Week 25...Best Day Ever!!!

Well, Gabi moved to a new P-day. It works nicer for my schedule but they are all pretty sad about it because most missionaries have their P-days on Mondays so it keeps her fro being able to communicate back and forth with her mission buds. I am so excited about George! I have been praying for him as I know many other have. I love that they have found someone who is accepting to the gospel and finding the happiness that can come only from Christ. It looks like France is a beautiful place to be at Christmas. I am excited for her to be there and celebrate this wonderful time of year actually preaching daily of Christ. 

Here is Gabis weekly email. 

Bonjour tout le monde !

So my p day is now Tuesday! I think I forgot to say that but now everyone knows so it's ok!

This week we did lots of finding and had a couple lessons. It was good! Our mission also got trained on online proselyting so if I'm blowing up your Facebook that would be why!

So this week I also had one of the best days/moments of my life! This week the elders in my district had a baptism at our church so we invited George to come with us. The baptism was amazing and you could really feel the spirit and I could tell George was too. So after the baptism ended we sat down with George and asked him how he felt and he said he felt the spirit and he knew all of this was true. As he bore his testimony to us the spirit filled the room. We felt prompted to share Mosiah 18:8-10 with him and we told him we knew he had strong enough faith to be baptized and asked if he had the desire to be baptized. He told us he did and we were able to set a baptismal date for January. We were so beyond happy for him. He has such strong faith and after we set a date he continued to tell us a lot of struggles he's going through but he told us he felt something different when he met with us. He felt something here and he knew it was true. It was such a testimony to me to see someone who's going through such hard things to come unto Christ and be strengthened in him. I know without a doubt that this gospel is the only way to true happiness. I've seen it in George and I've seen it in myself. God blesses us not by taking away our trials but by giving us what we need to endure to the end and to endure with joy.

I'm so grateful that I have this gospel in my life and I'm so grateful that I get to share it with others and that I get to see how it can change lives for the better!

I hope you all have a great week! Go make someone smile!!!

Love, Sœur Uboldi 

Pictures!!!

1: venez et voyez (come and see) invitations!

2: gaufres

3&4: Christmas time in Orléans is BEAUTIFUL

5: and we got to go to Chartres for district p day so that was a blast! 

Week 24...Miracles aren't always immediate

I love Gabi's letter this week. It starts off kind of rough, which made the Sunday so much more sweet after going through the difficult week. Isn't that how life is? We don't really recognize how good something is until we have been without it. I am so glad Gabi is learning these important life lessons at an early age. She is seeing that opposition makes the joys and positive so much sweeter. Well she has another 6 weeks with Soeur Popoca so she is excited about that! I love how they created their own little Thanksgiving feast together and ate snails!!! Who are you and what have you done with my daughter???!?

Bonjour tout le monde !

So I'm going to start off with an update! My p day will be on Tuesday from now on so that'll be different! 

This week we had a lot of days full of finding. And after days and days we still hadn't found anyone interested. And then we got to Saturday. And Saturday can be described as a series of unfortunate events. First of all the trams and buses weren't working in the direction we needed to go for our rendez-vous and then once we got on one that was working we were late. Then we get off at the wrong stop and then we had the wrong address and so we were basically running around like crazy. Then after all our setbacks we got to our rendez-vous about 45 minutes late and it was a rough lesson and things weren't clicking. Then our next rendez-vous got canceled. So it was a hard day that had followed a hard week but we prayed to be able to keep going so we went out that night and went finding and sadly we didn't find anyone interested. 

Then we had yesterday. No one had confirmed that they'd come to church but 3 of our amis came! And it was amazing! Marie came and she brought a notebook for notes! Alberto came and told us he wanted to have another rendez-vous soon and that he was sorry he'd been so busy and then he talked to all the members and made friends! And George came even with his hurt leg and he was able to sit through the whole entire 2 hours without pain and then he said he wanted to meet with us on Saturday! 

This week had a lot of setbacks but it made all those miracles on Sunday so much better! Heavenly Father sees our efforts and he knows how much we can take and he knows how to help us. I prayed for miracles on Tuesday, and Wednesday, and Thursday, and all week long but I didn't see them until Sunday. I love the quote from Elder Anderson that says "Miracles are not always so immediate. At times we thoughtfully wonder why the miracle we have so earnestly prayed for does not happen here and now. But as we trust in the Savior, promised miracles will occur. Whether in this life or the next, all will be made right. The Savior declares: “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”" 

I know his church is true and I know that miracles and blessings always come even if they aren't always when we want them to! 

I love you all and hope you have an amazing week!

Love, Sœur Uboldi

Pictures!!!

1: batting for hours and hours in the rain

2: we found the Orléans O

3: finding 

4: our ginormous Thanksgiving dinner we made for ourselves!

5: me and Sœur Popoca! I love her so much!!

P.s. Another miracle just happened! Me and Sœur Popoca found out we're staying another transfer together! Whoop whoop!!!!

And then I added this one because I LOVE IT...