Jan. 6, 2014

Hello again, 

So we had a few cool miracles this week. First off a few days ago we got a call from the Toulouse elders. They had been doing some area book work and had found that one of the old amis in there had recently moved to montpellier. They asked if they could send his coordinees to the elders there and he agreed. So after I write down his name and number they start reading his progress record to me. As he is reading the info he pauses and asks, "Wait did you say this is elder Swenson? This guy was contacted and taught by you!" Seriously what are the odds that I am the elder who is here at the time they send this coordinee? We'll be seeing him next week. He can't escape me! Mwahaha!

Next, getting our amis to come to church has litterally been harder than getting a camel to go through the eye of a needle. So we finally get one of them to commit to comming and he shows up! Hooray! As we finish sunday school and walk out into the hallway we see another of our amis in the hallway! I did a quadruple take just to make sure it was really him. We have litterally been trying so hard to get our amis to church and all of the sudden they just randomly show up unannounced. The best news is that it was testimony meeting and there was a high percentage of really spiritual testimonies and a low percentage of weird ones. They both seemed to really enjoy it.

So we just had some awesome new members move into the ward from washington. They are really cool and we have already planned to do some missionary work with them. The crazy thing is that there is actually a young family of 3 and another younger guy who is here for school. They didn't know each other before but they both just moved form washington to montpellier and live like 5 minutes from each other. Crazy. 

Well, as usual I love you all and wish you the best. Until next week,

Elder Swenson