Week 23

Bonjour ma famille!

Ryan or Elder Reeves, happy birthday tomorrow!  That's so awesome about all of the people you talked to at the Park!  It definitely wasn't a coincidence!
Thank you also to the Orange Crest YW for your letter!
We had a great week!  Claire came to church with all 3 of her children, that's the first time I have ever had a family come to church the first Sunday after teaching them.  (well last week was technically the first Sunday, but they had already planned something, before we met them).  The members were great in helping us welcome them and sitting with them.  Claire really liked it, and said she'll come again next week.  She's still not sure about baptism and priesthood authority, but yesterday in our gospel principles class the lesson was on baptism, so I hope that helped her understand better.  We will see this week, but she still needs to pray about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith.  A cool thing though is that she invited her friend to come with her to church (she didn't end up coming, but hopefully next week); Claire had told her friend about the Book of Mormon and her friend told her that she needed to throw it out, because it wasn't good and that we were a sect, but Claire told her that we are not a sect and that the Book of Mormon is wonderful and testifies of Christ.  I was so proud of her!  And I believe it was this same friend that she invited to church, if it was another at least she invited her; she told her friend that she's meeting with 2 American girls and was going to go to church with them on Sunday, but she didn't say anything about the Book of Mormon, and her friend said, "Oh, I want to come!"  Hopefully she will come next week.  I love amis who share the gospel with others before they have even been baptized.
Things are still going along with Rolland, we're trying to understand him and his needs better and how to better teach him so that he understands and listens, but this week was better than the first.  Yesterday we had a miracle as we did some pass-bys (stopping by the homes of former investigators).  From what I've experienced so far, they're either not home or no longer interested, but yesterday we stopped by Thérèse's house and she was home! and she was excited to hear from us and let us in!  She said that the Lord had intervened because she's hardly ever home and she was planning on going to her daughter's house that afternoon, but decided to stay home.  It was a great lesson, Soeur Carter connected really well with her.  It's amazing how the Lord gives missionaries the gift of tongues!  Soeur Carter usually doesn't say a ton in our lesson nor understands everything our amis say, but yesterday she understood Thérèse and was able to share a couple of scriptures with her and testify to her and they had a great conversation.  Thérèse didn't believe that she only arrived a week 1/2  ago.  We're hopefully going to go see her again this next week-end, I hope that she has a desire to keep commitments and follow the example of Jesus Christ into baptism.
I love you all!  I know the Lord places people in our paths and sends missionaries to certain places because there are specific people who they need to find that are ready to accept the gospel.

Bisous,
Soeur Reeves