Another week in France

Bonjour! 

Well this past week was crazy to say the least. On Tuesday we

got a call from Elder Branchflower, who is our district leader in

Alencon, saying that he is in the hospital because of a collapsed

lung. Wednesday morning, the zone leaders called telling us we need to

get to Alencon as soon as possible to be with his companion Elder

Clegg. So we get the soonest ticket headed for Alencon but thanks to

these ongoing train strikes, what should have been a 2 hour trip

turned into a 5 hour trip. Haha. Our train just decided to stop in Le

Mans rather than going all the way to Alencon. So we were stuck in Le

Mans for two hours until we found a bus that took us to Alencon. That

bus stopped in every small village imaginable therefore adding another

two hours onto our travel time. It was quite the disaster, haha. The

only consolation is that Elder Branchflower is doing great and was

released from the hospital on Saturday. Apparently a collapsed lung

can happen to anyone just randomly. Weird. Anyways we slept in Alencon

Wednesday night and took Elder Clegg back to Tours for Thursday

through Saturday.

Our investigators are doing great. We saw Herve 4 times this week and

helped him garden a couple times. He continues to make great progress

towards baptism. He reads and prays every day, we just need to help

him stop smoking and he will be baptized. We didn't see Peti all week

but we have been in touch. He had some big things going on at his work

so he couldn't see us but he said next week he will be available.

Maxime is doing great. He feels bad for us that he doesn't feel ready

for baptism so he is trying to help us as much as possible to teach

our other investigators. On Friday he took Xuantao and us out for a

burger at a fast food restaurant. He helped us teach Xuantao about the

gospel. He was bearing testimonies he doesn't even know he has. Haha.

It was good stuff. Speaking of Xuantao, on Sunday he asked to speak

with us during sacrament meeting. He looked really distraught so

Johnson and I thought for sure he was going to drop us but it turns

out he has been really thinking about life and he wants to get

baptized! We hadn't seen him for weeks prior to Friday so we thought

he wasn't interested anymore but apparently not. So if all goes well

he will be baptized on July 2nd. It was quite the miracle.

A couple other random things happened this week. We found this nice L

shaped couch in our trash room. So we hauled it upstairs, cleaned it

up, and it has a made a great addition to our apartment. Studies in

the morning have become a lot more comfortable. Haha. It was missing a

couple legs but luckily we have a lot of extra church magazines

sitting around in the apartment. They make great replacement legs.

Haha.

While in Alencon I got to drive their car because Branchflower

couldn't. After not having driven for 8 months I was a little nervous

but it just like riding a bike. It brought back good memories of

driving the Camry.

Have a wonderful week. Love y'all. God bless

Elder Hein