Poitiers 6:1

This last week was pretty filled, we didn't have any planners so I've

been using my ipad this is a screen shot of what the week looked like:

Something cool that happened was wednesday before soiree ja, we went

out contactong with one of the ja (jeunes adultes) and the only person

we talked to was this late 20ish guy. It wasn't a particularly good

conversation, he didnt seem very interested, but we asked him if he

would come to church the next week, and we were standing right next to

the church building so he knew exactly where it was, and he said he

would come. The member we were with (timothé ) asked us if we thought

he would actually come, and being optimistic we said hopefully, but in

my mind i thought probably not he wasn't very interested. But guess

what. He did come!! I still don't know how interested he is, but he

came to church and we fixed a rdv with him. So we shall see!!

Also, we were contacting in the park and we stopped to talk to this

older lady sitting on a bench reading a paper. She was super cute, the

classic fashionable old woman, all put together with her hair

perfectly coiffed. And as we start talking asking about her family,

she starts crying!! It was so sad, she said her only daughter died and

she's alone. And how she's discouraged, lost hope. As we continued to

talk we were able to comfort her, but you could still just see how

much she hurt. She wasnt angry, it was just sadness, discouragement.

And there was this one moment where she just put her hands in her face

and let out a sob because she was just sad. I cried with her because i

just felt so bad for her. As she talked she sounded like she had some

family, a nephew or someone that would visit, we wanted to fix a rdv,

and she said she couldnt do a certain day because this nephew comes

that day, but then she said, well not every week, but sometimes he

comes, so I cam't do that day. And as she said that I just pictures

this cute old lady waiting and waiting each thursday for her nephew to

come visit, how excited she would get each time the door opened and

she thought it was him, only to see a nurse or doctor. It was sad. I

realized what comes with being old, people forget you sometimes. It

was sad. But awesome because at the end of talking to her she was

smiling and laughing with us, and gave us a big kiss on the cheek and

said how much she liked talking with us. We are going to see her this

coming up week again.

This week I watched the bible video of when Christ heals the man born

blind. It was soooooooooooooooo goooooooooooooood!!! Watched it right

now and then come back and read what i liked about it.

I loved how it showed the blind man making his way through the city

trying to get to the pool. It made me realize how hard that probably

was and how long it took. And then I love when he falls on the Saviour

and the Saviour just catched him. I feel like that's what I do alot, I

just fall but the Saviour is always there to catch me, not out of

obligation but out of love, perfect love for me.

On a side note saying that made me think of "trust fall" and then I

thought of the video of the 2 girls trying to do it with their dad

watching, and how the one is explaining how to do it, and so the one

is standing her eyes are closed and her sister is behind her saying

that she will catch her she just needs to fall, and so she goes to do

it, but falls foreward instead of backwards and just lands on her

face... The Saviour never lets us land on our face, even if we fall

the wrong way. :)

Also this week our apartment kind of flooded with water... This is

what happened. We go to bed, everything is normal, we wake up pray,

normal, then sister jacobsen gets up and walks to the bathroom, not

normal. There was water all through the area, but not so much flooded

but like a pipe had burst under us and the water was seeping through

the floor boards. When we walked you could hear the water squishing

and seeing out, and there were areas where it had pooled. But what was

weird was that there wasn't really a patteren or any way of knowing

where it was coming from exactly. My shoes were on the floor right

next to each other and one get completely soaked while the other night

next to it stayed completely dry. Weird right. We calledthe office who

called our land lord, but so far we havent heard anything. We went to

the guy who lives below us andhe doesnt have any roof damage so we

have no idea what happened. This is a video of the sound. So weird,

and now the hallway smells funny because the carpet in the hall got

wet too, but only by our apartment, no one elses.

The weather is cooling off, I love it. Also i met some canadians the

other day. There was a group of people (pretty international) and the

ones i talked to ended uo being from nova scotia amd they were here as

a sort of 30 year reunion. They had all student taughtnin poitiers 30

years ago together. The lady i talked to is a professeur. I dont know

which university and i cant remember her name, baker or something. But

they were cool. They said calgary or somewhere in alberta got a ton of

snow just last week, really???

Anyways, it was a good week, our engagé is great, he'll get baptised

in october :) and the members here are funny, i really like it. I

disnt realize how much i like small branches

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