December 30, 2024

Joyeux Noël à tous. Merry Christmas everyone I hope you had a great time. Paris was cool for Noël. We went to a Christmas market on our P-Day that was super fun! The amount of Mariah Carey Christmas songs was insane.


Throughout the week we had a lot of lessons planned. Not all happened but the ones that did happen were very elect and awesome. 

On Thursday I had an exchange with Elder Butler from Nogent on Thursday which was super cool. We had this thing called "racklet" for dinner. It's very very french but essentially you take this special cheese and put it under this hot stone then you take meat and put it on top of the hot stone. Once the cheese is melted and the meat is cooked you take the cheese and pour it over potatoes and put your cooked meat over the potatoes too. It's crazy good! I have a photo of me and Elder Butler eating it down below. 

Also it's soo cold here in Paris like all the time. But it's been fun and I love all the experiences I've had on my mission.


Spiritual thought

I've recently been reading in the Bible and yesterday I read in Matthew 17 verse 20 and it says: 

20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

I've seen so many miracles these last 6 months with the people I've been teaching and in me. Jesus is saying here that the greatest thing we can have in this life is faith. Faith that we have a loving Heavenly father and he loves us. 

Have a great week and Happy New Years!!
Elder Smith





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