Churches in Blois

Written by Emmeline (age 11)

Today we went to a French Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the city of Blois (blue-wah).  It was a 45 minute drive to get to the church building.  I don't know how my dad would have gotten us there without the gps on the ipad!  The church building was a white stone building which did not have a steeple on top.  It was a nice chapel which had some similarities to our chapel at home.  It had a microphone on a podium where the leaders sat, a mini organ and stackable chairs.  The room was about the size my elementary school classroom back home.  

It was challenging to understand what the people were saying as they sang hymns and spoke.  We tried to sing the hymns in French because we knew the melodies and read the words in the hymnal.  It was Fast & Testimony Meeting, so it was interesting to see all of the people bear their testimonies.  Even though I did not understand what they were saying I felt the spirit there.

We had the sacrament with bread and water and that is the most important part of the meeting.  Even though I didn't know the exact words they were saying I knew it was the same as in Alpine, Utah.

It was a Branch, not a Ward.  They only had about 50 members!  The members were kind and some who spoke English stayed and visited with us.  They had three missionaries working in their Branch.  We will be going back again next week.

After our meeting we drove to an amazing Cathedral in Blois.  I took lots of photos, which you can see in this post. We want to go to a Mass while we are here.  

I can't believe how close the buildings are together.

This is what is looked like from the front doors of the Cathedral.

Grace and I thought this water fountain was awesome.

The paintings on the ceiling were amazing and very old.

The stain glass pictures were beautiful.

Photo by mom.

Anthon kept wanting to blow out the prayer candles!

Photo by dad.