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!!!

Perpignan 3:2 (and a lot of pictures)

 We were scheduled to skype with Soeur Christensen at seven in the morning on Mother's Day. Around eight we got a call from her saying something about an alarm? And that they couldn't get in an apartment and wouldn't be able to skype... she would email about when we would skype later. And hung up. Mom was disappointed, but got another week to look forward to seeing Cam! She explains what happened in this weeks e-mail.

So, I guess I'll start off with what everyone is wondering about.

No I am not dead, get that out of the way first. So what happened was we came back to the apartment after church to grab a quick snack and then head over to Skype. As we were in the kitchen just leisurely cutting up some veggies, and then an alarm goes off. I didn't know if it was the fire alarm or what, so I just kind of looked around to see if there was any fire anywhere... there wasn't but I see Sr.Hurd covering her mouth!! because it was the carbon monoxide detector!

We didn't really know what to do, just not be in the apartment, So in our rush to leave I grabbed the food, they turned the alarm off and we got out as fast as we could. In our rush we kind of broke the detector, it fell from the wall and all the batteries fell out...

But we decided to just go over to the members house where we were skyping and go from there.

So long boring story short, we called all these people, we were told to open all the windows and turn a fan on, air it out for a while... the usual, but it was kind of like no one believed us. We had called our neighbors to say that the alarm went off, just in case it wasn't safe to be there, and either they didn't know what carbon  monoxide was or they just thought we were stupid kids because no one really seemed phased. When we got back to the apartment to air it out our one neighbor came down that we had called and just helped us open all the windows, and told us how there was no fire, so she didn't see what the problem was... haha

So all in all, we aired out the apartment, spent half the day at the church trying to make sure it would be okay to sleep in our apartment that night, because, if there was a leak somewhere then we couldn't just say, well ca va no big deal, i'll just sleep and hope nothing happens to us, you can't do that! So that was a bit of a fiasco, and in the end we got our detector back working, and it didn't go off again, so we just slept in the apartment with the windows open and a fan going with the detector by us. And we aren't dead, so all is well.

It's funny though, when we got home 2 of our neighbors came and started to tell us all the things that we need to do, and how we need to move the fire alarm and clean this and do that. It was all in kindness, just funny because it was stuff we could do our selves, but it was like they thought be were 5 years old and didn't know how to do anything. haha. They were really nice though, it was kind of them to help us. they one neighbor kept saying to the other, speak slower, they don't understand french very well. haha oh the day when we will actually be able to speak french.!!

Apart from that this week was pretty good. we tried making crepes for the first time, as my birthday lunch, they are a lot harder than they look! You have to turn the pan while you pour the batter and you have to add just the right amount otherwise it's to thick!!! it was an experience. We made strawberry sauces and a peanut butter sauce and chocolate sauce, with strawberries and bananas.!! SO GOOD THOUGH!!! we felt so french :)

Also, soirée familiale is probably one of my favorite parts of the week! This week was sooooooo funny. We were in the kitchen cleaning up quickly with everyone before leaving and the threee of us started singing amazing grace and other very american songs and then our ami and one of the other amis, started singing for us and I dfon't think I've ever seen anything so cute! they just stood in the middle of the kitchen and very dramatically sang but like would lift their hands inthe air and kind of mumble french words, not really actually sentences or phrases,,, oui... Je vois... mumble mumble mumble.... Also, our ami doesn't have teeth, so also picture that. SO CUTE!!!!!

Everyone was having so much fun!!

Also, so you know we go to Lucie's every Saturday for her dinner party with recent converts and amis, and this week we had super yummy crepes!! Seriously!! SO good. they were just I think cheese crepes, but they were so good!

This week we met some cool people, this one guy we started talking to seems to have a had a really hard life, he said he was a sniper in a war and that right now he's trying to stop drinking, and it was really cool to be able to talk about God, and how he can help us in our hard times, he said he would call us because he really felt it could help in, so fingers crossed that he will call!

Also, a little update about Ipads, so apparently they haven't been shipped yet, and the french government has seized the ipad cases at customs. so it light be a while until we get those. Soon though, I'm really excited.

This week was...weird to say the least, but I LOVE IT! I read though the book of ether, wow. When you read it all in one sitting you really see how important it is to be humble, at least, that's what I took from it! And also To remember the things the Lord has done for us, and our families! So in lieu of that, I would love to hear more stories from my ancestry!

Thanks for the little binder of stories, I read it a lot!!!!!

I love you guys!! Give Fleur a hug and kiss for me!!!

xoxoxo

Sr.C

:) A BABY!!!

I don't think I have anything in my head except... BABY!!!!

I am so happy, haha, I feel like Mrs.Bennet, when Lydia get's married and she just jumps out of her nervous state and starts running around the house " a daughter married... I am so happy - is that really all you think about?- with 5 grown up daughters tell me what else could possibly occupy your thoughts...!"

That's how I feel except, A BABY! BORN!,, I am so happy!!

WOW, ah it's so wonderful! She's the cutest hing i've ever seen in my entire life!

okay, onto the book of... Perpignan 3:1   :)

I LOVE this transfer already! So my new companions, you already nkow Sr.Hurd (mtc) and Sr.Bolanos is the cutest thing! She laughs at everything, and is the most sincere person. She has the cutest humor! For example, we were joking about an ami that we have who ALWAYS comes late, or doesn't show at all, and we were just joking how we should tell her to come at 4, so that we can have the lesson at 6 when she actually gets there. And then Sr.Bolanos just bursts out laughing, and in the midst of laughing, word by word says, "Do you think she comes in the night time?" as in, at like 11pm she finally gets to the church looking for us. haha, we were in stitches laughing, my abs HURT! She's so cute!

Being in a trio is the greatest thing that has happened, and I literally have the best companions! They are so fun, we just spend the whole day laughing, and joking! But, we didn't know how much food to by for 3... so We kind of ran out, on thursdday!! We survived though, but our freezer and frige were pretty bare.

This week was really fun, being in a trio with Sr.Hurd and Bolanos is just really fun. Some fun things that we did this week:

1) Soirée Familiale: 

recent converts, amis, members that want to come for fhe at the church, we have a spiritual thought and then games and treats. There were about 15 people that came and we had alot of fun, Being in a trio is super nice because we divide and conquer. We all can talk to different members and get a lot done, it's nice! 

This week I really embarrassed my self though because I was talking to a member, and then a youngerish guy walked in, I didn't really see his face or anything, he's just shorted, and so I said, oh is that your son? ... nope, wasn't her son, definitely her fiancé

I became a tomato!

2)we have an ami right now that is really sick, and so we went over and cleaned her apartment for her. She was so thankful! Really over come that we would do that for her! Love is the key, Service!!!

3)we teach a spanish class... well Wr.bolanos teaches and we sit and learn spanish with people. haha, it's fun. This week there were 2 younger girls and they were SO cute, we had then dray all the pictures and then we would name vocab? adorable!

4)Lucie, sh's a recent convert and we go over for a dinner party ever saturday. She invites other recent converts and some neighbors. Her neighbors are this young romanian couple with a 2 year old daughter who is ADORABLE! Lucie has this cute dog and the whole dinner the little girl kept coming up to us and asking "Ou est Candy?" but not candy like we say candy, Cahhhndy SO CUTE!!

5)Every fast sunday the ward does a pot luck after church, so this week was super fun! We got to talk to so many members and get to know them. We had 3 amis at church and one is a nigerian lady. I told her how we had gained wait on the mission and she just laughed at me! haha

6) Our bishops kids have chicken pox right now, but we went over for dinner, and it reminded me of when maij and I had chicken pox, the daughter is the same age as me when I had them.

Such a fun week!!!!! I'll give more specifif info next week. But I love perpignan! 

Montauban 2:6

Last week of twelve weeks!!! So as a new missionary you have an extra hour each week for this thing called the first 12 weeks, and i finally finished it!!!! Good bye watching the district over and over and over again!!!

This week went by so fast! 

On Tuesday.. I think. We went to the Van Tonder's and help Fr.V in the yard! It was awesome and at the end after having lunch, Sr.V came out with these flowers and she gave then to me saying, In case I don't see you on your birthday! They were these little lillie of the valley's! They smelled so good!

And then Wednesday we got our calls. Guess what- I'm going to Perpignan to be companions with SR.HURD and SR. Bolanyos!!!!!! Ans yes, the sr. Hurd that I was companions with at the mtc. I am so excited! I'm sad to leave montauban, but how can I not be excited!!!

All I hear is amazing things about his ward!!!

So that was crazy to hear, but then I had to pack.

Packing is the worst thing in the entire world of missionary life. You have to stuff everything back into your suitcases, your whole life has to fit back! It's the worst!!!! So we spent alot of time doing that on Wednesday. It was probably the worst time i've ever spent on my mission.

okay, but here is the thing, I love Montauban, we sent out a text saying what was happening to the members, and they all wrote back saying they would miss me, wishing me luch etc. It was so nice!! and then, blessings, just wait for it.

So since calls were on Wednesday and we were leaving Friday morning for conference, I had no time to see members, but I got to see so many of them! we randomly saw the magniers as we were waiting for our bus, and they don't even live in montauban,and Adeline was at the church when we went to print something for a lesson, and I got to see soeur Hoxy!!!

See her was so nice! I hadn't seen her this whole transfer, but when she found out I was leaving, we set something up and she was the cutest! She gave me these 2 montauban souvenirs one had all these sunflowers on it, how did she know they were my favourite?!! but since it had been 6 weeks since she saw me, guess what the first phrase that she said to me was,

Wow, you've gained weight!

Ya, hmm

but it was fine! haha, we laughed about it because the first time I met her she said that I would, and she was right. haha

And we got to go over to the dieutre's house, I LOVE THEM! we had homemade pizza, it was sooo good! and lucy sewed me this cute little jean purse!

I'm going to miss Montauban!

So we had a mission wide conference in lyon. To get there we rented a bus, the toulouse zone and montpellier (my new zone) rode together... for EIGHT HOURS!!!

It was such a long bus ride, but it was fun.

The conference was wonderful, but we didn't get Ipads :(

We will probably get them in a week or 2. So that was a bit of a let down, but It was a really good conference.

Elder Kearan and Elder Nielson (gave the prodigal son talk at conference) came with their wives. THe focus was obviously using ipads as missionaries. Something that I really liked was that they said the way we learn to use Ipads during our missions will bless us for the rest of our lives, and prepare us for when we are home. Which is so true! Also, I absolutely love elder Kearan, we got to shake every ones hands, we went up by zones and when my zone went up the was practically crying, but not weird, you could just tell how much he cared about us! And he is really funny! He had us all laughing but then 10 seconds later the Spirit would be there so strongly! He's amazing and his wife is really cool too. She talked about the scripture in the book of mormon that talks about the flaxen cord. She explained what that meant and how it's a really really thin cord, thread kind of thing, so that if it's getting wrapped around you you wont realise until there are too many layers that you become powerless. She was so cute, she said if this is you, if little by little you are having the flaxen cord wrapped around you, "then oh my goodness WAKE UP, (and then she got teary and said really quietly) wake up." it was cool. and a really good lesson especially with the new digital era that we are in as missionaries.

So with the conference, it was absolutely crazy, there were so many missionaries! Our bus dropped us off at the chapel and we spent about an hour there talking and seeing friends and had dinner (pizza), then we wen back to the STL's apartment, which was packed!! the morning of the conference was kind of crazy, so lany people needing showers! but we got there on time, had breakfast (pain au chocolat of course) and then it began. after the conference, our bus was the first o leave, so we didn't really have anytime to see people, or take pictures, I didn't take any!!! so lame! But we switched companions then and got on the bus and left. Also I got al the packages and stuff for my birthday!!! THANK YOU!!! It was so fun!!

It was funny, we tried to get all the Canadians together, elder Pien (chinese from ontario) got i think 3 of us together, but that was it. haha

Perpignan apartment is really cute!!

And 3 people came and picked us up from the gare and drove us home, it was so nice. I'm really excited!!

So, transfer three begins.

Also, Sr. Bolanyos served in montauban right before me, so that was cool, and we got to talk about all the people!

LOve you all

Also, thanks so much for the gifts! I almost cried, but I was around all these missionaries, so that would of been embarrassing...

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