Raspberry pie from amis (French for investigators).
Amis is such a nice word for the people missionaries work with! I definitely prefer it.
Soeur Ackroyd and Soeur Ethington with Elaine S. Dalton, Soeur Woods, and the
architect of the Paris Temple (Ian Wood)
Soeur Ackroyd and Ethington with the Antony Ward Relief Society sisters.
Miracle of the week: Janet
by Soeur Ethington
A few days ago, a woman walked into the Visitors' Center. She introduced
herself as Janet and immediately asked, "how do I join your church?"
The sisters who were on shift (not us, unfortunately) started teaching
her about our message. Janet said she wanted to meet with the
missionaries, which is awesome because she happens to live in the Antony
sector! Soeur Ackroyd and I met her yesterday when she came to church,
and we love her already.
After a rocky sacrament meeting where the talks were about deep
doctrinal topics and our hymns were "The Millenium" and "O My Father,"
we taught her about the Restoration. At the end of the lesson, we
invited her to be baptized, to which she responded that she was already
baptized into the Catholic church. For those of you who have served
missions, you know that this is a pretty tricky topic to navigate, so I
was suddenly very nervous. I said a silent prayer to God to guide me,
and I carefully explained to her why she would have to be baptized a
second time. It took a few minutes, but she finally understood. I was
praying that she wouldn't be angry or confused, and my prayer was
answered when she exclaimed, "oh, what a blessing! I get to be baptized
TWICE!" Anyway, Janet is precious and we set a baptismal date with her
for the 24th of November.
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