Ninety

First thing I have to say is I highly endorse EasyJet :) It truly was

quite simple. But putting that aside, you have probably noticed by one

of the three photos that I sent this week that yes, I did indeed take a

plane. It was quite foreign at the get go but after a realization of

what I was doing, it felt quite homely and nice. Let's just say a 40

minute flight from Toulouse to Lyon is quite a difference to 7 hours

by train. It makes me greatly appreciate aviation and the hundreds of

men and women that failed and struggled over many years so that now we

have this tremendous blessing as transport. As you see this last weeks

flying experience had quite an impression on me :) But now I would

like to transition into the reason why I flew in the first place.

Last Tuesday the Missionary Leadership council was held in Lyon. At

this reunion the mission leaders discuss, search and yearn to

formulate the mission goal for the following counsel. Because of the

temple consecration and the focus on genealogy in which we had, our

amount of people with a baptismal date naturally dropped in amount.

With that being said, you can probably guess the mission goal for this

transfer: To engage 170 people to baptism. This number comes from the

59 engaged people we have already, plus 111 people who we will try our

best to engage by the end of this transfer. The number 111 comes from

the number of my transfer group, the missionaries returning with honor

in a little less then a month. Hence the reason I went to Lyon for the

missionary leadership council. President Brown invited everyone in my

transfer and there are 28 of us, the largest mutation group in the

mission. So the leadership council was basically a small commeration

for our group and it was really nice.

As well this week we went to Agen for district meeting. At district

meeting Elder Liddle communicated the information we discussed at MLC

and it was a really nice District Meeting held at the Agen church,

which is a house converted to be a church. The church had a cozy

feeling to it and it was quite nice.

I am running out of time but make it a great week and I will write next week.

Sincerely,

Elder Duffy

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