Well this week has been complicated and some crazy things happened.
First off, we had district meeting in St. Dié this week. We didn't know it was in St. Dié, so we bought the normal train tickets to Nancy. Got in Nancy, found out it was in St. Dié, bought 2 more tickets to St. Dié. And went to a late district meeting. And after that, we had exchanges. So we stayed there and met some really cool people! I helped find a guy from Senegal who is awesome and recognizes us as servants of God! So that was awesome!
On Thursday, we had the responsibility of cleaning the church, it's small enough to do on our own with a couple of hours. And while we did that, elder Anderson set up decorations. He really likes doing that kind of thing, so I let him do most of it while I practiced piano. After that a member who is here for studies asked us to come to her house and bless her apartment. So with another member (because she is there alone) we blessed her apartment. She is really cool and speaks some English!
On Friday we had a open day ahead of us, so we did quite a bit of door to door. And we found a someone with awesome potential! It was actually kind of funny, because we actually got along by talking about how glad she was that we weren't the Jehovah's witnesses. So we all got a good laugh out of that. And she said that she is excited to meet with us again!
On Saturday we had to extend some last invitations to come to church Sunday, so we went searching for less active members in a smaller town called Le Thillot. There were 2 people who lived there who had been baptised. We couldn't find one but we did find the other after 2 hours of searching and thinking, and turns out that she just doesn't have the means to come to church. So we plan on meeting with her again just to visit and help her out and make sure she has come contact with the church and the Gospel.
And Sunday we actually had a decent turnout for church! The Serbian family we met a couple of weeks ago came, and a less active member that Elder Anderson met on exchanges came! And it was so good to see the branch come together to make something good and they were all so good to the people we brought. It was just a really good Christmas Sunday, and of course, we ate afterwards and the food killed us for the rest of the day. We were so tired, I had to keep elder Anderson awake for studies!
And now here we are, me and Elder Anderson did some exploring today and took some pictures, so I will send what I got. Christmas is next week so I wish you all a merry Christmas in advance! I get to call my family next week so I am really excited for that!!!
I love you all
Sincerely
Elder Payne
France, Paris Mission
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