Ma Chère famille,
Thank you for the emails and Ryan for the letter. That was fun to hear from you and see pictures. Happy Birthday tomorrow to Jenny and then Brett and Ashley! Thank you so much Mom and Dad for the package! It will be fun to have gifts to open on my birthday and Christmas.
Well we had a week of miracles. Last Monday we finished teaching the first to Victor (Empire wasn't there) and we told him we would like to fix a baptismal date because this way he has a goal and it will help him progress. He said, "Well I don't want to move to fast, and I need to come to church." We agreed, but told him this is his baptism so he has to put forth the effort to come to church. He then said, "How about the end of November?" We were so excited! and we had actually felt like suggesting November 26th. Sadly he didn't show up to our next rendez-vous and then he didn't come to church, but he is a sincere person and I know that he is serious, I hope we can make contact with him tonight and find out what happened. I know it wasn't an accident or coincidence that we met him. We now have 4 referrals from members and are going to fix Family Home Evenings with them so that we can meet their friends and hopefully start teaching them. I love when members take missionary work seriously and try to help us find investigators. On Tuesday we had two lessons with our new ami Isabelle. She is the wife of an inactive member and was taught by the missionaries in the past but didn't really progress. We called her up and introduced ourselves and asked if we could come teach her, she said yes and was happy to have us. She is so nice and very open with us, I don't know if she is more comfortable with us because we're sister missionaries or it's probably just that she has a desire now. She finally agreed to ready and pray about the Book of Mormon! We also taught her about eternal families because she didn't understand what the difference is between our church and the catholics. She really liked learning about the eternal family and we asked her husband if he has been to the temple; he never has so we told him that we can help him to start preparing himself (I hope so badly for them to go to the temple together one day). Yesterday night after our last rendez-vous we still had 40 minutes before 9 o'clock and it was cold and we really didn't feel like contacting because it's dark and we didn't want to disturb people, but we knew that we had to be obedient and President Poznanski has told us of all of the miracles that happen when you stick to the missionary schedule, so we decided to do porte-à-porte (tracting). We tried a few apartment buildings and didn't have any success (and then of course the miracle usually happens when you get to the last door). We rang someone's doorbell and a young man came out onto his balcony we introduced ourselves and told him that we had a message to share about the family and the teachings of Jesus Christ. We told him that we didn't have time at the moment but that we could come back another day. He talked to us a little bit and told us that he is satisfied with his life at the moment and his family is happy. We promised him that our message would bring him more happiness. I pulled out my planner and asked him when he was a available. We have a rendez-vous fixed for this next Saturday, (his name is Delio) and I pray that he will be there.
I love my mission and I know that if we have faith and if we ask the Lord in prayer and if it is something just that we are truly in need of the Lord will give us miracles.
Bisous, Soeur Reeves
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