October 30
First things first, happy Halloween! Sorry, this is coming so late I forgot to send it ha-ha.
To fit the Halloween theme, we had some spooky occurrences the week of the 16th. One day we came home, and things were weird. All the chairs had been overturned and a few pieces of furniture had been moved a bit. Now we live in a fairly safe neighborhood so there's a habit of not locking our door. The 4 of us who live here were fairly unnerved not knowing if someone had pranked us, some unstable person had entered our apartment, or even a ghost had been here ha-ha. The longer we talked about it the more weird we felt so a couple of them wanted to bless the house just to be sure. The next day we came home to find it had happened again... now we were really uncomfortable. We called the other 2 French Elders who don't live with us, and they said that they pranked us, but only the second time. Needless to say, my companion was not amused. It's was a weird couple of days ha-ha.
We also got to go to the temple on the 18th!! I love the temple so much and I'm sad that it closed at the end of October. They say they it should only be closed for 6 months, which is good. It was a great opportunity to feel the spirit and a nice little break from the usual missionary labors.
Lessons have been few and far between but the ones we do have are good. We met again with the Angola family and taught from the Book of Mormon. We read about the tree of life from Nephi's vision. That was a mistake because he doesn't repeat the vision, he just explains it ha-ha. Next time I'm reading from Lehi's first. But it worked out because we pulled up the video and they understood pretty well after watching and further explanation. It's a slow burn with them but we're still gonna keep working at it and hope all goes well.
We were able to teach someone I haven't met yet! His name is Maurice. We've been trying to get in contact with him for quite a while and we're finally able to get something to work on. He's a cool guy and has been taught for a little while. He's read some of the book of Mormon and we had a good re-discussion on the book of Mormon and Joseph Smith.
Let me just say the branch is a very different experience from the wards in Louisville. We do a lot more here ha-ha, when it comes to running things that is. The branch president is pretty good, but the members are all pretty new and their kids are crazy. It's just a very different culture where the parents go to church more for themselves than for their families. We spend a lot of our time corralling people and children but it's alright. It's very interesting to see how in different areas there are such different needs.
We also met a really interesting woman named Lucy. We went to visit a previously taught friend and his mother-in-law answered the door. She said he was showering so we asked if we could shade a message with her. She was hesitant but invited us in because it was rainy outside. We sat down and she said she's already Christian and her daughter is a member (she goes to the English ward). She also said she had another daughter pass away that month (the funeral dinner was at our building as well). While we were talking about her family she asked if I was holding a Bible, to which I happily stated that it was in fact the book of Mormon. We had a good discussion about its purpose, where it came from, and who Joseph Smith was. In the end we saw Felix and he said that they were leaving but he would come to church. In the end we asked for Lucy's phone number, and she hesitated for a moment and eventually gave it to us. In the end it was a really cool interaction and I'm hopeful that she'll continue forward.
I wasn't expecting this email to be so long ha-ha. Also, next week is transfers on the 3rd, I don't expect anything to change but hey anything is possible. And because a visiting Authority is coming the next week so the next p-day will be Thursday the 9th.
Have a great week! And a happy Halloween!
Elder Baird
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