April 7, 2015

Bonjour tout le monde! 

I hope that you had a great week.  I sure did here!  It has been super fun being back yet again.  I really feel like I have lived here for so much longer than 6 months.  We saw and taught a ton of people this week which was fun; I am a bit worried about my companions’ heads exploding from taking in so much new information but they are doing great and loving it here!  One cool thing that we did this week was go on an adventure to find people that used to take lessons but stopped for one reason or another (often because they get too busy with work, or get scared of changing).  The past missionaries will write down there address hoping that maybe later they will be ready to accept the message.  So we went address hunting and Wednesday afternoon we had a super cool miracle.  We started looking for the address of a family named Akumbeeha and knew that it was somewhere in Rose Hill.  What you need to know is that in Mauritius the roads very rarely have a street name, there are tons of tiny impasses, side roads, roads that curve, and whatnot.  Also, almost none of the houses have a number on them and when they do they are not in order (13, next to 64, next to 2B, etc…).  Lastly, the Mauritians, while very friendly and helpful, for the most part do not even know the name of their own street that they live on (probably because it is almost worthless to know street names as there are no street signs).  Anyways, we stopped every few yards to ask another person if they knew where the street was.  Everyone pointed us in a different direction, and finally we stopped at a little boutique.  They told us encore a different direction and we decided that we didn’t believe them anymore.  We walked around the corner and lo and behold they had not lied:D  The street was right there!  And so we rejoiced!  What was even better was that the first house we saw had a number and it was the number of the family we were looking for!!!! What luck!  Then we started to shout.  The neighbor heard us and said that there was no family living there... no!  But we did not believe her because she did not seem too sure.  So we kept walking down the street and asked a different person if they knew the family.  They said yes and pointed us farther down the road.  We went but it was not the right number, so we decided that the first lady didn’t know what she was talking about.  I remembered a lady across the street who had been watching us and we went back and decided to talk with her.  She was very friendly and her husband (Nicolas) had just gotten back from work.  As if by magic, he knew the family and remembered that 15 years ago the family had lived there and there were often missionaries who came over (white shirts and ties;).  They had moved a while back but he said that he thought he knew where they had moved too and was willing to show us the way.  So off we were following our new friend :D  We got to the house and found out that the family we were looking for had lived there but had moved again some years back.  But the sister was still living there and was very friendly as well.  She gave us juice and gave the phone number of her sister to Nicolas who called for us and found out her new address and set up a lesson for us.  He then showed us the way again to the meeting point with the family we were looking for and headed off.  We got out of the car and starting asking people if they knew the family.  We were at a little fruit stand and asking the man who worked there if he knew the family and you will not believe it but the father (of the family akumbeeah) showed up behind us and said "hey that’s me!"  And walked with us to his home where we met his wife and had a lesson:)  They were super happy to see us and motivated to start learning again about God and how to come closer to him:)  It was a crazy fun adventure and a big miracle.  I know that God knows his children and that when we are ready and willing to take part in his marvelous work (sharing the Gospel and the love:) that he will guide us by his spirit:)  I wish you all another great week! 

Love,

Sister Wilson