Perpignan 4:1

This week was really good!!! 

First off; my new companion; She's awesome!!! She gave me a make over the other day. and basically I need to buy a lot of new make up. haha. It was fun.

This last saturday and sunday was stake conference and it was AMAZING!! I loved it, and what's super cool is that I actually understood most of it! My mind kind of wandered for a bit, but when I was really listening I got most of it :)

The cool part of the conference is that in the stake there are 7 recently returned sister missionaries, 7!!! How awesome is that? And so they all spoke and I loved it! It was amazing! the topic, or atleast what a majority talked about is being blind, spiritually. Some of the things I really liked from the conference are as follows:

1) one sister told a story of contacting a guy on the street, aho turned out to be an inactive member, who with time started coming back to church. She said that we are all spiritually blind, she didn't know who the guy was; she just knew she needed to talk to him, but that the Spirit opens our eyes, and helps us see.Heavenly Father knows what is going on in the lives of others, He knows who we need to talk to, the Spirit is how he tells us.

2)the next sister, was super cool, she was so happy!! She said that we are all in darkness sometimes and blind, but that Christ is the light that leads us. With Christ we will not be lost in darkness, but we will be led and guided.

3)one of the sisters told a cool story. she server in tahiti, and she said her and her companion had started meeting with this 21 year old, he wouldn't really pay attention during the rdvs, always looking out in space, seeming totally un interested. So this sister just thought to herself, what can we do? and what came to her mind was that she needed to just share her testimony of the book of mormon. she read ether 12:27 and all of a sudden this guy, who acted to cool to really listen, was crying, and said "i am weak" the story ends with him getting baptized and I preparing to serve a mission. But in the process he lost all his friends. But what he said I really liked "I have no friends, but I know it is true."

4) one other thing I really liked was that someone said, "all excuses slow progression" and that is so true! we will never grow and change and progress if we are constantly giving excuses for not acting. NO MORE EXCUSES!!!

The conference was really great, I loved it :)

Also this week. A sister that had just finished her mission came to perpignan with her parents. she's from italy, and so her dad showed us how to make real italian pizza!!!! It was cool. They came to soiree familial too, that was really fun. we played musical chairs as the game and sebastien played the recorded as the music. it was really funny. And the pizza we made... SO GOOD!!! I ate so much, I think he used 3kg of flour... there was alot of pizza, and so I ate, alot of pizza. and had it for lunch the next day. SOOO GOOD!!

Being a missionary is kind of like being, I don't even know how to explain it. You meet people on the street and for some people they immediately trust us and just tell us their whole life story, literally I have had conversations where they just talk and talk and talk and I say nothing more than oui, mhhhm, oui.. but when we look at the time weve been talking for 20 minutes. But then others will only answer us and say yes or no and that's it. And something I've realized is that being kind is ALWAYS BEST. We get alot of different reactions when we ask people if we can ask them the questionnaire. Some people stop and listen and are very kind, some people are really nice znd want to talk, but don't have time, but still are really nice, others though, the ones that really don't and aren't really nice, those are the ones that just throw their hands in your face kind of fend you off... that's not fun.  I just don't see how it is so easy for some people to be so rude. All we say is we are doing a questionnaire and ask if they can answer the questions. and there are only 4 questions. How hard is it to say with a smile no thank you. we aren't going to force you to take the quiz, if you don't want o you don't have to, but you can reject us a little nicer...

Anyways, it's just funny the different ways people respond. And for the majority; if people say no, they do it nicely. There are just some who aren't the nicest...

This week we met some nice people, and have found a few people that seem interested in God and the lessons, so I'm excited to see what happens.

One cool thing from this week that I really liked. We have an ami who came to cooking class with her husband. Who the missionaries have never met. And as we were talking he said that he has a lot of respect for the mormons and is really thankful for all the work we have done in genealogy. He said he has been able to find his ancestors through our archives! For met hat was such a yes, finally! moment, because we have had such a focus on family history and genealogy and finally someone who has benefited from it!

I'm excited for this transfer :)

as always lots of love!!!

Oh, and this week I finally had the missionary moment of standing outside houses, porting in an unexpected shower, getting completely soaked.

that's one check in my list of things that must happen on a mission