Today I’m trying a different email technique...I am going to respond to you and mom and then you can combine them however you want for the mass email, or maybe I’ll have time to do both! we will see :) The good news is that I can change the keyboard to an American one....so as long as I don’t look down at my fingers I can type a lot faster this way! We get a little bit of time after emails to look at lds.org and so forth...so thanks for the tip on the Christmas Devotional! I think we will be watching it with our paroisse at some point, but I am not sure when, and it will be in French I am sure. The Christmas season is beginning here in Dijon, too. There are lots of lights in the city, and they are transforming one of the town squares into a little winter wonderland! It doesn't really snow here (at least not yet) but it might. We have had some rainy days, and last week I bought a few warm things I needed at HandM, but the boots I got aren’t very waterproof so I might have to spend some Euros and get some nicer ones....I hope that’s ok! I didn’t bring much to layer with for winter...but I haven’t been too cold yet! A lot of things aboutDijon remind me of home....the weather is somewhat similar, a bit colder, but sometimes it is foggy, and we only have space heaters to warm our apartment so we like to close off the kitchen and make it an incubator. Fun fact: toilets have like no water in them here, but the shower has BEAUCOUP de water pressure. Haha, oh the adventures. Our apartment is kind of ghetto, but mostly just quaint, and we have nice big windows with white drapes.
WE are practicing with the ward choir too and our ward choir director is a convert of thirteen years named Doria, who is kind of a sassy African lady with awesome hair, I love her! She always steals our planners and schedules herself in them. Speaking of Africans, we are teaching a man named Abraham who is from Nigeria. He came to church for the first time two Sundays ago and told the Elders in our ward that he wants to be baptized! So, sister Madsen and I took over teaching him....he has such simple faith, it is a joy. We are hoping that we can get in all our rendezvous with him in time for him to be baptized on Christmas. He lives with his friends Rachel (member) and her husband Chrysantus, and their daughter precious, and we are kind of teaching Chrysantus too and hoping he will progress as well. We were at their house this week and Rachel gave us this African food with peimont pepper in it OH MY it was so so hot! But, ca va, it was still good and I survived....and Soeur Madsen assured me that it was actually quite mild and that someday I will have REAL piemont...haha. It made me think of Spencer and Uncle Kent...they need to have some African food!!
Fast Sunday was great here! I had too much on my mind to think about being hungry....this AMAZING family from some country near Albania that starts with a C came to church with two of their four children. We found them while porting a batiment last week, and they readily agreed for us to come and teach them this week. We got to their apartment, which was tidy and beautiful, they brought us some juice and we got to know each other better. Come to find out they are refugees from their country, where they were persecuted for being Christian and not Muslim, and they had to work really hard to come toFrance...all because they wanted to worship Christ. So, we taught them the first lesson, and even though there was a major language barrier since they don’t speak French that well, the Spirit was so strong. Oh I feel so blessed to be a part of this work! Seriously, la chance! You really never know what is going to happen....one minute you have never met a person, but you take them aside and ask a simple question, like, do you believe in God? And the next thing you know you are in a cafe talking about the plan of salvation, drinking hot chocolate, and testifying of the Book of Mormon, or of how you know their child who died in infancy is saved and how they can live together forever. It’s a beautiful, marvelous work. We see miracles every day. Every single day the Lord pours His blessings abundantly upon it, and I feel so humbled that He would condescend to let me be a part of it.
WE are practicing with the ward choir too and our ward choir director is a convert of thirteen years named Doria, who is kind of a sassy African lady with awesome hair, I love her! She always steals our planners and schedules herself in them. Speaking of Africans, we are teaching a man named Abraham who is from Nigeria. He came to church for the first time two Sundays ago and told the Elders in our ward that he wants to be baptized! So, sister Madsen and I took over teaching him....he has such simple faith, it is a joy. We are hoping that we can get in all our rendezvous with him in time for him to be baptized on Christmas. He lives with his friends Rachel (member) and her husband Chrysantus, and their daughter precious, and we are kind of teaching Chrysantus too and hoping he will progress as well. We were at their house this week and Rachel gave us this African food with peimont pepper in it OH MY it was so so hot! But, ca va, it was still good and I survived....and Soeur Madsen assured me that it was actually quite mild and that someday I will have REAL piemont...haha. It made me think of Spencer and Uncle Kent...they need to have some African food!!
Fast Sunday was great here! I had too much on my mind to think about being hungry....this AMAZING family from some country near Albania that starts with a C came to church with two of their four children. We found them while porting a batiment last week, and they readily agreed for us to come and teach them this week. We got to their apartment, which was tidy and beautiful, they brought us some juice and we got to know each other better. Come to find out they are refugees from their country, where they were persecuted for being Christian and not Muslim, and they had to work really hard to come toFrance...all because they wanted to worship Christ. So, we taught them the first lesson, and even though there was a major language barrier since they don’t speak French that well, the Spirit was so strong. Oh I feel so blessed to be a part of this work! Seriously, la chance! You really never know what is going to happen....one minute you have never met a person, but you take them aside and ask a simple question, like, do you believe in God? And the next thing you know you are in a cafe talking about the plan of salvation, drinking hot chocolate, and testifying of the Book of Mormon, or of how you know their child who died in infancy is saved and how they can live together forever. It’s a beautiful, marvelous work. We see miracles every day. Every single day the Lord pours His blessings abundantly upon it, and I feel so humbled that He would condescend to let me be a part of it.
I am sorry to hear of the Wiley's loss, and also Udell. I also am excited for Kyle and Treana! I FOUND ALL LOST THINGS! Thank you for your prayers :) I think they found an apartment for us inMontpelier! We will get to stay here with Soeur Tinorua and Harlene though for Christmas, and we will move down there next transfer it looks like! I love Dijon, it’s like not too big but not too little either. There is beautiful architecture here and sculptures everywhere and ivy growing on everything, I love it. But, of course, the most beautiful thing is the people. I wish I could tell you about every lesson and every contact! We will have so much to talk about when I get home. But, just know I am working hard, I am increasing my relationship with God each day! And we are teaching many people about the restored gospel, it is a marvelous work!
Have a wonderful week! And remember I love you! And tell Anna I loved her email, I am immensely thankful for her support, and that I will respond to all her fun questions next week :) also tell her that the painting she sent me is hanging in my apartment :)
Oh and as for Christmas, could you send me some pictures of the Savior that I could give people? I’d like another copy of my favorite one by Carl Bloch of Christ Healing the sick at Bethesda, and also his of the boy and Jesus, where the boy is holding the palm leaf.
Have a wonderful week! And remember I love you! And tell Anna I loved her email, I am immensely thankful for her support, and that I will respond to all her fun questions next week :) also tell her that the painting she sent me is hanging in my apartment :)
Oh and as for Christmas, could you send me some pictures of the Savior that I could give people? I’d like another copy of my favorite one by Carl Bloch of Christ Healing the sick at Bethesda, and also his of the boy and Jesus, where the boy is holding the palm leaf.
Oh, and the cheese of the week, etorki.....DELICIOUS!
I love you so much. I am so grateful for your goodness and faith, and I hope you know that I am so thankful to be a part of this family. A la prochaine!
Love, Soeur Sarah
I love you so much. I am so grateful for your goodness and faith, and I hope you know that I am so thankful to be a part of this family. A la prochaine!
Love, Soeur Sarah
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