The Lord is blessing us so much! Geri came to a lesson last week and right off the bat asked, "why dont you pay tithing here, i have come the past 2 weeks and no one pays tithing?" Before we could answer he said, " i was sitting there at home thinking about it and i though, maybe there is 1 really really really rich man that just pays it for everyone, but then i thought NO! That is unjust, we all need the blessing of paying tithing he can have all of them" haha. We explained that yes we do pay tithing and he was a lot more calm haha! It was the best, he is such a solid man and really really understands and wants to be obedient to all of Gods commandments! He came to church in a suit yesterday and was shining like the sun! He is so excited for his baptism the 27th of September!
We taught Sarah the Gospel, faith, repentance, baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. She was having a hard time understanding repentance and the role that Christ plays in repentance (a big concern). We talked about it and testified, the spirit was so strong and I promised her that as she continued to read the Book of Mormon and pray with a sincere heart that she would understand the role that Christ plays. She felt better. The next lesson she came and said she was reading the Book of Mormon last night and that she read the words "Lamb of God", she meditated on those words and it clicked, she said somehow i just understood. It was the Holy Ghost that testified to her of truthfulness, like she said sometimes we dont have the words to explain how we know something is true, but we just know and that is enough. She accepted to be baptized the 27th of September also.
The France Lyon Mission and The Paris mission joined together this past week for a day of finding, we had set the goal to find "1000" new people to teach! Together all the missionaries in France would pray every half hour starting at 9am to 9pm throughout the day on friday to find new people to teach. We started of the day fixing 2 rdvs, with people before lunch! We were already seeing miracles. We taught some lessons and then in the evening we had about 2 hours left, we offered a kneeling prayer and headed out to finish up! We fixed a 2 more then contacted a young french atheist guy that laughed and said," wow, you are doing that in France, you are brave" and walked away. We laughed because this guy had no idea the miracles we had seen that day! We ended up fixing 3 more that evening. That is just crazy! Together our missions didnt reach 1000, but we were so blessed and really saw power behind prayer and faith!
I want to tell you about one more person that we taught this week! She is a student here in lyon from China! Her name is jinyu. We started talking about her religious backround, she told us that when she was younger she believed in something, then when she was in school she was taught that there was no God for 3 years so she stopped believing, then she chose to pray to tress, and now she parys to the sun. She is so innocent, the sweetest person i have ever met!! We taught her about God and how to pray to Him. She thought it was so cool! At the end My companion offered a prayer to Show Jinyou how to pray, then She tried. She started off by saying "Bonjour Pere Celeste", Hello Heavenly Father. It was the Best prayer ever! SO sincere, she was really talking to her Heavenly Father! She taught me a good lesson!
I feel so blessed to be teaching and meeting these people! I have seen peoples lives change and they are changing mine. I know without a doubt that this Church is True. It is Christs church, it will make us happy and protect us from danger, if we will stay true to His teachings! I love you all so much and thank you for your support! Have a great week!!
Love Sister Kupfer!
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