Perpignan 3:3

This week was a week of exchanges. We had the Montauban sisters come to Perpignan on tuesday night and wednesday, and then thursday morning we all left (they went home) and we went to toulouse to do an exchange there till saturday morning.

I got to see Soeur Everett! That was really fun, but also kind of weird because it's like seeing an old boyfriend when you started dating someone else. And for me it's like I started dating 2 people so it was even weirder.. That's not the greatest comparison, but really close.

So Soeur Everett and Sr. Sutcliffe (from new zealand) came and we had so much fun!! Soeur Hurd and I were with Sr. Sutcliffe and Sr.B was with Sr. Ev, in the end Sr. E and Sr.B were both sick, so they stayed at the apartment, and Sr.H and Sut and I were out all day together. It was so much fun!!!

We had a RDV (rendez_vous) set with someone, but they cancelled, so obviously we needed to stop at a pâtisserie to get something, and luckly there was literally 5 steps away... so we go and get a pâtisserie , and are sitting eating finalizing our backup plan, when the lady we had a rdv with called and said we could come right then.. So we scarfed down these dilicious pâtisseries, and head over, only to open her door and smell chocolate cake baking in the oven... haha. we had a lot of treats that day. dinner ended up being spoonfulls of speculoos and nutella... things like that just happen when you're on an exchange. but hey, when in France eh,!!

So we met with her, she's a les active that we teach english to through reading church material, so it's a lesson, and english together. She's really nice, and said that I was erally good at reading french, but the speaking... lets just say I have a lot of practicing to do :)

Soeur Sutcliffe and I went on a run together in the morning and it was AWESOME!! Super hard for me because I haven't run in weeks, but it was so nice!! And she's this amazing runner, so even though I died, i kept up so I felt a bit justified that I had eaten litterally a tub of speculooos for dinner, haha

Let's talk about the work here. So we have one ami who wants to get baptized, but either all her clocks are broken, or she hasn't changed the time from daylight savings.. because she is ALWAYS LATE!! always! sometimes over an hour! but we can't be mad because she is the cutest little thing and writes us these apology notes that are almost like a prayer. You just can't be mad at her! But it is a bit of a waste of our time as missionaries, so we are going to have to talk to her. And then pretty much every other person we meet with, we have not been able to get a hold of . Sooo, this week the focus is, can you guess?

FINDING NEW AMIS!!!!!

We did meet some cool people on the train to toulouse though, so there is hope!!

On sunday we ate at our DMP's house, Faucheux, and it was so good!! They do courses, so the first appetizer things, were bread, of course, with like sausage slices, and a cheese spread and pâté. All really yummy, and then we had maybe the yummiest thing i've eaten so far on my mission. It was croissantes that were cut in half and stuffed with  cheese and ham, and then I think baked, because all the cheese was metled and So so so so so so so so GOOD!!! It wzs so good!! then the next course came, which was some meat and these potato kind of pattie things. Sooo good to!! and then we had desset. oh my goodness. She had made fudge, really yummy and then this tiramasu styled thing, but it had speculoos layers and tasted like heaven!!!!! It was so good, but I was sooooo full!!!!  I'm going to get the recipes. Also, speculoos, if you don't know what that is, is a spread, like peanut butter or nutella, but is ginger cookies flavoured. THE YUMMIEST THING IN THE WORLD. I'm already trying to figure out how many skirts i'll have to leave here to beable to take as many jars home with me. It's that good.

Also, big news, IPADS are coming this week!! It's crazy! we are hopefully getting them on friday at our wone training!! I'm excited but also, a little bit on the edge, because we all know how much I "loved" facebook before my mission, and now beign able to have it on my mission... I just don't know how I feel about that. But I think those sorts of things are going to come in stages.

Also, soiree talent is in a few weeks, the elders and us sisters are going to sing amazing grace... we practiced on saturday., an ya, I burst out laughing in part of it so I think we are going to need to practice everyday until the 30th to be any good.  :)

Also, again, thanks for the letters and emails! I really appreciate it!

Love you all!!!

Montauban 2:5

Okay, so I realised that in writing my letters home I'm pretty much writing my own scriptures or my mission... but not really because it's not scripture.. but it's practically the same. hence montauban, because that's where I'm serving and then 2 because transfer 2 and 5 because it's the week five email.

GENIUS!!!!!

Okay, this week went by fast and was nice. HOT, but nice.

We had an exchange with the Perpignan sisters, which means I got to see Sr. hurd!! That was fun. I was companions for the day with Sr. Castagno, she's really cute, from utah. We went to Cahors for the day and spent it with a member, it was awesome!!! Frère C let us at the gare and spent he whole day working with us. IT was so cool, and he's is pretty much my hero of the week.

So we got there, we had a lesson planned with an ami but he cancelled on us, and the only thing else that we had planned was to see less actives, which was only 2 addresses... and the addresses were wrong... so, we literally had 4 hours with nothing to do but talk to people. Frère C made the day, we walked around Cahors and he just said, hey, there's someone here that I could introduce you to, why don't we go here, I talked to someone a year ago, they might be there. It was awesome. He also showed us a really really old cathedral, and guess what. 

Okay, it was seriously magical for me. We get in are looking around a bit, the stained glass windows are magnificent and it's really beautiful, so I'm happy, then, some one starts playing the organ!!!! I felt like I had ime travelled to the time of Bach; It was so cool. I took a video of the sound sort of, I left he camera in ly bag because I didn't know how appropriate it was to video in the church...

ANyways , back to Frère C, he had spent he day fasting!!! and while we were siting deciding where to go next he just says, let's go here, and later as we were talking he says, I  was just sitting there praying to know what we should do...!!!!!! Isn't that incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's so great!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had district meeting this week and we had to role play being devestated, it was more as a joke, but ya, try and imagine me trying to be devastated.. IT was ridiculous, how to you be devastated??????? and let alone devastated in french, I think I ended up just being angry.. . It was really embarrassing! haha

Also this week, we had met and given aBook of Mormon to this guy, and he always sits outside the carrefour by the church, and we were walking by so we stopped and talked, and then we talked to his neighbour. And his neighbour seems really interested, we met with him, and had a really good first lesson, be said exactly what missionaries do, explained all that, and he said he would come to church... didn't, but maybe he'll be a good new ami.

ALso, I absolutely love the VanTonders. We were porting near Elodie's and we misssed the bus, and we had a lesson in half an hour and the next bus didn't come for 2hours (vacance) and so we started walking, but Sr.everett is having stroubles with her heel, so it really hurt her, and so we called Sr vantonder, but she texted us back saying she was driving, then we texted back saying that we desperately needed some help (sr ev exagerates a bit :) ) and so then she called and just said with the most concerned voice, "sisters, what's wrong?" and she came and picked us up even though they live far. She's so great!! And also Frère Vantonder came with us to visit the Slepciks, and when they opended the door, the 2 younge kids litterally lit up, as soon as they saw him they gasped in excitement. THey call him Papou (grandpa in slovak I think) So cute!!!

Also while we were porting we hat such a nice miracle, no one had let us in yet, and our time was running out, but we ported this one house and She let us in, she was a bit hesitant, didn't have time to answer a questionnarie, but we got in, and she just wouldn't stop talking, but in a good way. And aw I was sitting there I just felt so good, like we really needed to be there. SHe said how it's a bit hard because she has a daughter who has down syndrome and her husband kind of struggles with that, but we started talking about how they really are just angels, and bring so much love, that it's more a blessing, and she started crying and I teared up, and then as we were talking, her daughter came over to me, she's only 5 and gave me this huge hug, and rested her head on my lap, and then hugged me again, it was so precious!!! And together her and I just started talking about her pretty shirt and the flowers on it, and I was wearing a flowered shirt too, so she pointed at all the flowers on my shirt and said the colors, it was so cute; We are going back on Wednesday!!!! I'm so excietd!!!

This week was a good week, and on friday we are going to LYON for CONFERENCE!!! we get our calls on wednesday... YIKES!! What's going to happen??

Sr.everett dies this next transfer, so if we stay together, I'll be in montauban for probably 4 transfers.

I love you all!!!!! 

Thank you for your support and love :)

I'm finally experiencing spring... For the first time in forever!

This week went by fast, yikes!! Is that going to be how my whole mission is? I feel like I just started this transfer.

Okay, so first things first;

ELODIE got baptised!!  But that happened at he end of the week so i'll get to that later.

Monday was super fun!!! We went to the Perez's for easter dinner. Guess what we ate? It begins with an F, and it jumps, and they are usually green...

Yes! Frog legs!! And it was actually so good. I really liked them, it tasted like chicken pretty much. The weird thing about it was that you eat them kind of like chicken wings, but since it's legs you can really tell... They just kind of dangled and when you hold them up it's realy easy to imagine it just sort of starting to leap.

It was really good, and we also ate. Can you guess? ESCARGOT!! Which I really liked, but that may have been because there was a ton of butter and garlic sauce... but still, it was good. My comp tool pictures, i'll have to steal them.

And you know how the french really love their cheese, well. Frère Perez really likes his cheese, so we had the cheese course, and I took a little bit of one (there were three different types) and as he walked by he said that wasn't enough and then served me three HUGE slices of cheese. It was way too much, delicious, but so much. And as I was fighting my way through the pieces the guy sitting next to me asked it I was going to "gardez trop" or something like that, and I didn't know what he meant, and to explain his mom just made motioned me getting really fat... haha. Oh my future haha

And then, after eating all that cheese, they brought out the desserts! 3 different kinds again! And you can't not eat, atleast that's the mind set of Frère Perez, when in france, YOU EAT! So I got servings of all of them, and they were really good. THey had  bought a huge macron, pistachio and raspberry. SOOOO GOOOOD, and then there was homemade cake and flan, or flam, I don't know how to spell it. Which I liked to, but the macron was SOOO GOOD!

After eating Sr. Perez and Elodie took us to see a medevil castel. Super cool. 

I just realized I talked about ALL of that last week... that's annoying.

This week we met this really cool guy, JR, he's French and about 60, but looks alot younger at first glance. He was so cool!! He gave other misionaries on the wednesday of zone conference, and gave them his number, so we called, set up a rendez-vous and it was really awesome! So he believes in certain things, but he's kind of leaning towards budhism, he's into toga and meditating those sorts of things. But as we talked he was really open to learning more about God and Christ. His things is that everyday he things we should be better than the day before, always being nicer, learning more, etc. And at the end of the rendez-vous he said, "merci pour ce bon moment de grace." that doesn't really translate well, but it mmostly just expreces grattitude and that he really thought it was special. and then he said he had goosebumps and was just really touched by it. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he was really touched by that. SO cool stuff is happening :)

And now, Elodie got baptised! That day was pretty crazy, you could call it a catastrophe with a happy ending..

We needed to bring cookies to the baptism, so we were quickly making these nobake ones that we had made a few days before and turned out really good, it's kind of like making caramel popcorn, you have a sauce of butten and sugar and milk and cocoa, and when it is all heated you add oats. So we added all the oats, but it was kind of liquidy still, but we figured it would be fine and they would harden and dry up... THEY DID NOT!! They didn't harden or dry up at all! It was llike little gooey mud pies, or gooey slugs. haha, I'm laughing about it, but it really wasn't funny. We had a bit of time so we decided to make more, so we started over, and as were finishing adding the oats for the second batch, there are again, not enough oats, so in an act of desperation, we decided to leave the cookies on the stove and run to the grocery store, buy oats, and run back and add them before they cooled to much. So we ran like mad women to the store, WITH OUT OUR PLAQUES, we were in such desperation, and ran back, looking like theives! just try and picture it, the street are full because there was a marathon going on, and 2 girls in skirts are running down the street, and then 30 seconds latter running back the way they came, but with a box of oats. It was RIDICULOUS! And the stories not over. We got back the cookies seemed fine, and so we added the oats, all seemed good, untill they started cooling and guess what, this time we added TOMANY oats, they were gross!!! But we had nothing else, so we brought them any way. 

I am never baking again.

But elodie was baptised, despite the cookies, so in the end, all turned out. But again, they didn't fill the font up very high... so if at first you don't succeed try again, and again... and again. haha, ya, it took a few tries. 

Sr. Everett and I sang I know that my redeemer lives at it, it was good, and I don't know why but I was barely nervous at all, and half the words I didn't even know, usually when I do things infront of people, sing, piano, talks. I get super nervous nad my legs shake iinvoluntarily, and my hands, but this time, nothing, I was totally fine. So that was nice.

So I said there was a marathon, and because of the marathon certain roads into montauban were closed. Which meant that half the ward couldn't come to church and had to go to toulouse. So there was a grand total of 12 of us at church (including Sr.Ev and I) We did just a testimony meeting. It was very sparce. But good, I love church here :)

I don't know what it is, but as a missionary I have been having the weirdest dreams. Seriously the weirdest, some one try and figure out what this means, the other night I had a dream that I was wendy in Peter Pan, but I had short hair that was really red, and the whole time I was trying to climb a tree, but I couldn't because my hair wasn't thick enough... Seriously, what is that??

Anyways, being a missionary is the best. I love just having nice converstions with people, I think that's one of my favorite things, you meet so many people, and every one has a story and some thing interesting to talk about. It's cool.

Lot's of love, as always!!!!

Soeur Christensen

ps; my favorite talk was Elder Holland's. How can you not cry listening to that???

(And now your wondering... what was his talk on again? And thus, here is the link: CLICK HERE)

PSS; Also, we go to the church early and print our emails, so people, don't worry about writting to much,I have time to read, but reply... just know I love reading them and will try to reply :)

I have had the line "God gave us families" in my head all WEEK!

Hello All!

Okay, this week started of wet. really wet. It rained all Tuesday, but not the pouring rain, this weird misty rain that just never stopped. You know at grocery stores when they water the vegetables, or wet them, I really don't know what to call that, but anyways, and it just kind of mists on them. Ya, it was like walking through that. 

But it was okay, except NO ONE was outside, and all I had planned for that day was contacting and visiting less actives. (our rendez-vous canceled on us in the morning). And noone of the less actives ended up being home, and only 2/8 or so addresses ended up being write. So that day happened. But the nice thing was that we were on exchanges and wednesday was conference, so the other 2 sisters just slept over. We made pancakes. It was delicious. Except the first batch had to much backing soda or something added, so they kind of tasted like pretzles... but I loved it, the other sisters kinda not as much, but I thought it was awesome. I love preetzles. 

Anyways, Wednesday was Zone Conference!!!!!

It was amazing, so so so so amazing! President Roney is seriously the coolest guy. It was all about trust. Which was awesome because I was studying that this week. I think the thing that I loved the most was that when we trust in the Lord we really can do anything. After I felt so ready to go out and just invite everyone to be baptised, or come to church, or pray! It was awesome, and the even more awesome part was that I did!!!

We had 3 rendez-vous set up after conference. 2 of them were with these african men, the first James, he's super cool, and loves Jesus. He's met with missionaries before and already had a Book of Mormon, he brought it with him and in side were some of the pamphlets, like the word of wisdom one and when we asked him about it, he gave us the word of wisdom lesson! haha. We had asked him what he thought of the Book of Mormon and he said, he knew it was true, and when we asked him about everything in general he said "I like your church better, I like the teachings better, your church is better" haha. So that was really cool. And then we met with this other african guy from Senegal, and we were talking doing just get to know you chitchat and how did you meet the missionaries etc, and we were just sort of talking, I don't really know how it got to these different points, but all of a sudden I was asking him if he wanted to get baptised!! It was crazy, he didn't really answer though.. so that was kind of lame, but he didn't say no! My first baptismal invitation! 

I'm now a missionary. 

well, not really, i've been a missionary this whole time, but you know what I mean.

Okay, now on to bigger and better, sortof. We met with our ami partick again, and we taught him the plan of salvation, and all of a sudden I was asking him if he wanted to get bapised! haha

It was a lot more coherent this time, but my heart was beating so fast and my hands were shaking pretty much, but I did it! 

These past pretty much 3 weeks I have been working and studying and praying for more confidence, and more boldness and courage, and everything this week has helped me. From conference to our lessons, to our silly role plays that are super embarrassing for me but also so needed and helpful, everything. 

Okay, I am running out of time, some things that I loved about this week

We visited Cahor with an amis, and the a chateau(medeval) with sr.perez and Elodie, those are the pictures. The one with the devil in the corner, Marc said that when I print that one out i'll have to hide it, so that the devil can't come out, haha. 

and also, marc called us one day and sr.Everett was talking, but marc said, make sure you tell Sr.Christensen I say hi! so cute! he actually nkows my name

Also, this is sweet. I saw my first rat!!! It was just this little baby things that crawled up from one drain and then skuttled down the street, made a lady scream, and then skuttled back into the drains. Gross, but I finally feel like i'm in france, or in a scene from ratatouille

Love! cam

Soeur Christensen

OKay, serious missionary work letter. PREPARE YOURSELF

This week was ridiculous!! But in a good way, mostly.

So, this week started off like any other, the typical 6:30 wake up, pray, exercise. But while I was putting my shoes on to go out, Soeur Everett said she felt really really sick, throw up kind of sick, and that was how it all started...

I did my normal workout, and morning studies, but she was sick the whole day, we walked to the church to see if it would help, but it didn't and we did emails, but that was really hard on her, so basically, we spent the whole day inside and she called the mission nurse and she said that there was a flu going around, and two of the elders at lyon blue's conference had it... and so that's how she got it. But anyways, we were told not to leave the apartment for 2 days!! So the rest of monday and tuesday. 

So you can imagine what a weird start of the week we had. Tuesday, I did normal morning stuff, and we did our studies together, but then we had like 6 hours with nothing to do!! Well not nothing, but six hours in the apartment!!! It was so weird! I pretty much sat and read the whole day, and we did some calls and set up some rendez-vous with potentials and other people, but that was really it.

Then, and this is where it gets good, tuesday night I got a really bad headache, which is ridiculous because I did nothing all day, and I started to have a bit of a queasy stomach... So we went to bed early hoping that it was nothing.

But no, wednesday morning came and I was sick, so then we spent another 2 days in the apartment!!! So if you haven't been following that's monday, tuesday, wednesday, and thursday!!!!!!

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!

It was so ridiculous!!!

So basically we had the worst week because we were inside for half of it, but then there were amazing miracles, just let me tell you.

Okay, so in all the time we spent inside we were discussing the members here and we had these absolutely inspired ideas!!!!!!! I'm dieing just thinking about it!! Ah, it's so great!! Are you not excited to hear about it!!!?? You should be!!! :)

Okay, so what we kind of figured out in all our talking and thinking, was that we wanted the ward to be strengthened by their own conversion stories, because so many of the members are converts and we read in alma, when the sons of Mosiah and Alma reunite, and it's this huge joyous reunion and alma recounts his conversion story and every one is happy and uplifted. So basically we wanted to some how do that with the branch here. But we weren't sure how and we kept throwing around ideas, and then we got a call from our DMP, and he said that since this sunday was the fifth sunday of the month we got to do the special lesson for everyone!!! 

It was exactly what we needed!! So we started discussing how we could use this opportunity and all these great ideas started coming!!! 

So we made a lesson plan, and I kid you not, and you won't even be surprised, but I started tearing up because the plan was so perfect and so inspired!! The lesson was completely inspired by the Spirit, which, obviously was why I was crying... but anyway, back to the good stuff.

So Sunday came, and the lesson was so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is what we did, we started off with a bible video of when Christ calls Peter and the others as they're fishing to be "fishers of men". Then we had 3 members of the ward come up and share their conversion stories, then we had Soeur Perez and Frere Coulon read and excerpt from Elder Holland's talk, the first and greatest commandment (read it, it's amazing). Then we shared our testimonies and our DMP did too. 

And that was it, I know it probably doesn't sound like much, but it was perfect! The Spirit was so strong, I started crying during conversions stories, and didn't really stop. Especially when it came to be my turn to bear my testimony about the Savior, and how important he is to me. That was embarrassing, but again someone came up and gave me a Kleenex... You would think I would have learned by now to just keep one on me at all times, but I'm always optimistic that I'll be able to keep it together... false hope... :)

Just an insert, when I say cry, it's not like sobbing, snot everywhere, gross. It's just like tears, that don't stop falling. I don't want people to be thinking that I go around weeping and wailing and being gross, it's not like that. My eyes just start raining. NO BIG DEAL

Anyways, it was awesome.

aaaaaaand, we had english class, 2 new people came, and the one asked to discuss religion and what we believe, so we set up a rendez-vous to meet with all of them! which we had on sunday, aaaaand

It was awesome!!!!!! Sr.Griveau came, and they were both super interested! When we gave the one a Book of Mormon he immediately started looking through it and reading the introduction. Isn't that cute!!! They really are searching for the truth, it's awesome!

So even though we had to spend the week inside, we were still blessed with some really cool and amazing miracles. We really are just instruments in the hands of God, how lucky am I that I get to be part of all these miracles. I don't want to stop being a missionary. Real life does not compare, sorry you normal people out there, it just doesn't.

But also, since we couldn't leave the apartment, our grocery situation got pretty interesting, and finally we called a member to get somethings for us. I don't know what we would of done with out her. The members here are great!!! :)

But since we couldn't really eat a ton, we ended up eating potatoes... everyday. Doing groceries today was amazing, we have so many choices now, not just potatoes...

Something else I LOVED about this week was my studies!! I love studying, well..  no, ya, i love studying, pretty much always.., 

OKay, I love studying and this week I got to read a lot and I realized how lucky missionaries are to have so much time set out to study the scriptures and words of the prophets each day. An hour goes by soooooo fast!! 

well, I can't think of anything else to say, oh actually wait, I just remembered something

We were having companion ship inventory, so you pretty much are forced to share your feelings, and we were talking about things we need to improve and she said I needed to improve my confidence when I speak, but that wasn't shocking at all, every sister training leader has said that and I know that, so it was good, but she made me practice being bold, it was horrible

horrible

not fun, but needed. She made me role play asking someone if they wanted to be baptized, 

She started laughing half way through because I was being "bolder than she's ever seen me" and it was funny, good but funny. I was ruthless, sort of, I'm me so it still wasn't that bold, but it was!!! for me especially. After words i felt good, but it was horrible. But at least I know I can do it now!

And now I can't think of anything else to write, so lots of love

France is the best

Stay happy everyone, I love hearing from people, so keep writing

ya, 

the end

Check out Soeur Everett's blog as well! They shared totally different stories from the week. And she uploaded a few pictures as well.  http://sistereverett.blogspot.ca/ 

Update!

Camrie's new companion is Soeur Jessica Everett, she is from California but moved around a lot in the States. Camrie says she is loving and talkative and they are getting along very well.

And because I'm like that, I searched and found her new companion's blog. Which has her letter from today on it as well. I took some of her pictures, and a few paragraphs about serving with our own Soeur Christensen!

This is the link to her blog if you want to check it out! http://sistereverett.blogspot.ca/ I have a feeling she will be a lot more informative about what they're working on... It appears that Camrie forgot to mention that one of her ami's has committed to being baptized on April 11th! (Like I said, she's a LITTLE spacey)

This is from Soeur Everett's blog:

Now I'm here in Montauban! I can't get over how stinkin adorable it is. My new companion is probably annoyed by me constantly saying "It's so cute here!!" haha. By the way my companion is basically perfect too. What in the world. She's a blue (of course, I have trained my entire mission hahaha) and she's from Edmonton Canada!! Her name is Soeur Camrie Christensen.  Her French is really great and she is a wonderful teacher. We're going to have an awesome transfer together!

I'll just share this since it happened today. So there is this 18 year old we met with today named Elodie. She is 18 and just had a baby out of wedlock. She grew up in the church as a foster child in a member home but the mother had gone out of the church and didn't let the kids get baptized unless they decided to at 18. Elodie spent quite awhile away from the church but after having her baby she decided she needed to come back. Just about 2 months ago she started coming to church again. Today when we met with her she told us she wanted to be baptized!!!!!!!!! We set a date with her for April 11th! We have to teach her all the lessons but I think it will be easier seeing as she has a background in the church. I'm so excited (and yet again blessed) to teach her! She's so cute! And so is her baby haha. :) 

TRANSFER TWO!!!!!

I had a really good week and have some really cool news!!

I'll start with the news, as a bit of a guessing game.

First clue, something in the mission is changing

second, all missionaries are going to lyon for a conference,

third, we will be having some general authorites or leaders of the church coming,

fourth, missionaries are reciving something...

have you guesed yet??

IPADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is that crazy or what? yes, crazy, but I'm so excited. it'll be so nice!

Now, I have kind of have run out of time and so this week has been really good? 

My new companion is sr. Everett. and we've been seeing cool miracles already. At church this last week we had 2 new amis come and we've met cool people and it was really cool.

Also, I met an Elder Garside, from edmonton and we had a 4 hour or so train ride to talk all about Edmonton!! It was so fun!! 

lame letter, sorry, next week will be better... probably...

Love as always, Soeur Christensen

(Side note: Elder Garside is serving from mine and Brady's ward, Greenfield. We had told her to watch out for him... but its Camrie, haha, she is pretty spacey.) 

Transfer Calls

Well, I guess this email is really just for my lst week of transfer one, but technically now i'm in week one of transfer 2, so that's more exciting. This week, since it was Soeur de O's last week we ate at the cool cafe near our apartment and at this pizza place near the church, and we got our last kebob. So good, so so so good. But groceries this week might be a bit slim...

At the cafe we planned on getting some super french thing and a dessert, but then we saw what their burgers look like and got that instead, and really, no regrets. It was delicious! And the pizza place was really good too, we walk by it every day pretty much and so we went! again, no regrets it was delicious, kind of like famosa, similar style of pizza crust and such. And you know kebobs, oh kebabs...

Anyways. This week was full of tombez vous and mangez vous that turned into tombez vous. 

But that was okay. We had lunch with the VanTonders, thay are so amazing! They are these 2 elder couple in the branch, he is from england, and she is french. He's just he sweetest and really funny, he LOVES harry potter and those sorts of things, while she is really strait edged, really kind really amazing, but definitely not goofy. it's funny how opposite they are, I love them!!

I can't really think of what's happened this week, with Soeur deO leaving we spent alot of time packing and doing those sorts of things, but oh ya, my new companion!!!

So this is how it works, the last friday of the transfer president does calls (what's going to happen in the next transfer). He starts on the west and makes his way across, so he usually makes it to our area at about 8 ish in the morning. Sofriday finally came, and we did our workou like normal, and then we waited... I wouldn't say I was freaking out, but I was definitely nervous, my stomach was all in knots and my heart would not stop beatting, it felt like it wanted to leap out of my chest, but not quickly, kinid of like a slow preolonged death thing, that isn't a good comparisson, ignore that. So I was trying to to think about it, and so I was brushing my teeth and the phone rang! I choked on the tooth paste but had to answer the phone quikly and president says my new companion is... drum roll please... SOEUR EVERETT!!!

I don't know anything about her really, Soeur deO didn't really know her, just saw her at random conferences, but she said she's nice, so ya. I'm excited!!

I'm staying in Montauban! 

If I think of anything else I'll write next week, but this wasn't a very big week. 

It does't really feel like I'm getting someone new.. but transfer two begins and I have a lot of goals, well not alot, but I really want to make this transfer something special!

as always lots of love!!!!

Cam Soeur Christensen