6-10-13
Hello family and friends,
I hope you are all doing well and are
excited for summer to start soon! Sounds like everyone is getting ready to
finish school and has a lot of big plans for summer vacation. Enjoy!
It’s crazy to hear about everything you
guys are up to. I have friends graduating high school/college, getting married,
getting pregnant, getting drafted in the MLB, and going on missions. Keep up the
good work everyone, keep working hard for your dreams!
This week wasn't the greatest week I've
ever had here in St. Brieuc. But Elder Fish and I worked as hard as possible
and we still saw miracles.
The other day we met a lady on the street who
was walking with her granddaughter. We started talking and she kept going off
about how there is no way God could be real with all the bad things that are
going on in the world. She started getting a little emotional as she explained
how she was worried about her family and her grand children who have to grow up
in this scary world full of violence, immorality and other trials.
We testified to her that God is real, He
loves us, but just as surely as there is a God.. there is a devil and
opposition in all things. We shared with her our message of the Restoration of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ and how families and individuals with their lives
centered on Christ are better prepared to withstand the trials of today. We
also shared with her a cool scripture in the Book of Mormon (Heleman 5:12).
Towards the end of our conversation she started to calm down. We asked her if
we could leave her and he granddaughter with a prayer right there on the side
walk next to the busy road before we left. She immediately said bien sur,
allez-y (of course, go ahead!)! It was a really cool experience. That's really
our goal as missionaries. We are here to brighten lives and share a message of
hope and peace while inviting people to come unto Christ.
We had a couple interesting
confrontations with drunk homeless people this week. Drunk homeless men
apparently love giving the Mormon missionaries trouble. We get yelled and and
flipped off ALL THE TIME (just by people in general). Its most common from guys
who drive by us in cars... kind of ridiculous, what did we ever do to them? I
feel bad for them!
Also, this week we had to drop a lot of
our investigators. When people stop progressing we have to stop visiting them
which is really hard to do. We really do love and care for the people we teach,
but when they stop progressing we can't afford to waste their time or our own.
Its ok though because Elder Fish and I have been finding lots of new people to
teach!
Sorry I didn't take any good pictures
this week. I'll try better this week.
Have a great week everyone,
Elder Davis