Another Crazy Week

Hey everyone,

So this week was a pretty awesome week. Last Tuesday and Wednesday I went on an exchange with one of my favorite people in the district. We had a good time and worked hard so it was good. Last Friday we went down to Paris for mission conference. Elder Neil A. Andersen came and spoke to us. It was really cool because he served a mission in France and then was a mission President in France so he spoke to us in French for about half and then swapped to English. It was really cool to hear him speak and have it really directed towards you and what you're doing. I definitely got pumped up after the conference. It was also cool cause I got to see all my friends in the mission and talk to everyone for a little bit. Not to mention it's always fun to walk the streets of Paris on the way to the train station. There is definitely a feel to the city different from anywhere else.

Saturday we had an appointment with a new guy named Marco. He lived in the states for 8 years and there joined a church down in Florida. He moved back here and told us that he has been to different churches but has not felt anything special about any of them. He loves Jesus and accepted the first lesson really well. I am excited to keep teaching him and I am confident he will accept the gospel. One thing that was so cool is he told us all about how he tries to talk about the Bible and Christ with his friends. He is like 20 and could totally get baptized then go on a mission and share the gospel with everyone!

We also have a guy named Benga from Nigeria who has come to church three times and he told us he feels good when he comes. He even asked if he could come clean the church because he likes being here. We are going to invite him to be baptized this week. I am really excited for that!

Last night we went to a family's house in the ward and we taught their family about missionary work. The mom told us she has a friend who she recently connected with and that she had the impression that she needed to invite her to learn about the church. We gave her a Book of Mormon and committed her to invite her friend to come to church.

It has been a great week and things really picked up which has been nice because it has been slow lately. We taught 6 lessons this week which sounds like not a lot but for us it huge after the last 5 months in the area! Hopefully we can keep finding more people to teach.

This Thursday, we are going to play good ol' American football with a bunch of missionaries as our small celebration of Thanksgiving and I have another exchange so it should be great. We are also teaching the entire ward during a combined Sunday school so hopefully we will get some references!

Hope you all have a great thanksgiving, eat some pie for me!

Elder Lerdahl