Last Monday night, we were on our way to a family’s house for a
Family Home Evening night, and while along the way an old man and his wife
drove by in their car and stopped immediately. The man came out and came up to
us and said, "Hey are you Mormons?" yes we responded and then he said
"Wow that’s cool! Here's my address, come to my house tomorrow night,
bye." Then he left! It was really odd. So we kept that in mind and went to
the family's house for FHE. It was pretty good. So the next day we were on our
way to go to this man’s house when we walked past this one street where there
was a guy we knew (who we found door knocking, but he always said he was too
busy AKA he wasn’t too interested). We
decided to stop by to see if he was home.
We knocked on the door and he was there! He also had time! So we taught
him and he really liked it! So that was a miracle inside another miracle with
this old man I’m going to talk about now.
After that lesson we went and found the house of the man from
the previous night. He welcomed us in and almost instantly he started talking
about family history/geneology. He knew our church was big in to geneology so
that’s why he stopped us the day before! He wanted to know where we get the
baptism for the dead doctrine from so we showed him 1 Corinthians 15
particularly verse 29. But the real reason why he invited us over was for us to
help him with his geneology work! So we showed him familysearch.org.
He had this great great uncle or something like that and he wanted to find more
information about him. This relative was Italian and immigrated to New York to
Ellis Island. So it was around that time frame. With family search, we found
out a little bit more about him and we also found another relative that he had
no idea about! He was really happy and thanked us a lot! We also gave him the
number for the Family History person in the ward and told him to call this
person and that he can do more stuff there at the church with it. He said he'd
do that. He is very interested in geneology which is a very good first step! Then
later in the week, we planned our baptism with our 13 year old investigator.
The baptism will happen this Sunday so hopefully all will go well.
I haven’t met the new mission president yet, but I’m going to
this Friday. We'll see how it goes on Friday! So there hasn’t been any
transition yet that I've seen. And I don’t think there'll be a huge transition
anyway.
With the world cup it might turn in to chaos because literally
over half of France is from Algeria (aka Muslim). Whenever Algeria plays in the
world cup everyone goes crazy!! And this world cup is the first time that
Algeria has advanced past the beginning part of the tournament so people went
nuts!!! I was sleeping but my companion said he heard tons of cops and other
people screaming and doing all sorts of crazy stuff out on the street after the
game a few nights ago. Good thing I was asleep! And now Algeria plays Germany
and if they win, it’s going to be super crazy... It’s funny because no one is
crazy and ridiculous when France plays. Of course everyone talks about France but
people don’t go crazy with it, as far as I know! We’ll see…
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