Journal, October 6, 1963

Esméralda (Marthe Kiesling-Debussy) dancing for a branch fête in Paris, 1963

October 6 (continued)—The next time we came, she listened and understood the part of the first discussion that we hadn’t presented the first time, but we sensed that something was bothering her. She didn’t want to talk about it, though, and we left without really understanding the situation. That’s when I left for my Belgian weekend, and so I wasn’t with Sister Panazol the first time she came to Church meetings. But when I returned, I learned that she had [253] been much impressed by a talk by Sister Kiesling-Debussy, and also that her neighbors had been giving her trouble, so that we’d have to teach her here at the Mission Home, rather than at 2, rue Marietta Martin. So we took steps to entrust her integration to our dear Esmé (Sister Kiesling-Debussy) and to teach her here. (Parenthetically, I note a remark attributed to her very Catholic employers that she’d lost her head and changed her religion. “Oh,” said she, “I’ll be careful not to bump up against them, just now. But after I’m baptized, I don’t despair of bringing them all!”) All went marvelously. It was difficult for her to get started reading the Book of Mormon (at 70, she keeps being told that she’s losing her intelligence), but she‘s already read nearly all of it. She also didn’t…More, next page…

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