6-3-13
Hey everyone!
Another legit week here in the beautiful
city of Saint Brieuc. Lots of good things happened, lots of not so good things
happened, but overall it was a week full of miracles and progress. Elder Fish
and I spent a lot of time doing finding (talking to people on the street,
knocking on doors, etc.) since a lot of our lessons no showed us. We actually
had a lot of success. We taught a handful of lessons on the street and found
some new investigators!
We had a pretty cool experience on
Thursday evening. So we had a lesson scheduled with a young 18 year old kid
named FX. We taught him earlier in the week for the first time and that lesson
went really well so we scheduled the lesson for Thursday. When we got to the
place where we were supposed to have the lesson Thursday evening... he wasn't
there. We waited about 10 minutes and he still hadn't showed up. We called him
twice and he didn't answer. We were about to leave thinking this was just going
to be another no-show lesson. Right before we left though, he called us and
said he would be there in 5 minutes. We waited... and waited... and waited...
about 10 minutes passed and we decided we were going to leave again. Right
before we left though, we saw him coming around a corner. Him along with 9 of
his friends!!! Elder Fish and I looked at each other like and were both
wondering what the heck was going on. When FX got to where we were he said
sorry for being late and that he found some friends that want to learn more
about Jesus Christ. Elder Fish and I were blown away, we had no idea what to do
so we decided to just do what we originally had planned. So we ended up
teaching a lesson to 10 people at once! It was amazing. It was super
intimidating praying in front of all of them and everything, but overall the
lesson went really well. That was such a miracle. If one non-member 18 year old
French kid can invite 9 friends to talk to the missionaries, what are the
members capable of doing? Refer your friends to the missionaries!
We had a funny experience on Friday
evening too. We went to a members house to have a meeting about missionary work
(Ward mission leader). He also fed us dinner which we weren't expecting. He fed
us this really good Tahitian dinner with chicken in it. Of course, Elder Fish
is a vegetarian, but the members didn't know that. We didn't want to tell them
at this point either because the dinner was already made any everything. So,
Elder Fish and I had to get sneaky. While the members weren't looking, I ate
the chicken off of Elder Fish's plate haha. I don't think they noticed either,
we were pretty sneaky. That was kind of a weird/funny experience, but hey...
you gotta do what you gotta do so you don't offend the members.
Let’s see... What else happened. Other
than that, it was a regular busy week full of teaching lessons and finding new
people to teach. We have 3 people that want to be baptized very soon, I just
hope I'm still in St. Brieuc for their baptisms.
Missionary work is so incredible. I have
found people here in St. Brieuc that I know I was specifically sent here to
find. I have already found people that have been looking for me just as hard as
I've been looking for them. That feeling is amazing. Have you found the people
that are looking for you?
Have a good week everyone,
Je vous aime!
Elder Davis
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