5/6/13
Bonjour everyone!
All I can say is wow, this past week has
probably been one of the best weeks of my life. Every day this week has just
been packed with spiritual experiences and miracles. I literally don't think it
is possible for me to explain everything that happened in an email, but I'll do
my best to give you guys an overview.
We've been teaching this awesome African
man for a while named Jean-Pierre and he is just amazing, during our lesson
with him (without us even asking or bringing it up) he said he knows the Book
of Mormon is true, he knows Joseph Smith was a prophet and he wants to be
baptized. He told us he not only wants to be baptized, but he wants his 4 kids
and wife to take the lessons and get baptized and he wants to "share the
message of the gospel with everyone"! He is so amazing, I can not only see
him being baptized, but I can see him eventually being a bishop or some type of
church leader and his little sons someday serving missions. He has so much
faith it’s incredible.
We've been teaching an Egyptian woman
named Ikbal for a while with her children, but we've never met her husband
until this week. Before this week she kept telling us he was very atheist and
very uninterested in religion. but, we finally got to meet him this week and he
was awesome! super nice guy and he told us to come back so we can talk more
about religion on Monday (tonight!)
Another cool story, we had a member
invite us over to dinner on Friday and she had 6 nonmember friends there who
all spoke English (they are all from England)! This is kind of a long story but
I'll give you the quick summary. Basically when we got there the people were
super nice, but we felt really out of place as missionaries. They had all
brought alcohol with them to the dinner (as everyone does in France) and so
everyone was drinking except for us and the member who invited us over. once
they started drinking Elder Adams and I figured we should probably just finish
eating and leave as quickly and politely as possible.
Anyways, eventually Elder Adams and I
told everyone we had to go, but we were surprised when the member asked us to
share a quick spiritual thought. We weren't really planning on doing this
because the 6 English people were starting to get drunk and weren't in a
"spiritually receptive state". However, we decided to share a cool
scripture in the Book of Mormon (Heleman (5:12) which is a great scripture
about building your life upon Jesus Christ. We shared this scripture and both
testified of Christ and why we decided to sacrifice 2 years of our life to help
others build their lives upon Him and His teachings. What happened was amazing.
The second we stood up, the room got completely silent. When we were testifying
of what we knew to be true, the spirit came into the room.
Since that night, we got a phone call
and found out that every single one of those 6 people have told us they want us
to come back and talk to them more about Jesus Christ. They all were impressed
at what they felt as we spoke and they remembered that feeling. One of the guys
is a newly retired Military General for England which is kind of cool; he was
super high up in the military. We are actually going to go see them today. It
just amazes me the effect the spirit had on these people.
There were tons of other amazing experiences
this week. Life is so good. Saint Brieuc is amazing. It isn't always easy out
here, but it is so worth it. Last week I experienced what it means to be truly
happy. There are going to be many baptisms next transfer (a transfer is a 6
week period in a mission) so I hope and pray I will be here to see it all
happen.
This Saturday, Elder Adams and I find
out if we stay in Saint Brieuc or get moved to a different city.
Thank you for all of your prayers and support.
Talk to you next week!
Elder Davis
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