Twenty-five

So this week for me was crazy! So let's start off from the beginning.

Monday:
This day was weird. So we had a normal P-day. Then at 6 we had a rendezvous with a part member family and it went well. With this particular family the hardest part of all of it is their motivation. After that we received a text from one of our friends who needed help with his lock. So long story short we tried to help and we thought we had fixed the problem, so we tried the lock and the door locked but wouldn't unlock! So basically we got locked into his apartment and were late getting home. (This is a good post mission story you will have to ask me about ;)

Tuesday:
Tuesday was a really good day filled with lessons and they went well. Something that I need to work on with lessons is to not be just in a lesson mode and put more of my heart into it.  So I will work on that.

Wednesday:
Today was a traveling day going to Lausanne and watching a conference shown to all the missionaries in the world. It was cool just sitting there with my zone just thinking that we all have a common goal.


World wide mission conference notes:

• Most important thing we do as missionaries is testify of Christ and invite others to come.
• If you are ever unsure what to say is invite others to come unto Christ
• Matt 2:32
• Teach simply
• Adapt to needs
• As your understanding of the Atonement grows your desire to share the Gospel and effectiveness will grow
• Study and love the Book of Mormon, if you do so your investigator’s faith will grow
• Teach repentance and baptize converts, repentance means to change, change of attitude and might change of heart
• Repentance is key to true conversion
• Real intent means, I will act to the answer of my prayer
• Teach those who we teach on our knees, and kneel to pray with those we teach.
• Moroni 8:25-26
• We have the responsibility to be worthy vessels to bring the Spirit with us in the teaching situation
• Obedience is how we can be worthy
• The Holy Ghost is the teacher
• Teaching is not talking, it is listening and observing 
• Focus on people while you are not talking
• If we try our best  the Spirit will guide what we say
• We testify and ask questions in preparation to invite to act
• We need to follow up
• Treasure up in your mind continually the scriptures
• Know people’s names
• Pray, and have a good attitude 
• Talk with everyone 
• Study Preach my Gospel daily

Thursday:
We had district meeting in Lausanne. The main subject was just the importance of the family and how we need to focus more on the family. After district meeting we contacted in Lausanne for about 3 hours.

Friday:
Friday was legendary! So we had a finding day, which is basically a day of all contacting ;) It was super awesome. As a district we had like above 150 conversation, 17 lessons, and like 27 new potentials. Really I feel the presence and direction from the Spirit during contacting. We meet some really cool people like a person on the rugby France team who can do 300 push-ups in a row, professional high jumper that will hopefully be in the olympics in 4 years.  It was great to talk to them.

Saturday:
We got back into Besançon and it is good to be back. We did our weekly planning and had a few appointments.

Sunday:
Had church and had a busy day going to appointments. We are blessed with a lot of friends here in Besancon.

Today:
We went to the Citadel! It was beautiful!  I will write more about it next week but I was within one foot of a really big male lion. Stay tuned until next time!

I am so glad to be a missionary and I am so glad for the Gospel and for the peace and hope it brings into my life. The Gospel makes all the difference!

Love you all and have an amazing week.

Elder Duffy