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| Cannes Flood Clean Up |
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This week we went on a big trip to Lyon for the conference with the new missionaries. We were planning on leaving Thursday because the conference was Friday morning but then they called us Wednesday morning and said we needed to leave that afternoon! So we packed up really quick and headed off. I still feel like I have bearly seen Antibes. We got to Lyon at the same time as the Elders from Toulon and all four of us were wearing t shirts. We immediately regreted it because it was very cold in Lyon. We made jokes the rest of the trip about how much nicer it is in the cote d'azer. We had to go early because my companion had to do his legality papers to be legal in France. I got to see a lot of other missionaries who were training new missionaries and some old companions. I had not seen Elder Walters in a long time and so it was great to see him again.
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Miracle of the week - We had some time to go out and talk to people in Lyon on Wednesday and so Elder Orr and I went out in the cold. This was really our first time out talking to people together and we did great. We had a nice conversation with a man who shared with us that he had recently turned his life around thanks to the help of God. He said that he had been a big smoker and drinker and he even showed us a picture of what he use to look like. Then he explained how he started to have more faith in God and changed his life. He is much more happy now and doing well. It is cool to see how this man recognized that it was God who helped him change and he could not have done it all on his own. I think it is also cool how we can get people to open up to us and share personal things with us and then we can to the same. I have seen that as we share our testimonies more they are a lot stronger.
The conference on Friday went very well. I learned a lot of new things and set some good goals on how I can inprove. Even though President Brown shared some of the same stories as the last conference which I went to with Elder Wilson, I still learned new things because the spirit was able to teach me the things that I needed.
So just two weeks ago in Cannes there was a big flood that caused a lot of damage to people's homes and killed about 20 people. It is very interesting coming to Cannes at this time but it is a great opportunity to serve. On Saturday we spent the day cleaning with a lot of the members and missionaries from Cannes, Nice, Saint Raffiel and other members in the area. The branch president from Gap even came. It was fun to see him and some other members I have met before. We were mostly loading up garbadge bins with the stuff that was in peoples underground storage and garage areas. It was some hard work but very rewarding. It was cool to see that so many people had come to help. Even people from Cannes just showed up to help people that they did not know.
Church was great. I got to meet a lot of the members in the ward. The primary president asked us to come to primary to talk to them about being missionarys. So we live in Antibes but we go to the ward in Cannes. Also at church there was a couple on vacation that is from Norway and they told us that they were from a small branch that is the most northern branch of the church in the world!
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