Hello all,
So this week lots of cool things happened. On tuesday President Holland spoke to us a devotional and it was super awesome! He came without a talk prepared and really said i hope that i can honestly just teach you by the Spirit today. And he did! You could tell he came without anything prepared because he had tons of tangents but it was cool because he taught about so many different things. Two of my favorite qoutes were "the path to redemption always goes through Gethsemene" and "when contacting and teaching investigators, remember that they knew this message before they came to this earth." That really hit me and that propelled me and elder wood into our lesson with Shang our other investigator. it was cool the Spirit literally told me and Elder Wood at the same exact time and so we knew we had to emphasize this fact. Our lesson went great. And then with our other investigator Stephen we taught the law of chastity and also following the prophet. He is much more receptive to everything we are teaching him. Shang on the other hand is a buddist and so he doesn't know any gospel terms. So we have to teach him like a child. But another cool experience happened when we were planning a lesson for Shang yesterday. We started and we were having trouble finding out anything to teach him. So we prayed and after we prayed we felt we needed to touch on the law of chastity also and just do it in a porte visit, which means just stopping by while in the neighborhood. So we just stopped by and talked to him and we found out that he was living with his girlfriend. It was surprising but a good experience. He said that his girlfriend would listen to the lessons with him. So this should be interesting. It was the coolest thing that the visit was inspired and brought to pass throught the Spirit! It's great working with the Spirit You guys.
Honestly the teaching with Elder Wood is very difficult. I feel like i'm having to do everything because i am. He has never planned a lesson he has never really been social. It's just hard. He could prepare an awesome talk but he can't talk face to face with anyone without mentioning the Navy honestly. And his ear is getting more attention then it needs. He is playing it off like he will never hear again so everyone is giving him sympathy and his hearing is totally coming back. It's a blessing but it is just difficult to deal with when i know the truth of whats going on.
Anyway teaching by the Spirit is awesome but for me the coolest thing is seeing how my tongue is loosed and i can speak good french to our investigators. Our lessons are 15-20 twenty minutes long solely in french. We have now taught 8 lessons in French and honestly its so great. The Lord is really looking out for me. The lord is really loosing my tongue and helping scriptures come to me that i haven't ever really thought of. I don't know its just so great.
The MTC is Great but in 30 days i'll be in Paris and I'm so stoked!
Thank you for the letters Keep them coming!!!!!!
Avec l'amour
Elder Hoopes
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