Week 74 (Nivelles)

This week was just amazing.

We had Stake Conference this weekend, and Elder Kopischke (of the Seventy) visited! What was so great about it was that he invited all the missionaries to the Saturday sessions, so we had three 2-hour sessions of inspired council. And he talked a lot about how members need to work with the missionaries to keep new (and returning) membres active, to not lose them. He also touched on the importance of family and how we need to bring families together in the gospel.

To do so he gave the example of "Jean," A new convert. Jean has family members, living and dead, that need to hear the message of the gospel. So when Jean is baptized, the ward needs to support him in doing missionary work for his living family and family history work for his dead relatives. Because as President Nelson says, "exaltation is a family matter."

We also met with our friend Virginie twice this week, she's really interested in the gospel! She wants to turn her life around, and the member that we brought to teach with had actually gone through similar struggles as her. So he was able to testify of the atonement and Christ's love for her, and it was just what she needed.

An experience that we shared with her happened just the day before our rendez-vous actually. We were talking about prayer and faith, so we shared how the night before, we went out to go talk to some people. The problem was that it was nighttime, about 8 o'clock, so nobody was out and about. We got talking about faith and how neither of us had ever really gone out expecting certain results from our efforts. So we decided then and there to work our hardest, and asked God to bless us to meet someone who would be interested to talk another day. We kept walking down that empty road and when we finally ran in to someone we talked to them. Eventually, we did find someone who wanted to see us again, and we knew it was because of our prayers and our faith to continue working, even when it seemed tough.

À tantôt!
Elder Wood

"This house is giving that car a weird look" (because its windows are half-shaded and appear to be looking sideways)

"Saw this on someone's back car window"

"People come up with funny road names"