Rough Start, but Good Week

This week started out way rough. We did a bunch of porting on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and found no amis. On Wednesday, we knocked on 91 doors and no one wanted to talk to us. Elder Flitton and I have been trying to tighten the screws because we know why we had such a bad week. On pday, we went to the one of the biggest (if not the biggest) mall in France because another elder had to buy a new suit. It took him a million years to pick one and then we got back late. We have planning and schedules for a reason and the lord doesn't bless us if we don't even follow our own plan. 

But then on Thursday we started finding some new amis. On Saturday night one of our amis decided to be baptized. It was her mom who we baptized last week. I found them both last transfer by knocking on doors. Her daughter wasn't there for a couple of rendez vous and she had a lot of doubts. (she's 15) and she wasn't prepared to be baptized on the same day as her mom. She even told me that she knew that our church was true but she just didn't need to be baptized. (She had been baptized when she was a baby). But on Saturday night we had a super super spiritual rendez vous and her mom was bearing testimony like nobodys business about how awesome she felt now that she had been baptized and that all her life she's been searching for truth because she knew the catholic church wasn't true because they don't baptize the same way Jesus was. I could tell she was feeling the spirit. She opened the window because she was feeling really hot (at night it is below 0 degrees) and elder Flitton asked, "How do you feel right now?" and she was feeling really uncomfortable and said, "I'm really hot!" and i said "What else?" and she said, "I want to be baptized."

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

Then on Sunday I gave her mom the gift of the holy ghost (in French).  Afterwards I looked up and her daughter was crying. After church everyone I talked to told me how good I am at French compared to when I first got here.

OK so about Maddy. That is way awesome. I really, really wish I would have opened my mouth to her (and other friends) a lot more. I never really did.but it also shows that everything has to be right for someone to be baptized and truly converted. When I used to be good friends with her it wasn't really the right time for her, (even though a lot of her friends were Mormon).  It took her like 4ish years of being around the church, so I shouldn't get as discouraged when people don't want to get baptized in 3 weeks.

I'm so glad that Bradley's face is healing so well. Every morning and night, Elder Flitton and I pray for his face.