Hey everyone!
So
this week was pretty good. It has been super hot and humid but all in
all life is good. Last week we did a lot of finding and it was so
tiring, at one point I was thinking of excuses to waste some time haha
and instead I said a quick prayer and we kept going and sure enough we
met this really awesome guy. After talking for a few minutes we went and
sat down on a park bench and taught him the first lesson. He was
Catholic but was searching for more. The restorations was perfect for
him and we are going to see him again this week. I am looking forward to
teaching him.Monday, July 22, 2013
July 22, 2013
July 22, 2013
Other than that it was a pretty normal week. We are still working
with the partial member family and an ami that is Muslim. It's been slow
progress with both of them but its been fun to teach them and see them
slowly start accepting the gospel.
This week I have an exchange and we have a leadership meeting so that should keep the week interesting.
Elder Lerdahl
July 15, 2013
Hey everyone!
So this week was pretty
good. We went and visited a less active that we ran into a few weeks ago
on the street. We talked to him about building our families on Christ
and it went really well. Saturday we went back with a member and we got
to teach the whole family. His wife is not a member but was very
interested by the Book of Mormon. We taught them and invited them all to
come to church the next day. They all showed up and it was great. It's
amazing how the Lord works on people and puts them in our paths when
they are ready to hear the gospel. It was an awesome miracle.
We also had a great meeting with the ward council.
Everyone committed to invite one of their friends to their house for and
FHE with us. Hopefully they actually do it;
Monday, July 8, 2013
July 8, 2013
Hey Everyone!
This week was a
pretty good week. We spent a lot of time knocking doors so that felt a
little long at times but we had some good success. We found a bunch of
new investigators that we passed over to the sister missionaries and so
this week we are hoping to find families and men haha. Last Thursday we
were knocking doors and we were just about ready to go home but we
decided to do one more floor of the apartment building. Sure enough the
last door someone let us in and we taught them, It is always the last
door. Maybe just once the Lord could make it the first one--haha.July 1, 2013
Hey Everyone!
Well
this week was my first week in my new ville. Antony is a suburb of
Paris about 25 minutes away by train. The best way to describe it is
that it's like Africa and the Middle East mixed together, I love it! The
people here are so nice and they are super open, I have had so much fun
talking to people on the streets and our amis are all super cool. We
are teaching this one guy from Algeria who is so legit. Everytime we go
over we see a ton of progress with him. We also have a couple of
families that we teach that are all super nice.
The ward is pretty big and our bishop is intense. Sunday we had
three talks on missionary work and everybody was pumped. Tonight we are
going to do an FHE with the young men and this week we are going to
visit some members and challenge them to do missionary work. It should
be great!
My new companion is Elder J.****. He is from Lethbridge,
Canada. He is very relaxed and we are getting along very well. We are
working hard and have not stopped laughing so life is good.
Well today we are going to go check out Paris for our p-day. It feels so cool to say that.
Hope you all have a great week!
Elder Lerdahl
June 24, 2013
June 24, 2013
Hey everyone!
This
week was a pretty good week. We had a couple of family home evenings
with part-member families and that was great. In both lessons we taught
about how God is our loving Heavenly Father and how he gave us families
to help us return to live with him. The Spirit was really strong during
the lessons and it was great. Both families came to a church activity on
Friday and one of the families came to church on Sunday.
Friday the ward did a big activity at the church. It
was a concert in which all the members participated in. It was a great
opportunity for people to invite their friends and there were a decent
amount of people that showed up.
Tonight we have another family night. A member
family is suppose to be inviting their friends over so hopefully they
come and we will be able to start teaching them.
Well
I just got the transfer email. I am going to Antony, which is in the
south of Paris. I am pretty excited except for having to pack.
Elder Lerdahl
June 17
Hey everyone this week was so awesome.
We
found four new investigators and we had some crazy cool experiences.
Last Monday while doing our shopping a man came up to us and starting
asking about the church. We got his number and fixed a time to go teach
him. He then gave us two of his friends' phone numbers. It was such a
cool miracle. Later on we called his friends numbers and one of them was
not interested at all but then after hanging his other friend calls us
and said he was interested and asked us to come visit him. It was so
cool to have met one guy and then through friends and referals meeting a
bunch of other people.
We also had a few other miracles where we were guided to people. We
have been trying really hard to pray and choose specific streets to go
knock doors. Since doing that we have been so much more successful and
this week we even found a family that we are now teaching.
This week we also had our zone conferences. It was
great to see all the other missionaries and to have gotten to hear from
our mission president. Our mission has a new goal to have 100 baptisms
in the next two months because Elder Oaks will be coming in two months.
Every one is super excited and after just one week we have 20 additional
baptism dates. We are working super hard to reach this goal so pray for
us!
This last week was a week full of miracles. Hopefully that continues this week.
Elder Lerdahl
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