Bordeaux is lovely, and really really hot. At this moment I am sitting in the internet cafe with my companion, hair all braided up and a scarf around my head.We have one little fan which we prop up on our desk in our one room apartment, which provides us oscillating gusts of air on oaccasion through the night, but mostly we just expect to wake up dripping wet. Its great! haha. Hopefully it should cool down in a couple weeks.
We have two great amis who are progressing! Kevin, who will be baptized the first, is doing so well. He's 22 and just loves the gospel. We ran into him by chance on the road the other day, and he proudly showed us the contents of his satchel....the Book of Mormon and Gospel Principles...'Voila, J'ai tous qu'il faut!' he said....such a solid guy. He has nine brothers and sisters, and his parents live here in Bordeaux. They are originally from Gabon, I believe, which is close to where Stephane is from. Then there is Delphine, who is French, and also in her twenties. She's been looking into the church for about a year now, and we are just really loving teaching her. I think she is starting to make some big progress towards understanding who the Savior is, and what He has to offer us....and as we teach her, I am beginning to understand that a lot better myself. We just love her. This week we also did some service with the Elders for a less active lady from Shri-Lanka, who lives with her son. She has been pretty oppressed in her life, and we just have been helping her clean up her kitchen. We shared with her the scripture in Proverbs 31 about how special women are and how imortant they are to God, and that is a message she hasn't really heard in her cirumstance. We made her smile and she made us smile and we came out as the cockraoch champions of bordeaux! Dun dada! Haha, it was a good time.
This week we are really hoping to find some new people to teach, and to continue to get to know the ward. It should be great!
I know that God lives, and He loves us. We are His children and we were created in His image. All things tesitify that He lives, and the prayer of faith is the secret to a happy day, and a happy life. I have a lot of things to improve and repent of and I am thankful the Savior provided me the way to do that. I am glad that we have a prophet on the earth to lead and guide us. It makes me feel good to testify of these restored truths, and it helps me build my faith. Lets all pray for more opportunities to testify this week!
Love love!
Sister Sarah
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