My body loves me.

Hey ho!

 

My body loves me because I let is sleep for a solid 12 hours.  I would have made it 15 but we got up to go do baptisms at the Jordan River Temple for a zone activity.  It was indeed a splendid time.  I have 3 stories for the week.

 

Perfect French family!  We had about 50 tours (almost truth) on Thursday and then we got a french tour where I fell in loveish.  We met a family of 5 from France in one of the visitor centers.  The family was not religious but I had so much respect for the parents because they wanted to teach their 3 little sons about many different religions.  So we got straight into it and taught the family all about prophets and the restoration of the Gospel.  The mom was so great because she would spend time making sure that her tiny boys were understanding everything.  This is so new for me because typically parents seem to be afraid of us brainwashing their children.  I think my favourite thing was the boys' repsonses to the question of what happens to us when we die.  One thought we might become "un fantome", one said an angel and the other said that we would live in paradise.  Awesome.  So we got to teach them about how our bodies will seperate from our Spirits and then in the resurection, our spirits will unite with our perfected bodies and we can live in paradise with God.  Then we took them to see the model of the temple and taught them about the blessings of eternal families.  The 7 year old Ron Weasley look alike just kept saying, "Madame?" in a Matthew Possin voice and would ask me the sweetest little questions.  The boys wanted us to send them a Book of Mormon but the parents didn't think it was up to their comprehension level. 

 

We found Keith on chat.  He had a few deeper doctrine questions and we answered them as simply as we could and told him to continue learning the basics first.  He told us that he had been meeting with his local missionaires but he was away from home for a little while and had more questions about the Church because of things that he read online.  We focused him back to the truth that he had already learned from the missionaries.  A few days later we called him to get to know him better and invite him to go to Church.  He is 23 years old and says he was atheist 5 years ago.  He studies religion and philosophy in University and he says he was lead to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (he only ever says the full name of the Church.)  He has already read the entire Book of Mormon and knows it's true even though he hasn't even attended Church yet.  In short, Keith is a miracle and THE CHURCH IS TRUE.   

 

We got to take two Israelis on a tour yesterday.  Since they live in a beautiful country with an angry government, we are not allowed to invite them to be taught more after our tour.  They probably taught us more than we taught them because they are such cool people.  Since we were on a tour with them, a French tour got texted out but no one could take it.  So after our Isreali tour we, of course, hunted down the French fam.  They were super unreligious but super awesome.  The wife told me that for some reason they absolutely love touring Churches and religious sites.  Beautiful.  But THEN... in the middle of our tour we were joined by a member of the Church from Salt Lake who served his mission in France 40 years ago.  He had met the father of this family online so he decided to meet up with them for the tour.  Then he proceeded to RUIN OUR LIVES!  Seriously, he tried to steal the show.  I would say something, and he would repeat it in a more boring, lengthy way.  He tried to direct the tour and show off his bad French skills form back in the day.  I would have the family pause at different places so that we could teach them as we toured but the member man got all up in my grill.  And he completetly ignored my companion because she doesn't speak French.  We brought them up to the statue of Christ and were ready to testify and invite them to learn more.  Angry member man had other plans so he invited them out for lunch.  I don't know if he thought he was doing missionary work by ruining our tour or if he just wanted to practice his bad French.  So that is the anger story of the week.  Let us all learn from this man not to ruin other people's lives.  Boooo.  

 

Follow up: we haven't taught our Korean friend, Jaewan, from last week yet but we texted him and he told us that he bought a key chain of Salt Lake or the Temple... I don't know which one... to remember his trip because he loved it so much.  Presh.  We'll teach him over the phone this week. 

 

That's it.  LOVE YOUSSS

Bye.

SISTER KATIE KYLE