June 25, 2012

Bonjour,

So... Wednesday night we were entering our apartment just before 930 when we got a call from president.  I answered, and he told me that we would be getting a third companion named Elder Prows on saturday!!  So since saturday afternoon, there have been three of us here in Montauban.  It's a pretty awesome trio.  We're already having a blast together!  Elder Prows is a great missionary.   He was in the mission for a couple transfers last fall but then had to go home for a little while,  but on Wednesday president called him as well and told him he would be coming back out this weekend.  The poor guy, I think he only had a day and a half between when president called and his flight.  But he's here and he's awesome.  He hasn't spoken french for over 6 months but he already is speaking like a pro!  He's from San Diego.  So we're all americans, but all from different states, which is cool.  I've never trained and I always wanted to... and even though Elder Prows has already been trained, Elder Cushing and I  decided we are his trainers haha.  I've always wanted to be in a trio to have the experience.  I'm super stoked!

This week was great.  We're trying a lot of new things as far as finding goes.  We had a family at church this week that we've been trying to get to come for a whole transfer.  We've also been finding some great new amis.  Tuesday night, we decided to knock on doors in a neighborhood that I had seen before and had always wanted to knock, but it's pretty far away.  But we decided to go out there and on the way a big old van passed us and someone yelled "elder!" out the window, and I didn't recognize the person nor the car.  Eventually we got to the place where we were gonig to knock on doors and we saw that van parked in front of a house, so we started with that house.  A man opened the door and yelled elder again adn invited us in haha.  It ended up being two brothers from Chili that live together that had met a bunch of elders in Chili and they said that their brother was baptized and he went on a mission.  It was a miracle!  We sat down and discussed for awhile and they were super nice.  They kind of got distracted and started talking about some guy in Miami that ate a guy's face.  That was kind of weird, but other than that it was awesome and we're going to go back this week.  So, we kept knocking on all the doors on that street, and it was the weirdest thing.  I think only two people just said no and slammed the door.  We were able to have some great conversations and preach the Gospel.  One door we knocked on was opened by an African lady who was on the phone, and I thought she was just going to say she was busy, but she said "are you here to talk about Jesus Christ?" ..."yes!" ... then she said to the person on the phone, "I've gotta go, I'll call you back later."  Then she invited us in and we went out in her yard to teach her since we didn't have a member with us.  We taught her the message of the restoration and the Spirit was really strong.  She really wants to read the Book of Mormon and know that there is a living prophet on the earth.  When Elder Cushing and I left we were just blown away.  I think I can count on two hands how many times people have let us in to teach a lesson while knocking on doors during my mission, and we had two in the same night and a bunch of other awesome people that we met.  We're going back tonight to teach the lady we found (E) and we're going to keep knocking on doors over there on what we call "miracle street" this week. 

It's pretty funny working in a trio.  We've already started creating and naming different formations and stuff for contacting because it's a little too much with three people going at you.  It'll take some getting used to, but we're already loving it.  Right now we're working with two people with baptismal dates, A and J.  We're finding lots of great people though and we should be adding more to that list soon!

President and Sister Murdock are leaving this week and and President and Sister Roney are coming!  They'll be coming to Toulouse in two weeks for interviews, so we won't get to meet them til then.  They have three kids in the mission field though which is pretty crazy.  A daughter in Paris, a son in Barcelona, and another son somewhere else.  Pretty crazy.  They'll be living here with two of their younger sons.

I'm loving it here in Montauban and I love the Lord and am so thankful to participate in His great work and glory.  I love you all!  Bonne semaine!

Love,

Elder Tudor