Hello!! This week was probably the busiest and craziest but best
weeks of my mission!! We had Elder Sabin who is the 2nd counselor in
the Europe Area Presidency with us in our mission this week and we
were in Bordeaux and Lyon with conferences! It was an incredible week.
So on Tuesday morning Elder Menzel and I drove to President and Sister
Brown's home and picked them up and drove the 7 hours to Bordeaux!
Those drives with President and Sister Brown are always so great! We
had a few amazing discussions and I am so grateful for them both. Once
we got in Bordeaux and had eaten, we went to the Bordeaux airport and
picked up Elder and Sister Sabin!! Wow they are so amazing. Even just
being with them for 45 minutes that night I could just feel their love
and their amazing spirit they had. I had the privilege to be
interviewed by Elder Sabin and it was amazing. He is one of the most
powerful people I have ever met and I love him!
Between Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday we had conferences every day
with Elder and Sister Sabin! On Wednesday was the conference in
Bordeaux with about 70 of the missionaries and then the next day in
Lyon was the conference in Lyon with about 130 missionaries! On Friday
we had our MLC with all the ZLs and STLs in Lyon and it was amazing.
It was good to see all of the missionaries this past week! Oh my gosh
the conferences were soooo good!! Elder and Sister Sabin are
incredible and it was so good to listen to them and to be around them.
I learned so much over those 3 days and the Spirit taught me a lot of
things. I could go on and on about what I learned but I don't have
enough time haha. But D&C 90:24 is one of my favorite scriptures
because of these conferences.
Kind of a funny story but when we were driving from Bordeaux to Lyon
on Wednesday night we realized that we accidentally hit something
wrong on our GPS and we ended up in the farthest north west corner of
the mission by Poitiers. It was a long night, to say the least. Haha.
So on Saturday night we were invited to Sister Barachant's house to
eat with President and Sister Brown! Back story on Sister Barachant is
that she is a single sister in the ward and her husband passed away at
the beginning of the year and it's been pretty hard on her this
Christmas. I have absolutely come to love her over the past few months
and we always sit by each other during sacrament meeting. So for our
spiritual thought we used the #LightTheWorld for December 17th which
was "Jesus honored his mother and so can I" and if you watched the
video for the day it showed a man dressing up and knocking on the door
of his mother and giving her flowers! Haha so for our spiritual
thought we pressed play on the video and then I acted like I got a
call and so elder Menzel and I left her apartment while they watched
the rest of the video of the man giving her mom the flowers. And so
once the video was over Elder Menzel and I knocked at her front door
and when she opened the door for us we had flowers for her and Sister
Brown :) Ah it was so amazing and it felt so good inside. Also side
story we showed up to Sister barchants house 15 minutes early and
there is another single sister that lives by sister Barachant and so
we ran to her house and knocked and sang a Christmas song to her and
then showed her the light the world video for December 17th and then
pulled a flower from sister Brown and sister Barachant bouquet of
flowers and gave it to her :) anyways I wanted to share that because
it taught me a lot of lessons about the joy of service.
This week was so amazing. I feel like I only put 1/10th of the things
that happened this week in this email. It was so uplifting and I
learned a lot about myself, the Gospel, and Christ. I am so grateful
to be out here and especially during this Christmas season!
Here is a quote that appropriately sums up how I feel after this last
week!! This quote is true and I have seen how I have been able to find
myself through service.
"The more we serve our fellow man in appropriate ways the more
substance there is to our souls. We become more substantive as we
serve others. Indeed it is easier to find ourselves because there is
so much more for us to find." - D. Todd Christofferson
Elder Wade
weeks of my mission!! We had Elder Sabin who is the 2nd counselor in
the Europe Area Presidency with us in our mission this week and we
were in Bordeaux and Lyon with conferences! It was an incredible week.
So on Tuesday morning Elder Menzel and I drove to President and Sister
Brown's home and picked them up and drove the 7 hours to Bordeaux!
Those drives with President and Sister Brown are always so great! We
had a few amazing discussions and I am so grateful for them both. Once
we got in Bordeaux and had eaten, we went to the Bordeaux airport and
picked up Elder and Sister Sabin!! Wow they are so amazing. Even just
being with them for 45 minutes that night I could just feel their love
and their amazing spirit they had. I had the privilege to be
interviewed by Elder Sabin and it was amazing. He is one of the most
powerful people I have ever met and I love him!
Between Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday we had conferences every day
with Elder and Sister Sabin! On Wednesday was the conference in
Bordeaux with about 70 of the missionaries and then the next day in
Lyon was the conference in Lyon with about 130 missionaries! On Friday
we had our MLC with all the ZLs and STLs in Lyon and it was amazing.
It was good to see all of the missionaries this past week! Oh my gosh
the conferences were soooo good!! Elder and Sister Sabin are
incredible and it was so good to listen to them and to be around them.
I learned so much over those 3 days and the Spirit taught me a lot of
things. I could go on and on about what I learned but I don't have
enough time haha. But D&C 90:24 is one of my favorite scriptures
because of these conferences.
Kind of a funny story but when we were driving from Bordeaux to Lyon
on Wednesday night we realized that we accidentally hit something
wrong on our GPS and we ended up in the farthest north west corner of
the mission by Poitiers. It was a long night, to say the least. Haha.
So on Saturday night we were invited to Sister Barachant's house to
eat with President and Sister Brown! Back story on Sister Barachant is
that she is a single sister in the ward and her husband passed away at
the beginning of the year and it's been pretty hard on her this
Christmas. I have absolutely come to love her over the past few months
and we always sit by each other during sacrament meeting. So for our
spiritual thought we used the #LightTheWorld for December 17th which
was "Jesus honored his mother and so can I" and if you watched the
video for the day it showed a man dressing up and knocking on the door
of his mother and giving her flowers! Haha so for our spiritual
thought we pressed play on the video and then I acted like I got a
call and so elder Menzel and I left her apartment while they watched
the rest of the video of the man giving her mom the flowers. And so
once the video was over Elder Menzel and I knocked at her front door
and when she opened the door for us we had flowers for her and Sister
Brown :) Ah it was so amazing and it felt so good inside. Also side
story we showed up to Sister barchants house 15 minutes early and
there is another single sister that lives by sister Barachant and so
we ran to her house and knocked and sang a Christmas song to her and
then showed her the light the world video for December 17th and then
pulled a flower from sister Brown and sister Barachant bouquet of
flowers and gave it to her :) anyways I wanted to share that because
it taught me a lot of lessons about the joy of service.
This week was so amazing. I feel like I only put 1/10th of the things
that happened this week in this email. It was so uplifting and I
learned a lot about myself, the Gospel, and Christ. I am so grateful
to be out here and especially during this Christmas season!
Here is a quote that appropriately sums up how I feel after this last
week!! This quote is true and I have seen how I have been able to find
myself through service.
"The more we serve our fellow man in appropriate ways the more
substance there is to our souls. We become more substantive as we
serve others. Indeed it is easier to find ourselves because there is
so much more for us to find." - D. Todd Christofferson
Elder Wade
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