October 14, 2013

Hello everyone,

So this past week was a little slower. We had quite a few appointments fall through and i also had a bit of a stomache bug. The good news is that it is a new week and I am feeling better. At the beginning of the week we had a conference in Aix. This is right by Marseille and we switched trains in the Marseille station with a little time inbetween so i got to go out and look at the city for a few minutes. It seems like just yesterday that i was just starting my mission and walking around those streets. Crazy how time flies. The conference was good and gave us all a spiritual boost.

On Wednesday we visited a few members and got them excited to do missionary work. We shared good spiritual messages and got them thinking about how they could invite their non member friends to come into contact with the church. We helped one couple who wanted to use their facebook to do that. By the way Dad wanted to know if we can use that yet and the answer is no. I don't think that our mission will get to use facebook until like the end of my mission if that. It is mostly in the states from what i have heard. Who knows. 

We also went to visit a less active lady in the ward. She told us to come by at a certain time and then wasn't there. We called and she told us she would be there in about an hour and a half so we went and ported around the neighborhood and came back. She still wasn't there but her non member daughter said we could come in and wait. Well she still never showed up so we asked the daughter if we could share a message with her. It went well and i feel like she was touched. We expected to have a less active visit but it turned out that we taught a lesson instead. It reminded me of back in Toulouse when we started teaching Pernel. Who knows what will happen here. All i know is that the best amis come through members. Speaking of that, i recently heard that the family that I started teaching back in St Etienne finally got baptized! It is awesome to hear good news like that. I know that they will be a super addition to the ward there.

Well i love you all and hope that you are staying happy, healthy, and well. Love ya lots, until next week,

Elder Swenson