Poitiers 5:4

So surprise, I'm in Poitiers now. It's really funny because the whole

week I kept saying to myself, "I should be taking pictures of this"

but I didn't! And now I know why!! I thought I was supposed to be

getting better at the whole listening and following promptings thing,

but serioisly, it was only week 4 so I figured I still had  2 weeks to

take pictures... But, the nice thing was that i was able to see quite

a few people.

So after getting the call on sunday i started packing because I had

less then 24 hours to pack my WHOLE LIFE back into my two suitcases. I

did a good amount and then we went and said goodbye to a few people,

(all the pictures are on my camera so i cant really send any sorry)

then we got home ate i continued packing and we went to bed. Got up in

the morning and i had one suitcase done, completely filled with

clothes and not much left to pack... Or so I thought.

That was a stressful morning. My things were NOT fittimg, it was

terrifying because the clock was ticking, I only had a few hours to

pack and clean and have everything ready, and nothing was fitting! I'm

a pretty calm person but that morning had me going crazy! I had to

repack, then repack, then finally with the clock on its last few

minutes I took pretty mich everything out, got rid of a ton (how i

acquired all that stuff i have no idea, i've only bought a few things)

and finally got them shut and finished. In the end i grabbed a

shopping bag and put my coat and shoes in it, they just were not

fitting...

But it got done!

Jean brousse and lucie picked us up and then laurent and julien and a

random friend of theirs surprised us at the gare, and then this is

sad, frere boltor got the time wrong and a few hours into the train

ride called asking where we were. :( he had gone to the gare at 3

thinking he would catch us, but the train left at 1. I was sad.

So monday we spent all day on the train going to lyon, slept there,

then my new companion and I left tuesday morning and spent the whole

day on trains going to poitier. I'm not kiddimg we left the apartment

at 10 and got to the apartment in Poitiers at 8:45 ish. Such a long

day. And my suitcases though durable are monster, they are really

difficult to roll around. Or maybe it was just that they were so

freaking heavy this time...

So Poitiers. It reminds me of montauban but is alot whiter and has

more trees and is kindof on a hill side. But i like it. And my new

companion is sister jacobsen from california, i met her once before.

She is super nice, and likes the same sorts of things so we've done

alot of talking amd getting to know each other. I'm excited to serve

with her, but i'm wondering how long we will have together. She has

been in Poitiers for 3 so far, but if she lea es at transfer calls i

would of only had a week and a few days in the ville, so that would be

kind of crazy, and if i have to leave that would be crazy awful too.

So im curious as to what is going to happen at the end of next week.

This last week we had a bug conference in aix-en-provence. It was fun,

sister Brown had us play this "allez-vous" game (will you game about

giving commitments) it was fun, the assistance showed us carda with

commitments written on them and we had to act it out and have our zone

guess the "allez-vous" it was fun ill send some pics.

I got to see soeur hurd! And a few others that i came in with it was

super fun! And we talked more about bringing the temple into all

aspects of what we do as missionaries. I loved it.

It was a pretty crazy week, but I'm really excited to be serving here.

Poitiers is only a few hours from paris so its pretty north for the

mission. Which also means its a bit cooler. FINALLY! :)

Avec beaucoup d'amour!!!

Sister C