Twenty-nine

We went with the Spackmans to a nice villa called Ornnon, It was probably my favorite place I have been in France so far.  It’s holiday season for the people here in France so that just means that everyone is on vacation and either in Paris or another city. We have met a lot of cool people and really cool families. One day it was raining and we were knocking on doors, and because it was raining we actually got in. :-). We actually got into four family houses in a row on this one road and we had really good conversations with them. We're going to go back and try to start teaching them and bring American cookies so pray so that can happen.  We went to Lausanne for zone training. Our mission has a goal to get 187 people committed to be baptized before we have the Elder Todd Christofferson at our conference in two weeks. It's really a high goal for this mission but I know that we can do it! 

This last week has been a little hard because my companion, Elder Brill, has been sick for two days so I hit the area book :-) It is fun calling people. We actually got some contacts it's from it. Last Sunday we got the last active start coming back to church again and she had a super good time.  We really hope that she would continue coming every week. 

Something that I learned from my mission so far is to really work with the members. At the start of my mission I really didn't think about that,  I really just want to go contacting.  I’ve really learned the value of members.

This Sunday the family Brock gave us a cordonee of a family that were interested in being taught the lessons! One of their family members wants to be baptized. 

Tomorrow we get our car :-) It’s actually a pretty nice car.   I won't be able to drive it to start off because not all the paperwork is finished.

A quote that I read this week: The most beautiful things in life are not the things that can be seen or touched or heard it is the things that can be felt. I know that this life is the time that we have to grow physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually so that we can become more like Heavenly Father. I challenge everyone this week: if you don't know that the gospel is true, read the words of modern-day prophets and pray to really know for yourself that's true.  If you have this knowledge for yourself it can be the greatest thing for yourself, for your family, and for your future family. 

Have a fantastic week!

Elder Duffy