Soeur Sarah Hunt France Paris Mission: Life as a missionary

Wow this week flew by and boy oh boy was it just awesome. So many things happen when you're on the mission.

Let me start with my dear friend Favor. We've been working with her to prepare her to go to the temple, but we thought it would be even better if she had names to take! So, on Tuesday we got together with a member to get started on her family tree! She was able to find a lot and she was so excited. There was such a sweet spirit in the room. We found her sister and grandma that she could bring to the temple to baptize! We ended by sharing the video called The Blessings of Family History which is found on lds.org and it was incredible. The fact that we were able to help our recent convert find family members to baptize at the temple and doing it with a member and having the spirit very strong in the room, felt like a dream. It was one of those times where I can say I was so happy. The member came up to us afterwards to thank us for the amazing experience. I could tell everyone who had participated had been touched and was radiating with happiness.

Another thing we did for Favor was order the triple combination of the BOM, Pearl of great Price and D&C as well as the Bible. We ordered them for her and we gave them to her when we saw each other Tuesday. She was absolutely thrilled. Her reaction was about the same as when Soeur Giles, Soeur Morrison and I gave her chocolate during one of her lessons haha!

We went finding later that night and we had some funny experiences. I stopped this man who looked pretty friendly, LOL. He got right up in my face and yelled words I didn't understand. I don't think he was interested... We think he was from Poland. I definitely wasn’t expecting that to happen. Then as we were about to cross the street to head for the bus stop to go home, I saw this man who obviously looked drunk. I didn't want to draw our attention to him. So, I kept my head low and didn't look at him as if that would've stopped him from coming over.... psych! he came and started saying weird things to us which then turned into a drunk rapper serenading us LOL. Although we had weird things happen to us we did find a man who was actually really nice. We gave him a Book of Mormon with a challenge and he was super open to it. We set up a time to meet on Saturday. Saturday come around and we had a great lesson. He even had started the 21-day-challenge but afterwards he said it was a nice discussion and he'll keep it as a great memory, but he said he wasn't really believing otherwise he would've met with us again. So that's too bad, but I believe one day he'll come back around.

Later we met with another member, Roxana, because she had just bought a karaoke machine and wanted us to sing with her.... LOL! I can't sing, but whatever it was just us three and we sang in English a primary song, scripture power. She only wanted to film us 2 minutes because much more than that is way too long... right. But it was actually really fun and we shared the scripture, Ether 12:4,

"Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God.”

I love this scripture because it's ONLY through God that we can have a better world. It’s through our faith and our hope that we can have that sure base. I WILL NOT let my actions neither my thoughts nor my faith be changed for the things of this world. It is too valuable for me to give up. I know who I follow, and I will do my best to make sure nothing will get in my way of that.

Saturday night we were with an elderly member couple who were very adorable. They had us over for dinner and told us about their conversion story that took place almost 50 years ago. I loved being at their home because it was a house that really had the spirit. They're the kind of elderly couple I'd like to be when I'm their age. Oh, also they're great missionaries, they invited all of three of their neighbors to church!

Just to wrap things up, a member asked me and my companion to help sing in the ward choir because they're practicing for their ward conference the next Sunday. They were short a soprano... there were only 3 girls and 10 guys haha. I don't think people take me seriously when I say I can't sing. But I guess when you're a missionary people ask you to do a lot of things even when you're not necessarily good at it. But it's great! You get to help and serve in any way possible.

Anyways I gotta run, I love you all lots and have a great week!

Love Sœur Hunt