I’m sorry about last week. My email apparently never sent.
Last week for Halloween we bought the BEST croissants of all time, they are called Feuillettes and they are dipped in caramel. It was so freesing!
Yes I also wore my deathly Hallows earrings.
"Puy de Fou"
We have had so Many, Miracles!
One thing about Cholet, is that there are a lot of people that say no, but TOUJOURS, there is ALWAYS some form of a silver lining. We always have something that makes the work seem like its pushing forward. Which is a big blessing.
So, two weeks ago, we had such a lovely miracle. MAMADOU FINALLY PRAYED. YES! IT HAPPENED. He is progressing so well I cannot believe it. He still says things like I don’t pray i cant pray with others.
But in fact, every time we call him he says well yes i prayed tonight and now I’m reading in the Book of Mormon. ASTOUNDING.
What else happened ? Oh yes of course, Zone Conference !!!
Wow so much inspiration. It was amazing because we got to talk about the importance of the Temple. President described it as a Monument of the Plan. That is going to be our focus, to get as many people as we can to that monument.
So we had some interesting issues happen at Zone Conference. Basically, we had our train for 16h30. We had predicted an hour and a half of time in between the times. Well, Zone Conference went just a bit over, so we ended up missing our train, due to the unproductive bus system here in France. So we got on another train with the Elders, passed about 2 hours, and then.... got off on the wrong STOP at Angers, thank you Elders (:
Our next train was scheduled in 20 minutes. So, we ran 7 blocks to catch our train, that made by the way !! But it was a miracle that’s for sure. Imagine 4 missionaries sprinting through the city. Good times.
Thursday was an amazing day. We had a rendez vous with this ancient amie, lucie. We knew nothing about her but were eager to teach. Anyways, as soon as we entered her apartment, we were blanketed with smoke. It was very difficult at first to find the spirit. However as we taught and got to know this sweet angel, we saw how much heartache she had gone through in her life. She had her three girls taken from her. She said that she turns to God when she’s lost, we told her how do you feel now? She responded that she feels found.
We told her that no matter what has happened. If you want to, Lucie, you can be happy. You can be more.
She started crying, and we found the Spirit.
We invited her to say a prayer, she prayed with so much gratitude and hope.
Lucie agreed to be baptized, it will be tough as many French people have addictions, but it is possible with the atonement. Please pray for sweet Lucie. She has the most beautiful blue eyes by the way.
We have had many days of finding in the rain here in Cholet. And it has been a bit discouraging, some good though ! Like we contacted this one girl on a horse! She was super fun and her horse's name was toes.
Anyways, Sunday afternoon we had another great finding session, here comes the silver lining !! So we were set to go to this ville about 25 minutes away from us. As we were driving on the freeway, I had a pull on my chest to turn and go back to Cholet. It was one of the biggest promptings I have ever had from the Spirit. As we exited, i took us to a random neighborhood and we began. Lots of no's. Pas intéressé. Well, soeur Dunkley, was it the Spirit ? YES! IT WAS
After about 2.5 hours, we decided to knock on one more Porte. This sweet, old woman opened it, and said oh well come on in !! I was freezing so without hesitation, i bolted into her house. We felt so much love in the home, her name was Huguette, and she was wholesome. Her husband, Rouger, was paralyzed. She whispers to him, okay Rouger I’m going to talk about God with these sweet girls in the other room okay?
So we went to her kitchen and began le plan du salut. She was completely in love with the idea of resurrected bodies. It brought so much light in her eyes. She said come back as soon as possible. So we will give updates on that (:
I just want to close and say how incredibly grateful I am for Christ. This week I had a powerful experience with the atonement. And because of that experience, we were so blessed. It was amazing.
This week, my companion and i studied the question, what is a shepherd? And why do we need a Shepherd ? Why do we a shepherd?
Let me know what you find.
Souer Dunkley
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