Twenty-four

Hey everyone!

So this week has just flown by, like it is crazy. If the myth is true
that the mission just keeps going faster I don't know what I am going
to do :)
So this week and really this whole transfer Elder Richmond and I have
just been trying our best to go as hard as we can, and we have been
seeing miracles.  Something that our mission President has really been
focusing on for this year is for us to work with families. He has this
focus because the Paris temple will be done this fall and it is just
super cool and we are trying to prepare as many families as we can. We
have been blessed with a couple families here in Besancon to work with
and with the Lord's help they can make the next step of baptism and
prepare for the temple.
Also this week I was in Dijon for an exchange and Lausanne for a Zone
training, so a lot of traveling around but it was super beautiful,
especially Lausanne in Swiss because it is on a really big lac with
the Alps just towering above the city. Really I am so blessed to be
serving in this mission! So my zone has 20 missionaires and only 4 are
American. It is that way because Americans can't serve in Suisse, so
there are a lot of nationalities, African, Islander, European. It is
just much fun to be with them and be apart of all there different
cultures.
This next week we will actually be right back in Dijon and Lausanne,
so we will be out of Besancon for 3 days this week, so it is kind of
hard but ca va, tis le mission :)
Something that I have really learned this week is to be humble, if you
are humble, work hard, be obedient, and have charity on your mission
and give everything to Heavenly Father, your mission will be an
absolute success, even if you don't baptism anyone. Really the mission
changes you the must when you don't even think about and think
outward.

I hope everyone has an amazing week and please help the down trodden
and be patient with human flaw, because we are all in this journey
together, so if something is hard in your life, take it on with a
smile and a skip in your step and you will look back and be so
grateful for what you endured and what you have become.

With love,

Elder Duffy