Week 19 - Miracle Story

Bonjour ma famille!

Wonder of wonder! Miracle of miracles! 2 weeks ago Soeur De Santis and I met a woman named Jeanne after getting off the bus. It was a quick contact, but she gave us her number and said she would be happy to talk with us sometime. We called her last week, but she was out of town, so she fixed a rendez-vous with us for this past Thursday. We arrived at her place Thursday evening and she said, "So what is it that you preach? You're not, Catholic, you're not Protestant, you're not Evangelical, and your church is actually called The Church of Jesus-Christ." She told us that normally she's tired when she gets home and she wouldn't give strangers her number just after getting off the bus, but she felt good about it and was excited to talk to us." She asked us how she could enter into our church, so we explained our objective with her and that we teach people the gospel of Jesus Christ and prepare them for baptism. She then said, "If I wanted to could I be baptized this next Sunday?" Soeur De Santis and I were both shocked, but smiled. Soeur De Santis explained that we normally like people to come to church a few times before, and we invite people to pray about our message and ask Heavenly Father if it's really true. We talked about the Savior with her and shared Alma 7:11-12 and talked about how it's through him that we can repent and be baptized, being washed clean of our sins. We gave her a Book of Mormon and explained it's history. She said she felt good as she read the scripture in Alma. She then told us that she's going to take it with her to work, so that she can read it during her breaks, because she's usually really tired when she gets home and sometimes gets home late. I can't even get members to do that! She said that she wanted to come to church, and she is so lucky because she only lives 2 blocks away! After our lesson Soeur De Santis and I were so happy and excited! Jeanne was definitely prepared before hand, we were just blessed to be there and contact her so that she can have the opportunity to be baptized into Christ's church. Sadly she didn't end up coming to church, we tried calling a couple of times and she finally answered; she was in the hospital! I hope everthing is okay. Maybe it's because she's so ready that all of the sudden this opposition has to pop up. We're going to try and see her this week though, she told us to call her today.
We met President and Soeur Poznanski on Friday! They are wonderful! They have two daughters here with them, Marie who is 19 and Mona who is almost 15. The whole meeting and the interviews were all in French! It was great! I understood everything and I know it's really going to help all of the missionaries; Soeur De Santis definitely loved it. They are going to start doing everything in French and President Poznanski wants us to do our President's letters in French. His hope is that it will help the missionaries get over the barrier of not being able to express themselves, and if we don't have to worry so much about the language we can focus more on the spirit.
I love you all! I hope you're transitioning well mom and dad. Are you going straight back to Bountiful or traveling around first?

Bisous,

Soeur Valerie Reeves

P.S. CAN EVERY ONE SEND ME THEIR ADDRESSES PLEASE? THANK YOU!
Also, I think I missed your birthday Jon. Sorry. Happy Late Birthday!!!