Une Fille Allumée: Week 11 - The end of the beginning

Hello every body

Well well well

This past week was very very VERY miraculous, just as every other week in life is, but some weeks we just don't let ourselves see it.

Okay so my old companion, sœur Frey left to French Guiana this week; she's been on her mission for about 11 months and she spent her WHOLE time on Guadeloupe, so she's the one who runs this place. But now she's gone. And I am still in training. And I received a new companion, sœur Toussaint, who has never been on Guadeloupe. So it is the trainee, myself, who is training the trainer. She's been out for about 8 months I think? Idk but it's fun and we're figuring it all out together.

We had a lesson with Véronique! It was craaaazy. When we started the lesson, Véronique had her Book of Mormon READY and shared a scripture with us before we could with her! She said that she was reading, then felt like she just wanted to skip ahead. So she ended up in Mormon 7. She told us when she read verses 5-7, she started crying. Then she said it made her remember me, and the way I cried last week and didn't have the words to answer her question of "what's is this Gospel for you? What has it done for you?". THEN she said that she KNEW the answer, she said it was joy! And she said SHE felt that joy! And then she said she knew that the words in the Book of Mormon are true. IT WAS SO SICK and yeah there was a lot more crazy miracles with that to. For example, she and Eléonore (her daughter) came to church let's gooo

The other day I was biking home from church and this guy on a motorcycle caught up to me and kinda got me alone by cornering me ish and was trying to talk to me and then I saw this house with people in their porch place area thing so I just stopped right in front of their house and walked up to them right into their house as if we were best friends and gave them the warmest greeting ever (so as to avoid the guy) and didn't introduce myself or anything, just pretended like I knew them and then Sœur Toussaint caught up to me and I introduced her to them and they were totally into it. Cus they're Haitian Elect let's goooo. We gave them a book of Mormon (in Créole, cus the spirit this morning told me to bring a créole book of Mormon with me) and scheduled a lesson with them all in about 3 minutes. Then we left and as we rode away, I said to Sœur Toussaint "guess what" she said "what" I said "I had no idea who those people were" she was like "WHAT! I THOUGHT YOU KNEW THEM!". Basically, we all should just pretend we know each other because turns out we do. You ever feel scared to reach out to someone cus you don't feel close enough? Ever feel like it might be weird to do an act of service? Uhhh no. If I can walk into someone's house like I own the place and talk to the family in it as if they're my oldest friends, with no explanation, all to share the Gospel, you all can act on the little promptings you get. Ez money I tell you. DO IT.

What else.....

Hm well just the spirit I guess. The spirit tells me a lot of things. And then I act. We found like 5 people to share the Gospel with... And they all are a 1 minute walk away from our house AND THEY ARE ALL HAITIANS!!! Oh and yeah Sœur Toussaints parents are Haitian so shes fluent in creole! So yeah. I've been wanting to learn creole for the benefit of others and so God is making it happen

The picture of me and the woman in the purple shirt and the girl in the purple jacket, that's Véronique and Eléonore