26 May 2014 {Transfer #9:Still in Aix-en-provence}

Okay so this week was good!

Im still in Aix. Soeur Hiltunen is From Finland; she came in the same time as Soeur Koyle so she has been out for about 6 months, I think. She is really cool. She speaks English fluently so no problem there.

So the office sent me tickets to go to Lyon and I found out she was going to be in a choir they are doing for Elder Anderson. So i got there and when we go to the practice and I was planning on making some calls and studing during the practice but then the senior sister told me that my name was on the list to sing in the choir too! haha so they kinda suprised me with that. It was really fun though! Its been a long time since I have been in a choir.

I'm really excited for this transfer i think it will be really good!

Oh yeah, I got the box a while ago and I finished the resse's already...man I miss peanut butter! anyways thanks! I really am grateful for the package!

Sorry ran out of time.

People are starting to remember that I exist all the sudden I have emails to reply to! but that's just how it it all works.

Love ya lots!

{I'm assuming this is Jean, who was baptized last week.  Don't they all look so happy? :) - Shayna}

19 May 2014

Hey this week was Awesome! Kinda crazy busy and a little stressful but it turned out fantastic! Jean was baptized! It was an awesome experience! He was so ready!(pictures are of a text that jean sent us)

I have no idea what will happen with transfers.

Sorry this is short

I gotta go but I love you lots!

Mother's Day Phone Call

I glad I got to see you guys yesterday you are amazing examples to me and I am grateful for what you have taught me everyday! I will be forever grateful for the opportunity you have helped me to have to be here on a mission. I LOVE YOU!

5 May 2014

I'm sending pictures!

Sorry I haven't been really good at taking pictures lately and Emails have been really crazy lately so I haven't had time to upload them either.

Okay I got Jordans email so I should be able to figure it out. Unfortunately I still dont know when exactly what time I will call you guys... but we have church from 9-12 so it would absolutely earliest be at 2pm here. I will let you know when I know.

As of right now we still haven't found anyone to help our foreign amis. But even though we haven't found anyone they are still progressing well. We have been discovering that eventhough one of them speaks and understands english really well he has a hard time understanding us because we talk too fast sometimes. Im sure that is an american attribute. But the last time we taught him we really tried to pay attention to how we were speaking and he was able to understand allot more easily.

Jean has a baptismal date for the 17th. I think he will be ready :)

We have some other amis that are doing pretty good too.

We found a girls this week that had been taught a little by the missionaries in the past and she agreed to meet with us again. She is really nice.. We saw her twice this week and the second time her boyfriend was there and we taught him too. Hopefully he wants to learn more as well :)

Funny thing from this week: We were teaching the law of Chastity to one of our amis, we started out with the scripture 3 Nephi 12:27-29 and then my companion said"today we want to talk about the law of adultery" i and the member we were with quickly corrected it to the law of chastity and laughed for a good little bit before we got the lesson going again. haha

Tomorrow we are going to Montpillier to do an Exchange. It will be interesting to go back there again.

My spiritual though for you this week is a mix of a bunch of things I've been thinking about lately...1-read preach my gospel. Elder Ballard said to in Conference. 2-Missionary work is most effective when the members work WITH the missionaries. It really kinda hit me this week of how true that is and why that is. Because these investigators need a support system to keep them going otherwise they will fall away and that is not the purpose of missionary work. 3-Love is super important! It doesn't have to be big things but just showing that you care about people more then just saying hi can make a world of difference for members, less actives, investigators, and even strangers.

Contemplate the role of Love in the plan of salvation. It was created by love, accomplished by love and we are redeemed by love.

Well I Love you allot! I will be sure to send a quick note when I know what time we will be calling.

Soeur Young's Transfers Thus Far