Ni Hao!
This has been an awesome, busy week, and we are finding lots of people to share the gospel with.
I don't have much time, but I just wanted to share a cool miracle that happened a few days ago
I was on exchange with Elder Moeler, and we went to go do service at a families house. This family has been through a lot, and we went to just try to help them in any way we knew how. As we approached their house, a heavy rain started. We got to their house, and were trying to decide what to do. We were deciding whether or not we should stay, and a member suggested we pray for the rain to stop. I looked around and saw clouds in every direction. But we decided to give it a shot. After a heartfetlt, short prayer, we went inside the families house. Within 10 minuets the rain had completely stopped, and we were able to work in their yard and finish their garden.
I know that our Heavenly Father Loves us, and he hears our prayers. He is our Father, and wants to hear from us.
Originally sent May 26, 2014
Bonjour!
This has been a crazy week because it was the end of the transfer, but we finished with a bang.
Every saturday we do a samedi sportif as an opportunity for members, non members, and missionaries to have a good time and create friendships. This last saturday, we had a less active friend that we had talked to invite 5 of her friends!! It was super cool. We played some ball with them for a while, and got to know them really good. At the end, they invited us over for dinner, so after some appointments in the afternoon we went over for dinner. I ate so much I thought I was going to explode. It was awesome.
What was even cooler is that two of them came to church the next day!!!! I promise that only good things can happen if we simply invite people!
So transfer calls were this last week, and I am staying. I received a new companion named Elder Yeung from Hong Kong! He is super cool, and speaks really good Chinese :) so we are going to work really hard to find chinese people that we can teach. Maybe I can Learn a little Chinese on the way.
I love you all hope you have a great week!
Elder Duckworth
Origianally sent May 19, 2014
bonjour!
I just spent the last little bit fighting with the computer, so Im out of time. I wanted to share this video, its awesome, and really reflects my thoughts as of late. It really is because of Christ that all is possible. I testify that He loves you, and has died for you.
I love you all, Have a good week!
Elder Duckworth
https://www.lds.org/youth/video/because-of-him?lang=eng
Originally sent May 12, 2014
Hello!
This week has been a fantastic week! Mother's day was great, and it was really good to hear from the family. I have such an appreciation for my Mother, and I have nothing for respect for Mothers, I definately couldn't do it.
This week was a lot of fun for me and Elder Dalton. We did a lot of hard work, and were able to see a lot of miracles. One that was really cool was that at the beginning of the week, we hadn't had much luck with fixing Rendez Vous. We felt a little discouraged, and we decided to try something new. We got out an old Chinese area book from when we had Chinese speaking Missionaries in Toulouse, as well as some of their language material, and decided to see if we could fix a Rendez vous in Chinese. We had some funny conversations for sure in all sorts of languages, but the miracle is that we acutally fixed a Rendez Vous out of it! It took 3 different languages, and a lot of help from the Lord, but we did it. His name is Caiyong, and we actually taught him twice, and have stayed in contact with him. It was a really cool little miracle.
In my studies this week, I read a lot about pride. Pride is one of the sins a lot of us are the most guilty of. I will be the first to admit that I let my pride get the best of me every now and again. It's hard. But in looking at the life of the Savior, he showed us a better way of living. He demonstrated that through meekness, humility, and service, we all can live on a higher level. Something I am doing, and I invite you to do as well, is to find ways to get rid of pride in our lives. I can promise that we will all be happier if we do this.
I love you all, have a great week!
Ok, so the first one is me and ELder Frandson from american Fork,The second one is me and My companion riding bikes for the first time! and the third one is kind of a funny story, I had left my camera on a park bench one night, so the next morning we woke up early to go running to see if we could find it. This is the picture of two tired missionaries who are celebrating the found camera
As a gift, I have also included the pictures of the infamous bird poop day. Enjoy! :D
Originally sent May 5, 2014
Bonjour à tous!
This has been a pretty solid week. We had zone conference, which was absolutely amazing. We have some very inspired leaders in this mission, and the direction that we received will definately be able to help us be better missionaries so that we can better serve the people of France!
This week we had a lot of people sleeping over in the Hotel Toulouse (our apartment) because of the zone conference, so it was a lot of fun to meet a lot of people, as well as see some old friends also. I got to go on an exchange with an old friend from High School which was pretty cool.
This week my companion and have seen some pretty awesome miracles. Elder Neil Anderson visited the mission about 2 years ago, and as part of his message he told us that as we strive to do our best, prepared people will come and find us. We were able to see two fulfillments of this promise this last week. Both times we were just walking, and were stopped. The first time was this lady from Iran. We hadnt left the apartment for but 2 minuets when she stopped us and asked us if we were people who could "teach her about religeon" because she has been searching. We were pleased to tell this sweet lady that that is exactly what we do :D The other time me and my companion were "lost" (I have found that normally when we get lost that means something cool is about to happen). We were looking at a map on a bench when we hear, "Hey Elders!" Two young tahitian students aproached us. The girl told us that she is a member, and is studying here. Her frend was this big Tahitian guy, and she said "I've been trying to get this guy to meet with the missionaries for a while now" and he laughed at that. We got to know them a bit, and also found out that this girl has a bunch of Tahitian student friends that she wants to introduce us to!(score!) So basically we are in the process of organizing this big basketball game, and we will be able to meet all of her friends through that! This kind of stuff happens all the time here as a missionary, I promise you all that miracles do happen!
I love you all, I hope you have a fantastic week!
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