21! - the weekly letter

So, here in the mission our goal is that every sector teaches 20 lessons every week. That isn't easy, but that makes it a good goal that makes us really stretch, and this past week we had 21 lessons! We were pretty stoked that we were able to do that, among all the office stuff we've been doing as well, so we celebrated with alfredo and brownies. The credit for this acheivement really goes to the Lord. Elder Kessler and I have been setting goals before we plan out our day, and by so doing excercising more faith, and the Lord has been blessing us by just throwing people into our path who are ready and willing to hear our message. 

I also need to explain why this email is early. We have our zone conference coming up this weekon Wednesday and Thursday, so P-day got moved to Monday this week. For those who don't know, Zone Conference is when our mission President comes and we have a big meeting with all the missionaries in our zone, here the 20 or so missionaries through Noumea down to Mont Dore, and we get training and eat together and have some activities and it's just a good time.

So, the fact that we've had 21 lessons is an indication that the work is picking up here. Our investigator Sebastian is really beginning to progress. We taught him how to pray and he's doing better and likes that he is able to use his own words to talk with our Heavenly Father. We also showed him the Restoration video and he said he'll start reading the Book of Mormon and may start coming to church soon. I'm super excited about him. We also have an investigator named Anna who speaks both English and French since she's from Fiji but has lived here for around 16 years. She really hasn't been satisfied with any Christian churches here, but really wants her kids to be raised in a good gospel setting and wants a church for herself as well. She might be what we missionaries call "golden." We'll see what happens. 

The weather right now here is basically what I would call "perfect." Sunny, 70's, ocean breeze, it's wonderful right now. Winter here rocks!

Miss you all back home, have wonderful summers!

Love,

Elder Miner

Night time at Tours de Magenta

Old Sector, New Sector!

The word of God is tougher than windows. ;)

The city did a lantern festival that we could see from our window, on our celebratory night of 21 lessons. 

Victory alfredo! Parmesean cheese basically doesn't exist here, but French Emmental cheese worked out pretty darn well.