6/20/2016 0 Comments Bonjour À tous!Bonjour À tous! Je suis toujours vivante!
To kick off an incredible week, Soeur Clements and I were in the middle of studies when I got this crazy prompting to go outside early, finish studies later, and try to pass by Eugenie--a woman that we have been trying to contact ever since I got here. So, we threw on our coats and shoes and headed out the door! We got off the metro and as we were walking down the street, Soeur Clements sees the back of this woman's head from way down the street and she yells, "THATS EUGENIE!!" Without hesitation we took off running down the street to catch her before we lost her. Don't worry, we were behind her so she didn't see us creepily running toward her ;). We finally caught up to her right as she turns and walks into a book store on the corner... DOH! Well... we weren't about to give up that easily... Yup, we followed her into the bookstore... At this point I am sure you are all thinking that my companion and I are just a little creepy. You may be right. But, this is Eternal Salvation we are talking about! As we walked around the bookstore and checked out the newest collection of French Cuisine books, we just happened to run right into Eugenie ;)... She was SO happy to see us, she kissed us four times EACH! We were able to fix another rendezvous and it was such a miracle. Ahhh, what a way to start the week!! :) Later that night we tried a new thing that we like to call "Power Hour." Power hour is the hour right before a rendezvous with a member family. It's "Power" because we go to their neighborhood and look for as many miracles as we can find during that time! Then, we get to tell the family about all of the cool miracles that we had right there in their neighborhood! This night in particular, we went out to visit the family Stagno. We started with a prayer as we stood at the end of their street. Then, starting with their next-door neighbors, we knocked on every door on the street. Normally, it wouldn't take very long to knock one street because people don't ever let you in haha. Lucky for us, miracles happen :) The second door we knocked on was a sweet young mom with her two little kids. Initially she said she wasn't believing, or interested. But, we felt prompted to testify to her about the sacredness of the family. We began to teach how the gospel strengthens the family. As we taught, her heart was touched by the spirit and she listened very intently, as did her little kids. Wendy allowed us to leave her family with a prayer and by the end of the prayer she had tears streaming down her face. They invited us to come back and have family night with them next week :). During that power hour, we ended up teaching 5 lessons, finding two new family's, and 3 new Amis. All on the very same street as the family Stagno. They were thrilled to hear the news :) It was an incredible testimony to all of us of the Lord's work and how important it is to invite those around us to hear his gospel.. "And at all times, and in all places, he shall open his mouth and declare my gospel as with the voice of a trump, both day and night. And I will give unto him strength such as is not known among men." (D&C 24:12) The Lord truly does give us this strength when we open our mouths to declare his gospel. I have seen it and I have felt it. Exchange miracles are real. Every time we have exchanges, we see a ridiculous amount of miracles! It's amazing! This week we had an exchange with some missionaries who had been really struggling to find the motivation to get out and work. Well, after that exchange I can tell you exactly why they were having those struggles... In teaching with these two sisters, the spirit was so incredibly powerful when they opened their mouths and bore testimony of the ways the gospel has impacted their lives. It was clear that the investigators truly felt their love, and their honesty. We saw an unbelievable amount of miracles that day and I would like to share just a few of them. A Nice New Shirt and a Future Baptism: The first miracle began up in Belgium. We were walking around in the pouring rain when we happened to knock on the door of a Russian family, who happened to be inactive members of the church, with a daughter who wanted to be baptized. We were drenched and had no coats so they invited us in to share a message with them and they gave us new shirts to change into. Their daughter is 12 and really wants to be baptized but her family is struggling to get to church. So, until we can get the whole family back to church, we were able to call a member family who lives down the street from them to take the daughter to church with them every week :). Marbrerie: By the time dinner rolled around, I was absolutely exhausted. I laid down for a few minutes to take a quick power nap and was awakened by the continual circling thought of the word, "Marbrerie". I opened my eyes, looked at the sisters, and told one of them to grab their shoes and come with me...we were going to Marbrerie! Marbrerie is a neighborhood a few metro stops away from our apartment. We don't go their often because it's not the safest place in our sector. But, we really felt strongly about going at that time. As soon as we got off the metro we saw a woman sitting down and both of us knew we were there to talk to her. Feeling prompted to share the message of the Plan of Salvation, we talked about eternal families. She was so touched. We fixed another rendezvous with her and then as she was leaving she told us that she had just barely found out that she was pregnant. After teaching Delphine, we received another prompting to pass by a part member family who lived around the corner. The wife, Dora, isn't a member and we have passed by her house about 10 times since I have been here. She hasn't been there a single time. But, 11th time is a charm... Right? Well, It must be!! Dora answered! I was so in shock I couldn't even get anything out of my mouth Lol. I started speaking French and she just stared blankly at me. Turns out, she only speaks English haha. My English is a little on the rough side but I managed to explain who we were and she invited us in to share a little message with her. The spirit in the lesson was so powerful. By the end of the lesson, Dora committed to start reading the Book of Mormon. So after having seen all these incredible exchange miracles, having heard them testify, and having felt the power of the spirit in the lesson, my verbal response for the sisters was... "No wonder Satan doesn't want you to have motivation to go outside!! If you did, you would baptize every single person in France!!" This applies to each and every one of us. Next time you are feeling unmotivated to do something you know is good, do it anyways! Because if you don't, you will have missed out on the miracle that God prepared for you and that Satan didn't want you to have. Baby's First word: The Lille sisters have been teaching a cute little family with a baby boy who has high functioning autism. When they met the family the little boy couldn't say a single word. The other day during a lesson with the sisters the little boy yelled his first word and the parents where absolutely dumbfounded. Can you guess what he said?... "MORMON!" Hahaha yessss!! If that isn't revelation than I don't know what is ;). Friday we got a message at 6:30 in the morning saying we were doing an emergency evacuation drill. We have never done one of those so we were all pretty confused haha. I guess it's a good thing we did it then right? ;) Even though it was freezing and pouring rain, we managed to make it out safely! Hahaha :) This week we saw so many miracles and had 75 total lessons! It was crazy! To finish an awesome week we had a "Meet the Mormons" activity in the middle of town and we had so many people coming up to us and asking about "The Mormons" that we didn't have enough members or missionaries to respond to all of them! They were seriously lined up waiting to talk to us! It was amazing! We also got transfer calls! I will be staying an STL in Villeneuve D'Ascq and my new companion will be Soeur Cornetta! I haven't met her yet but I have heard she is great :) She is a Francophone (speaks French) and she doesn't speak English. So that will definitely push me in the Language ;)! I'm stoked! Well, that's it for this week folks! Love you all! Oh! And remember... Miracles happen, even in France!!! ;) Xoxo- Soeur Wyson (Tracie)
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Tracie WysonI feel very honored to have had the opportunity to serve as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the France, Paris Mission. Archives
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