It's almost sure that I'll stay in Montauban, since my companion is "dieing" (as a missionary not actually. no heart attacks please). So I'll almost 100 percent stay here, but who knows!!!!! It's crazy!! I wouldn't say that I'm freaking out about it, but it's really exciting! I'kind a freaking out... In a good way.
This week was fun,Soeur Hoxy took us out for Chinese food... WOW. It was a buffet with tons of options, and an ice cream bar. Ya, we both felt so sick after, not gonna lie, it probably wasn't the best. But it was so good! Soeur Hoxy is really nice, and she LOVES loves loves LOVES green, every time I've seen her she's worn it, and her apartment is covered in it, pillows, plates, plants, everything. I think she likes green, more than my mom likes yellow. Let that sink in people. :)
Everyone knows I'm a foreigner!! Which really isn't a problem, I mean, it's true, but one day, we were doing some contacting in the morning and every single person I talked to, stopped me mid sentence, during my first sentence, and asked where I was from because they detected "un petit accent" It's funny.
This week we had our first district meeting, our job was to bring dessert. Which apparently is a lot harder than it sounds. I guess the last 2 district meetings the sisters were asked to bring dessert, and the first time since neither of them knew how to bake they just bought a box cake, but then instead of baking it they brought it with them to make there with ingredients, but then never ended up making it... then the next time they bought a cake to bring and then forgot it. but this time it all worked out. Zucchini breads a pretty big hit. I've made it so much the last few weeks that I'm pretty sick of it.
Also this week was THIBAULT'S BAPTISM! So this is his story. He was contacted on the street by sisters in September. They invited him to church but he said he couldn't come that Sunday but would come the next. and so 2 weeks by, they are at church, and he actually shows up! They started teaching him and he was awesome, but because he smoked baptism had to get pushed back because it was hard for him to quit. But he was so prepared to hear the gospel. All the engagements and things he was asked to do just made sense and would always do them, awesome. So ya. Something funny though, he is really tall. and just a big guy, he played professional hockey, so you can imagine, but i'll send a picture too. And the baptismal font is literally tarp held up by poles, and because there is rain and such they only filled the water up to their knees. So ya,try and imagine a really big guy getting baptized in a tarp with the water only up to his knees. Everything was good, but when the time came to get baptized he just did a kind of 'trust fall' backwards, and since the water was so low he made a HUGE splash, all the kids got wet and everyone that was close by, and since he's a big guy Jeremie, the guy baptizing him couldn't really lift him up out of the water very well... Anyways, it was pretty funny.
And on Sunday, after church Thibault brought us a cheese platter and we tried these different kinds of cheese. The whole ward ended up getting involved, and all I can say is wow, french people love their cheese. haha, it was funny everyone was crowded in this little room and the kids, oh man, they love it too!!
Also, this week we had a very "what just happened" moment. We had met this guy a couple weeks ago and he was saying that he wanted to start going to church, so we invited him, and set up a rendez vous, but he didn't show up and we figured he wasn't interested, but then this Sunday he came! The first hour of church is priesthood/relief society, and so we showed him the class and he just walked straight in, like it was nothing. Then we had gospel principles together and he was participating, and then in sacrament meeting he was singing all the hymns and it was cool! But ya, I just couldn't believe it, it was so weird. The whole day I was thinking was , wait what?
So ya, it was a good week.
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