Forty-two

Hello everyone!

This week was a memorial week! Gardening, driving 8 hours in one day, and many miracles it was nuts!  

So this week we did some service for Soeur Lallemand. We pulled a lot of weeds and gardening is really fun. After we ate a little picnic that Soeur Spackman prepared and it was a great time.

This week I drove 8 hours. After I felt a little like a zombie :) I drove from Besancon to Neuchatal  (I hope that is how you spell it) for a baptism interview. I was with Elder Barben (my district leader) and it was tranquil. The baptism interview went very well and the lady got baptized this Saturday. After that Elder Barben and I drove back to Besancon and I picked up Elder Lantieres and we headed to Dijon for an exchange.  The drive between Neuchatal and Besancon is one of the most beautiful drives ever. You need to fly it on Google Earth. 

The third thing at I would like to talk about is all the miracles that happened this week.

So the first miracle is our ami Eric is almost done with his masters.  He is a doctor and comes from Congo. He will finish his studies here in two weeks and will move back to Congo.  The thing is he said he will definitely become a member of the church in Congo and we also,just learned that he has a wife, 5 sisters, and his mother who he will share the gospel with them when he gets back. Literally Eric is going to be a rock of a member in Congo and I believe he will be a church leader that will affect many lives. He is actually a Doctor for the group Doctors Without Borders.  He is one of the best men that I have ever met.

Literally words can not express the happiness of thinking of what he will do.  I know something that has been hard in my mission is not seeing all the fruits but it is so cool because I know that people that my comp and I found and taught will be baptized and go to the temple. 

The second miracle is our ami Soeur Louisa said she wants to be baptized! We just need to fix a date with her and she is so prepared.  She also said that she left a church where the pastor went a little crazy and now there are 200 people looking for a new church. When we taught her the Restoration she felt the Spirit very strongly.

 Third miracle is today we will teach a french man with the Branch President who has faith and basically knows this church is the church restored of Jesus Christ. Today we are going to invite him to take the lessons and be baptized.

Those are the things that happened this week and the mission is so awesome.  It is definitely hard and stressful but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Here is a scripture that hit me the last couple weeks.

Revelations 21: 4

4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

I know that is true and I can not wait for that day.

Love,

Elder Duffy