March 26, 2012

Hey,
I have hardly any time to write today, but we had a great week! There were 4 baptisms in the zone and 11 in the mission. We have a few new people getting ready for baptism. We had a few miracles where people basically just came to us and they were SO prepared already! We've now got A, W X., D, G, M, and tonight we are inviting T, who is this miracle guy, to be baptized. Yes, I said M. This guy is so amazing. He was born muslim but it didn't go well with him and how he's searching; he's form Guinea and he's super sincere. We'll see what happens. T is a guy I met at place de la victoire doing street meetings (with our big sign that says MORMONS on it with temple pics and stuff and BIENTOT EN FRANCE on bottom because of the new temple in Paris soon. Everyone stops and asks us what it is, it's super effective!) and i talked with him about 20 minutes. He's looked around at so many religions and studied with so many but decided to just make his ownbelief because he didn't feel that he found the absolute truth; I explained the restoration and he said he wanted to come to church. He showed up at church in a suit looking all sharp and just started introducing himself to everyone. During our investigators sunday school class on the Priesthood, he was giving answers like he was a member of the church! He said things about the Priesthood that were just incredible that only members would usually know and understand. Everyone in the class was just looking at eachother in shock. He's incredible! We're seeing him tonight.
Elder Gubbay and I are staying together in Bordeaux! I'm really glad! I've always wanted to train though. I hope I'll be able to by the end of my mission. Today is crazy because we're helping everyone with trains and stuff for transfers and right now we have a little break so we're doing emails. There's so many good things going on right now in the zone and in the city of Bordeaux. It's sad to see some missionaries leave the zone, but we're excited for our new zone. Yesterday afternoon we did an activity with the YSA where we took our big street board and put it in front of the giant opera house and did street meetings. There were 6 missionaries and 7 or 8 YSA. We talked to tons of people and found some awesome people. It was really cool for the YSA too. We noticed that when one person stops to look at the sign and talks with us, tons of people do, so what we would do is we would have the YSA talk to us like they weren't members and then tons of people would start stopping haha. We didn't do that the whole time, it's a good trick though. You should take a look on Mormon.org at the video by Brother Defranchi. He's an opera singer at the Bordeaux opera and he's a member of the Talence Ward. Well, I've gotta go, sorry! I love you guys and I'll have a lot of news next week. Thanks for everything! Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Tudor