So, no nothing happened on Monday, we ended up having our zone
conference. Want to know why???
IPADS!!!! Yes we got our iPads on Monday, it was weird, for a second I
felt like a real person, not a missionary. I mean what is more at home
then scrolling through something on an iPad. So nostalgic it was
weird. But that was only for a second until they told us to start
deleting apps that come pre-downloaded... Then the missionary in me
came out again.
There's nothing much else to say about this week. We went to Lucie's
on Saturday as usual. It was fun, she had invited her old neighbours
again, the young Romanian couple with the little girl. She is so cute!
The first time we met she was pretty shy, but this time when ever she
would look at me I would make kind of a funny face then smile as big
as I could, and she would copy me. It was so cute! And then after a
while her mom said to me, she wants to give you a kiss, and so she
came over to me and kissed me on the cheek! It was so cute. I think
in romanian kiss is pique or something like that, because she said it
again and then followed Lucie into the kitchen and her mom told me
that she wanted to give Lucie a kiss too. And hen she came and gave me
another kiss. It was so cute!
Not much happened this week because Soeur Bolanos has been really
sick, so we had a few days and afternoons inside. So I had a really
good week of studies but not so great on the other end. We didn't meet
very many people, but we did have a really good lesson with our one
ami Rosemary. She has been meeting with the missionaries for a long
time, but hasn't wanted to really act. She loves church, she loves the
members, but because of some personal difficulties it has been hard
for her to commit to anything. But, this week we talked about the plan
of salvation and asked her what she wanted for after this life, and
she really started to change during the lesson. I could see in her
eyes her desire to follow Jesus Christ, and her love for the gospel.
But still, there are something's holding her back, but it was really
cool to see a change even during that one lesson. She also gave us
canned peaches which we ate with her and the elders and Sebastian
(recent convert) and his friend afterwards.
With Soeur Bolanos being sick we have gotten so many phone calls.
Everyone asks us how she's doing, if anyone else is sick, if we need
anything. We couldn't go to the soirée familial last week and Lucie
called saying how it just isn't the same with out us and how important
we are and how much she loves us, and Jean B, he's I swear one of the
3 nephites in disguise, called us and said he had a bag of food for us
because he knew we hadn't been able to go out. He brought us all these
chocolate bars, and crackers and yummy stuff. He's the most
Christ-like person!!!!
On Sunday we had lunch at a members house, Miranda, it was at the
parents and 2/3 of their daughters were there with their husbands and
their so was there with his wife. They did this big bbq, with ribs and
sausages and salmon. It was so good!!!! But you can't eat ribs and not
have the appearance of someone who hasn't seen food in 3 weeks, you
just can't! We all tried using our forks and knifes, we all know
that's a joke, and they all to.s us to just use our hands, so that
made it a bit easier, but it was so messy! And the hard part was that
my piece was one that didn't just have the ribs, it had half the
sninal cord on one side, so I could not get small pieces. At this one
point I started to try to break the bones apart. SUCH A FAIL!!! I was
trying really hard to break it off, and what does my hand decide to
do? It decided to become useless and it slipped off and landed right
in all my bbq sauce. My hand was completely covered!!! I had to try
and discretely clean a whole bottle of sauce off my hand, while
simultaneously continue my conversation in French like nothing had
happened, it's hard enough just talking in French!
So that was really wonderful.
But seriously, it was nice, the food was so good, and for dessert,
yes, there was strawberries. It almost made up for the whole ribs
thing, almost.
And church this week was really nice too, as usual. We had visited
this family, Mulenda, on Monday and had a fhe with them. We told the
story of Lehi and his family and the liahona, and then talked about
all the things in our lives that help guide us. Then we played the
typical, blind fold someone and have them find something in the room
based on following directions. It was so fun!! The family has 7 kids.
The oldest 2 girls and boy are around 18 and the youngest is almost 8.
Then there is a set of twins about 10. They are the cutest kids, and
we all had some have fun. And so on Sunday we say them just as we were
going in to sacrament, and so we ended up sitting with the twins and
the oldest girl after them. I sat with Chloe and she had learned the
story of the lost sheep from the ninety and nine, and she would read
it over and over again in her bible, and then read it to me, and then
she would ask me for more scriptures and if she didn't understand them
I would explain them to her. It was really cute!
A little bit about Huguette. So she is our ami that really wants to
get baptized but doesn't come to church, so there's a little problem
there, and she is eternally late, also a problem, but she is just the
cutest and she needs the gospel, she needs Heavenly Father and Jesus
Christ. Her life is really hard and she needs the strength that comes
from the gospel, but teaching her I becoming a problem because of the
above reasons. But we can't just stop seeing here she needs it and we
all just love her so much! She texts us a lot and it's always so cute,
she always feels really bad, and her apologies are these adorable
almost prayers. She texted us the other day saying how hard certain
things were and asking us to pray for her. She's just too cute!
Today since we had the conference on Monday, our p-day was changed to
today, Tuesday, and we went to the beach!!!!!! It was really pretty,
there's the beautiful Mediterranean and then these mountains. It was
so nice, but the wind, oh, I will never live somewhere where there is
wind like that, it was the worst! But it was so beautiful that in the
end you didn't really notice.
I love you all!!!
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