Fifty-six

Picture thanks to Roberta Battezzato, Elder Battezzato's mom.

Hello everyone! I have just noticed (because of a gentle reminder from my Dad ;) that my weekly letters are in fact getting shorter and shorter. Sorry for that :) 

So first off I would like to resend that poem that I send out last week because I messed up a little bit. 

Fleeing Greens

Fleeing greens flow ever yonder

Before I even have a glimpse

To truly come to appreciate and ponder

What to me they truly mean

So this peaceable dream continues

Without a hint of slowing down

I have come to trust the Lord

By the flow of fleeing greens

Voila :) 

So there is so much that I have had to catch up on, simple said Elder Curtis whitewashed Marseille and my new collegue is Elder Sorensen. He is from Draper Utah, he is a really hard worker and obedient and is super cool! 

He can do back flips and he is really good at skiing, and unicycled down a mountain at Snowbird, so he is pretty legendary. 

So at the start of the week a couple other missionaires and I transversed like all of France and got to Lyon. We had a lot of meetings. It was really fun to catch up with all the other missionaires that are like my same age. Elder Sorrensen and I headed back to Angouleme and it was awesome! For each of the train rides that we were on, (each consisting for a couple hours) we had conversations with the people across the USA for the whole time! It was really awesome and we meet with some really cool people. On Saturday we finally moved all the way into our apartment.  It is really nice to be done and the new apartment in Angouleme is so sweet! 

I would like to share another experience that we had. This last Sunday we were passing a less active, who ended up not being home. We saw 2 young guys, smoking, and doing other things, the type of people you wouldn't just go up to and talk to. But we had a really strong feeling that we should and we had no idea why. So we approached them and started talking to them to see if they knew the person we were looking for.  They said no but they said there was a guy that they know who is really believing who would be interested to talk with us. They pointed to this apartment building that we were right next to and say to press the number 1 so we did and this guy on the intercom answered real quick to us a let us in and it is a super cool guy from Congo who is about 30 years old, married, and has 2 kids. He is Buddhist but believes in Christ so he is Christian as well. He was super interested and we taught him the restoration and on the temple on the spot and he said he is going to church next week and inviting one of his friends! It was such a miracle and this experience really showed us the importance of following impressions of the Holy Ghost even when at first it looks like it will lead to nothing. It was an awesome experience. 

Besides that the work is progressing here in Angouleme, it is such a blessing to be a missionary. 

This is the Lord's work and it is such a blessing to know that. 

I love you all and everything is awesome here. Thank you for the emails and I love you all so much!

Elder Duffy

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