Bonjour à tous! How is everyone doing? I hope you are all having a blast this summer and are enjoying your vacations or whatever you may be doing. This week here in Sherbrooke was full of adventures. This last week we have been a trio and this next Thursday we go back to a normal team of missionaries. We gained Elder Puura from Tahiti and he is spending his last full week with us and then he is going home. It's been nice to have him here to learn from and share of his joy. He is a great missionary. Anyway, here is a quick rundown of what happened this week.
Last Thursday, because pday was Wednesday, we drove down to Montreal to pick up Elder Puura but after spending a little bit of time at the mission office we found out that we were supposed to go to the mission home. By the time we found out, they were already on their way to the office so we got to say hi to a couple of other missionaries while we waited. Not a whole ton else happened that day, we did have dinner with a member that knew we were getting a second Tahitian so she made us some poke bowls with raw fish. It was interesting to say the least but then we were able to share a really neat message with them about Jesus Christ. We had them look at a picture of Jesus during the entire length of a instrumental song and as they looked at it we asked them different questions about their relationship with Jesus just for them to reflect on. We have tried it with a couple other families too and the spirit is super strong ever time. After that we had a nice lesson with a less active named Pierre. He is doing pretty good and he said he would try to come back to church soon with his sister who is active. Super cool little miracle with him.
Friday was pretty good. We had lunch with a member where we chatted about Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail. D&C 121 is a really good chapter if you get the chance to read it soon. We then had a short lesson with Pascal which was good. After that we took our car into the garage because I could feel the back brakes wearing out and it made a nasty sound every time we used them so we took it in. We then found out that they were keeping it for the weekend and that we were now walking for the weekend. That was going to be interesting because elder Puura had torn a couple muscles in his ankle the transfer before and was still in recovery and couldn't walk a whole ton. Thank goodness for our wonderful members. Someone from the shop took us to a members house where we had dinner and then did a little Facebook finding and other things we could think of without the car.
Saturday I got some really good studies in and learned more about the plan of salvation. Who we are. Where we are going. What we can become and the why behind all of it. There is always more to learn which is awesome. I highly encourage all of you to really sit down and think about the gospel and ask yourself some questions and then go do some studies and find the answers. The spirit will always testify of truth so be open to the feelings of the spirit as you do so. Saturday we did have a baptism of the daughters of a member. I was very impressed with the simplicity of the service but also how strong the spirit was. It was a very nice service and a good amount of the ward was there. We then went back to their house to get some food after. After that we profited off the fact that we have a festival just across the street from our apartment so we did a little bit of walking and did some street contacting. We were able to talk to quite a few people and also found this really nice couple from the Ivory coast. We asked them what their names are and its Abraham and Sara. So we are now officially teaching Chirst, Esther, Abraham and Sara. Who would have guessed aha. Later that night we also had a nice lesson with our Arabic friend, Rada. We went over the restoration again with her asking more questions and trying to keep it simple. It was really good. She believes that Joseph was a Prophet and she likes the Book of Mormon. After the we walked back and tried to do some more finding.
Not a whole ton happened on Sunday. We had our high council elder come to our ward which was nice because it is now a Brother from the Drummonville ward where I was trained so I got to talked to him. We got some studies in after church and had dinner with brother Herring. We then walked around the park where the festival was and tried to do some finding but didn't have a ton of success.
Yesterday we finally got our car back that morning so we were really happy about that. We started off by visiting someone we had talked to Saturday at the park. His name is Patrice and he had a bible with him at the park so we went to his house to talk to him yesterday. He was pretty open and interested too. After that we went and visited Jimmy. He was really happy to see us but not as happy when we asked how his smoking is. He has started smoking again because his patches are not sticking with the heat and humidity. We talked about the power of the atonement and that Jesus Christ died and suffered for us and through that we can overcome our weaknesses as long as we turn to him and ask for that help with sincere desire. After we visited another less active and then had a nice lesson with Francois. He was a little more open this time because his girlfriend wasn't there to do all of the talking. He seemed to understand everything pretty well and he asked a couple good questions. It was a really good lesson. That night we finished with a family night with the family LaRoche. They are awesome. We did some reading from Come follow me and then played a game. In the games we played on teams so it was the two tahitians and then me and the members which was really cool because the elders were speaking Tahitian and we were using sign language. You can probably guess which team was the loud one aha. It was really fun. It was a really good example of what a family night can be. A nice spiritual message followed by a game that everyone can be involved with. It was nice.
That's it for this week.I hope you are all having fun and keeping up on your scriptures and temple attendance. Keep being awesome and I'll talk to yall next week!
Love ya!
Elder Beckstrand
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Perks of two Tahitian comps
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