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Well transfer news is in and I am staying in Charleville for
another, and most likely the last, 6 weeks! I get to stay with my
companion Elder Silva, which I am super excited about. Charleville
will have to face our shenanigans for another 6 weeks, haha.
This week started out slow. Week 6's in the mission are comparable to dead weeks
in the schooling system. Everyone is just anxiously awaiting the
transfer news that comes out on Saturday, and are ready to kick start
their efforts again for week one. Despite that, Silva and I were able
to still put together a great week. The first couple of nights were
spent in the humble homes of some of our Nigerian friends learning how
to make different Nigerian desserts. We basically just made deep fried
dough balls, but they were good and fun to make. We also spent a lot
of time with Rene and Claire this week trying to get him ready for his
baptismal interview. We must have done a good job because on Friday
the Zone Leaders came and he passed with flying colors. He will be
baptized this Saturday in Reims (they have a baptismal font and we
don't).
On Saturday we made the three hour journey out to Lille to be
there for stake conference on Sunday. The Lille elders harbored us in
their apartment and took us around town contacting on Saturday. It was
a lot of fun and it made me realize how much I miss the big city
missionary feel of Brussels. One of the missionaries, Elder Conley, is
from Toronto so evidently we were talking about hockey all day. It was
wonderful. We got some pretty big news from the stake conference.
Mathew Bennasar (a 70) and the other stake leaders in Lille want to do
an "operation save Charleville" on October 8th. (Charleville is a
really small branch and within a few months we might only have 6
members). What does this entail? Well different leaders and members
from the entire stake are going to be coming to Charleville to help
the missionary efforts for that entire day. We have just invited the
whole zone of Paris est (35ish missionaries) and the APs to come help
us that day. It will be a lot of fun and I am excited to see that many
people in Charleville. We might double the population. Haha.
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