So first my trip i had to take. So this last wednesday i had to get legal in Belgium. Well he have district meeting on tuesday in Caen and then there is no train that leaves Cherbourg early enough to get to paris and then go to brussels in the morning so i had to stay the night in PARIS!!!! So tuesday we went from Cherbourg to Caen, Caen to Paris spent the night then in the morning on wednesday Paris to Brussels, Brussels to Paris and then Paris to Cherbourg and we caught our train to Cherbourg with Just two minutes to spare which is lucky and a blessing because the next train that left for cherbourg was three hours later and would put us into Cherbourg around 11 at night! So yeah it was pretty hectic! But we did get to see lots of Paris on tuesday! We had about 4 hours of free time that we could use to explore and stuff so we went to Champs Elysées and to the Eiffel Tower and the Arc du Triomph. It was pretty sweet! We saw some cool things! Ha this one lady came up to us and started yelling at us in SPanish and french and i was like What?!!!!! Turns out she was a member that wanted to be Excommunicated and she was from Columbia with her Family (They took a picture with us before we left HAHAHA) and yeah she starts going off on how we worship a Prophet and dont read the bible! We obviously were like lady you crazy and i left her with a scripture from the Bible to study when she gets home! Romans 1:16! Ha it was pretty funny actually! But yeah then brussels we couldnt really see because we went strait to the consolate and didn't see anything else before we headed home. So that was a bummer but yeah that was that trip.
New Years we didn't do anything we just had a pday and we caught up on some much needed sleep. But anyway speaking of the work here. Things are clicking!!!!!! Me and elder Draleau have decided to be strickly obedient and not waste any time. The blessings are already coming. When he came in we only had 3 people in our teaching pool and after only 4 real days of work we now have 10 Sold people we are going to teach! Also the less actives and other innactives are starting to let us in and some are coming to church! Really it is such and amazing blessing. So hopefully this next week we can have lots of success! We are just relying on the spirit and on its guidance. COOL STORY TIME!!!!!!
Ok so this week at our district meeting President was there and we were all having interviews and he gave us a training on Spiritual planning. So we decided to put that into action and try it out. So we started planning and in the middle of the planning we prayed and asked Heavenly Father to tell us where we needed to go and who to find. So we thought a little bit after the prayer and thought and thought and we both got two little feelings. I felt we needed to porte this specific apartment building the thrid white Batiment and Elder Draleau felt we needed to go to the pier. So we planned on sunday to go and do those things. So sunday rolls around and we do just a tad of planning and then we have a RDV at 3. Well it was 2:30 and we had to go. So we start going to the RDV and we just felt like we needed to go contacting just out by the Pier before we left. So we hurried over there because from the pier it is then 15 minutes to the RDV so we just decided to hurry. Well we get there and we contact one guy but he wasn't interested. So then we go to turn back to the RDV but i felt something pulling me and telling me to stay out on the Pier. It said "go back, go back, go back." So i told Elder Draleau i felt we needed to stay 5 more minutes. So he agreed and we walked out there and keep in mind there is no one around. Its sunday you know. Well all of a sudden this guy comes walking up so we contact him and turns out he is interested and wants a Book of Mormon. So we placed a book of Mormon and are going to see him later this week! Cool huh! Then Later on in the Night we went Porting and we went to the Third white Building. We knocked and knocked and knocked but nothing. So its time for us to leave and we just decided to do the last floor. Well the last two doors we knocked were interested and we placed Book of Mormons to both of them and are seeing them next sunday! Cool thing is they are Neighbors too so it is easy to just pass back and do RDV's with Them! So yeah how cool is that! The spirit literally told us where to go and what to do! I know that the Spirit will guide us when we are obedient and when we strive to leave the best we can by keeping the commandments.
So yeah that was a super cool spirtual experience this week! I love this work and finally in Cherbourg things are happening. It is realy just because we have know become worthy vssels for the Spirit. I love love love IT!!!!! Totally worth two years away from home HAHAHAHA!!!!!! Well i miss you all so much and i hope you get my package soon because i sent it a while ago! Anyway i love you and miss you all!
Love
Elder Hoopes
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