Another great week! We taught a lot of people, went on a couple companionship exchanges, experienced our first real winter storm, and witnessed at a wedding.
To start off the week, the Zone Leaders came over on P day and played Risk with us and a couple other Elders. I won of course. Then we went on exchanges and Elder Petersen and I taught quite a lot of people. We also attended a funeral.
One of my favorite moments from this week was when we went to teach a woman named Sunday. She is from Uganda so doesn't speak French, but we brought a French Book of Mormon just in case. She happened to have a roommate named Reine who was from Burundi. She told us a story about how she was pronounced dead at a hospital, but saw a man dressed in white who basically told her that she was still needed, and her heart started beating again after 5 minutes of stillness. She seems to have no ill effects from the event and came to America at the age of 13 speaking no English, but was able to figure it out. When we told her about the Book of Mormon and gave her the French one that we had brought, she told us she wouldn't be able to sleep that night because she was so excited to read it!
There was a couple that was investigating the church and basically told the bishop that they wanted to get married as soon as possible. So Elder Ellsworth and I served as witnesses for it.
Saturday night I started an exchange with Elder Jarvis, and we had our first big winter storm. We had restrictions on the time we were allowed to be outside, and weren't allowed to drive, so we did a lot of studying and shoveled out a bunch of cars. One woman tried to pay us but we just told her we'd love to share a message about Jesus Christ, so that's going to happen next week. Somehow we were even able to give out a couple of Book of Mormons on the street that day.
If you're still reading at this point I want you to know I love you and you're awesome.
Je vous aime tous!
Elder Martin
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