Soeur Sarah Hunt France Paris Mission: Wonderful people!

This week was busy! We met a lot of cool people! To start we had district meeting and then as a group with the ZLs and STLs we went and did the Book of Mormon challenge! It was fun!

Afterwards we started our exchanges here in Nantes with the Rennes Sœurs. I had the wonderful opportunity to be with Sœur Crosby. She's a fire ball! We had a blast together. We had great conversations, exchanged many ideas and prepared ourselves to work even harder with the work! It was great to learn from her. She's pretty darn awesome!

God knows that I've been practicing a little bit of Spanish lately (not really) so he's put some really cool Spanish people in our path! We met a student from Peru whose name is Juan Pablo (hehe) He's such a tender man. It was an amazing meet. He had a cute accent trying to speak French. He is here in France to study the language with his cousin. We’re excited to meet with him again! We introduced ourselves in Spanish and it was quite funny. There was another time (last week) I stopped a lady who spoke Spanish. I started to introduce us in Spanish and well, it didn't matter, lol😂, she saw Jesus Christ on the tag and said, “NO.” Ha-ha! You know what, I tried!

Lately with our ami, Happiness, she's fallen off the face of the earth. We thought her phone was weird or something, so we decided to stop by her place before we dropped her for a bit. It's a good thing we did because she was there and happy to see us! Her phone was broken was all! We talked and shared another message and chose a date for her baptism in December! It was awesome!

Another time we were finding, and I stopped a guy who really did not want to talk to me at the moment. Boy I was not expecting it ha-ha, but this is what went down:

Moi: bonjour monseiur ! Excusez-nous, on est les.... (me: Hello sir, excuse me, we are miss…)

Lui: est-ce que je vous ai interpellé ? (him: Did I ask you to talk to me!?)

Moi: .... (me: …)

Lui: laissez-moi tranquilles. *walks away* (him: Leave me alone!)

Ouch. My feelings were a little bruised but, THATS OK!

Afterwards we met this guy who was super sweet! He was walking his 9-month-old baby girl. He was actually from Vannes which is a little further north but still in our zone. He was open to learning more and figure some things out! He told us he has seen Elders in his area a while ago and was looking forward to talking to us again!

We saw the Giraud family again!! They're getting everything ready for their son’s baptism Sunday! We're excited for that!

We met with this guy, Hervé, who actually stopped us on a tram a little while back while we were meeting. It was like he was preaching to us... which is what he does for a living. He goes proselyting all day, talking to people for 15 minutes about Jesus Christ. So, it went nowhere, and we were only with him for 20 minutes, but it felt like we were with him for an hour... while we were with him some other random people were listening in and trying to add in their perspective about Mohammad and the Koran. So yes, it wasn’t very efficient ha-ha. No one wanted the Book of Mormon and he just wanted to talk so we cut it short and left!

We had a wonderful night with a less active and his girlfriend (who wanted to know about what we believe) with 2 members! We had Raclette and we shared a little message about the Book of Mormon and the members bore their testimonies. It was awesome and fun, and we hope to see them again soon!

We also met with a man who moved here from the Congo 3 years. Soeur Crosby and I met him on the bus and yesterday we taught him! He's such a sweet man! It was awesome! We were able to have a member teach with us and we got the chance to invite him to baptism which he gladly accepted!

2 things I learned this week were 1st: members make a huge difference in a rendezvous (appointment) they can be very powerful! 2nd: when you find/contact constantly you open so many more doors to meeting so many more cool people, making your life so much more enjoyable AND helping so many more people learn more about our Father in Heaven. It's a pretty lively work which is just so weirdly fun to do 😉

Love you all and please try to share your testimony with someone. Let's not be egotistical and keep the good news to ourselves 😉 if it's hard for you, the thing I recently learned is once you KNOW that the church is true, you won't be afraid to share its message. You won't be afraid to tell people that we are THE church of Jesus Christ. You will not be afraid once you know its truthfulness for yourself. Once you realize that it’s really super-duper important you won’t want to hold back telling people about it. So, if you're not at that point yet, then that's OK! Start by reading the scriptures and praying, I promise it works 😉

Love you all!

Sœur Sarah Hunt