February 3, 2014

February 3, 2014

Hey everyone!

So this last week was pretty good. Elder Kearon from the seventy came and did a zone conference for all the missionaries. It has amazed me how often we get to hear from general authorities in the mission. This last week was great as far as teaching goes. We have two people who should get baptized at the end of the month and so far both are doing really well. Another cool thing that happened is a lady in the ward asked us to come teach her nephews who are not members. Hopefully that will go well and they will want to learn more.

This week we have interviews with President Poznanski and exchanges with our district leader. Should be a good week.

Elder Lerdahl

January 20, 2014

January 20, 2014

Hey everyone!

So this week was a pretty relaxed week. The only thing out of the normal that happened was that President Poznanski came to our district meeting. He gave us a short training that was really nice.

Other than that we did a not of pass-backs. The most exciting part of the week was that a member came up to us yesterday and told us that her daughter who is 12 is not baptized and that the daughter's father just consented so that she can be baptized. We are going to go teach her this week and hopefully she will get baptized in the next few weeks.

We also made some good progress with some other investigators and were able to see a few less actives. One of the less actives here has been to church the last three weeks in a row so we are happy about that.

Last week we took advantage of the sales here and I got a new suit to come home in. It is super French so be ready!

Elder Lerdahl

January 13, 2014

January 13, 2014

Hey everyone!

So this week was pretty good. I got to go to a town called Compiegne for exchanges. It was a nice little city and it was fun to get out of the big city of Paris for a little while. While on exchanges, we went porting and got let in twice by two different families so that was really cool.

Other than that this week was a pretty normal week. We did a lot of finding and found some cool potential investigators so that was great.

Well that is pretty much it for this week.

Elder Lerdahl

January 6, 2014

January 6, 2014

Hey everyone!

So this week was for the most part pretty boring. We had a lot of our appointments get cancelled so that was unfortunate. On the upside we had some fun moments.

Last Friday we met a guy named H**** who is from Haiti. We talked a bunch about religion and what not and he then invited us to come to his church with him. In principle I had to accept, because we invite people all the time to our church and they never come, so I had to accept his invite.

So anyways, Sunday after our church services we went to his and I will never forget it. The meetings started at two so we arrived a few minutes early and met up with H****. We went in at sat down and to start their meeting everyone got on their knees and said a personal prayer. When we finished we sat back down and waited for the rest of the people to finish praying. About a half hour later people started randomly singing while praying. They would sing for a few minutes then go back to their prayer. This continued for an hour and a half.

We had told H**** we had to go at 4:00 so at 3:30 he sent a text to the pasteur telling the pasteur that there were visitors and that we wanted to hear some of the preaching before we had to go. Well it was obvious that we were visiting because we were the only two white people there haha.

Anyways to start the meeting they sang a song while a full band (drums, guitar, bass, piano, saxophone, trombone, etc) played. The pasteur then made some announcements for their local congregation, he then announced that visitors were present. He called us to go up front. We did and he then gave me the microphone. Haha I wanted so bad to yell "The Book of Mormon is the word of God" Instead, I presented myself and gave the mic to my comp so he could as well. At the end of our introduction we expressed our thanks to them and how we were happy to come worship with them. They yelled out a bunch of hallelujah's as we went back to our seats.

Unfortunately by this time it was 3:50 so we only got to see 10 minutes of their meeting, but it was super fun.

Well compared to our church experience yesterday anything else I could write would just be boring haha. I hope you all have a great week!

Elder Lerdahl

December 23, 2013

December 23, 2013

Hey Everyone!

This last week was pretty good. We had a lot of cancelled appointments with everyone being so busy will the holidays, but we still managed to see some people and make some progress with some investigators. The coolest thing that happened was yesterday a guy showed up at church that we didn't recognize, so we started talking to him and turns out he has been inactive for years. He had a dream last week that he went to church and when he woke up he knew he needed to come back. He is a really cool guy, he will need retaught a little so It should be fun to work with him.

This week we have a lot of appointments set up. I am really excited for Christmas and a week full of lessons!

JOYEUX NOËL!

Elder Lerdahl

December 17, 2013

December 17, 2013

 

Hey everyone!

This last week was pretty good. We had transfers so Elder B*** went home and I got my new companion Elder W***. He has been out for about a year and a half and is from the Boston area.

Last week we found a couple of new investigators, so that was really exciting. Things in our area are going really well and I think that we will start seeing some baptisms soon. As of now we have two baptism dates for the end of the month so we just need them to hold out.

Yesterday we had a big conference for all of the missionaries in Paris. It was our zone conference and then after finishing the spiritual part we had a white elephant gift exchange and a big Christmas dinner. It was a lot of fun. You will have to look for a video of us all on facebook. We did a little video to thank families and friends for their love and support. It was a Christmas miracle that President let us throw our hats in the church haha!

Today we are going to see some underground tunnels in Paris. That should be cool.

-Elder Lerdahl

December 9, 2013

December 9, 2013

Hey Everyone!

So this week was pretty good. We had a lot of appointments and had one of our amis come to church for the first time. He is making really good progress and we are hoping to fix a baptismal date with him tomorrow night. 

This week we were able to teach more with the members here which went really well. Having members at the lessons is so important to help the investigators progress.

Today was Elder B's last p-day. We went up to Sacre-Coeur which is a cathedral overlooking Paris. We also got some pastries after doing a 1 week no carb diet. 

So this week I will be moving to a different apartment and I will be getting a new companion. Life will be interesting that is for sure!

Elder Lerdahl