Soeur Sarah Hunt France Paris Mission: You're a Satanist Sect!!!

Hello hello! What a fast week. This week has a few stories that I'm excited to share. This week has been only street contacting, JK we had 2 lessons with our ami Jacques. Our contacting sessions were really fun and we were able to have some great conversations. I hope to have been able to strengthen their faith in some way. It's always such a pleasure to be able to meet new people and help them with anything they are going through. I feel so blessed to be able to talk to so many people in a day. That's my favorite thing about the mission so far. Meeting new people, whether that be companions or members or just people on the street. It's so enlightening to see things from other’s perspective. I wish I could expound all my thoughts into words, so you could understand what I learn! It's crazy!

There was a fire in centre ville (downtown). It was something different to change things up around here a bit. I don’t have anything else to say about it, but it was something different. Kinda cool and different, but not because it's sad...

Anyways, we were walking one day, and this guy saw us and stopped us. He was telling us that he was an Evangelist preacher, but he's done with it all now. He doesn't believe anymore. He said it was sad. He prayed a ton and a ton but got no response. He got angry at God, took a gun and shot multiple times towards the sky. He said he'd lost family and friends and he didn't think God was there for him, so he gave up. But he thought it was really good that we were young and faithful. He told us to keep it. Never let it go. He said he had no more faith, but I think that's a lie. He has faith because he knew it was important to have faith, I know he feels something even though it's small. I know we were an answer to his prayers in a way, even though we didn't get to go far with him. It shows that God hears him because we met him and gave him a card and told him to never hesitate to call us. He was very nice, a little interesting. I was so happy to meet him, and I hope to be able to meet him again or he decides to meet missionaries later. I know God led us to him.

OK moving on to the next story... Haha, we went to the post office to buy some stamps and I guess one of the workers realized I was American because he started speaking English to me... Lol probably because I'm not as familiar with words unless it's gospel related. But then he came back to us and he saw our tags and was like oh Jesus Christ! Oh, I know you... later when we were waiting for our stamps, I heard him whisper to his co-workers... "it's the Mormons..." hahaha I thought it was so funny. I could feel everyone's eyes on us and I was trying to be a good representative of Jesus Christ because for some people it’s the closest thing they'll get to our church in a way. I hope to give our card to the guy who recognized us next time because he seemed intrigued.

One last story I'd like to share is another time we were walking down the street and I stopped this lady. She seemed nice. She stopped, I told her we didn't want to take up a lot of her time and that's when she spoke in English to us and said “yes, yes go on.” I was trying to be friendly, so I said oh wow you speak good English and then she said “yes I do is there a reason you're talking to me?” I then realized I needed to get talking or nothing was going to happen. So, I told her we were missionaries for our church, immediately she started to play the air violin and at that point I thought something was officially off. I hesitated but tried to ignore it and continued, she says “no, no I know who you are.” I asked, “oh what do you know?” She just started shaking her head and I thought to myself, ok I need to make it clear who we are exactly. I began to explain that we were just Christian, and she stopped me, saying “no you’re not.” I just stood there waiting for an explanation, then she shook her head again and I tried to continue saying we believe in Christ and... She interrupted saying, “you're a Satanist sect.” LOL, didn't see that coming (I mean I guess we both were wearing red 😉..). So, she started to leave, I let her, I didn't know what else to say, but then I asked if we could give her our card obviously she said no but said before she left, “search and you will find...” Huh, I’m thinking, I search and find all day long. The scriptures, the people, I know it's true, but alright. Have a nice day!

We also had a cool experience doing calls. We went through our phone and 2nd to last one his name is Vincent and he remembered us and was hoping to get in contact with us. Cool! He met the missionaries 30 years ago from playing baseball. Cool again! He came to church and he stayed the whole time! He got along well with the members. Ome even remembered him. He also learned lots from our really awesome discussions. His only major problem is that he smokes a ton. Like once an hour. But other than that, lets hope to keep his attention and teach him so he comes closer to Christ!

We met the new district which now consists of, Elder Cox, Elder Nicoll, Elder Cheng, Elder Tropnas, Skoozy and myself. It’s a fun group!

I'm excited for another week to learn more things. Soeur Skouson makes my day. She's the best. She's so humble and hardworking. I'm so glad I've been able to learn from her.

Have a great week and aren't we all blessed to have the sun?! Il faut profiter! (we must take advantage) Love you all and I'm going to pray for you this week!

Soeur Hunt