525,600 Minutes. 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes.
How do you measure, measure a year?
In RDVs?
in Transfers? in amis? in baptemes? In companions?
In villes? In laughter and strife? I cant believe this week will mark one
year as a missionary... Just wow. So much has happened. I have learned so much,
and I am even more excited to be a missionary, now that I feel like I somewhat
know what Im doing! haha
We have been working with the a less active brother named
Frere Corga... two weeks ago his wife up and left with the three kids, the
cars, all their money, and his passport... he just so happens to be from
Portugal. My Portuguese companion is meant to be here. The Lord inspires our
mission president... Well because of this unfortunate event, we were able to
meet Frere Corgas parents and brother, who ONLY speak Portuguese. We had many
RDVs this week where I sat with a huge smile having no idea what was going on.
It was like I was a helpless Bleu again, but worse, haha. Soeur Paulo has
started teaching me Portuguese. Cool language... Who knew I would learn two
languages out here? The family loves us, and they welcome us warmly with mango
juice and fish dinners. Pray for them to progress and see miracles in
their lives thanks to God.
Margaret and Jonhse are still making lovely strides of
progress. We reset the baptismal date with Jonhse... the 24th!! So exciting :)
he is becoming more serious and being more integrated. Our members were
skeptical towards him at first, because lots of african converts in
france quickly go inactive, but he has been coming to church for 7 weeks now!!
Incredible man. Pray for him to continue to progress. Margaret is the sweetest.
She is obsessed with the Book of Mormon comic book we gave her. Soeur Bouchard,
a super old sister in our ward that was helping us integrate Margaret fell ill
this week. She has been in the hospital, and will probably be there for a few
more weeks. Margaret took the time out of her life to go and visit her. Shes
such a Christlike woman. Pray that she will be touched by our message and be
more open to the idea of baptism.
As we visited Soeur Bouchard this week, I realized how much
my love for these members has grown. Because there are so few of them, we are
able to be more personal with each of them. She is such a strong woman, even if
she is physically very weak. I can see the strength of her faith in the manor
that she lives. As we visited her, my eyes filled with tears at seeing
her so down. Pray for her recovery. We were able to eat with the family
Mazylerat this week. Their home has been filled more with the Spirit. They can
see how the peace of the gospel blesses them, and they are working harder to
apply the gospel in their family. I love them. Soeur Mazyelrat is a strength to
us.
We had an incredible exchange this week!! We did a
blitz with the Soeurs in Limoge, meaning all
four of us stayed their for the
day... Well, I was in charge. WHAT?! Again. Im gettin old. Being the first
exchange I have ever been in charge of, I wanted to make it awesome! On the
train ride over, I made a game with BINGO contacting boards and point
systems for brochures and sharing different principles in the street. I was
with a sister named Soeur Christensen. They have struggling in the amis
department, so we literally had 4 hours of contacting to do... SOOO FUN! We
used the game, had incredible questionnaires, and found ourselves RUNNING after
people we saw that fit a characteristic on the BINGO board. How fun. We ended
up getting 5 numbers and setting 2 RDVs on the spot. Miracles happen when we're
focused and willing. We blew the lid off of the mission stereotypes. We had 26
conversations. How fantastic to be a missionary!!
We have been meeting with Stephane more to help him prepare
for the temple! He came to church on Sunday. I about cried when the branch
president slung his arm over Stéphanes shoulder and asked him to bless the
sacrament. Such a special moment for us all to be together... Steve also got
back from a week in England. The second he got back, he called and asked
to see us. We talked about his thoughts over crepes and ice cream. He kept
telling himself all week "I need to do this." As we announced his
baptism over the pulpit in sacrament, every 20 sets of eyes popped out of their
heads and their mouths changed into smiles from ear to ear... This Saturday at
3!! We are so excited for him. Pray for him to have a spiritually edifying week
before he follows the Savior into the waters of baptism :)
Well, I love you. I know this is the true gospel of Jesus
Christ. I know it. God is our loving Heavenly Father.
Passez une belle semaine :)
Avec tout mon amour,
Soeur Beeny
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