Ma chère famille,
Comment allez-vous? I feel so badly that the email didn't go through last week, but I resent it so hopefully all of you got it. Well on Thursday Soeur Creager and I went up to St. Dié to teach Soeur Munier, (a woman who hasn't been to church in over 30 years). Our DMB (Branch mission leader) came with us and we knocked on her door, but there was no answer. We waited for a few minutes and then tried calling her, finally we heard a car pull up behind us and it was her! Now you have to understand that her car broke down and she used that as an excuse for not coming to church when we asked her to come and when we offered to have members pick her up she said she doesn't want to be a burden (whenever members offer, she refuses). She would tell us each time we visited her that as soon as all of her problems were solved and she had a car then she could start believing in God and come to church. We prayed constantly that the Lord would provide a way for her to come to church, little did we know that she would be able to get a new car with the little money she has. When she showed up she had a huge smile on her face and she said she had just bought the car that afternoon. A member who helps her get her groceries each week helped her find the car. During our lesson we told her that it was an answer to pray and that God had helped her get the car. She told us it wasn't God who helped her, but her friend, so we explained how God uses others to respond to our needs and places people in our lives to help us. She then agreed. We then asked her if she would come to church and she said no. Frère Fremery told her about the fact that we had been praying for two months now that the Lord would provide her with a way to come to church. She said she's not ready, but a huge change has come over her, she is going to start thinking about it; whereas before she didn't even have a desire.
We finally taught the first lesson to François after having have 5 lessons with him! Thanks to the famille Vauzelle who came with us. When we started teaching François said, "Okay, tonight I'll listen to you and I won't interrupt you." Without thinking before speaking and with a big smile on my face I said, "Oh, Merci!" He did interrupt us a few times with tons of questions, but we told him that if he would just listen he would receive the answers to all of his questions. Finally he stayed quiet and the spirit was so strong. We committed him to started reading the Book of Mormon and pray about it and then we gave him the soft committment for baptism. He said yes, but he still needs to act and there are quite a few changes that he needs to make in his life. I know though, that if people are willing and truly have the desire they can immediately have a change of heart simply by acting and repenting. We want to help him realize the blessings that come from baptism.
We had another great lesson with Cindy and Nicolas a couple who is friends with a family in our branch. They're coming to the Christmas party of Saturday and we going to invite them to church as well. Cindy is excited to read the Book of Mormon. I'll let you know how it goes.
Bisous, Soeur Reeves
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