Poitier 6:3

So, it happened. I hit my half way mark. If you take a minute to think

of 5 good feelings about that, I'm feeling them, and then all the

opposite feelings too. For example, hitting half way I feel excited, I

also feel some dread. Hitting my half way I feel calm, I also think

I'm so stressed that my hair has become a whole half thinner than

before (and I didn't start with much to begin with!!) do you get what

I'm trying to express?

But all in all I feel pretty much the same :) I'm excited for what the

next half of my mission will be like. I'm going to try and do some

good, you know kind of inner reflection stuff, that I've always been

super bad at... We shall see how it goes.

This week was pretty crazy too. We just seemed to be busy. We had

district meeting here in Poitiers, and so we had the elders from

Angoulême and Limoges and then the zone leaders came from Bordeaux

and our stls from Talence (just outside of Bordeaux). It was pretty

stressful for us because their trains didn't get in till about 10:00

in the morning and that's when we usually want to start... So it was

pretty rushed. But the meeting was really good we talked about getting

back to basics, so refocusing our planning and studies and being

better at following things outlined in preach my gospel. We had

homemade lasagna for lunch and it was so good!!! Our district leader

is from Germany, he's kind of exactly what you picture when you think

of the Paul bunion, hoodwinked guy, minus the lederhosen.

So this funny thing happened this week. We had a lesson with our ami

roger. He's doing well, progressing, but he might have to move this

week :( so we aren't really sure what's going to happen, but he was at

church again, he asked me if he could have my pen... So I gave it to

him, it made me laugh. Anyways, that's not the funny thing. Right

before teaching him we were waiting with Santiago the member we were

teaching with, and so we decided to call José the ami that got

baptized the transfer before I got there. He hasn't been living in

Poitiers since his baptism so it's been hard to see him, so we call to

check up. And so I called found out how he was doing, and then we just

started talking, he doesn't have the best French so when he talks he

just kind of says "oui, le Canada, c'est bien... C'est froid. Oui,

moi, prier, lire, oui, s'est bien!" It's just really funny, and he

kept asking me questions about myself, it was nice to chat, but while

we were talking something weird happened with my eye. It had happened

earlier that day, but my eye just started burning! And I mean this

weird stinging burning, so weird, but it made my eye water ALOT. And

so I felt really ridiculous because I'm trying to talk but then my one

eye became this faucet and then roger comes up for the lesson. Haha. I

still don't really know why my eye did that, so weird.

Anyways, also something so random, Montauban, my first ville, got hit

by a tornado! Crazy right. Who knew that could happen. I think

everyone is okay, but I don't really know.

This week we taught our 2 Chinese Amis. The are so cute! We are

teaching with Santi right before soirée JA, and it pretty much turned

into a question and answer period for them. It was so cute, on of the

girls asked, "if I am a member can I get surgery for changed my face?"

Haha, and then she said, "my mom says my eyes are to small"  and that

they hurt a lot. So It's not plastic surgery really, just eye surgery,

she just didn't know how to explain it. We all laughed a lot, it was

cute. But it is so cool because they both just want to keep learning

and we talked about baptism because they wanted to know if there was a

ceremony to become a member... So perfect segway into baptism. And

they both want to get baptized! So we're going to keep teaching them

and preparing them for that! We also played this hilarious game with

them and made crepes all together on Sunday after church.

At church they had me near my testimony on prayer. It was good, I made

sense and I think I've mostly gotten over my nerves when I public

speak because my legs and hands barely shook. I could almost control

it :)

All in alll, really good week. And I really love sister Jacobsen, she

helps me to express my feelings.. So this last comp inventory was

really good, and I just think she's wonderful!!!