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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

France - Week 13 (St. Brieuc)

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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