We went to an old fort/botanical garden for P-day and we met this artist
who was just drawing a picture of the city! I asked if i could take a
picture and lo and behold we're teaching him (Although I'm pretty sure
that it's more because Elder Hall has a very strong personality and this
guy didn't have a chance of getting away). We've gone back a couple
times and we just teach him on a hill overlooking the city. The reason
that it's so exciting isn't his willingness to accept our message
though, it's simply the fact that he's the first person that i've met
here that i just struck up a random conversation and we got talking
about the gospel. OPPORTUNITIES ARE EVERYWHERE! Or something along those
lines ;)
WE HAD THANKSGIVING
AND THEN WE HAD IT AGAIN
and again
and again
French
people like to eat.... a lot. I'm trying a lot of different things,
some of them are thingshad before, some of them are new, and some of
them are cheese that has been left out for a month and is no longer a
sold material... I cannot lie when I say that escargo is delicious
though, you just have to get past the fact that it feels like you've
just stuck and enormous booger in your mouth :D
It was awesome though, the
members gave us food for one thanksgiving, we had a thanksgiving with
half of our zone (the other half lives too far away from us to be able
to celebrate with us) we had another one with the members, and then the
members decided to fast for the missionaries and then we broke the fast
with a huge meal (even though nobody called that thanksgiving, i still
count it). Oh yeah, the heavenly material called speculoose that i
talked about? I made peanut butter cookies only instead of peanut butter
i used speculoose. It was incredible
We were busy!
It
was totally awesome! We literally ran sometimes to get places! we had
somewhere to go and somewhere to be and i REALLY feel like my legs are
about to fall off right now! Anyways, the last thing i think i wish to
talk about is faith!
So,
what did I learn this week?(I learned that we are spending the last
week me and Elder Hall have together entirely in French, so don't tell
him i'm writing this in English). But this week what I really learned
was that you have to have faith like a monkey. And it sounds a lot like
I'm trying to be funny (which is partially true), but it's also pretty
serious. We all hold on to things by our fingertips. We don't want to
change, we think that there's only one tree in the forest, one solution
for every problem, one way to raise your kids, one way to hold a church
service, one way to find someone as a missionary. I guess that this week
i've seen a lot of people (including myself) holding on to this one
branch. When I say have faith like a monkey, i guess what i'm really
trying to say is don't be afraid to hold on to another idea. There are
always different ways of doing everything and if we don't take a look
around, then we might get stuck with a weak branch that eventually just
breaks. Have faith like a monkey, trust that when you let go of one
branch, there's going to be another one to grab on to! That's my email
for this week! Bon chance everybody, do good wherever you are
Love,
Elder Michael Beneamato Bruno
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