Poitiers 7:6

So, got calls and guess what, I'm now serving in Lyon!! I'm an stl
with Soeur Castagno!!!!!!!!! I love her and I'm really excited because
our apartment is where all the new missionaries come and stay when
they first get in, and all the sisters that are finishing their
missions come to our apartment too, so its a busy place. But I'm
excited to be in Lyon for Christmas :)

So this week Zoé or Ying Zhou got baptised!! It was so so so
beautiful. Not many members could come, but there were enough and it
was the best day of my life!! She was so nervous but so excited and
she had written out her testimony and got some help from elder Leon
(Chinese) but when she went up to do it she said she didn't even use
it, she just spoke from her heart and I just cried and she was crying
and the spirt was so strong. In her testimony she said that growing up
in China she would see the Buddhists who were very hypocritical and
not actually very good people, so she never liked religion and she
never cared about going. But then she moved to France, and school was
hard and French was hard, so school was even harder and she just was
not happy. Nothing made her happy, and then one day her neighbour
invited her to a church activity, and she came, and then she came to
church and then she said she couldn't wait to come back because for
the first time since moving to France she felt happy. And so we taught
her and she learned how to pray and started reading the scriptures
etc. She said how honoured she feels to be able to follow God and
Jesus Christ. She said how when she thinks about her future she isn't
worried anymore and the hard things, she can just let them go because
she know God will help her. Ahhh, she is so cute. The one hitch was
that the water was cold... No idea why, and so she was actually almost
shaking of cold, but then when she came out of the water she
immediately cried out, "je me sens bien!" It was cute! In the car on
the way home she said how good she felt and she kept touching her
heart because she had no other way of expressing her feelings.

Saying good bye was really hard. But it's okay because her and
Anastasia said I can go to China after the mission, or they will come
to Canada, so it's okay.

So that was the big thing from this week. Seriously, so cool.

So leaving Poitiers, I didn't do any packing until Sunday... Because
we had the baptism and church was busy and all these things, so I
basically just prayed and prayed and some how I was able to get the
suitcases closed. There was a slight panic at the end when I opened
the drier and saw my clothes in it, but it was okay because there
wasn't that much and I was able to stuff it all in my carry on bag
thing. It was weird leaving because I was the only sister traveling
with a big group of elders and then, just me and an elder ended up on
the train together. So that was weird, but the voyage was good, no
problems, so it was nice, just long.

So ya, crazy stuff, I'm kind of nervous to be in such a big city, and
not really knowing what I'm doing... But it's okay. :) like one of our
Amis told me, Christ is my compass, so I'll never get lost."

I love you all, this week feels likes it's going to be pretty crazy :)

Love you!!

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