Salut ma belle famille!!
Wow. I never know where
to begin with these things. I have been super excited to write home this week!
Not even that anything huge happened, I have just been dying to talk to you!
For starters, we just
went and did some shopping for P day (obviously my choice) so it has just been
a good relaxing P day! It is honestly so hard not to just buy everything
though..especially when I just feel like all the stores here are my
style...man. Sometimes I really miss shopping and wearing normal clothes. Hehe
BUT I bought a dog scarf. With dalmantions on it. So what can I say, I am
pretty content.
This week has been
absolutely full of miracles. I cannot even begin to describe to you all of the
crazy miracles I get to witness every day. And it literally is every day! The craziest day this week was definitely
Wednesday. I thought I might as well just describe the whole day to you and
then you can get a little "day in the life of a missionary."
-Woke up at 6:30.
-Ran circles around Soeur
D- (she doesn’t run and I am literally going crazy without it)
-Did our 4 hours of
studies.
-Then headed off to a
rendez-vous we had with this guy that we just weren't so sure about. And oh man
were we right to be sketched out. I don’t remember if I ever told you, but he
was the guy who walked into the church a few weeks ago and just told us he knew
the BOM is true and wanted to start meeting with us. Well, and then Soeur D
talked to him on the day I was on an exchange and learned that he is one of
those people that pretty much believes in everything along with our church. And
also that is wife is suuuper Evangelist and didn't want us to come over. But
said we could anyway. Soo here we are. We walked into their house and I have
never had anyone look like they just straight up wanted to kill me. Haha! That
women is noooot happy. But he is just a super happy guy and so he was happy to
see us. So we sat down, and they ended up feeding us lunch....that was also a
super sketchy situation. I honestly couldn't even describe to you what they fed
us if I tried to. So weird. And it was just the weirdest situation. We could
barely get a lesson in because he just talked so much, and she kept talking
about all the Evangelist things that she believes. I don't know how much you
know about Evangelists...but the extreme ones are pretty extreme. But just
imagine a really extreme one, and then also a lady who is not exactly all right
in her head. It was just so weird. She was like praying literally every two
minutes under her breath and doing some weird gift of tongues stuff they
believe in and it was just super weird and brought not good feelings. So.
Needless to say we just walked out of there not feeling very good. I felt physcially
and spirtually just gross. Like I just needed to go shake off this weird
feeling. I just knew we needed some really good contacts that day or something!
So we headed home.
-We then had a
tombez-vous with a member (appointment that fell threw) so we decided to go try
and pass by a lady who we had gotten her address a few days earlier when we
were contacting and she told us she wanted us to come by. So we went to go find
her.
-Still feeling a little
weird we just tried to contact as many people as we could and get the good
happy spirit with us again. We were walking for a while and couldn't find the
name of this rue that the lady had given us. And then all of a sudden Soeur D-
just stopped and was like "I feel like we missed something. Like someone
walked passed us that we were supposed to talk to." So I was just like
alright, then let’s pray and figure out what to do! (You would probably honestly
be baffled at how much we pray as missionaries haha) So we prayed, and then sat for a second
trying to figure out what to do. This lady walked past and we ALMOST didn’t
talk to her because she was going inside her house, but then we just quickly
walked up to her, said our thing, and she goes "Oh yeah! I have had the
Elders over before! But it has been a while. If you want you can definitely
come by sometime and we can talk!" Just in case you didn't know...that is
a very rare contact. Haha it was SO cool! We have a rdv with her tomorrow we
are excited for. It was just so cool because if we hadn't stopped on that EXACT
rue we wouldn't have seen her.
-Next miracle of the
night. We were porting. And it was almost time to go home. But we decided to do
a few more houses. We rang the sonnery and sat there for a while and nothing happened.
So I started to walk away but Soeur D rang it again. Am I ever so glad she did!
It ended up being this lady named Ca--. Cutest lady in the world. I can’t even
tell you how much I love this woman. She came out and talked to us, then let us
in! We ended up staying for a while and had to run home so fast because we were
so late, but it was the coolest experience! She honestly wasn't super
interested in our message but I have a feeling one day she will be...but we
were like instant friends with her. She is just like the most hilarious women ever.
She is like 85. And she was just like "What can I feed you?? What can I do
for you??" It was so cute and so funny. So she ended up feeding us an
entire meal. It was so much fun. She just was talking up a storm and we had so
much fun. Then we sang her a song, left her with the Spirit, and ran all the
way home to our apartment.
So. There you go. Day in
the life of a missionary! It was such a fun day. It was just so cool,
because I know because we had that weird experience that morning that
Heavenly Father blessed us with so many cool experiences!
Things like that happen
every day. Yesterday was an amazing day too. Taught a whole lesson behind a bus
stop. It is just so fun. This work is so much fun.
To answer some of mom's
questions that I got in the letter..
Transportation: we have
buses her in Pau. So we take buses a lot or mostly we just walk everywhere.
Weather feels about like home! It has been pretty hot. But it is starting to
cool down. I am so excited for fall! My feet are doing alright. My bunions have
started to hurt pretty bad recently. But I am doing alright! It honestly is a
miracle at how well I am actually doing. Your prayers are DEFINITELY working is
all I can say. There are only 4 sisters here in Pau. We live with the other two
sisters and they are such a blast. I love them so much! As for food; we usually
cook our own food most the time. I am actually learning how to cook some
things! Haha because the sisters I am with actually cook..I haven't done that
for a long time. So I am trying to learn!! It really is crazy how many things I
am learning. I am going to be such a better person when I get home it is crazy.
I will still be me though, don't worry! I am definitely still me. Soeur D is
such an opposite of me it is hilarious. It actually is super hard. She is
great, but it is really hard. For example, I will just say things like
"What the, how is that a thing?!" And she is all like "A
thing...what do you mean a thing?" Haha it cracks me up. So yeah I am
still more. Just like a billion times more Christ-like. But yeah so we mostly
make our own things. A bunch of different things! Not all super French. But
yeah I am pretty spoiled here. The food is great. The thing I do buy a lot
is this super great sandwich from the boulangarie right next to our chapel. It
is the best place in town. And right next to our chapel. So great.
Okay I have to go, but one last miracle for the
week...I CAN UNDERSTAND FRENCH§
Sorry left you on a
cliff hanger there. Haha!
But yeah..I can understand
French!! It is amazing!!
Okay but before you get
too excited, there is still so much I don't understand. I don’t catch
everything. It is so hard. My brain is just super tired all of the time.
BUT it was the coolest thing in church yesterday. It is ridiculous compared to
my first day at church. I understood everything that was going on. I even took
notes! The first week that I was able to do that! And it was cool because we
had a rdv with a lady in our ward that we had a rdv with the first day I was here..and
I honestly didn’t understand everything. But we just had a rdv Saturday, and I
understood everything!! It is the coolest thing in the world. So yeah I am
still struggling. It is so hard. BUT Heavenly Father is on my side. I'm getting
there. It is so so fun to be on this journey.
I love you all so so
much. Thank you for all your support. You have no idea what it means.
Don't ever forget how
lucky we are to have the Gospel in our lives. I am reminded every single day of
how lucky and truly blessed I am to have been born into this Gospel. So many
people are so lost in the world. We are so blessed to have this knowledge we
do. Don't ever take that for granted.
I love you all so so
much!
à bientôt!
-Soeur Mag (that is my official name now,
Magleby is too hard for the French haha)
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