Week of Miracles

Bon Jour!

 

Last week was a lot of things. There was another French missionary going home, so there was an emergency transfer. Elder Lerminez my 3rd child, was transfered to St John an English area and I am now with Elder Darche who was my 2nd child! It will be fun. we have been working together in Dieppe for about 1 day now.. To start it off, last week we had a couple of really awesome experiences with teaching Less active members. The saying that we are either progressing or digressing is 100% true. We have learned that really each one of them has either never been taught or has completely forgotten everything. We were teaching a sister the other day, for example, and she didn't even know that church was three hours long.. she has been a member for 7 years!! Always be progressing, it is your chance of being everything God wants you to be don't blow it.

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Yesterday we had two interesting experiences.. The first one we were trying to visit a couple of former investigators down near the university.. None of them lived there anymore, but a man pulled over and motioned us over. We went and talked to him and he asked us if we would have a few minutes to meet with him this week. The second one, an awesome one, is Elder Darche and I both had the feeling to go visit one of our potentials named Andrew, Elder Darche had never heard of him before because it was his first day.. We went to their house and met with both him and his girlfriend and they are now investigating :) SO HURRAY. they had two really old Mormon tabernacle records that they found as well and they gave them to us. They are awesome.. probably from the 60's is my guess haha but no idea it doesn't say on them. 

 

 

At church yesterday, we had a couple of miracles. two less active familes we are working with showed up. including one that the husband is a non member.. it was really cool to see. There was also another lady who showed up and the members instantly started fellowshipping her again.. twas good. 

I got the chance to meet with an investigator for another area in the district who got baptized on Saturday. He will be moving to Ukraine in a week with the rest of his family who is already there. But he has all things set up and ready for them all to return back in April next year. This guy showed up about 3 or 4 weeks ago to the church and said, "Hi I'm so and so, I've been looking for years for the right church and I believe it to be you guys." When I met with him before his baptism I asked how he first came in contact and it was in Ukraine, a member had left him a Book of Mormon and he started reading.. years later he is a member! Field is white all ready to harvest at it's finest! My week was great. Love you all! Oh yeah we get our new mission president next monday.. He speaks FRENCH:):) so hurray maybe he will help us out in these couple of french territories.. We sure need it!

 

Remember your potential.. Psalms 82.6

Elder Argyle

Bonjour from Elder Argyle!

This week was rough! I got sick with who knows what but it was not fun haha. Now I have my yearly cough thing which isn't that bad.  Other than that though it was great. So Last Tuesday we had our last zone conference with President Leavitt. It was really amazing, he is probably the most inspired man in the world not including the prophet apostles and Bishop Smith. There was a new sister missionary who came up after and told me that she met my good pal Drew in the MTC.. so S/O to elder drewb :D

As I said in the previous email, we were without our car until Friday afternoon last week and man oh man was that a blessing in disguise. So we have 2 parts in our area that were within 15 km from our apartment. University of Moncton (French university full of africans who are french) and then Dieppe. We spent most of our time, near the University either knocking, street contacting or visiting Less actives. We found a pretty extreme number of Potential investigators because we had to walk everywhere. In the past three transfers in Dieppe we had found probably 15 or 20 in total that had become potentials, but in 3 days we found 11 last week. It was amazing. So I passed the word down to the other missionaries that cars are a curse and now there are specific days where my district will not be driving unless it's for an appointment. Another companionship tried it twice last week, and they had similar success! That was one of our tiny miracles. We taught a very cool Muslim man this week as well(Most of the students at Moncton University are Muslim) named Abdoulaye. It is was very cool to learn exactly what they believe about God. For them, he is extremely sacred, but they do not have a father/son relationship with him, nor do they believe in anything like it. How blessed we are to know that our God is our literal heavenly father, he loves us, he cares for us, and all we do here on Earth is learning to be like him if we use our agency to the best of our abilities. In the best hymn ever (souvien-toi) in the french hymn book the last verse talks about the pre mortal life and our divine heritage, a part that has stuck out to me this past week in Elder Argyle translation is "Then one day we chose to accept from our Lord the great plan of life, that night, my child, we promised  by love, by faith, to be reunited."  its way way more beautiful in French, but the message is the same. 

 

 

Pictures: Samuel Boudreau and I dressed in white.. very cool experience.. he was baptized twice hahaha... #defendthetradition

 

 

Some of our members who served missions (we had a ward RM night) it was very cool.. they all served pretty not so cool places.. (Hawaii, New Zealand, BC, Arizona) .. as in very warm compared to here.

 

 

 

We saw a massive rat.. literally the size of a duck, We walked by the Stadium that the womans fifa world cup is in like 10 times (its at the university) and the bridge with a couple of locks on it because we want to be french here! 

je vous aime :) :) bonne semaine!

Elder Cody ARgyle