BONJOUR!!! :) Comment ca va tout le monde!? Well things are
great here in Belgium! Transfers will be here next week so I might leave
but more than likely I will stay here. But I can't imagine them leaving
me and Soeur Thibault together. Which rips my heart out a little bit
because she truly has become one of my greatest friends. But I will try
not to think about being seperated from her.
BUT!!! DORIS IS GETTING BAPTISED!! :) The woman I wrote about
last week...she has accepted to be baptised on the 6 of July! We are so
excited! We taught her a few times this week and explained more about
the restoration and the need for that and then we asked her to be
baptised and she said yes! she told us she has been praying and waiting 3
years for us to bring her this message. She truly has been so prepared
to receive the gospel. Its just such a testimony that no matter where
you are in the world, the Lord is preparing people to accept His gospel.
What a wonderful thing this is! :) I love Doris to pieces! And all my
other invetigators too!
Another story...This past two days we have not been able to get
to our appointments on time. Supposedly twice a year they have these
great big yard sales in the streets for like 2 days so thats what was
happening. THe bus' weren't working sometimes and it was just crazy. But
it ended up being perfect because evertime that happened our
investigators told us that it was a good thing we were late because they
wouldn't have been able to talk to us really if we would have showed up
on time. The Lord knows exactly what needs to happen and He makes it
happen! :) And also He places people always in our paths that we need to
talk to. Yesterday when we were on a bus (finally after waiting for
like 25 minutes) we walked on and stood next these two other people. The
guy looks at us and is like.
"OH! Hey!!! OH hi missionaries! Hows it going!?" (in english - welcome to Belgium). He then began to tell us that he is Belge but had been in new york for the past 5 months and met with the missionaries there. He said that he loves the missionaries and is so grateful for their efforts. He said that it truly has made a difference in his life and he has been able to find God again and he is so much happier than he was before. He will be traveling lots for the next year or so but we encouraged him to continue to learn about the church and promised him blessings. And he was also with this girl from Spain. She was so awesome! She told us that at this moment she is living in belgium but really has lost her way spiritually. She even started crying a bit on the bus. We told her we would love to share our message with her and she accepted gladly and gave us her address and phone number. We are really excited to get to know her better! And then we got off the bus and parted ways and walked into the wrong direction and walked into a big group of kind of sketchy men...haha whoops but then we kept walking and this guy (in english again) stops us and says, "HEY! Where are you from!?" We told him U.S. and Canada and then he started asking us if we were there to teach him about relgiion and help him get back to church and stuff. He also asked if everybody was invited to church. we said of course and gave him the Elders phone number. :)
"OH! Hey!!! OH hi missionaries! Hows it going!?" (in english - welcome to Belgium). He then began to tell us that he is Belge but had been in new york for the past 5 months and met with the missionaries there. He said that he loves the missionaries and is so grateful for their efforts. He said that it truly has made a difference in his life and he has been able to find God again and he is so much happier than he was before. He will be traveling lots for the next year or so but we encouraged him to continue to learn about the church and promised him blessings. And he was also with this girl from Spain. She was so awesome! She told us that at this moment she is living in belgium but really has lost her way spiritually. She even started crying a bit on the bus. We told her we would love to share our message with her and she accepted gladly and gave us her address and phone number. We are really excited to get to know her better! And then we got off the bus and parted ways and walked into the wrong direction and walked into a big group of kind of sketchy men...haha whoops but then we kept walking and this guy (in english again) stops us and says, "HEY! Where are you from!?" We told him U.S. and Canada and then he started asking us if we were there to teach him about relgiion and help him get back to church and stuff. He also asked if everybody was invited to church. we said of course and gave him the Elders phone number. :)
The lesson honestly that i learned really strongly I think this
week is to not judge a book by its cover. There are people all around us
who are in need of the gospel and who have their own struggles, but if
we are judgmental we will never be able to help them.
I love this gospel and this work! Its not easy but it never was
meant to be easy. Salvation truly doesn't come easy. It wasn't easy for
Jesus Christ, and as His representative right now, I know that it will
not be easy for me. But all in all, there are miracles everyday that
help me to see the big picture and it truly, in the end, is all worth
it. Every single second. So make it count! :) I love you all!
Love Soeur Finneran
P.S. ALISON NIXON! If you could
please give your email to my sister... I would LOVE to hear whats
happening in your life! And also JEANETTE!!! Seriously gurl what are you
doing!? Get out of your little BYUI bubble and send me a quick note! OK
much Love! :)
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