5-20-13
Hey everyone!
This past week has been pretty crazy
with switching companions and everything. Monday we spent most of our P-day (preparation
day) cleaning the apartment and elder Adams had to pack all his stuff up.
Tuesday we taught some lessons and did some service which gave Elder Adams a
chance to say goodbye to some of the members here in Saint Brieuc.
Wednesday and Thursday we were in Rennes.
I stayed in Rennes with Elder Lerdahl and Elder Adams went with Elder Nielson
to Paris to meet their new companions and go to their new cities. On Thursday I
met Elder Fish! He's awesome, we are going to work really well together. He has
been on his mission for a year and a couple months so he's pretty experienced.
His last couple companions have been native French speakers so he hasn't spoken
English for a while. Turns out, he is actually a vegetarian so that'll put our
cooking skills to the test ha-ha.
Let’s see, what else happened this week.
We did a ton of service this week. 3 different service projects for several
hours. Service is always fun because it means we can get out of our normal
white shirts and ties and put on some shorts and do some physical labor.
Yesterday Elder Fish and I didn't have
any lessons planned so after church we decided we were going to hit the road
and not come back to our apartment until we found a someone who we could teach.
We decided to start by doing some street contacting. After a while of talking
to people on the street in the city without any success we decided to go to
some neighborhoods just outside the city and knock on some doors. We literally
knocked on over 150 doors yesterday, and only 3 of those doors were open for
longer than 10 seconds. Not a single person would give us the time of day. It
was pretty frustrating because it was raining super hard and it was cold, but
we were committed to not go back home until we found someone who would talk to
us. I think the most frustrating thing is the people would close the door in
our faces before they even really knew why we were there. They were rejecting
something they didn’t know anything about. It was definitely a humbling and
learning opportunity, but Elder Fish and I were still determined to find
someone to teach. We decided to go back to street contacting. Before the night
was finished we got to have some really good discussions with some nice people
so that was a blessing. I even got some compliments on my French so that was
good for the ego ha-ha. We worked for 6 hours straight, until it was time for
us to go back home. We went home without finding anyone new to teach. I kind of
felt like a fisherman who went all day at the lake with his line in the water without
ever getting a single bite. But that’s alright, that’s life as a missionary
sometimes. I know there are people here ready to receive the gospel, we just
need to find them!
I am looking forward for this week! We
have lots of service projects and lessons planned.
Talk to you all next week!
Elder Davis
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