Another week in the books. A lot happened this week! It sounds like a
lot happened back home too. You guys are lucky you got to watch the
Brigham City Temple dedication. I was hoping to be able to go to the
open house for that for a while now! I cant believe chan is almost done
with sunrise. When I get back he's going to look so much different.
I started the week doing an exchange with E. Han. He's this nice,
cute, litte guy from Cambodia. I learned so much on our exchange. He's
one of the most Christ-like people I've ever met! We had district
meeting the next day in Grenoble. Man that ville is gorgeous! Its tucked
away in the Alps, and super green. It felt like I was back home again
having all the mountains around!
We have one ami named Daniel who is really progressing towards
baptism. The only stumbling block is the Word of Wisdom. Once we can
over come that he should be getting baptized by the end of next month.
We also started teaching another Rugbyman from South Africa. He's one of
those people that you would think was a Bishop if you didnt know
better. He is super cool and nice. We also started teaching a family who
is super engaged into the gospel and was taking notes in our first
rendez vous. haha they were super excited. I love it because our Church
just makes sense. The more you study the scriptures etc the more you
come to realize its truthfulness (is verity a word in english?), and to
those who actually know the Bible and realize there was a falling away
aka apostasie, the message of the rétablissement gets them super pumped.
We taught a bunch of other lessons this week and the work is really
starting to pick up here. We realistically could be getting five to six
baptisms by the end of the transfer if all our amis do what they need
to. The worst part of missionary work is free agency... haha I hate it
some times! Kidding of course. Kind of.
We had a pretty cool oppurtunity to attend a professional rubgy
match this week. One of our members plays on the Romans équipe (twentish
mins outside of Valence) and we got the permission from president to go
out with his wife and kids. Our goal was to get a rendez fixed with one
of the other players wives, but unfortunately they arent ready for the
Gospel yet. Though theyre super nice and invited us over for when they
roast a pig... so hopefully we'll get to teach them soon haha. Anyways
the match was a blast. Everyone was freaking out because we were there
it was pretty funny. Unfortunately Romans lost but we got a lot of work
done and it was a sweet experience.
Not a lot of news makes it to us but apparently there are lots of
troubles in the world right now ever since that film got released?
Anyways southern france is better known as Iraq so with all the tension
in the world right now we have a curfew of night fall unless we are
teaching a lesson. Which isnt really necessary because we're really well
protected by the Lord. But we're obedient to his commandments as well!
Also missionary appartments are always 'poorly situated'. Our appartment
is on the most muslim street inside the centre ville. There are much
worst neighborhoods outside of town though. So anyways we had a pretty
interesting experience the other night. There are fights like everynight
literally right below our window, and theyre always hilarious and
classic. The guys look like 10 old girls and we always watch. Except
this week im pretty sure we witnessed the death of a man. These 2 guys
were fighting and then all the sudden one pulls out this fat knife. The
other one panics and rips off his necklace and tries to turn it into a
whip. The guy with the knife was in pretty good position to end the
fight but for some reason he decided to chuck it at the other one,
missing terrible and sending it across the street. One thing lead to
another and one of them ended up with a sliced up neck and had to get
carried away. We havent seen the poor little guy since...
Tomorrow we head out to Lyon for Zone Conference. Im siked I love
seeing all the other missionaries and President/his family. Also Its
always fun being in Lyon. Its got such a good feeling about it since
there are so many missionaries and things with the church going on
there. Mom you asked what I wanted for Xmas since it takes so long for
stuff to get here. I have one request, echoing the words of our beloved
prophet. Find somebody who is having a hard time, and do something nice
for them. That would be the best Xmas day gift I could ask for. I love
you guys so much! I am happy you all are doing so great. Stay classy til
next time!!
Forever Love
Elder Gruber
ps Matt 11.28!
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