Hello everybody!
I hope you all had a great week. Mine was pretty good. We have done a lot of wandering around the city and just being friendly to people because we’re not supposed to stop them because of the virus. We saw a couple of cathedrals that were very different. One of them was small but still in use and the other was one of the larger ones I’ve seen, but because of damage in the past it’s a crumbling ruin. Which, can I just tell you that a crumbling cathedral is a heck of an aesthetic. My companion also introduced me to a Danish store called Flying Tiger that has the cutest, most random stuff ever. So I would definitely recommend wandering downtown in French cities.
We’ve also been eating well this week. My companion is half Italian so we made homemade gnocchi as taught to her by her Italian grandmother. We ate several other Italian inspired dishes, culminating in our decision to go to an Italian restaurant today and then got gelato for dessert. And life could be a lot worse.
We had an incredible miracle this week where the woman who randomly showed up at church last week made a ton of progress. We met with her during the week and then yesterday on Sunday for a zoom meeting. In the meeting, they had called three women to speak and they all shared awesome messages that related to the lesson we were about to teach. She was so touched by their testimonies and said this didn’t happen in her old church. We had an amazing lesson with her afterwards and she decided she wants to be baptized and when I said I was leaving soon, she said I couldn’t leave and wanted me to come to her baptism. So we did the math and if she gets baptized the day before I go to Lyon, I can be there.
Her case really shows me how much God makes His will known because we didn’t do anything to find her and at age 62 or 72 (it's hard to hear the distinction sometimes when French people are speaking) she was already so prepared. We couldn’t be out finding, so God had her find us.
So anyways, don’t forget to tour your local French villages, they’re all amazing.
Love, Soeur Cate
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