explosion in Boston.
Elder Adams and I got stopped by a bunch of people on the streets of Saint
Brieuc who wanted to talk about the attack with some Americans. I'm so sad to
hear about that and the people who were killed and injured. It's sad to think
that a couple of young men my age would do something like that. Definitely keep
all the families involved in that in your prayers too. Any
news in America spreads through France like wildfire.
Shout out to Elder Austin Long for getting
his mission call to Iowa, I'm super excited for him!
Talk to you all next week!
Elder Davis
P.S. Sorry no pictures again this week, I
am super bad at taking pictures. I'll try to do better this week!
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