France Lyon Mission

Pictures at end. The Royal Wedding and a Baptism —at precisely the time when millions of people from many nations gathered to watch the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markel, we had our own quite gathering of 22 people who came to show their support for our newest convert, Chavez.   Both Meghan Markle and Chavez were dressed in white, but for 2 very different reasons.   One event was widely-televised, the other event was scarcely known, save for a few.   From our perspective, there was a regal event on Saturday in a small town in southern France witnessed Chavez enter the waters of baptism.   Members came from far and wide, some over an hour away and several from almost an hour away.   If you could have parted the curtains of heaven, we’re sure there were many more looking down. The feeling during that short, but very significant event was palpable.   It seemed Chavez was going to lift off his chair he was so happy. Chavez has been inves...

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!    Well it is winter here again in Tarbes.   It is 36 degrees F right now and 90% rain predicted today.   Being from Poway, CA, we are not used to all the rain, colder weather, and lack of sun.   Though I would like to report that we did have a direct ray of sun a few days ago between 10:24 and 10:32 AM which was nice.   Actually, the locals say this has been more of an odd year. To top it off I (Marc) have caught a bad cold, which although bad, is an improvement over the flu, so I am not complaining too much. In our branch yesterday we restarted Sunday school and thus added a 3 rd hour to our worship service.   We had a class for adults with 24 attendees and a class for the youth with 3 attendees.   We had some great discussions and everyone seemed to enjoy the class.   We are using a manual that covers the basic principles of our church https://www.lds.org/manual/gospel-principles?lang=eng It explains what our ch...