Bonjour Tout le monde! Well first off thank you for your wonderful letters! I really appreciate them! Mom and Dad thank you for your emails! I hope mom that my email helps clear things up for you and all your plans. Voilà I am glad the brothers are staying busy and mom i love to hear that you are taking carson to the batting cages. That for me just lets me relize all those moments where you guys helped me to be better and grow and it is fun to see it from another view. Outside looking in you know. Now i realize all that you guys did do for me, and like always i feel bad for being horrible to you guys. But i do love hearing that Carbob, Connor and Beautiful Snoub are doing well. By the way I really would love to get home from my mission and that same week have hunter open his call. Time things right so that happens! I want to be there for that!!!!!!! Ok so i think that is it right now! I have some really cool things to share with you guys this week.
We have had an incredible week! Blessings like none other..... Prayers and Fasts being answered the works. First things first. Grettel our Cuban investigator is doing great! I have gotten a lot better at speaking spanish thanks to her. Dad in your letter you said that every french word you try to say sounds Spanish, for me it is the opposite haha but she understands and that is the KEY! She is doing wonderful and WILL be baptized on the 28th. our date for the 14th isn't going to be able to do it because of his muslim mother..... She will put him out of the house and could do worse if we puch anymore so we are going to go easy with him. Francois our super solid invesitgator is still waiting to move out. His Girlfriend needs to get a job so that Social Care can pay for the apartment allowing him to move out. He i think may be baptized the 28th as well we will see. I pray for it every night. Arlette, she is the wife of a part member family that we have been working with super closely and patiently and SHE came to church sunday! Why is this huge well let me tell you.
She told us at the beginning of the transfer that she didn't want to do anything because she "couldn't believe Joseph Smith was a prophet." So we told her she had to gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon first. She told us no i don't like reading it, i don't ever feel inspired. So i said oh yeah?... I will show you inspired and i listed a ton of scriptures over time we have been reading the Book of Mormon with her and she has been making a ton of progress! She is getting more and more inspired from reading! I even told her to admit it and she did haha. So our last meeting with her. She read Mosiah 2-5 the day before and when we came over she told us that she loved the reading. She said this litterally spoke to me and told me how i need to be a better Christian. She said the morals that are shared are the same ones that i have and i was just so touched by the scriptures. So we capitalized on this and said Arlette why do you think this is happening?.... She said with a big smile, almost acting as if she knew the answer i wanted to hear "well it must be the word of God..." We testified and said Arlette will you follow these feeling and prepare yourself for Baptism the 28th of July?! She said she would pray about it. Well then sunday she is at Church! This is huge because she hasn't come yet since i have been here because well she didn't believe in what was being taught, BUT she came this sunday and so i said Arlette it is nice to see you here! Did you pray like we asked you too and she said "yes" so i then asked did you as about being baptized? She said "yes" so then i said Well?..... And she said with a big smile we will talk about it more tuesday! So i am so stoked! She was gleaming at church and so i really hope that all is good with her and that she will be baptized the 28th! This is the beginning to many prayers and fasts being answered!
So that is huge miracle for me! Next one is literally is a Bruxelles miracle and yes it has to do with a Nigerian Brother! No relation to other "Brothers" but he will be a part of them soon. His name is Steve and Steve came into the church for the first time wanting to know more about the Chruch and Joseph Smith and all these things. Luckily the members found him and directed him to where he needed to go and gave him a super nice welcome! We got to know him a little bit and we decided to talk more after Church. so we had a rendez-vous with him afterwards and it was so awesome! He told us how he had a feeling a little earlier on that he needed to find a Church, because he believed in God but he never went to Church. So he started searching. He went to Jehovah Witnesses, Protestants, Evangelicals but he didn't find anything there that he liked. He told us he hated it because it was all about money! So he came to our church because he remembered speaking with missionaries a long time ago. So he came and he told us that He LOVED CHURCH! He said in the middle of the Sacrament Meeting he had this feeling that came over him and told him that this was where he needed to stay! He then told us that he felt an emptiness filled within him. He told us that he felt peaceful, happy and full of life. We told him it was the spirit and he said yeah i know! Ha he will be baptized on the 28th of July as well. He is like a mixture of Dablo (Charles) and Michel! He is so solid and i can't wait to teach him more!
So there you have it! I know that is an enormous letter and my wrists are hurting but it is just so cool honestly how much the Lord is helping us here. I really hope to see 4 baptisms on the 28th. That would be so rad seriously! On verra bien! Anyway that is it for this week nothing else really just those two big miracles! I love you guys so much an i'll talk to you soon!
Love, Elder Hoopes
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