Bonjour à tous! How are y'all doing? This week has been pretty good and it felt like it just flew by. We had some pretty cool things happen this week and I definitely saw the Lords hand in my life and in the life of others this week. I hope you have too. Here is what happened this week.
Last Wednesday we decided to go over to a part of town we haven't visited yet and pass by some of the people we haven't seen at church. Some of them were not home but we did get to meet this awesome family that let us right in. The best part of visiting members that you don't know is that they know who you are. They have had missionary visits before and were super nice. They are not ready to come back to church but said they would be open to having a Family Home Evening each week with us! As we were talking however, it was clear that they haven't been to church in a while because they didn't know that President Nelson is now the Living Prophet of God on the earth. We helped catch them up on some things. We also did some finding while we were down there and found this dude who is super cool and has a lot of good questions. He has talked to a lot of different people about every religion there is and is looking for the right one to join. We are excited to visit him again. After all that we went to another small town to visit a friend that elder Arnold found forever ago and a member. Our friend was super nice. We accidentally visited right as they were eating dinner but they invited us in and sat us down at the table with a giant t-bone steak! It was soo good because we decided to skip dinner because we were running late but we were blessed for being diligent! She ended up not being super interested in our message but we did have a wonderful talk with her. We then visited the Côté family. They are awesome and live on a very beautiful piece of land out in the countryside of Sherbrooke.
Thursday not much happened other than the two lessons we had. The first one was with Jean-Michel and two of his friends. It was pretty good. His friends were not super interested in learning more but he seemed to understand it all and wasn't afraid to show his beliefs to his friends. The second lesson we had was with Mary. She is just awesome. Her daughter sat in on the lesson with us but her sons didn't want to yet. We shared the plan of salvation with them and then also talked about baptism. Her daughter wasn't sure if she was ready for it yet but Mary agreed to be baptized! We don't have a date for her yet because they want all the kids there so they have to figure all the things out with their ex's. Mary is Pascal's girlfriend and they are both divorced from their first marriage and both have kids and they have to change things around so they can have the kids on the same weekend for the baptism. They are currently looking at that and finding a date!
Friday we did a lot of finding and found this awesome lady named Crystal. We introduced ourselves and she invited us right in. We taught her the restoration and she had a couple questions about church and our meetings so we just invited her to come and see and she agreed! She is amazing. She has been here in Canada for 2 years and hasn't been able to find a church to attend yet but she wants to have one. After that we visited a less active lady that we didn't recognize. She was home and when we stopped by she asked us why. We told her that we have just been trying to visit all the members and she was on the list. She then told us that we were actually an answer to her prayers. She had been praying lately because it been hard for her and she humbled herself and told the Lord that she would do what He wants her to do. A couple days later we showed up at her place. It was really cool. We had a really nice discussion and invited her back to church. Later that night we finished with a lesson with one of our friends we haven't seen in a long time. He is a pastor for the Seventh-day Adventists. We have really spiritually good discussions with him but he is not open to change at this time. With him we spent a whole hour just talking about enduring to the end. That could be to the end of a trial or difficulty or to the end of your life but in any case, we have to stay strong and continue to do what we know is to be good.
Saturday wasn't too exciting either. We had a lesson with Jean-Michel where we read over Alma 34 and talked about how the time that we have been given here on earth is for us to prepare to to return to live with our loving Heavenly Father again one day. Along with that we talked about baptism and how that is the first step and we asked him if that is something he would do and he said yes. We then invited him to be baptized on the 14th of September and again, he said yes! He is doing really good right now but we are going to keep doing what we can to help him prepare for that date!
Sunday was good. We were hoping to have a lot of people at church but Marie's son got sick and a couple other people didn't show up. We did have Crystal show up. She came and said she really liked it and is planning on coming back next week! Talk about elect! We also had our less active lady come back too. We have been seeing a ton of really cool things happening with less actives here in our ward. After church we went around town with our bishop and handed out flyers for a blood drive our ward is doing next week. It was pretty funny to see that some people still wont listen to us even though we aren't talking about the gospel. We had a couple of other people be more open because of the same reason though haha.
Yesterday we had a first lesson with this new lady named Adeline. She is super nice. We taught her the restoration and also invited her to church. She is pretty open to hearing the Gospel. After that we passed by a couple more less actives and were able to connect with a few of them more and we figured out a couple of ways to help them more. We also had FHE with the LaRoche family again. They are awesome and it's been fun learning more French sign language and being able to speak with the dad more. We think we have finally convinced them to come back to church ahah, we will see. Sister LaChance said she would make a real effort this week. It will be a great day when they are finally able to come back to church.
That's about it for this week. I just want to end this by giving y'all the same advice that our high council man gave us Sunday during his talk. His name is Brother Poulin and is from Drummondville. He advised us to put our priorities straight by putting God first, Family second, work third, and everything else after. He promised us that if we do so then we will have more joy and Happiness in our lives. That really applies to all of us especially those who have just started school or are soon going to. Make sure you have your priorities down and follow them. It will help you so much. I hope you all have a wonderful week!
Love y'all!
Elder Beckstrand
Aloha Elder Beckstrand mahalo for your good works. Love and aloha always, from the Kahanu Ohana.
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