Well this week was really great! Our ward threw an awesome party for new years that we got to enjoy until 9 o'clock... which is basically when it started:) haha but we got to eat and as a missionary not having to make your own food is always a blessing so we enjoyed some nice music and food and then we brought in 2014 in our dreams because we were for sure asleep:)
This week we have been doing a ton of door to door contacting we call that porting? I don't know what it is in english? tracting? I don't know but we are looking for families so we have been going to the outskirts of towns where there are more houses. Unfortunately most families in France are atheist but it's fun to feel like a stateside missionary and knock on real doors instead of ringing apartment building after apartment building! It was fun! We didn't find anyone... yet:) I know the Lord is just preparing a few more for us at the moment:)
Thursday we had district meeting and a lesson with one of our amis who is super cool. Her name is Josy. She has a lot of potential; the hard thing is... she is depressed and so when she is really down she doesn't meet with us:( but we taught her with one of our members present and it went well. Minus it turned into like a 2 1/2 lesson.... SOOOOO too long people! Wow the French can be long winded! Actually she is from Guadeloupe and our member was Tahitian... so explain that one to me:) Then we ate at our bishop's house out in this village with all the missionaries for new year's and his house is straight from Pinterest! Seriously though...like the most beautiful thing in the whole world and they built it themselves! INCREDIBLE! I wish you all could have seen it! It looked like nothing great from the outside but from the inside?? Ahhh my pinterest craving has been curbed:) Plus his wife made us a super good meal with an awesome dessert that I will make you all when I come home:)
Then Friday i was on exchanges with Sister Nuutinen who is from Finland and is sooo cute and pretty... lots of people wanted to give us their number that day:) mabes not for the right reasons! haha but ya it was good! we had lunch with the cute Guarra family! he is probably the cutest little old man i have ever seen and we practiced the first lesson with him because Sister Nuutinen is blue (meaning "new") but he was not good at pretending! he was like "yes i know this is true" haha I said Frere Guerra... you don't know its true yet... your an ami:) haha it was funny!
Then Saturday this lady called us who came to church a couple of weeks ago. We hadn't heard from her since and she never calls us back. But she called us and fixed a rdv with us for Saturday afternoon... nervous she was going to flake, we didn't get a member. We get over there and she is like, "I want to be baptized." haha Ok cool! That's why we're here! She explains she knows all the lessons and she had a date but that her mother and brother died right around her date and it just wasn't possible for her... but now she is ready!!! perfect! Sooo cool, what a wonderful miracle! we left thinking uhhhh what just happened? It was great! We watched 17 miracles at the church for our weekly movie night with our amis. It's such a good movie; gets me every time! :)
Church was great... fast Sunday is always hard as a missionary! I am always dying by the end of the day! We went to a member's house that night to teach them and we didn't think we were eating so we had just broken our fast. After our lesson they had a little treat for us... that treat was a pound of Nutella with a little milk poured over it... aka hot chocolate... I literally almost threw up because then she brought out chocolate cake… I was like really? I cannot eat all of this! my comp and I left in like a total sugar coma… in fact I still feel sick and still feel sick with guilt knowing how long that will take to run off with the 30 minutes I'm allowed:) haha #dieticianproblems anyways it was a really good week!
Soooo happy for all my friends who are getting married and got engaged recently! i wish you all the best! love you all family and friends! have a good week and happy new year!
Sister Mod
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