Staying in Montpellier

Hello everyone!

Er Bear... your going to Sweden! soooo cool! You're going to freeze your tall skinny little butt off but you are going to rock everyone's world up there! so pumped for you! April is a good month to leave:) 

So this week we did more exchanges because that is what we do as sister training leaders... we go on exchanges! haha so fun! but not so fun when you like your companion and you're never with her!! but it was good! So Wednesday I was on exchanges with sister Hirschi who served in montpellier so it was an awesome excuse to see tons of people while she was here and we did! it was awesome!! We had a cute young member with us all day as well. In fact it was Isabelle Orsoni's daughter, Ester, who came and worked with us all day and now she is super stoked about all of our amis! she is the cutest 15 year old I know and SOOO polite and kind! it was great! (Isabelle was baptized by our friend Rich Harris when he served his mission here and now McCall is serving in their ward!) And we saw my favorite member Sr. Zemori... this super duper old lady who feeds you the best tea in the world with the best cookies ever! sooo good and she is sooooo hilariously funny! she makes my day everytime! i don't know where she gets these boxes of cookies but i am going to find them and send them home so you know what i am talking about.  Thursday we finally taught someone new that sr. warren and i found together! she is cool but super skeptical of the church... i think she loves us she just doesn't realize it yet! :):) Then we saw another one of our amis who is an angel but smokes so much... and only indoors... isn't that weird?? ya anyway.. so we said are you are GOING to STOP smoking? and she said ya i know i will... but it's about time we make a plan with her! i have never taught anyone who has a smoking problem so i am super excited to help my first french smoker:) even though she is from la reunion:) Then Friday we met with our ami Josy who suffers from depression and LOTS of past baggage... she has lived a really hard life but she LOVES to complain about it. Sister Mod is praying and working on patience for her because I am like "cutie... you got to get over it!" so ya we finally taught her a lesson without it including her venting like we are her therapists and it was really good! minus that she thinks that we didn't have a gender before this life... ya weird doctrinal things like that come up in lessons when you're a missionary! Never thought i would have to think and study about how to explain to someone that they were a girl or a boy even before they came to earth:) #missionarylife 

Then Saturday we did P90x again and it was like this kungfu boxing thing and i am still sore from it! it was not that killer but its movement i never do as a missionary (thankfully) and my back is destroyed! haha then this awesome guy got baptized on Saturday who has been meeting with the missionaries for almost 3 years and he finally did it! But when he got baptized, the guy baptizing him dunked him but this poor little guy hit his head on the wall of the baptismal font... i was trying not to laugh... he had to be redunked to say the least:) haha but Marie Valentine.. our ami who smokes... she came and LOVED it!! sooo excited! we finally got some lessons this week and things seem to be picking up! our DMP was very happy with the work we did this week and when the DMP is happy... we are all happy:) 

It was transfers and I am staying in Montpellier and will be with Sister Warren again and she will finish her mission with me:) sooo excited! we prayed for that and it came true:) love it! Anyway I hope you all have a wonderful week! I have been studying the atonement this week thanks to this awesome book my cute boyfriend gave me:) and a few talks my wise companion shared with me... the atonement is sooo cool! Not enough people know about this precious gift and how to use it! soooooo find someone that doesn't and teach them about it... but only after you have obtained a MIND BLOWN testimony of it! My life has been changed so much as i have come to undestand the sacrifice our dear brother made for us! This gospel is still true! Even in Crazy France and I am sooo happy to be a missionary! Love you all!

Sister MOd

pic 1: Newest member

pic 2: Family Home Evening with the Tahitians is always a good time

pic 3: Isabelle's daughter with french attitude; love her!