We were scheduled to skype with Soeur Christensen at seven in the morning on Mother's Day. Around eight we got a call from her saying something about an alarm? And that they couldn't get in an apartment and wouldn't be able to skype... she would email about when we would skype later. And hung up. Mom was disappointed, but got another week to look forward to seeing Cam! She explains what happened in this weeks e-mail.
So, I guess I'll start off with what everyone is wondering about.
No I am not dead, get that out of the way first. So what happened was we came back to the apartment after church to grab a quick snack and then head over to Skype. As we were in the kitchen just leisurely cutting up some veggies, and then an alarm goes off. I didn't know if it was the fire alarm or what, so I just kind of looked around to see if there was any fire anywhere... there wasn't but I see Sr.Hurd covering her mouth!! because it was the carbon monoxide detector!
We didn't really know what to do, just not be in the apartment, So in our rush to leave I grabbed the food, they turned the alarm off and we got out as fast as we could. In our rush we kind of broke the detector, it fell from the wall and all the batteries fell out...
But we decided to just go over to the members house where we were skyping and go from there.
So long boring story short, we called all these people, we were told to open all the windows and turn a fan on, air it out for a while... the usual, but it was kind of like no one believed us. We had called our neighbors to say that the alarm went off, just in case it wasn't safe to be there, and either they didn't know what carbon monoxide was or they just thought we were stupid kids because no one really seemed phased. When we got back to the apartment to air it out our one neighbor came down that we had called and just helped us open all the windows, and told us how there was no fire, so she didn't see what the problem was... haha
So all in all, we aired out the apartment, spent half the day at the church trying to make sure it would be okay to sleep in our apartment that night, because, if there was a leak somewhere then we couldn't just say, well ca va no big deal, i'll just sleep and hope nothing happens to us, you can't do that! So that was a bit of a fiasco, and in the end we got our detector back working, and it didn't go off again, so we just slept in the apartment with the windows open and a fan going with the detector by us. And we aren't dead, so all is well.
It's funny though, when we got home 2 of our neighbors came and started to tell us all the things that we need to do, and how we need to move the fire alarm and clean this and do that. It was all in kindness, just funny because it was stuff we could do our selves, but it was like they thought be were 5 years old and didn't know how to do anything. haha. They were really nice though, it was kind of them to help us. they one neighbor kept saying to the other, speak slower, they don't understand french very well. haha oh the day when we will actually be able to speak french.!!
Apart from that this week was pretty good. we tried making crepes for the first time, as my birthday lunch, they are a lot harder than they look! You have to turn the pan while you pour the batter and you have to add just the right amount otherwise it's to thick!!! it was an experience. We made strawberry sauces and a peanut butter sauce and chocolate sauce, with strawberries and bananas.!! SO GOOD THOUGH!!! we felt so french :)
Also, soirée familiale is probably one of my favorite parts of the week! This week was sooooooo funny. We were in the kitchen cleaning up quickly with everyone before leaving and the threee of us started singing amazing grace and other very american songs and then our ami and one of the other amis, started singing for us and I dfon't think I've ever seen anything so cute! they just stood in the middle of the kitchen and very dramatically sang but like would lift their hands inthe air and kind of mumble french words, not really actually sentences or phrases,,, oui... Je vois... mumble mumble mumble.... Also, our ami doesn't have teeth, so also picture that. SO CUTE!!!!!
Everyone was having so much fun!!
Also, so you know we go to Lucie's every Saturday for her dinner party with recent converts and amis, and this week we had super yummy crepes!! Seriously!! SO good. they were just I think cheese crepes, but they were so good!
This week we met some cool people, this one guy we started talking to seems to have a had a really hard life, he said he was a sniper in a war and that right now he's trying to stop drinking, and it was really cool to be able to talk about God, and how he can help us in our hard times, he said he would call us because he really felt it could help in, so fingers crossed that he will call!
Also, a little update about Ipads, so apparently they haven't been shipped yet, and the french government has seized the ipad cases at customs. so it light be a while until we get those. Soon though, I'm really excited.
This week was...weird to say the least, but I LOVE IT! I read though the book of ether, wow. When you read it all in one sitting you really see how important it is to be humble, at least, that's what I took from it! And also To remember the things the Lord has done for us, and our families! So in lieu of that, I would love to hear more stories from my ancestry!
Thanks for the little binder of stories, I read it a lot!!!!!
I love you guys!! Give Fleur a hug and kiss for me!!!
xoxoxo
Sr.C
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