We had an amazing week this week, I'm so happy to be here in Perpignan !!! I hope president forgets about me and just leaves me here.
1) So we had a couple fun lessons with our ami Bruno, and I keep being amazed with how members are just able to come to our lessons with him, and how each of them has something to add to the conversation that's exactly what he needs. We invited him to be baptized the 5th of October and he said yes ! So we're helping him get ready for that 😁
2) about half way through the week we went contacting. We were walking for like an hour and saw nobody. We finally see someone coming our way and we stop him. He tells us he wants to learn about the word of God. We got his number and later in the week went to his house. He had so many questions we practically ended up teaching a bit of each lesson! Hes gonna take a while to be invited to baptism, but it was just so cool because we contacted for hours and the only person we saw, became an ami!
3) we got a referral from our president. He told us there's a lady in our area who wants the missionaries to come to her house. We ran out there and fixed a rendez-vous with her. Turns out, shes actually baptized in the church, and wants to come back ! We've had 2 lessons with her already and she's had such amazing questions, and she really wants to know more. It's so cool to see her progress already !
4) we went out of our comfort zones. We were at church and a member was telling us how shes been running a lot! We told her we are trying to get into shape too. She told us we could go running with her ! I said "yeah maybe one day haha." She then said, "okay. Tomorrow when I drop my kids of for school, I'll pick you up and we can go running together." So we went on a run with her today at a gorgeous lake! And lo and behold, I enjoyed myself ! Generally I hate running or anything remotely athletic, but my companion has gotten me to work out enough recently that I actually enjoyed myself !
4) One of my favorite miracles this week was actually not a huge miracle, but I'm super grateful for it. We had a lesson this week with a returning member who lives a little further away, so arranging transportation via buses is always exciting. And then the bus didn't come... and it didn't come, and it didn't come. We'd called once to see if they could pick us up, and there was no response. The second time we called, they picked up, and I was in the middle of telling them we couldn't make it, when the bus pulled up ! So we went ! Next challenge- this bus was broken. The bus driver literally had to restart it by jumping out of the bus and pushing a couple buttons under a side panel after each stop. He was such a good sport about it though, what a bro. But anyways, because our original plans were going to get us there 20 minutes early, we were only five minutes late ! Then it turned out that the member was tired that day, so the short and simple lesson we'd felt impressed to make was exactly what she needed. When we left her house, we literally had no idea how we were making it home. Our transport application had stopped working, so we literally had no idea when or if any buses were coming, especially because the bus running was broken, which obviously made it significantly less reliable. But my companion said, "I have faith that one will come within the hour." And I had the thought that we're on God's errand, so He'll line it all up. And a bus came 10 minutes later. Perfect ! And then our connection for the next bus was literally flawless, so we got to do language study at home, instead of out under the sun. It wasn't anything astounding, but sitting there waiting for that first connecting bus- halfway to her house, but unsure if we'd make it- I was feeling really worn down. So I prayed and asked God to help things work out, because I was tired, but I was doing my best. And He made it enough. I know that God can and will do the same thing for all of you, even if His response is just giving you the strength and energy and patience to keep going when the answer is no.
Now we're headed to Toulouse for zone conference and exchanges, so life continues to be crazy, but awesome !
Love y'all !
Soeur Cate
Me on the ground with a baby lizard, because I love those things, and a cool motorcycle 😁
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