Jakes Journey to France

Own Our Sector!

Last Monday we went and hung out at Sainte Catherine and walked around

the shops a bit. We were hanging out with a guy named Naj. Naj is from

the Philippines and he's learning from the missionaries in the other

ward. He's super cool and we hung out with him. We were with the other

six missionaries in Bordeaux. Pdays in these larger Villes are more

fun just cause we get to hang out with other missionaries!

We were in a sporting goods store for a couple minutes, and I found

some skates... So I asked the dude if I could put them on.. Haha I put

them on and I was the happiest person ever! I'll send the video so you

can all watch. #ILoveDiscoSkating 😄

That evening, President Brown, Sister Brown and the assistants arrived

in Bordeaux to do some interviews in the evening. I had a really good

interview with President Brown and I enjoyed it.

Bourdeaux

We had zone conference on Tuesday. It was all about put on the armor

of God to increase our spiritual and temporal well-being. Elder Barben

and I got to present along with the sister training leaders. We talked

about our Titles of Loyalty, which are similar to the titles of

Liberty we learn about in Alma 46. We took some white shirts after

lunch and we all made a title of Loyalty for ourselves describing our

loyalty to the Lord and his servants.

Zone conference and title of loyalty with STLs

It was my first time presenting at zone conference with President

Brown and the assistants being there.. So that made me somewhat

nervous at first. But we feel like we did a really good job. At one

point, we had everyone in the zone and say one sentence of why they

are on a mission. It invited the spirit so strongly and it was way

cool! We also had President and Sister Brown share with us. We felt

really good about the whole conference; President Brown made some very

kind remarks about the presentation that we four gave. He said "if all

the other presentations in the mission are half as good as this one, I

would be very pleased." Talk about morale booster 😄 President talked

a lot about owning our sector and making sure that we take good care

of it.

Zone Conference

President and Sister Brown are so great for our mission. I'm very

thankful for all they do for us

Add cElder Sumter and I have very similar suits from the same store!aption

Selfie with Soeur Brown and Elder Sumter (he's the driver for the APs)

After conference we started an exchange with the Brive Elders. I was

with Elder Carlson. I met Elder Carlson in his very first transfer and

I was in my 4th, and so he and I know each other pretty well. He served

in the office moving equipe just after me, so we reminisced a lot

about the fun memories we had in that. We had a rdv that fell through

in the evening, so we just shared a spiritual thought with our DMP.

Wednesday we had Rcm in the morning, went to HFC for lunch, and then

Elder Carlson and I went porting in the afternoon! We didn't have much

success finding people, but we were able to have some good

conversations between each other haha. That evening we exchanged back,

contacted, found some cool people, taught one of our Amis Christianne,

and went home. Christianne is a really nice woman, but she's difficult

to teach because she gets off topic pretty often.

Thursday we went with the Eysines elders to teach one of their Amis,

because Elder Barben was the one that found him. And since elder

Barben left and the Eysines whitewashed, we went to help our friend

Michel transition to the new elders. We passed some members in the

evening, and it was so nice! We literally haven't been able to visit

members these last four weeks because neither of us know members...

And it was so nice to be in a members home!! They even invited us to

come eat on Saturday, so we'll have our first dinner appointment of

the transfer! We also saw a recent convert named Emmanuel in the

evening. Emmanuel is a single, 22-year old guy and he's super nice and

loves the church!

Friday we went to Lormont to do a baptismal interview for an 11-year

old girl. Elder Barben did and she passed so that's sweet. Then we

came home and went to visit Christianne again. It was again a

difficult lesson because she doesn't really focus super well. We went

to the church after and had yet another appointment fall through.

Saturday we played some sports in the morning and that was fun. We did

weekly planning in the afternoon, and then we had a DINNER APPOINTMENT

that evening! Haha it was the first one in our four weeks of this

transfer. It was so great! Haha because we whitewashed in, we haven't

had many appointments with members because it's the month of vacations

and we don't know very members yet.. But it was great!

Sunday we had church. Not too much happened. We were supposed to have

a rdv at 6:00 Pm that night with a family, but they cancelled on us at

last minute.. So we had about 2 hours to go contacting, we went to a

park near the church and ended up teaching three lessons. It was super

cool! We found some new potentials so that was cool.

This next week should be really good. We're trying to get twenty

lessons, which is a big goal in the mission right now. It should be a

good one!

#ThugLife S/O to elder Loosle