Boulogne

The chapel in Boulogne was small, but very quaint.  The people there in the ward were awesome.  It was another rainy day, not especially good for the CVC program.  But Hermano Pinto, the ward mission leader, had faith that the rain would stop by 4pm and it did for a while.  But in spite of the rain we had a lot of people come.  One of the highlights was that Bishop Feduzka himself invited four friends to come and they did!  Even better than that was that his father-in-law came...his wife was so excited.  They didn't think he'd really stay or pay much attention and they were so shocked when one of the missionaries got him to commit to read the Book of Mormon and set up a time to visit him!  That is what this program is all about---getting people interested in coming to Christ and learning about His church.  Right across the street from the church was a unisex salon for cutting hair (peluqueria) that was pretty colorful.  Right at the beginning, Doug was outside waiting for people to start coming and a young man came walking down the street in front of the salon.  He stopped him and asked if he would be interested in coming in to the church to see what it was all about.  The young man, Marcelo, said he would.  He had read about the church on Facebook and was interested.  He went through the tour and stayed quite a while.  When he learned about baptism at the font, one of the elders asked him if he would be baptized by following Jesus Christ's example and he said yes.  The elders got his contact information and hopefully they will get back to him and help him to come unto Christ.

Colorful Salon for Hair Cutting

Hermano Pinto, Doug, Hermano Ponce's look alike