Elder Goddard: Footy and Missionary Sunday

September 16, 2019 7:18 AM MST

Bonjour :P

This week was good!

Tuesday I had my second interview with the mission president, and it went really well. I did the whole thing in French! I was able to talk well enough and also was able to understand like everything that he said, so I was very excited! He told me all of my MTC buddies had done all their interviews all in French too, and that he's never seen a group of Americans pick up the language that quickly. So I'm happy to see that me and the boys have been working real hard, and that our hard work has really been paying off! I'm excited to see the kind of missionaries that we can all become.

I said last week that we had a game set up with some guys in the street to play soccer with, and that happened and it went really well! We showed up and no one was there and we were sad. But they texted us and said they were coming. And 2 hours later they finally did! And it was way fun. They're really good, and really fun to play with. It's probably some of the most fun soccer I've played in my life. We were moving the ball quick around the dirt road. I think they were surprised to see I was a *** yovo who could actually play haha. But after the game, they all sat down and we taught them the first lesson. It went well! They all listened, and they all took a brochure after. And we took all their contacts. It was cool! We set up another game for this Saturday, but we're trying to set up lessons with the ones who were really interested before then. I hope we can find some success with these guys!

We fixed another baptismal date this week. His name's Fr. George. He works at a grocery store and we always go and teach him while he's working. He's so willing to keep the commandments and do the things that he is asked to do, it's great. We fixed his date for the 28th, so we're hoping that we can have 3 baptisms that day! We're praying that all our amis can be ready and that we can know what we need to do to help them get there.

Yesterday was missionary Sunday at our branch, and they had us missionaries doing different things around the branch. My duties were blessing the sacrament and teaching primary. They were both great experiences. I was a little nervous to bless the sacrament in French, but the prayer was actually pretty easy, I just had to take my time. I was surprised however to uncover the bread and see I had a whole loaf of French bread sitting on the tray for me to break haha. And primary was great! The kids were all so cute and they all participated! We taught them about how God can help us overcome problems and reach our goals. We used a drawing and a story to teach it, and they were helping us along with it and I really actually understood it and got something out of it. They're amazing! It was a fun little spiritual experience. And there is something about little kids speaking French that just make them even cuter haha.

Well, I'm officially 2 months into the mission thing now and I think I can say I'm pretty well settled in. I love living here, and I love the people that I get to teach and be around all day! Sometimes I can get sad when I think about home, but I know how to lose myself in the work now. It's easy to just look forward to our next lesson, or preparing our amis for baptism, and all my worries seem to go away. 22 months more is still a long time, but I'm excited for the opportunities that I'm going to have, the people I'm going to meet, and the growth that I'm going to experience.

Thank you all for your emails and prayers, I love you all!

I hope you all have a great week

Elder Goddard