Sister Elaine McMeen and Elder Ronald Anstead
on stage at a branch party in the Mission Home meeting hall
(photo courtesy of
Gordon Jones)
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October 6—At this moment, they’re gathering in the great Tabernacle for General Conference. My heart is with the Saints back there. But I believe that I can be forgiven for being even more preoccupied with what’s happening at the same time in a little Relief Society meeting, not too well organized, in this building where I live. Because Sister Antoinette Bonneau Panazol is attending that meeting. My companion, Elder Anstead, baptized her this morning, and I confirmed her in the fast and testimony meeting.
[251] Of all the friends of the Church to whom I’ve had the privilege of teaching the Gospel, Sister Panazol has been the most apt and the most ready to accept and live its principles. Elder Anstead,
Elder Derr, and I have been pleased and honored to help her prepare for this morning’s ordinances, and the experience has helped me a lot, spiritually and psychologically.
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In the first days of September, we received a post card from the missionary sisters at Tours, saying that they’d met a really neat Parisian lady at Tours. Elder Anstead and I went to meet her, for she lives in the 16th arrondissement, not far from the Mission Home. When we knocked on her door, she was eating her supper, but she shoved everything aside and ran to gather her neighbors, so that they could listen to us, too. While her little
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meal got cold, she listened to our message with a great deal of interest, interrupting us from time [252] to time to exclaim, “I think we can say that we’re all interested in this, aren’t we?” The fact that her neighbors didn’t appear to share her excitement didn’t make her zeal follow the bad example of her supper; on the contrary, she seemed to get more and more excited as we unveiled the message of the restoration. When we left, we set an appointment to return and pursue the discussion further. …More, next page…
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