Hello Family!
I'm glad that everything is going well. This week went by pretty
quickly.
Tuesday, we had exchanges, I went over to Alençon with District Leader
Elder Miller, who by the way is from Boise area and went to Valley View High
School. He is also related to a Holmstead Family. His name is Alexander
Holmstead Miller, I wonder if he's related to Uncle Stephen?
Our exchange was pretty cool. It was really neat to go and work with him,
when he testifies of the Plan of Salvation, you know that he knows that it is
true and you can feel his deep devotion and love for Heavenly Father. We taught
one of their amis, named Charles, who is from Nigeria. Charles is a bouncer at a
local night club, even though he looks frightful at first sight, he is a huge
teddy bear and wants friendship and love from others. The lesson was super cool,
you could feel the love, and I even felt love for Charles, even though that was
the only time I had met him.
Thursday, Elder Quentin L. Cook came with Elder Texiera. Seriously, that
was the coolest conference I have ever been to. First off, there was a musical
number done by some younger missionaries (one of which is an Elder Wilson!! A
different one though). The three of them did super well, it was an instrumental
version done with a Violin, a Pipe of some sort (sounded like a SUPER expensive
recorder flute) accompanied by a piano.
Elder Texiera exhorted us to use Preach my Gospel EVERYDAY as missionaries
and promised that if we use it, we will become better missionaries.
Elder Cook talked about many things, but the things that stuck out to me
was when he talked about 4 of the deciding factors in assigning missionaries to
missions. These factors are impressions that they recieve from the spirit. Some
of these impressions are if they feel like a missionary needs to be under a
certain mission president, or go to a certain culture to learn from it, or learn
a certain language to use it later in their life. So I am here in France because
of one or more of these impressions. The effect of a mission is eternal, not
just one those that get taught by the missionary, but also on the missionary
himself.
He also talked about the 4 relationships on the mission, Elder Cook
referred to them as 'The 4 Loves'. The first one he talked about was love of the
mission president and his wife. We, as missionaries, need to learn how to love
our mission presidents. The next one was love of the people. When we learn how
to love the people as a whole, that is when we start having success. The next
one is love of your companion. We need to love our companions, if there is
contention, that empêche (blocks? Sorry, I forgot how to say the word in
english) the spirit and we won't be able to do the Lord's work in His way. The
last love is love of the Lord. We must love the Lord and be willing to do things
in His way and in His time.
The conference was probably the best conference I've been to. The spirit
was super strong and I felt very edified by the time we left.
Also, before it began, Elder Cook wanted to shake hands with each
missionary. So we all shook hands with Elder Texiera and Elder Cook. Elder Cook
is definitely an Apostle of the Lord. You can feel it in the way he talks and in
just being in his presence. It was fantastic.
Friday, we had a meeting with out DMP and his wife. They brought these puff
ball things that were super delicious and a champagne-like peach flavored drink.
The sister missionaries in Le Mans gave Elder Jenness and I brownies that were
super delicious as well. Elder Jenness made Break-up Brownies on top of that, as
well, which is a layer of cookies, that you put oreos on top of, then you put
brownie batter on top of that and cook it all together. It was super
delicious.
And that was the week.
As for Google Hangout, yes, that will be fine.
I love you all!! :) Have a great week!
-Elder B. Stanton Wilson
Oh, here is a picture of "Steve Carell" eating a break-up brownie,
and then a picture of us at a bus stop catching the last bus after Porting on
Friday night.
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