Elder Jesse Wade: Week 50! 1 Year left...

Rishon! He is getting baptized on April 30!

Hello everyone! Another week in the books! I'm always bad at beginning
these, so here is the recap haha

Lundi: So after P day we went and had dinner with the Bentele family!
It was awesome because they have a 17 year old daughter named Alizée
and Mandy and Atoussa are both 18 years old and so they became
friends! They were excited to hear that Mandy and Atoussa are being
baptized on April 16th! So we all ate together and then we shared a
spiritual thought on obedience and faith and it went well!
Mardi: so elder Barnes and I woke up and made the trip to Lyon for
MLC! Basically at MLC all the zone leaders are taught by President
Brown and the assistants! That pretty much took the whole day.
Basically President gave us a challenge of 91 baptisms this
transfer...or 1 baptism per companionship. We talked about ways that
we could accomplish the goal. We also talked about how to teach more
using the Book of Mormon :) it was also great to see some of my other
companions I've served with there like Elder Boynton and Elder
Richmond (who are actually companions right now in Bordeaux.) voilà
just a lot of missionary stuff!
Mercredi: great day! So we took our notes from MLC and prepared a
little bit to present at our zone! Then we had a little bit to do some
contacting and we saw some pretty cool things and talked to some cool
people! Then we had a mini rdv with the Suisse STLs by skype to
prepare for zone training a little bit more! Then we went chez la
famille Volpicelli with Mandy and Atoussa and we taught them the law
of chastity. It went super well and they both accepted. As we were
teaching, I just got really grateful for this commandment and how much
it blesses us. Sometimes we overlook the blessings that we receive
while we keep it, but it really does bless us so much and I am so
grateful for it :) also as we went home that night and finished
planning for zone training, elder Barnes and I thought of a goal for
our zone. We really prayed and we felt like we could get 15 baptisms
this transfer as a zone. That would be a lot of work considering that
would be the most baptisms in this zone in a transfer, but we have
faith :) in our zone there are 13 companionships so that would be 2
more than 1 per equipe in our zone. Haha if that made any sense. Luke
1:37 though :)
Jeudi: zone training! Zone training went super good! It was nice to
have our whole zone together for the first time of the transfer. It
was so weird because when I first came into the mission Elder Burton
was my ZL in Nice and now he is finishing his mission and I am his ha.
Honestly I love him he's a stud and it was good to catch up with him
after a few months. And then the Austin couple made an amazing lunch
for us all after! Elder and Sister Austin are the best. Then after
zone training I was on an exchange with Elder Mauss! He works here in
Geneva as well. Elder Mauss took comedian classes at BYU and he's so
funny haha. We had a few RDVs that fell through and so we contacted.
At the end of the night we went and passed a family who was just
baptized about 2 moths ago. They are incredible. They were found,
taught, and baptized in about 5 weeks. So we read the Book of Mormon
with them.
Vendredi: so we exchanged colleagues so I was back with Elder Barnes
and we went and gave a 15 year old girl in the Ward a blessing at the
hospital! She had surgery on her stomach and wanted a blessing. I am
very grateful for the priesthood and for opportunities to use it. Then
after that we started another exchange with the Elders from Chambery!
I was with elder Hoopes from American Fork! He is a good kid and I
really enjoyed being with him. We went and taught Mandy and Atoussa
about prayer and scripture study. Then after we got back in contact
with Ali and went and had a heart to heart with him haha. He decided
to start meeting with us again! Then at 7 we had our weekly
Amis/members party and We watched "Meet the Mormons." I forgot what it
was like to say goodbye to my family and the story at the end
definitely reminded me of how hard it was! It's crazy that's been a
year!!
Samedi: finally after 6 months I had another Samedi sportif!! We went
and played soccer with most of the Geneva district and some members
and Amis! We are going to start playing every Saturday with Amis! So
then directly after that we ran to the church and gave a blessing to
one of the sisters investigators named Natasha! Natasha is super cool
and has a 14 year old sun named Rishon that we started teaching on
Saturday as well! Natasha came up to us Friday night after watching
"Meet the Mormons" and told us that she wants her son Rishon to be
like us one day and go on a mission! So Natasha is getting baptized on
April 30th and Rishon met with us at the church and we had such a cool
rdv with him! We taught Rishon the story of another 14 year old boy
like himself who wanted to know which church was true...really
powerful. He accepted baptism on April 30th with his mom as well! He
is so incredible and is so humble. I love him already. After the rdv
there was a baptism of an 8 year old boy in the English Ward and so we
brought Mandy and Atoussa to that so that they could see how it works!
They loved it! After we picked out their white clothes for the baptism
on the 16th! So after that we taught Ali and Parvine! We read out of
the Book of Mormon with them! Ali said that ever since he started
reading the Book of Mormon his desire to smoke has gone down! It was
cool :)
Dimanche: So we woke up and ran to the church and Atoussa had her
baptismal interview and everything went well :) then we had church
which was soooo great. Then after church Mandy had her baptismal
interview and it went perfectly! They are all set for the 16th! Then
we went over to Ali's house with Parvine, Mandy and Atoussa and we ate
dinner! It was cool because Atoussa and Mandy both fasted as well :)
also Rishon came to church by himself! We were so happy he was there.

We are so excited with the baptisms of Mandy and Atoussa this weekend.
It really is incredible to see how much faith both of them have.
Mandy's mom is still super against her choice to be baptized and has
basically kicked her out of the house, but she knows it's true and
still wants to be baptized. It has been really humbling to see their
progression together over the past month and to see how prepared they
have been! It would be awesome if you kept them in your prayers this
week :)

John 16:33 is my scripture for the week. For me it is so comforting
and I love the simplicity by which he says, "In the world ye shall
have tribulation..." He doesn't say "maybe you'll have tribulation" or
"if you live righteously and perfectly you can avoid tribulation." He
says we will have tribulation. But, Christ will never leave us alone.
He finishes the verse by saying, "But be of good cheer; I have
overcome the world." And honestly I love how he says that. He simply
says that he has overcome the world...and because he has, we will
never have to go through anything in life alone. And because of this
knowledge we should be of good cheer!!

Bonne semaine!
Elder Wade

John 16:33

33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.