So this
week was pretty slow but it was good. My highlight was a less active
visit that we went to. We met him about three weeks ago during what we
call "reach out night" here. The ward gets together and splits up and
then goes and invites less actives to activities and what not. So me and
some members here went and invited a less active member to General
Conference and a lunch think. The following Sunday he came to General
Conference and really enjoyed it so we set up the appointment with him
for last Thursday. When we got there he had definitely outdone himself!
He had an apple tart, ice cream and fresh fruit all ready for us! He
served a mission in Belgium and so we ended up just talking and getting
to know him for about 40 minutes. He is way cool but unfortunately he
told us he feels like he doesn't really have a place at church anymore
because the path of the church is to get married and have a family and
he is 40 and has not done that, or in his words he is off the path. He
for sure has a place in the ward here! But I totally understand where he
is coming from. After that we were going to start talking about what
we had prepared, but Elder Manivanh and I both got the feeling that we
should do something different. I bore my testimony about the Book of
Mormon and actively participating in the gospel and then Elder Manivanh
shared Moroni 10: 3-5 with him. It is of course verses he has read
hundreds of times but it was really powerful! I have the feeling that
as we read that the memories of himself hearing it when he was being
taught by the missionaries, and then the memories of all the times he
shared it with others on his mission came flooding back to him! At the
end of the appoinment we committed him to come to church so that the
Lord could bless him more in his life. He responded by saying that he
couldn't for sure say if he would come but that he would think about it.
Well, Sunday he came and I think he really enjoyed it! The ward all
remembered him from about 7 years ago and it was just great!
The other highlight of my week is that I started reading Jesus the
Christ. Wow is that book crazy! It took me a while to get into it
because it is pretty deep stuff but after about twenty minutes, I was
hooked! Yesterday during P-day I spent about an hour and a half just
reading it! I am learning so much about Christ and his divine mission.
Last Saturday we got transfer emails. Elder Manivanh is leaving and
going to Dunkerque a small town in the north of France, and I am
getting a new companion named Elder Kusseling. He is from Lyon, France
and has been out just over a year I think. I talked to him on the phone
and I think it will be a good transfer. I will learn a lot of French
and I have a feeling we will work hard and get along really well
together. Sister Pymm, one of the sisters here in Luxembourg, is leaving
too, but the other two sisters are staying. I am bummed to have Elder
Manivanh and Sister Pymm leave, but I am also really excited for this
transfer!
Other than all that, is was a pretty normal week. We have been
struggling to find new people to teach and the investigators we have now
are progressing very slowly but it has let us do some less-active and
recent convert work so I guess that is not too bad. I am excited to get
out there and find some new people to teach this transfer though! We
have just got to find the elect!
Well that is it for this week hope you all are doing great and are excited for Halloween!
Elder Lerdahl
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