Best Day and harmonica music

As for me, the work is great.  Saturday was probably 
the best day of my mission thus far.  Each Saturday  
the wards in France have "samedi sportiff," or "sport 
Saturday," where members, the missionaries, and 
investigators go and play sports, usually soccer, 
for an hour or too.  I haven't gone to much because 
there is always something else to be doing, but 
we went to that in hopes of talking to a prospective 
investigator.  It was fun, but we had not had the success 
we had hoped with the person; but it was still good. 

Then, we searched the sister's area book since there
are currently no sister missionaries in Metz 
and tried to find people we could pass by. 
While doing this we received a text message from a
less active women whom we are currently in the process of 
reactivating along with her son, which is going very well. 
But the message said, "my daughter in law wants to be
a member.  We are blessed!  see you 
Sunday!" Naturally, we called her right away and got
a rendez-vouz with her and her daughter-in-law.

As we continued to look at these former amis prior to our 
rendez-vous we placed them on a map and prayed about
who we should visit based on geographical location and
where it would be the most time efficient, and most 
importantly to where the Lord would have better
prepared the people to accept our message. 
The first person we decided to stop by was a women
who had a baptismal date years ago, but had canceled
it because she wanted to make sure she 
knew for herself; she hadn't been contacted by
the missionaries for over 2 years!  
We didn't know her address, just the road, her name,
and that she was African.  We went to the road and
on the balcony there was an African woman waving at us!  
We asked if she was Andrea, and she said no, but
that that was her daughter.  They invited us in and we
rethought the restoration over Coke, I just love people 
who give me coke!  There also were her 3 kids
there who are the coolest kids I have met here;
they are 7, 10, and 11.  When we were walking out
some French punks tried starting something with us,
not a big deal, French kids are all talk, and the
10 year old kid yells from the balcony at them,
"hey, give them some respect!"  It was so sweet.

Then, we had our rendez-vous with the inactive women.
It went so well and they too gave us coke!  We haven't
fixed a date yet, but she will probably be baptized 
in 4 weeks. All them went to church, which was great!
It was such a good testimony meeting!

Last night we had interviews with the President
and his wife; they are soo awesome!  He used to
be the COO of Freddy Mack.  So, last night we stayed
in Nancy with 6 other elders, then, this morning took
a train back to Metz because I had to do some legality,
then, we took the train back to Nancy because we are 
having a Zone football game; 10 Elders. 
And yes, American football!  It is going to be a blast! 
We are staying here again tonight because we have
zone conference tomorrow, so I will be seeing
President Peterson again tomorrow. Oh, 
and you know how I mentioned buying a harmonica
last week, I am playing souviens-tois on it tomorrow
as the special musical number at the conference; 
haha.  Wish me luck!

Elder Clayton Henderson Welch