You could have heard a pin drop; Basque Country
Our Church Week. This week we re-traced our path right back past Lyon, where we were last week, on our way to and from Geneva, Switzerland. We had two training sessions back to back with Elder Cook, one of the 12 Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It was 6 hours of bliss. With the size of The Church of Jesus Christ growing to over 16 million worldwide members, it is not often that an Apostle comes to your area. From humble beginnings, The France Lyon Mission has grown to 6 Stakes (about 60 congregations) in Southern France and French-speaking Switzerland. In this instance, Elder Cook was coming to train those in leadership capacities in our 6 Stakes. But..... The added bonus was that at the last minute he invited all missionaries from the Lyon, France Mission to come for a 2-hour meeting prior to the leadership training meeting for the stakes. Now that was an event! Getting some 160 missionaries shuttled over to Switzerland and with little not