Well well well,
this week was one of those weeks I swear I just wrote emails. And yet, here I am again...trying to cram a week of miracles and experiences into a few words.
So here we go...
Since I officially hit my 15 months mark...I thought I'll just make this email simple by giving you our top 15 moments of the week:
1. Taking the bus for twenty minutes in the wrong direction into adorable french countryside.. Getting off. Discovering the bus didnt come for another hour going the other direction. Deciding to walk half run back the other direction, and have little angels carry our feet because we somehow got to our rendezvous with a member family on time.
Then they told us there was another bus that drops us off right at their street.
Oh well, because we were sweating they'll think we work hard right?
2.Having the daughter of a less active tell she wants to be a sister missionary one day.
3.Recieving mail from your younger brother about how much he loves his mission. Best mail ever.
4.So we have this new ami Rositta, she was being taught by other sisters close to Lille, but now because we are here we can teach her. Well, the trick is she doesn't want to be taught by other sisters, she likes her sisters. But one cut out picture of Jesus glued to colored paper later, and she and I are best friends. Thank you Heavenly Father for softening her heart.
5. Having Rositta tell us we were the rays of light in her life :)
6. Recieving a letter in the mail from Kedinnetse...its was tender.
7. The conversation we had with our neighbor. Let me explain. He is this adorable old man that leaves every morning at the same time to buy orange juice. Apparently, the elders would always say hi to him, but he would never say hi back. Well this week we were leaving our apartment, and he came out and said something to the effect of
Neighbor. "wlkdqmlkhqglkdhf????"
Me: pardon?
Neighbor: did the men leave?
Me: (assuming he's talking about the elders) yes, but they still live in Lille. see we are all missionaries and....
Neighbor:qqldkhfqkjdhfmqkdhf
Me: pardon?
Neighbor: I'm 84
Me: congratulations?
Neighbor: *nods, smiles, walks away muttering in old man french*
I was just stoked he talked with us.
8. Going from door to door getting rejected because its a holiday weekend and everyone is either gone on vacation, or here with their family and don't want to talk to us. After two hours of this, we get on the metro and this giant family who looks like they just came from the beach enters the metro. The dad takes on look at us and starts yelling "mormon" and speaking some crazy langauge. His teenage son intreprets for us- apparently they had met missionaries before and they wanted a book of mormon in slovakian (explains the crazy language). Meanwhile, apparently the dad is teaching everyone on the metro the resoration or something because all i hear is "*slovakian*joseph smith!!!*slovkian*".
We'll be dropping off that book as soon as possible!
9.Me being the spazziest trainer ever and somehow managing to get us locked out of our phone for 3 days...but don't worry. The elders finally figured it out...you know after we had spent three days passing by the church every few hours hoping there would be someone at the church to help us. (apparently pay phones these days only take credit cards!)
10. The lady I told you about last week that we contacted, cute young mom, called us back and we fixed a rendezvous for this coming week!
11. Being called by a previous investigator of the sisters 3 years ago, and being asked if animals will go to the celestial kingdom.
12. Going for a rendezvous with a member, but ending up talking to someone in the elevator and being able to give them a book of mormon and fix a rendezvous!
13.I have seen the sun for at least 5 days straight now...and I even have an official watch tan to prove it!
14. Having a less active open her door and say "Oh! Oh! What are you guys doing here!" Then she started crying with joy, while inviting us in. Apparently she has been really struggling and praying to Heavenly Father and telling him she can't bear her burdens alone. Her husband has forbidden her from coming to church, or having missionaries over when he is home. Therefore, since there have been no sisters in Lille she hasn't been able to see the missionaries, but she said "having sisters back in Lille is the answer to my prayers".
We'll just say the tears were flowing pretty freely in that rendezvous.
15. The opportunity I've had to be a missionary for our Lord Jesus Christ. What could be better!
Love you all! Have a great week!
Soeur Smith
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