Week 17

Bonjour ma famille!

It was great to hear from Ryan, glad everything is going well for you and that you have such a great companion.
News from this last week...there are two different buses that we can take to our apartment from the train station and we barely missed the 113 when we got off the train, so we ran over the other bus stop for bus 114, but it wasn't coming for 20 minutes, so we had to stand there and wait. I remembered however what President Staheli told us at training that we should not stop being missionaries while waiting for a bus or train just because we are tired. I looked around me for someone to talk to and noticed an African man a few feet from me. I pulled a restoration pamphlet out of my purse and began to write our information on it, then when I looked up and decided to talk to him he walked up to me and said, "What are you?" while pointing to my tag. I was shocked, I realized then that it was not coincidence I felt the prompting to talk to him. His name is Jean (Jon in English) and he talked to us a little bit there and on the bus. We talked mainly about Christ helping us in our lives and we got his name, number and address! We were supposed to meet with him this past Saturday, but a family problem came up, but we have a Rendez-vous set for this next Saturday.
Yesterday was Stake Conference and Elder Kopischke came and spoke. His talk was so wonderful, he talked about the atonement and the fact that the Savior's life wasn't taken, he gave his life. There may be some who question, and say if Christ is the Son of God and saved us, how come he couldn't save himself; but they don't realize that he could save himself, and he did, because after he gave his life and atoned for our sins so that all of us could repent he rose the third day and was resurrected, he overcame death and now all of us will be resurrected. Elder Kopischke's words were so powerful and he told everyone there to not wait to come unto the Savior, to not put off your repentance and he also said to those who are going through hard time or are holding grudges to "let it go." Just like Elder Packer talked about in General Conference. He shared a story of a man who came and spoke to him when he was Stake President. This man had been grumpy and upset from something that happened 30 years before and it was still affecting him, and then in only took 2 minutes to solve the problem. 30 years! he could have gotten over it 30 years before if he had just let it go. It makes me sad when people let simple things have such a negative impact or when they go in-active because of being offended.
Yesterday we set a baptismal dat with Kamla! For the 16th of July. I can't remember if I told you about her last week, but she is from Mauritius and is very sweet. We've had to move slowly with her, and we weren't sure if she always understands what we teach. But yesterday, we decided to try and commit her to baptism. We watched Finding Faith in Christ and after words talked about how faith leads to repentance and repentance to baptism. When I said the word baptism she said, "Yes I want to be baptized, but how do I do it?" Soeur De Santis and I looked at each other with the biggest smiles on our faces, we didn't even have to ask her, it was like Michelle who came up to me and said, "I'm thinking of getting baptized." I know it will happen because she has the desire and we didn't have to push her to commit. I'm very excited for her! Baptism is such a wonderful thing and it's only the first step, but it leads us towards our savior and then we persevere to the end.
We taught her with Amanda, a young adult in our ward. She served her mission in Washington D.C. We had 6 lessons in the presence of a member this week! The most I've ever had! I love all of the young adults here, all of them are always willing to help us, and many have served missions.
I love you all and am so grateful that I can do the Lord's work.

Love, Soeur Reeves