Bonjour mes chers frères et sœurs,
I hope you're all well. It's been another
great week in Paris. It was transfer week, so a bit crazy, but busy is good.
Just how I like it. Tuesday we welcomed in the new Bleues (greenies I believe
is the English word). There were 4 soeurs and they are awesome. I
"fathered" Sœur Woolley, from Riverton. Absolutely adorable and such
a great missionary already. She was assigned to Versailles, so she's in our STL
group! I'm excited. Wednesday was transfer day, and we were stationed at St.
Lazare to give T+ tickets to in coming missionaries from Caen and Rouen. I got
to see Soeur Hogan and Soeur Facer again!
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STL selfie at Conseil de Mission
Sr. Defranchi, Sr. Romero,
Sr. Rasband, Sr. Tippett,
Sr. Proudfoot, and Sr. Hill
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Thursday was Conseil de Mission.
President Babin gave a wonderful training on charity and truly loving those
around us. We do what we do out of love, and if we sprint, we must work, pray
and try to do so. I find it absolutely true. Without love, we cannot accomplish
what the Savior would have us do. I am so grateful for President Babin, the Assistants,
and the fellow mission leaders. The APs gave a fabulous training on diligence.
It is exactly what are mission needs. It is an obedient mission but there is
always room for improvement. I shared my favorite quote from Martha Washington,
as I love to do so as often as applicable.
"I am determined to be cheerful and
happy in whatever circumstance I may find myself; for I have learned that the
greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our
circumstance, but by our disposition."
I felt like my heart was going to explode
from thumping so loud, so I just shared it. I hope someone needed it in the
council. I am grateful for the Holy Ghost and the promptings he gives us. That
is definitely an area where I can improve, being diligent and obedient to
promptings of the Holy Ghost, especially those which bring myself outside of my
comfort zone. My comfort zone is pretty big, at least I feel so in comparison
to where I was, but there is somehow always room to expand, grow, and dare new
things. My friend Garrett said to me that he had a motto of "do something
everyday that scares you." I suppose it is a good motto, as long as they
are wise and good decisions.
Well, Friday, we had a meeting with the ZLs
to plan for Distric tLeader Training Saturday.
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Liberty leading the People, anyone?
Tombe d'Eugene Delacroix
Cimetière du Père Lachaise
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They came up with a slightly
crazy goal. We are going to each read he entire Book of Mormon in one transfer.
We've got 5 weeks. Yep. 15 pages a day. Soeur Tippett and I feel like we already
don't have enough time to get everything else done, but here we go. So far, so
good. It has been awesome. Saturday I started studies at 7:00am and read until
8:30 into personal study. It was a struggle to stay awake after an hour and
such...so Sunday I modified and started at 7:30am. It's a big change of morning
routines. We've been getting up at 6:15am anyway for about a transfer and a
half so that gives us a little extra time to get things going. Basically every "free"
time we have, we get to read the Book of Mormon. It's awesome. The ZLs are
pretty stoked and so are we. The rest of the zone will start Wednesday after
the first district meeting of the transfer. We are also going to do the giant
Book of Mormon contacting sessions twice this transfer because president likes
it so much and we saw so much success. It'll be cool to have the whole zone
reading and studying the Book of Mormon as we preach and invite others to read
and study. I can only imagine for now how wonderful and more powerful it will
be. Ah. I'm so excited. It's awesome already and I'm only on day3!
With that written, I won't have much if any
time to write or doing anything else, but it's all good because it's for the
Book of Mormon. Basically, see ya next transfer. Haha its going to be good.
I know the Book of Mormon is the word of
God. It contains the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is powerful and
its power is real. I highly recommend it. With all my heart I recommend it. How
has it changed your life today?
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