November 25, 2013

Hey everyone!

So this last week was pretty good. We managed to stay pretty busy with appointments so that was good. We have three families at the moment that we are teaching  so we are really excited about that.

This last week we invited two investigators to baptism. They both accepted and now we are just waiting for them to confirm the dates with us. We will have a lot of work over the next few weeks preparing these people for baptism.

This week we will have a zone activity for Thanksgiving. We are going to have a Thanksgiving dinner together and play games. That should be fun.

Elder Lerdahl

November 18, 2013

Hey everyone!

So this last week was a pretty good week. We were really busy with appointments and with mission meetings. We had the Sunday school general president and the 2 counselors in the general young men's presidency come and talk to all of the missionaries in the Paris area. It was very cool to hear from them.

Last Friday we were walking on our way to an appointment and had a lady stop us in the road. She asked us if we were the Mormons and if we could give her one of our books. We went by her home the next day and taught her and her family. She and her husband have three kids. It was a cool experience for us to find a family to teach.

Elder Lerdahl

November 11, 2011

Hey Everyone!

So this last week was pretty good. Things are picking up for us here in Aulnay. We keep finding out that there are more and more partial member families in our small branch and they all want us to come visit them. Which we are very happy to do! We also have found a bunch of less active members to work with so things are going well.

One of the coolest parts of our week was last Saturday. We only had about 15 minutes before we needed to take a train to head back into Paris. We decided to contacted for the little time that remained. We talked to 4 people and got two phone numbers. It was a pretty cool little miracle.

So this week we have exchanges, interviews with the mission president, and a bunch of appointments. We are going to be busy!

Elder Lerdahl

November 4, 2013

Hey Everyone!

 

So life in the ghetto is pretty awesome. We got here late afternoon on Wednesday and found out we are living an hour away from our area until they can find us an apartment. That should be in about three weeks, so for the meanwhile we take the trains in after studies and leave around 8ish to get home by 9. We have been eating meals at the church to avoid using our entire day traveling. We are currently living in Paris with 4 other Elders. Life is pretty interesting with six missionaries in one apartment but so far so good.

So far the missionary work is going good. We have 4 investigators so far and both of them are super legit. We should be getting another 2 this week from another companionship and so far finding is going really well, we have about 5 potential investigators.

The branch here is really small but everyone was super welcoming yesterday. It has been 4 years since missionaries were last here and so they are really excited.

 

Elder Lerdahl

October 28, 2013

Hey everyone!

So this week I am going to be a little short because I have a really busy day today!

So Today we found out that I am being transferred to Aulnay. It is a small branch on the east side of Paris. I am looking forward to this new adventure.

This last week was a great week. I had an exchange with the missionaries in Caen and we had some really great lessons with some recent converts. We also had a couple of investigators in Cherbourg make some progress this week and the recent converts here are doing great. I will be sad to leave them.

Well I better get started packing!

October 28, 2013

Hey everyone!

So this week I am going to be a little short because I have a really busy day today!

So Today we found out that I am being transferred to Aulnay. It is a small branch on the east side of Paris. I am looking forward to this new adventure.

This last week was a great week. I had an exchange with the missionaries in Caen and we had some really great lessons with some recent converts. We also had a couple of investigators in Cherbourg make some progress this week and the recent converts here are doing great. I will be sad to leave them.

Well I better get started packing!

October 21, 2013

Hey everyone!

So this week was pretty good. It went by super fast. We spent Monday night in Paris and did legality stuff on Tuesday for Elder W***. I got to go with another one of the trainers on a scavenger hunt for the day. Elder G*** promised us all a chicken sandwich if we licked the Eiffel Tower so sure enough we did it! Another one of the activities was to contact everyone we saw with kids. It was a fun day.

Tuesday night we slept in Caen so that we could have district meeting on  Wednesday.

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were full of Rendez-vous and passbacks. We had a pretty good week teaching wise which was nice. Saturday we went down to Rennes for Stake Conference. I took advantage of the fact that we were in Rennes to go see some friends there.  Sunday was stake conference which was really good.

So yeah the week went by really fast.

October 14, 2013

Hey everyone!

So this week went by super fast! We had exchanges with the zone leaders on Tuesday and Wednesday. It was awesome. I went with Elder Christensen and it was so much fun.

This last week we also went and visited some members and had dinner with them. It was nice to go spend time with some members and encourage them to do missionary work instead of knocking doors and contacting. This week we will see a few more members so that will be good and hopefully we will start getting some referrals from it.

We found a really cool new ami this week while contacting. He is a young French guy and is kind of a hippie. He is fun to teach so that was great.

This week we are going to Paris so that Elder Wilson can do his French legality. We also have district meeting in Caen so we are leaving Cherboug this afternoon and are getting back Wednesday afternoon. Then we are leaving Saturday to go to Rennes for Stake Conference. Needless to say, this week is going to go by fast!

October 7, 2013

Hey Everyone!

Well this week was pretty good. We spent a few days in Caen on exchanges with the Zone Leaders and then on Wednesday we went to Paris for our zone conference. Between zone conference and general conference I received a lot of instruction. It was great!

So this week we had a couple of cool experiences while teaching. We have a couple of recent converts here who we continue to teach and integrate. They are progressing so quickly and it is amazing to see how strong their faith is after only a few months being a member.

Conference was super good! I really enjoyed all of the talks about missionary work. All of the members after conference were really excited to work with us and so hopefully we see some miracles with working with them.

This week we have more exchanges with the zone leaders so that will be fun. We also have a couple of family home evenings with amis and members so that should be awesome.