5/6

hey guys.

so this week was ok. It was LOTS of walking and knocking on doors. We now have to walk over an hour to get to places to knock on doors and then the next day we have to walk farther. So the bottom of my feet dont feel very good. We got let in once this week and it was a weird old man who just wanted to talk to some Americans and see what we were doing here.

 

I almost forgot. We did find someone pretty cool last week. His name is J______. After we met him he never answered his phone? So we just thought he was being a noob, but his phone wasnt working. He just sat in his apartment reading the Book of Mormon waiting for us to come back. We finally did and he was really excited.

 

So the France Paris Mission is going really well. We're getting like 7 baptisms a week. It's pretty exciting every week when we get to read about all the baptisms and where they were.

 

So about E_____, she didnt come to church on Sunday, which means she cant get baptized on Saturday. So a member came up with an idea to just baptize her the day after, after sacrament meeting. Which could work, but not all of the branch is too excited about her. they dont want her to go inactive right after, but thats up to them, not us. and they're very concerned that shes only been taught for a couple weeks. I dont want to be negative but I'm very upset with the attitude that people have to be PERFECT for them to get baptized. In the Bible there are no examples of people having to wait to get baptized. In every single story, they just go get in the water when they want to follow Christ and have their sins forgiven.

 

The mission came out with a new thing that instead of finding out on Saturday if you are getting transferred, we are going to find out on Monday. but I'm almost one hundred percent sure that I'm going to be staying here.

 

So for the Mothers Day call, they may be at 8? but if the baptism DOES happen it might be a little later or a lot later, but we should be fine. The only factor is that the baptism cant be here because we dont have a font. The nearest one is in Calais, so it'll be there. We'll have to drive there after church, but then the people will get angry because they wont eat lunch. So we are going to try to have a branch meal, then drive then,  but then again we arent even sure if that will happen.

 

so this is going to be my companion's last week in the mission. so he wants to live it up. It'll be good. I just really really want it to end with a baptism.

 

The weather has been pretty weird here too. It'll be super hot and super cold in the same day. It'll also be raining super hard but really hot rain. Its pretty exciting to walk in a hot rainstorm.

 

I got jumped on by a ST Bernard. I almost got knocked down to the ground.