Joyeux Noël! (on Sunday)
And Happy Birthday yesterday to Sully. Ryan I'm glad you like the position you got in the office. I'm sure you get a lot of calls from different missionaries telling about things they need or asking if they can buy it. I know our greffier does, and he also has the great privilege of transporting the sister missionaries luggage during transfers. ;)
It was a great week, interesting, but the Lord brought about a miracle!
First things first, we had exchanges with Luxembourg again, since they're the closest soeurs to us (although it takes 2 1/2 hours to get there ha!) Soeur Dawson came here to Colmar with me and we had a great time! We learned a lot from each other. On our way to Luxembourg we sat accross from a Jehovah's Witness, we of course didn't know this at first, but Soeur Dawson set all of her scriptures out on the table plus an extra Book of Mormon. The man then asked her if she studies the Bible often (he obviously saw all of the tabs and book marks that were over flowing from her Bible.) She then started to talk with him about it and then showed him the Book of Mormon. He of course told us about his beliefs, but it was good, he is the first Jehovah's Witness that I have talked to that hasn't tried to argue with us and prove us wrong. He was very kind and before he got off the train we gave him a restoration pamphlet. The next day on our way home Soeur Creager and I talked with a Muslim. Her name is Uzma and she was so nice! Every Muslim woman that I have ever met has always been so kind! We of course aren't allowed to teach Muslims without President's permission, but we started asking her questions about her religion (Soeur Creager and I are now very educated in Islam) and she asked us all sorts of questions, we were able to talk to her about the restoration of the church and she loved listening. She was also very excited to meet "Sisters." The best part is that we are now pen-pals, or will be. She lives in Switezerland and wants Soeur Creager and I to come visit her. We explained that we can't during the mission, but we exchanged email addresses. We talked with her for the full two and half hours!
Well this week we didn't have very many lessons, lots of different things kept happening with our apartment, the car and I had to renew my legality, which took about 4 hours in all, and then travel time for exchanges, so we felt like we hadn't worked as hard as we could have and nothing went as planned. However Saturday night we had the branch Christmas Party and had invited a few investigators. There was also a baptism in the ward of a little girl right before the activity so we invited our amis to that as well. We weren't sure if they would come and we prayed to Heavenly Father asking him to send people to the baptism whether they were our amis or not. The baptism ended up starting late, but that is okay, beause Mamy, and François both came! Then a friend of the Kokesha family and her children also came! Soeur Creager and I were so happy, but then it just got better! During the party we had 10 less-actives show up and 14 investigators! Soeur Creager and I would cry each time we saw another one walk in! One of these in-active sisters hasn't been to church in over 15 years! The best part was that the family Raussin came! We had invited them a few weeks ago, but they weren't very interested, so we asked for some help from some members that know them well. Frère and Soeur Tomadon went and visited them and had a great visit and then invited them to the party, the Raussin's responded maybe, so we were so excited when we saw them!
I know that after all we can do and the trial of our faith the Lord provides miracles.
I love you all!
Bisous, Soeur Reeves
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