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Bonjour! 

My Spain MTC Crew - Elder Nagloo, Elder Lamothe, Sister Cornetta

This past week was really good. It started off on Monday
night with another gift from God. After finishing up emails, the first
man we talk to on the road is this super swaggy 21 year old man from
Gabon. He informed us that he had arrived in Charleville 2 days prior
and that he was actually in the process of looking for a church. Well,
that is music to a young missionaries ears. We got his contact info,
showed him the church, and now are praying that we can see him again
in the near future.

God hit us again with another super cool new investigator on Wednesday
when we were at the train station getting tickets. Some older fellow
came up to us and asked if we were Mormons. He said that him and his
wife travel a lot and they see missionaries everywhere. He mentioned
that while in salt lake a couple of years ago they did a lot of
genealogy research and that he would like to talk to us more about
genealogy and our church. He even invited us over to have a dinner at
his home.

Other than that a lot of our time this week was spent outside of
Charleville. On Friday and Saturday we were in Paris for a lot of
meetings with President Babin and the other mission leaders. He wanted
to set a new mission goal (double the baptisms by the end of the year)
so he called all of us in for some really long meetings. The coolest
part to the whole weekend was the fact that the Spain MTC buds all got
to meet up again. All 4 of us have become either Zone Leaders,
District Leaders, or STLs. We had a really good time talking about the
good times had at the Madrid MTC.

Saturday we were able to baptize Rene. It was quite the experience. We
faced a lot of unforeseen obstacles but despite all we were able to
get him baptized. When we arrived in Reims (where we were doing the
baptism), I walked downstairs and saw that the Sisters were
frantically filling up buckets of water and throwing them in the font.
The recounted to me that they had turned on the font earlier in the
morning but they forgot to block the drain. When they returned the
font had not been filled. So we spent the next 45 minutes running
around the chapel with buckets of water trying to fill this font. Also
we didn't take into account the fact that Rene is in a wheel chair and
the font is downstairs. Haha. Thanks to the strength of some of the
men and the courage of Rene, he was able to walk down the stairs
without a problem. When it finally came to baptism time Elder Silva, I
and Brother Carpantier, all had to be in the font to help Rene get
baptized. It was something I never thought I would see, or even
participate in, but I am thankful for the opportunity.

To finish off this email I would like to tell y'all the name that the
Nigerians gave me. I have no idea how to spell it but it is pronounced
I-O-May-Dey. It means my joy has come. I expect to be greeted by that
when I come home.
Love Y'all. Have a wonderful week. God Bless

Elder Hein