November 17, 2025

 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! They're setting up the Christmas market and our saunterville area looks amazing. It's actually so big. I wonder why we don't do this in the states. It's super sick There's a bunch of little red houses with a bunch of Christmas trees and decorations up. It looks amazing. It opens on Saturday, so I'll let you know what it's like next week.


Today's gonna be super lit. Me and Elder Laughlin are going to some thrift stores to try and find ties. I'm also getting my haircut because it is way too long right now. 

Sunday was super blessed. We had 9 friends at church and they were all different people. Our sacrament room was absolutely filled. It was super awesome 

This week we have a ridiculous amount of stuff happening. We have 2 exchanges,  In person district council l, a Temple trip and transfers this Saturday. I'm really excited actually because we're going to the temple with 2 friends from my past sectors that mean a lot to me and some of our ward members. Amiens is actually amazing especially for missionary work. So much is happening right now and I’m happy to be a part of it. 

One funny thing that happened to us this week was we went and visited our member who is just super funny to be around. He talks alot. My favorite thing is just being around him. We had 4 elders there it was just so funny because he had a 1000 ml thing of cologne, I don’t know where he bought it, but he poured it into my hands like it was water or something,  so I smelled like a flower for the rest of the day. My comp got a video its in my google photo album.

Spiritual thought 
My spiritual thought is just a bit of my personal study this week i just finished Mosiah and this scripture is super relevant to me currently as a missionary 

Mosiah 28 2-3
2 That perhaps they might bring them to the knowledge of the Lord their God, and convince them of the iniquity of their fathers; and that perhaps they might cure them of their hatred towards the Nephites, that they might also be brought to rejoice in the Lord their God, that they might become friendly to one another, and that there should be no more contentions in all the land which the Lord their God had given them.

3 Now they were desirous that salvation should be declared to every creature, for they could not bear that any human soul should perish; yea, even the very thoughts that any soul should endure endless torment did cause them to quake and tremble.

Elder Smith 






Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
 February 3, 2025 This week we had Transfer News, I will be staying in Les Lilas and my Comp Elder Tupana will be leaving (RIP Mon Tahitian!). What I didn't expect this transfer was to be training a brand new Elder! I have no idea what his name is but I can't wait! We pick them up on Thursday.  Other than that we have been really focusing on members this last week sending them spiritual thoughts. Our plan this next week is to bring them a bunch of cookies !!!! Our members here are actually super powerful. Every single one of them has a super strong testimony. Members are super important for this work! It's your testimony that inspires lasting change in the hearts of the people we teach. That's one thing I personally learned this week as we had 5 member lessons where you could tell the spirit was there.  I also had an amazing experience on the metro where I started talking to this one man who ended up telling me he was Muslim. He said that he respects everyone's beli...
Read more
Image
 Well I'm officially 20 today! Crazy how fast time passes. I've been alive for 20 years and I can confidently say I've learned more about myself in the last year than I did the other 19. If there's one thing I know it's that you have a Heavenly father and he loves you.  My week was good.This area is much different than Les Lilas where I was before here. There is a lot of retirees and cars, so the people we stop normally don't want to listen, so we adjusted and just started doing door to door alot of it. The ward here is awesome! Yesterday after church we went to the Bourroux's house. They're so cool. Their son is going on a mission here soon and the kids are crazy fun. They have two girls who are just bursting with energy so we built a magnetic house with them. Then Sunday night we get a call from our member Pascal who owns a pizza place. (If anybody comes to Saint Quentin, Bonjourno Pizza is the place to be!) Pascal tells us that he has lasagna for us s...
Read more
Image
February 17, 2025 Bonjour a tous! Hello everyone I made it through another week of awesome missionary work! I'll run you through the highlights of the week. So many elect people!  On Thursday I met this super elect person on the metro. We just started talking and he was super interested. He was born into a Christian household but doesn't go to church often. Loves the bible too! I felt prompted on the metro to share with him Amos 3: 7 which is - Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. - Then I told him that God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow and that he gave us prophets in every period of time. It was super cool to see a light go off in his brain. Then I bore a quick testimony about our Prophet and the Book of Mormon. Truly one of the most spiritually enriching and faith building experiences I've had on my mission.  One funny thing that happened to us is French class with Alex. We have an amazing member in o...
Read more