France Lyon Mission

15 April 2018 Saying goodbye —One of our two missionaries, Elder Masters, completes his 2-year mission in 9 days.   It is always amazing the responsibility these young missionaries take on.   He has been a Missionary District Leader (in charge of 10-12 young missionaries) for the past 4 months here in Tarbes.   District Leader responsibilities include watching over his “flock” of 10-12 other missionaries, going on exchanges (2 missionary companionships pairing off with 2 different missionary companionships for the day), conducting interviews, filling out reports and a variety of other tasks needed to keep the missionary work running smoothly.   He also makes trips to adjacent missionary areas coordinating exchanges with those Elders.   He conducts a 2-hr long instructional meetings every 3 weeks for his peers (District Conferences).   In addition to those duties, he is also a full-time missionary himself.   When we arrived here, he was also ser...

8 April 2018 Fotos below Missionary work this week —good things are happening in Tarbes.   Sometimes it’s hard to see our progress….whether it’s on a personal goal, studying for a hard exam or watching missionary work come to fruition.    This week we saw a lot of fruits of our labors. Frère Pho is our Cambodian brother whose family lives in Cambodia while he works to send his three children to University.   The younger twin girls just finished their diploma this past week at their university.   So that marked a milestone in his purpose here.   One daughter was in 1 st place, the other in 4 th place.   The first three in the class got to have their diploma presented by the President of the country, which was a huge honor.  The second sister that was 4th in her class was very sad that she just missed this honor.  This is their second University degree and they came through with flying colors.   Frère Pho came over to our h...

1 April 2018 Happy Easter —With the rest of the Christian world, we celebrate the empty tomb:  “He is not here, for He is risen, as He said.”  Matthew 28:6.  We are eternally grateful.  The sting of death is no more.   The Risen Lord It’s been quite a week of celebrations :   Normally the Church has General Conference with 8 sessions of instruction twice a year—April and October.   So that was already in the mix.   And we look forward to it with great anticipation as it fills us up spiritually for the next 6 months.   But then, add in Easter that happens to fall on General Conference weekend this year and top that with a newly sustained Prophet: we are just floating!   General Conference Center in SLC, Utah Seats 21,000; conference talks translated into 94 different languages An Historic Moment in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints —Prophets lead and guide the Church.   Just like in th...