25 Aug 2014

Hey! Thanks:) 

I'm sure I will have a great day! I don't really feel any older. 

Everything is good My new companion is from Portugal she is really nice. I like her allot. Don't worry about the thing with the bria's; I'm sure it wasn't just you. If they were asked not to its probably cause there were allot of parents asking for addresses. I don't think the bria's really mind.
I will let you know when I get the packages. Thank you!

Nothing super exciting happened this week. So unfortunately I don't have much to tell.

But I love you lots! I hope you have a great week!

18 Aug 2014 {Transfer #10:Still in Aix-en-provence}

I am happy to stay here i think it will be good. Some investigators and members were really happy to hear that I am staying so i think it will be good. I didn't really expect for me to stay and sr Hiltunen to leave but I'm fine with it there is more that I need to do here. My new companion is from Portugal. I haven't met her yet but ive heard good things about her. My district leader and his companion are from Spain so aix is getting some variety as far as language and culture. It should be interesting.

Thanks for taking care of my life for me. I trust you:) So I will be doing the second block right? I don't have any objections I will do whatever you tell me to haha:)

As for this week it was good. It went by really fast. I did an exchange with Sr Witt and her companion Sr Wolfe I was with Sr Wolfe. She is really cool This was her first transfer and she is already a awesome missionary. then Thursday we went to an outerville taught our ami and then went to a members house for dinner. The members invited Jean over so he could make Iranian food(he doesn't have a kitchen so he cant really cook anywhere). It was really good. Sr Muylderman is an architect and she designed their house its really original practically all made of glass and the only real door is for the bathroom. I'm not sure I could live in a house like that but it is really cool.

Saturday we went to see if the kid that we met on the bus was going to come to play soccer with us. But he didn't show up. However one of the members brought his friend and her children and so we stayed to talk to her. At first it didn't really go anywhere cause she was preoccupied with the kids So I got the idea to go play soccer with the kids and sr Hiltunen stayed and talked to the mom and she ended up being really interested.. They are just here on vacation but again planting seeds.
Oh yeah we hadn't been planning on actually playing soccer so i was playing in a skirt:) luckily the kids were 5 and younger:)

Haha 6 weeks will be over before you know it! We had 5 sisters stay with us last night because of transfers. Two of them were going home. It was kinda weird to send them off. I can imagine that allot sooner than I think that will be me. I cant really fathom it.

I'm excited to hang out with you guys but it also makes me want to work harder and take advantage of the time i have left.

Read PMG, if you haven't been already:) Elder Ballard challenged us to in the last conference

I don't remember if I really told you anything about the Elder Andersen conference. If I did I guess Ill tell you about it again. As a mission we had sent a goal to baptize as many people as possible the 5th of July as a gift to Elder Andersen and the Lord. So with the spiritual uplifting we received from Elder Andersen and our mission President and our own dedication on the 5th 22 people were baptized! That is a pretty huge miracle for our mission because during my whole mission we have had maybe 6 baptisms at most.
They gave us a dvd of the highlights from the conference and watching it has reminded me of that experience. It was really cool. We tried really hard to be really prepared to learn allot from an apostle. It was really cool to see the difference between the meeting we had with him in the morning and the meeting in the evening with the members. there was a totally different spirit in the room. Of course the spirit was present for both but remarkably stronger in the missionary meeting. There is definitely a difference when we are prepared.

Well I think that's about all I've got for this week.

Love ya a lot!

11 Aug 2014

Hey! I had a good week!

First of all I am FINALLY 100% legal in France. I've been technically legal since may but I havent had the card to prove it but after another trip up to Chalon we finally were able to get the card! That was a pretty big sucess to start out the week!

I had a really cool miracle this week! When I was in Chalon, I taught a man and he had a baptismal date and was progressing very well. Long story short he went on vacation and didnt come back before I left and texted us saying that he didnt want to get baptised any more. I was really sad because I knew it was because there was something he hadnt understood that we hadnt had time to teach him. So I did all I could at the time which was pray for him to come back. To my suprise praying one morning last week I saw his name on the engagee list! He came back! He was baptised on sunday! I talked to the sisters teaching him when we went to pick up my carte de sejour and they told me all about it! They said that he remembers me and that he asked if I could come to his baptism! That really touched me. I hadnt even thought that I had made that much of an impact in teaching him!  We often do more than we give ourselves credit for, I think

Another cool miracle: We were sittin on the bus a this guy(maybe18 or 19 years old) starts talking to us asking how he can become a missionary too! he seems really cool. I hope we start teaching him this week. He came a played soccer with us on saturday.

Idk about the weather being perfectly nice. Its been pretty hot lately especially today. I think it does get cold in the winter but i wouldnt know too much about that.

I actually found myself thinking about my talk last week. I guess that will give me something to do during my redicuously long flight home:) Im also very glad that conference is right after I get home this way ill have some time to maybe get used to speakign about the gospel in english

Aw man I guess Ill soon see how much confetti you packed in there. It will probably be like new years all over again.

Another highlight of this week: I found Resses peanut butter cups :D I bought a bunch of them :D

Well that was basically my week in a nutshell.

Love ya Lots!

Avec tout mon cœur!

4 Aug 2014

Hey there.

Sorry about not emailing last week though I did get your email.

I have no idea who that kid is but I'm sure he will have a great mission in Milan! One of the sisters I lived with in Chalon is From Milan. And Italian people are really nice and welcoming not to mention Christian.

As far as transfers I have no idea but I feel like it is time for something to change so I guess we will see. I will have the Brias tell you asap.

This week was pretty good slower than the last couple week though.

Saturday there were two baptisms one was an ami of the Elders and the other is Jean's brother he is taught by the missionarys in a different ward but their building is under construction so the came here for the baptism :)

I gotta go love you lots!