Let me just start of by saying i am
sorry i dont respond to your emails i print them off and read them and love
them sooo much but i never have enough time to email back but i am trying to
write people back but these last 6 weeks have been crazy i never get an actual
p day haha yesterday i spent all day in the garre so ya but i do love the
updates so very much and i have written you back in my head haha congrats to
all who have gotten engaged and congrats cherokee for your talk i heard it was
awesome!! happy brithday tater tot and happy graduation er bear sorry i am sooo
late!! super excited for all the fun things going on at home!! claire bear you
leave soon that will be such a blast!! ally cat you look darling in your pics
super stoked for you!
sooo back to a french keyboard sooo
this email will take me a little longer to type so i am sorry for not
responding to your emails, butttt thank you for the emails i love opening them
up every monday and today is tuesday because,,, suprise i got transfered!!
hahah remember last week how i said i wanted to stay sooo badly ya well the
lord has another plan for me annnnndd my comp is the same age in the mission as
me,,, we both have been out for 1 transfer! so yaaa crazy stuff is happening we
both dont know french at all so its been really fun trying to get ourselves
around on limited french! buttt have no fear the lord is with us!!!
soooo last week we worked with less
actives like we always do and we invited all of them to church because we sang
in church on sunday,,, hahah yes i sang in church as alto ask me if i can read
music for the purpose of singing,,, i cant so ya hahah i have no idea how it
went but it was an awesome excuse to invite people to church and we got 2 or 3
less actives to church for my last sunday so that was exciting!! so thursday
night we had tim tam slams,,, does anyone know what those are? look them up
they are the bomb so we had those and then did this funny thing where we
predict where we will be serving next before transfer calls,,, haha my fortune
was that i was going to open up the first sister equipe in corsica haha and be
relief society president because the senior comp of the elder equipe there is
always the branch president because the ward is sooo small and cant run on its
own,,, haha ya well my call wasnt exactly the same but i got transferred to st
etienne which is just outside lyon and it is cold and rainy and windy and
BEAUTIFULLY green!!! oh it is a very beautiful city but its soooo cold compared
to the coast i just left!! i cried most of friday because i was not ready to
leave perpignan i loved that place so much but if i can say this,,, my old
companion is receiving a new missionary again to train this next transfer and i
am excited for her!! so ya i had to bear my testimony on sunday and i cried
through the whole thing! that ward had sooo many problems they were trying to
heal from but they were sooo good to me! oh i loved them!! the bishops wife got
me and soeur mata because she got transferred too perfume and mine smelled
terrible but soooo nice of her to do that!! oh that family is sooo great and
when i saw her at church she was like you cant leave you just got here your
supposed to stay with me!! and i was like no worries i am coming back when i
can actually speak french haha but ya so the last few days in perpginan i just
tried to see people and get last minute things! unfortunally i wasnt able to
see my amis before i left but they are in good hands! one of my less actives
sister le cornec was like who is your mission president i am going to call him
hahah i gave her a card mom are you proud? you know those embarassing
ones that you made me haha ya and she is going to write me and we took a pictures
together because she wants to paint us together because she is an artist haha
she is sooo great!
so ya now we are in st etienne and
it is so great haha so we arrived at the garre in st etienne with all our
luggage! keep in mind we are opening up a BRAND NEW Equipe OF sisters! st
etienne hasnt had sisters for 10 or more years so we are thinking that we will
have people waiting at the garre to help us with our stuff to our brand new
appartment and everything and no one is there so in my broken french i ask to
borrow peoples phone to make a call and we get a hold of the office elders and
they are like why are you in st etienne... ummm because this is our new ville
and he is like oh shoot your opening do you have keys we are like no are we
supposed to he is like crap sit tight we are coming it is going to be a bit
haha so we waited at the garre for almost 3 hours buttt while we waited we
taught a lesson to this awesome muslman man and gave him a book of mormon and
he was like you have so much luggage how are you getting home do you need me to
help you find a place to stay because you dont speak french and just sooo
helpful maybs a bit too helpful but still nice!! so basically he has been
calling us ever since we got our phone to make sure that we are getting settled
in and we plan to teach him later this week so it was a total miracle and he
waited with us until the elders got to the garre just in case we needed help
with our bags and stuff it was his one day off of work so he was out on a walk!
haha so nice! so then we got to our apartment and we have no appliances haha so
we tried to settle in but couldn’t really, there was a family night at the
church and this girl in the and came and got us and she has only been home from
her mission one week and speaks perfect english??? she is a gift from heaven
seriously she is sooo helpful and is checking in on us helping us get bus
passes and everything we need for our apartment and before we left our
apartment for the family night she started crying and she was like you dont
know how long this ward has been waiting for sister missionaries you are an
answer to our prayers and i can go out and work with you whenever now because i
just got home and i was doing the exact thing just a week ago!! ahhhh she is
sooo great and we met a bunch of members last night and they are all just
pumped we get treated like royalty its sooo great haha so anyays there are so
many miracles happening here tons of people to work with, this girl and the
elders set up a bunch of appointments for us so we are super busy this week
just getting to know the ward and meeting sooo many people its great!! not a
lot to report on but next week i will!!
anyways i am running out of time it
takes so long to type on this keyboard but my new address is
124 rue bergson
immeuble ce neptune
4200 st etienne france
no worries if you sent something to
my other apartment i will be seeing those sisters soon!! love you all have a
good week!
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McCall and my new comp Soeur Russell with Enoryah the awesome girl that is helping us get settles she served in Italy. |
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| McCall and soeur dressayre... McCall helped her with piano and her son lives in salt lake so when she comes to visit she is visiting our fam!! |
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| Soeur Howden and McCall with Christelle's husband |
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| Soeur Howden and McCall with Katy and her friend who is also interested in the church. |
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| This is McCall and Soeur Mata with our recent convert Katy. |
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