Hello all!
Wow can you believe it?? I am on the last week of my first transfer here in the beautiful Perpignan! soooo crazy! it flew by! I hope I stay here! I love this place and it is finally summer here and it is HOT HOT HOT! wow! I haven't felt heat like this before but its good because I was freezing like 2 weeks ago! But the french BO is at full force:) if any of you want to send me something send me razors to pass out to the women who don't shave their armpits:) that is a really thing... and Amandine is one of them (she is one of my amis) haha anyway!
The begining of the week we were in Aix en Provence on another exchange... haha ya so today is my first P day in Perpignan so that is exciting! after we did emails we ate at this mexican restaurant which are a dime a dozen here and we ate burritos and root beer:) not to be found anywhere else in france! haha it was crazy they had a utah license plate hanging in their restaurant... bizarre! so anyway I went on exchanges with sister reintjes and she is from california studying medicine at byu! she only has one transfer left and she is AMAZING! wow i learned soooo much from this exchange! we taught a ton of lessons too so it was great to see how she teaches! she teaches very visually and its great! we have been trying to do that more as well! in fact if anyone wants to send me the plan of salvation visual aid thing go for it! my comp has one but i need one too! so ya we taught a lesson to this awesome guy and we taught it in english... it was sooo weird! i stumbled over my words so much because I had never taught that lesson in english before? it was weird but cool! he will be baptized sooo soon i know it because he just gets it! it was fun to teach someone with a religious background!
ON wednesday we had a zone training/conference and a member of the europe area presidency came! Elder Richards. He was incredible! He talked about how missionary work is changing and that we should only be talking for a minute for each principle and asking more questions so that our investigators teach themselves. IT was really inspiring and as we have been applying it this week its been super hard!! its soooo hard to think of questions that won't let them go off on tangents but keep them thinking about the principle you are trying to teach! the conference was 4 hours long with no break... not even for a drink or the bathroom or anything! it was a long time to be in a chair but it was so incredible! i have a lot of work to do to be the missionary he is wanting here in France!
Then on Thursday we worked all day because we had been gone and that night we had a family home evening with Christelle and her husband and the Family Faucheux! It was awesome too because Amandine ended up coming because her and Christelle are friends and then Stephan (christelle's mom) came too and she is not a member! so we taught 3 amis that night! and the faucheux's were awesome! They kept making jokes about how christelle and stephan need to get married already I was like AMEN! haha but then we gave a retab lesson where we tried to ask questions and let them teach us because we had already taught this lesson to all of them before. It went well and I think they are getting it and understanding the necessity of the retab and not just the story of joseph smith! so that was fun and then
Saturday was a day of miracles though! we had another rendez vous with Christelle where we were following up on retab and doing plan du salut and making mom's caramel cake! which i actually still have not gotten to eat because it wasn't done when we were so she said she would bring it to church but then she couldn't come because her little girl is sick since the weather changed so fast she has had a fever for the past couple of days:( sad! but anyway it was a weird lesson it was really short and christelle seemed stressed about melissa and ya i don't know what to say other then it was a weird lesson! and i think she believes this church is a good thing she loves the comraderie of the ward and her and stephan are inviting people over during our lessons all the time but i don't think she is ready to make the big changes in her life that come with baptism and that is our struggle with her. But i feel like she is really getting it and gaining a testimony of it... so pray for her! so we left there feeling weird because we both had visions of the way we wanted the lesson to go and it went neither way so we prayed to have a better attitude. I finally was like lets just port and contact around here until our bus comes and then we will just go home and pass people in centre ville or just go home and do book work that we are so behind on. So we started porting and it was saturday evening so tons of people were out enjoying the nice weather and we talked to sooo many people that were like ya tell me more! it wasn't like they were inviting us in for lessons but they let us talk and that is almost just as rewarding:) then we started chatting with these kids and they were fascinated that we lived by california... this kid was like towhead blonde wearing a snapback and billabong! haha i was like are you french? he was like ya why.. i was like because you look like me! haha anyway he started taking us around this cute little village to people he thought would be interested! they were soo cute he was like and here is your church and took us past this old cathedral we are like ummm different church:) so ya then we went home and decided to just contact people on the way back with the last hour we had left so we kind of split up so we could find and talk to more people and I contacted this black guy and he was like ya ya i have met missionaries before and i know of that book and pointed to my BOM and i was like really? and he was like ya give it to me i am from Toulouse but i will be on a train all day tomorrow and i will start it you have missionaries in Toulouse right? i am like tottttallly! so we got his coordonnee and send him on his way with a BOM:) then soeur howden stopped this really philosophical man so i quietly passed and began porting which is kind of dangerous to do because if someone said "yes come in" i would have to grab soeur howden from her contact to go in but porting you never have much luck. So the last sonnerie rings and a man is on the other line and I can't hear him at all. So i was like ahhh well whatever its almost 9 anyway. So i go back to soeur howden's contact and then all of the sudden this man comes to the door and was like was that you on my sonnerie i was like yaa!! and he is like my mom is really ill but you want what? i was like to share a spiritual message with you:) and he was like ok can you come back later i was like ya when? and he was like tuesday at this same time i would love to hear your message.... I was beaming I am like ok great! and what's your mom's name we will pray for her! he was like oh you are sooo nice! haha it was awesome! we kept stopping people on our way home that were just really spiritual people it was amazing you don't always find that here in france! so ya it was an awesome way to end the week!
Church was good! i was asked to accompany the priestood singing called to serve... didn't realize they were coming to the stand to sing so i was sooo nervous! but it went well... thankfully their voices are loud:) haha so ya now its P day and transfer calls come on friday... but i am pretty sure I will stay:) i hope I do!
Thanks for all the love and support! sorry this week is a little uneventful I was gone for most of it! but hope you all had a good week! good luck ally cat! you will be amazing! i pray for you everyday! love every minute of it! claire bear stay strong cutie! love you guys!
Soeur Modersitzki
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