Hello! France is great, but we are all sad that they don't celebrate Halloween here. Whenever we see a pumpkin or something we get so excited! Going a long with the spooky week, we had dinner with a member! It was so crazy trying to find where they live! The elders were going too and we were were trying to lead each other the best we could. It was all in the dark so we were really trying our best. As we were trying to find it we decided to start following our GPS. We were driving and then it told us to turn onto this small road with huge trees hanging over it. We drove through, but little did we know it was actually someone's private property! Once we got to the house we wanted to run away! The house looked kind of scary like it was from some sort of horror movie! I refused to get out because I was afraid of the consequences. So the elders got out of their car and ran after us, so they could help back us out. We finally made it to the members home and had some yummy crepes! This week we also had a lesson with S...! And this time her whole family was there! We talked about our Savior Jesus Christ and how he has done so much for us. During the lesson we asked her if she felt closer to God and Jesus Christ as she has been praying. She said she had and that she had received an answer to her prayers! She said she knew she needed to keep meeting with us! We were so happy and we are so excited to continue to help her progress. This week we also had stake conference and zone conference. It was all woohoo good! In stake conference we had one of the seventy come (can't remember his name, but he is from italy) and he talked about having faith even when it is hard. We always need to keep our faith! When we have faith in Jesus Christ, we trust and believe that everything will work out. We can know that because of what He has done for us. He has felt everything! And because of Him, no matter how hard our circumstances are, as we act in faith, we can return to live with Heavenly Father and His son Jesus Christ again. I know that is true. The scriptures testify it. I love the gospel!! - Soeur Glazier Stake Conference with half of my MTC district. Zone Conference Family in the ward from the UK Mickey Mouse crepe President's P-day P. S here is a little note from Soeur Driggs
Hello everyonnne! This is Soeur Driggs (hehehe Grace) and I live with your dear friend/relative/neighbor Soeur Glazier (hehehe Maddy). SOOOOOO since tomorrow is Halloween we wanted to do something spooooky and swap emails. So hellooo! I would first and foremost like to say that Soeur Glazier is the most incredible being on the planet. The Beez Kneez as you kids say. We've basically been married for 3 months. Wow. it's been an absolute dream. We are still in the "honeymoon phase". Sometimes we watch movies for date night, or we sing in the car (Soeur Glazier is a very talented singer), or we wear facemasks. And we have matchy Hogwarts sweaters. I know you all WISH you had what she and I have, but i'm sorrry, i dont think it's possible! Seriously seriously though, she's amazing. K? We talk about basically everything. Anyways, it's been nice to chat with you all for a second! I LOVE MADDY!!!!!!!! -Soeur Driggs
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One of the craziest things happened this week! I hit 9 months! I have no idea how it happened, but it did. So I had my hump day for the mission. And my 9 months landed on a Wednesday, so that makes it my hump hump day! And then at 12 it was my hump, hump, hump day! So much fun! We celebrated by having pizza and Tim Tams for dinner. So it is all down hill from here! Besides that, we did not have our car this week because we were finally getting our door fixed. So this week was crazy! We don't usually use buses and metros, so we had to try to figure it all out and we got lost a few times. But we got to talk to a lot of people which was good. We had great conversations and got to give out a lot of our cards. We had a lot of little miracles, so a week without a car was no problem. But we were not able to visit any if our amis because of it, which was sad. One of the highlights of the week was Sunday. A less active member came to church for the first time in forever! And she even came with her daughter who is not a member. We were waiting for sacrament to start, and I looked to the door and I saw her! I leaned over to Soeur Driggs and told her they were here and we were both speechless! We got to sit with them, and after one of the primary girls came to go with her daughter, J..., to primary. We were so happy we wanted to jump around! There is so much joy when people make decisions that help them come closer to their Savior. I have felt so much joy sharing the gospel. It's a joy that I can't even express. You don't know how it feels until you share it. Love you all! - Soeur Glazier Vieux Lyon First crepes in France by French people! These carrots are everywhere. Matching! Don't worry, they weren't home.
Hello hello!! Great weeks mean great smiles, hehe! To start our week off we went to see our ami S... and it was soooooo good!! We followed up with her about her prayers and she said she didn't really know if she had received an answer. So we shared a video with her about different ways the spirit can speak to us by Elder Bednar. She liked it and then she asked us how we have received answers to our prayers. I shared with her how I learned that the Book of Mormon was the word of God, and how the Holy Ghost testified to me that it was true. As the lesson went on we gave her a soft baptismal invitation!! She told us that she would be baptized if she knew it was true, but she is nervous. She doesn't want to ask or really read the Book of Mormon yet because she knows that when she gets her answer she will have so much to change and she isn't ready for it. So we are going to be trying to help her feel like she is ready. I also finally got to meet our ami P...! I have been here for 2 months and I had not met him yet! But we finally did and we also talked about receiving answers to prayers. We had a great lesson, but for some reason he doesn't want to meet with us again until November :/ but we will still try to keep contact with him!! We also went contacting, trying to find those who Heavenly Father has prepared! A lot of the times when we go contacting the people want to try to speak English with us. We try to not speak in English, so what happens is they are talking to us in English and we are talking to them in French. A question they often ask is, "what do you think of lion?" And it always throws us off cause we are like, "lion? What are they talking about?" And then we realize they mean Lyon but they are saying lion because they probably know we say it wrong. How kind of them, hehe. This week I have been studying the Christ like attribute hope. While I was studying I came across a passage from true to the faith, and it says, "The word hope is sometimes misunderstood. In our everyday language, the word often has a hint of uncertainty. For example, we may say that we hope for a change in the weather or a visit from a friend. In the language of the gospel, however, the word hope is sure, unwavering, and active." I love that! When we have hope in our Savoir we know what He has done for us and what we can accomplish because of Him. There are so many things in the world that can lead us to doubt and to discouragement. But when we have hope we can not be discouraged. I am now starting realize why the scriptures say that when you have faith you have hope and charity. You can't have one and not the other. True to the faith goes on to say, "Happy is he,” said the Psalmist, “that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God” (Psalm 146:5). With hope, you can find joy in life. You can “have patience, and bear with … afflictions, with a firm hope that ye shall one day rest from all your afflictions” (Alma 34:41)" So continue on with hope because He is there! Love you all!! - Soeur Glazier We went to zoo/park today. There is a lion in the back.
Wonderful days are coming our way! The weather has been beautiful and the leaves are slowly but surely changing colors. We get to spend our time contacting with our comfy coats! As a zone we pray for a companionship each day so that they can achieve their goals. One of those days everyone prayed for Soeur Driggs and I! That day we set goals that we would be able to have control in our lesson with the D... family and that we would be able to find a new ami. So we made plans to accomplish our goals. We prayed for Heavenly Fathers help, and everyone else in our zone prayed for us too. When it came time for our lesson we were a little nervous, but it ended up being the best lesson we had ever had with them! The Spirit was so strong and their daughter finally said she would say a closing prayer! After that we went out looking for people. As we were out we found a girl and she became our new ami! It was such a good day! I know that prayer works and that Heavenly Father will help us as we try to work diligently and do our very best. We had a fun week with district meeting! We have been talking a lot about finding those who are ready to hear the gospel. We talked about what we can do to find them. Something that came to my mind while we were talking about this was a talk given by Elder Rasband in General Conference. He talked about how there are no coincidences. Knowing that there are no coincidences has helped me so much when it comes to talking to people. There is no coincidence when we go to a certain neighborhood, there is no coincidence who we sit by on the bus, there is no coincidence who we walk by on the street, there are NO coincidences. With that in mind, why don't I try to talk to everyone? Heavenly Father is putting certain people in our path all the time. There is no coincidence when we cross paths with someone. Even not on missions, there are certain people that come into our lives for a reason. Then today we spent our time in Lyon going to museums and eating French food, so we were feeling pretty French 🇫🇷 Love you all and have a great week!! - Soeur Glazier Dinner with a member. Museum America!
To start our week off we had a lesson with our ami S.... We went over the plan of salvation with her and she really liked it. She said it made sense to her and that it is built off of what she already believed. The things that she didn't understand were the three kingdom's of glory. She wasn't sure if it was true or not. So we invited her to pray about it and to find out for herself if it was true, but she still had the concern of how she would receive her answer. So we went over that with her. Hopefully when we see her next she will have had a wonderful experience with prayer.
This week was also filled with lots of contacting and passing by less actives. We had a lot of great conversations with people and I hope that they will one day be ready to hear the gospel. Something that I really liked about conference was when Elder Rasband talked about how there are no coincidences. I know that it is not a coincidence that we talked to the people that we talked to. There was a reason we did and I might never know why. But I know that God is placing us in the lives of others to help them and bless them and they are placed in our path to help us too! I love General Conference and I am so thankful for all the wonderful messages that were shared. I found answers to questions that I had, and I felt the Spirit testify to me that all those men are called of God. I know that we having a living prophet today. I can't wait to be able to study all the talks again and again and again! Love you all. Have a great week and I hope you all enjoyed conference as much as I did! - Soeur Glazier |
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