Hello once again everyone, it's your favorite Elder Miner sending emails once again! This week has been busy, and full of mini-miracles. I'll start with the title, first off the old friend this week was my friend Leo from Mont Dore. He was baptized at the beginning of the year, and we often passed by to help him understand everything in the church and to keep him company a little since he's retired and single. We received a call from the Elders in Mont Dore letting us know that Leo was in the hospital in our sector and that he would be leaving for a hospital in Australia really soon and that he wanted a blessing. We got in to see him, he's doing fine he just has some problems with some organs and he needs to go somewhere with better medical care. It was great seeing him again and we were able to give him a Book of Mormon to take with him since it had all been a really fast process. Now for the second part of the title. The mission has a goal to baptize 180 people next month, with 25 of those coming from New Caledonia, so to facilitate that one of our goals is to "find like crazy." For me and Elder Kessler, that's meant leaving the Tours de Magenta where we do most of our work and we're now going gate-to-gate in some of the richer neighborhoods that make up most of our area. It's a little tough since we usually get rejected pretty hard by richer people, although we've had a little success, more news next time if it pans out. But really, everyone rich here has gates and fences and it's a lot different than America.
Other than that, we're doing pretty well here, Elder Kessler's year mark will be this Friday. Our investigators are all still doing well for the most part. We had 4 investigators at church last Sunday which I think is the highest for my time in Ouemo, as well as one of our long-term inactive members that we've been working with for a while named Nadine. I consider her coming back is thanks to us trying harder than ever to work with members. Other than that it's just business as usual here I guess. But stuff is moving, we're definitely beginning to progress, and same with some of our investigators.
Love you all!
Elder Miner
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Dual-zone photo from the last zone conference.
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Us and Leo in the hospital.
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| Beautiful views while gate-to-gating. |
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