Okkkkk apologies in advance I am
using a French keyboard which is different than an American keyboard soooo if I
begin running out of time here is the key to decifer my email
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d'accord (ok)
Soooooo I know you are all dying to
hear what’s going on sooo I will start off my trainer is Soeur Howden and she
is PERFECT!! Like my comp in the MTC was super great too and I miss her dearly
actually like tons but I LOVE Soeur Howden as well, some fun facts is that she
went to high school with me she is only a month older than me so we were both
babies of our grade, she has only been in the mission for one transfer and her
French is soooo good!! it really is but she talks really softly so I can barely
hear or French or English so sometimes when we are contacting the people don't
hear her! haha so she hasn't even finished training yet and she is training me
because there were so many missionaries that came in this last transfer, I will
be way honest I cried myself to sleep for the first time on my mission because
I did not understand how this was going to work, she was sooo young and quiet
and we were going to a brand new area which means we were going to be
contacting loads and so far that is what scares me the most and I have the
hardest time with, so everything was brand new for the both of us and I was
terrified to be completely honest,,, but my premonition was correct again the
morning we found out who our trainers were I told my comp I thought I might get
a young trainer but I had no idea I would get one that was 6 weeks old to the
mission… Oh annnnd we are serving in Perpignan which is literally on the border
of Spain so they want us to learn Spanish too… Which I was excited for because
I wanted to learn Spanish so I could speak zith beau when I got home but I
would rather learn it not on my first transfer in France,,, so a green trainer
which if your new in the mission you are called a blue not a green,, so we are
both blue we are kind of opening a new area and I am learning Spanish… Hahah so
you can imagine my terror!! butttt it has been going so so well!! She is sooo
perfect for me! So on to the events of last week
So we arrived in Lyon on Tuesday
morning barely making our last connection from London to Lyon but they held the
plane for us which was great we met our mission president when we landed and
they were sooo great!! His voice is soooo much higher then I was expecting!! We
ate baguette sandwiches which I had missed sooooo very much!! Oh it was
delicious! Then we found out that we had to do some legality stuff in Lyon but
not until Friday so basically we just killed a bunch of time in Lyon for the
week, so ze arrived Tuesday and got acquainted with Lyon a little bit and then
we went to dinner at pizza pino!! For those of you who visited me on study
abroad… You ate at pizza pino!! It’s sooo dang good so I was pumped!! Then we
just went home and went to bed because we were exhausted, then the next day we
did studies at the mission office and then went on a fieldtrip to see this cool
cathedral in Lyon that sits on this hill that over looks the city its really
really pretty, it rained nearly the whole week here so the city was kind of
misty but it was auite a viiew, then we just killed more time at the mission
home and then zent to sleep,,, it was pretty uneventful until we found out who
are trainers were and where we would be serving which happened thursday, so we
met at the church in ectully where they gave us a training and then after they
called us up one by one and gave us an envelope with the name of the city and
sister who would be training you,,, it was like opening up my mission call all
over again!! Then later that day we went contqcting which was scaryyyy!!! Beau
how did you do it?? I was soo timid to go up to random people and talk about the
gospel in my imperfect French and surprisingly I understooD NO ONE!! I wanted
to cry and when we were practicing door to door I almost did but my trainer was
sooo sweet and just hugged me and was like you are doing sooo well do you want
to do this door I was like ummm no but I will ;) haha so yeah that is my goal
this week to get over my fear of contacting buttt cool story so my legality was
Friday so after that we went out working with the sisters in Lyon and we were
porting (door to door) and it was our last door and we were promoting a shoe
drive for the church so this old lady anszers the door and tells us she lives
alone and has a gimp leg and never leaves the house so she has no shoes to give
nor can she come to the activity so I just start baring my broken testimony
that she is a child of god and that he loves her because she was saying how her
life is pretty much over because she can't do anything so I found that
testimony to be appropriate and then my comp helped me ask her if there was
anything we could help her with and she said no but that she was glad we
stopped by so ze told the sisters in Lyon to take her cookies and go visit her…
Awesome potential investigator, it isn't that cool of a story but it was an
answer to my prayer because I finally got to testify and I felt like I was able
to lead the conversation and she was nice and let me speak slowly and she just
listened she was sooo nice!!! Anyways on to my actual city!! PERPIGNAN
This place is amazing!!! butttt we
are in Lyon again because my comp had to come to a conference for like a check
up on half way through your training thing I don't even know I just know I have
to come with her;) so we left Lyon on Saturday and fixed up our apart,ent for 4
people instead of 2 and my apartment is sooooo cute by the way!!! So darling
and sooo perfect ahhh I will send pictures!! So yeah we got to go to church and
have half a p day before we came back to Lyon today!! butttt the ward in Perpignan
is PERFECT!! Oh my gosh they are so so strong and the bishop and his family
took us to Macdo (Mcdonalds) on Saturday night to get ice cream I am starting
to understand soooo much more French now!!! My trainer is sooo good at filling
me in when i don't understand zithout being patronizing… Like I said she is
perfect too!! So yeah we went to church and I am now the ward pianist so thank
you mom for keeping me in piano lessons;) haha the relief society was pumped
zhen I went up to play haha and thennnnn our amis (investigators) came to
church so I got to meet them and they are sooo cool they are for sure getting
baptized before I leave here I already get these random promptings for them I
can see now how you can move missionaries around a lot because as soon as you
get there you just start feeling so much love and concern for the investigators
that are left in your care, so yeah we taught them and I zill tell you
all more about them next week when I have more time and I know more about them,
then in sacrament meeting I introduced myself and bore my testimony in which I
said je sais que jesus christ est mon fils,,, which means I know that Jesus
Christ is my son instead of my brother,,, Yeah so that is embarrassing and I didn’t realize it until this old man in
the ward came up and corrected me haha appartently he is a huge jokester so he
loved it and he looooovvveess me now he jokes with me all the time,, I can't
help but think that testimony was inspired to be wrong for a reason,, I feel
like the ward just laughs at my and knows I am a real person and I am trying so
then that night we had dinner at the bishops house!! They made burritos;) haha
some good Mexican food on the first mangez-vous (dinner appointment) and they
were sooo nice!! I told them I wanted to be a dietician and so for dessert she
brought out this delicious chocolate pudding they have here and a bowl of fruit
and I was like thanks but I will have the pudding and she joked and was like I
didnùt knoz if you zould want fruit instead;) ohhh they are soooo nice!!! I
canùt wait to bring you back to meet them!!
Anyway I must sign off!! This has
taken me forever on this keyboard and there are tons of mistakes soooo sorry
about that!! Thank you for all the love and support!!! Next zeek should be less
stressful and good not crazy of an email!! Sorry it’s kind of all over the place!
Love you!!
Soeur Mod
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