Be thou humble and the Lord shall lead thee and give thee answers to thy prayers

Can I just say how selfish missions are? really though, I feel like i have benefited the most from mission and I am so grateful for all the experiences I have here and all the wonderful things the Lord teaches me every week. We had a glorious week, full of mercy and miracles! 

So on Tuesday we were kind of having a rough day because we kept getting fruged and everyone was cancelling on us and it was FREEZING cold. But we went porting in the dark anyway and we were just praying our hardest for some miracles but were only getting doors slammed in our faces. Finally we're walking down the main road headed to the metro when I randomly decide to knock a huge house to our right, we've got nothing to lose. A lady poked her head out the window up a few flights and tells us to come back in 15 minutes. we were like uhhh okay. So we ported around the block for a bit watching the clock. Finally we ran back and she let us right in! We got to know her and her two daughters a little bit. She told us she wasn't believing at all and i thought that was interesting since she let us right in. But we began teaching the plan of salvation and i just relished the experience of sharing such a precious truth with a beautiful French family. We didn't have much time so we asked if we could come back and explain more and then she told us that she and her partner Julie don't have the same viewpoint as us but she appreciated us coming over. We were disappointed for sure but we both felt so strongly that God loved her and that we had done what He wanted us too, we reminded her that He was there watching over her. It was a beautiful miracle and I am so grateful we were able to meet her. 

Wednesday was a beautiful day!! we didn't have a single rdv set. which hasn't happened since I arrived in V D'ascq so we prayed really hard to know where the Lord needed us to be and we went contacting in our lovely Hellemmes. We walked around in the beautiful sunshine telling strangers about God's love and His plan for us. it was wonderful! But no one was really listening so I just said aloud I really want to help someone feel God's love and pray with them!! and then we turned the corner and met Lucie! God is way too good to me. We talked to her for a good twenty minutes about God's love and prayer. We didn't pray with her but we did give her a brochure and got her number and hopefully we can see her later this week! quel miracle! And then. We got on the metro to head home for lunch and we saw none other than our amie Laurence! She has cancelled all our rdvs lately so we decided to give her a break and then voila there she was! We chatted for a bit and then she said so can you come over tomorrow? haha uh yes I think we can. It was such a glorious day full of God's tender mercies! 

Thursday we met with Laurence and we gave her a Book of Mormon. She was pretty skeptical of it but we shared our testimonies of how much the Book has helped us and she was willing to read it and try for herself. Then she invited us over for lunch this week so we'll be checking up to see how she liked it, i really hope she was able to recognize the Spirit that comes from the book of Mormon and that she can realize how much it will help her in her life! Later that day we went to Lunch with the Redd's at the most lovely cafe in center of Lille. Then we bought yummy pastries and just had a wonderful time with them. They are serving in Liege right now so it was great to get all the news from the members and missionaries in my favorite place! it made me miss it so much though. But i am so grateful for the Redd's and their kindness to us! 

I'm running out of time but I wanted share a quote from President Uchtdorf that I found this week. He said, "We don't discover humility by thinking less of ourselves but by thinking less about ourselves." I have found that being more humble has helped me overcome a lot of my weaknesses. I still have a lot to learn but Heavenly Father certainly has taught me a lot about meekness and submitting to His will. I've learned that if I just trust Him if I just let go of my pride then I am able to allow Christ's Atonement to change my heart and bit by bit i am able to let go of who I was and become who He needs to me to be  because "If we learn to be humble, look at things with a more eternal perspective, and put our trust in the Lord, all will be well." 

I love you all so much and i am so grateful for you!! avec beaucoup d'amour soeur alicia hawkes