Elder Ian James Smith

 Monday, December 23, 2024 Merry Christmas! Wasn't a crazy week but I did see some miracles. A funny story to start off this week! So Tuesday night we called a friend to see if it would be ok if we stopped by his house tomorrow to give him a copy of the Book of Mormon. We confirmed the location with him that night, then the next day we left and started for his place when we got there we couldn't find his name. Then we called him. He is actually in Brittany! So we couldn't give him the Book of Mormon but we did find out where he lived so that's a plus.  There are always different experiences on metros or street contacting in Paris. But I love it here and we have so many cool experiences. We had an amazing temple tour with our friend that was so amazing and she had so many questions about the temple and more about our church it was awesome. Thursday was full of miracles. We made 4 friends in one day which we invited all to church one came to church and is super elect! Spi...

December 17, 2024  Bonjour à tous! We had an awesome week here in Paris. I did so many fun amazing things. It started on Tuesday where we had a two hour plan of salvation lesson with our friend who really likes to talk. But all in all the lesson went great and we had a great time.  We get so many references in our area, we also talk with a lot of Elders and Sisters all over Europe. This last week we had Elders from the Adriatic North mission reach out to us because of a friend they found who lives in Paris for work. It's fun and awesome to see all the different missions in Europe working together.  On Thursday we went to this area called Belleville for a rendezvous but it didn't happen so we decided to do contating on the street. Now Belleville is not necessarily the nicest part of France. It has a lot of character. We got offered cigarettes as soon as we were out of the metro. So it's a little more like the hood, it's also the Chinese area of France. In our apartmen...

 December 9, 2024 Wassup y'all! Hope you've had a great week, my week was pretty fire. We saw so many miracles this week. We started off the week strong on Tuesday with a tour of the temple with our two friends. It was so cool. Quick shout out to Sister Frank and Sister Letourneau who absolutely crushed the temple tour with our friends! On Wednesday we had 7 lessons planned and all but 3 happened so hallelujah. We have amazing progressing friends too. It's funny, I don't know what mission life is like in places like Brazil and Mexico but we here in France are finding teaching and baptising! It's super cool to see friend's (as well as my) spiritual progress.  The rest of the days were normal. I had an awesome exchange in Aunlay with Elder Hopkins. Aunlay is a fun place, not necessarily the nicest part of France. Everytime I go there I have a new story. As soon as we got off the tram in Aunlay I heard someone screaming in Arabic from across the train station. She ...