November 17, 2015

Hey everyone!

Speaking French is hard, but I'm so so enjoying it. A lot of the MTC feels the same from day to day... So it's hard to know what to send. Elder Graham continue to get along, I already feel like I've known him for years. The schedule has become ingrained, and we know our way around campus now. We're settling in for the long haul now I suppose. 

The news about the attacks in France really shook all of us up, please keep the French people in your prayers. 

I will say that people definitely weren't kidding about gaining a lot of weight here in the MTC, I'm already starting to feel it.

As for teaching, we've finished up with "Raymond" and are now teaching "Guillaume." Guillaume is based off of a real investigator that our teacher Frere Keenan taught and baptized. He has a sad story about losing a daughter at birth despite praying hard, and has since turned away from God and the Catholic faith he used to have. We've already had some spiritual experiences with him. Do you remember Lisa from our last email? Elder Graham and I have now taught her 4 times total. We've had a lot of spiritual moments with her, especially in talking about the plan of salvation and temple work. In our 3rd lesson, we invited her to be baptized. She said no because she wanted to learn more about what that would mean, so we taught her about the Word of Wisdom for our fourth lesson. She really saw the great reasons for it, but she said coffee will be hard. We probably won't be able to teach her until December 3rd again, but she'll be visiting her son who was recently baptized. Being able to teach real people is so great. 

On Sunday we got a sneak preview of the Church's Christmas initiative, and oh my goodness it is going to be absolutley amazing!!! I can't wait for all the publicitiy the church is going to get, you guys are all in for a treat. 

I wish you could all hear the MTC choir here, it's amazing, and I love being in it. 

See you soon!

Elder Miner

A picture of Jaden's district at the temple on their Sunday walk.

PS So funny story, the power was out yesterday morning, probably because of the snow. We thought we'd get some extra sleep because everything was down, but we didn't. Oh well, made for an interesting start to the day.