Well, here I am on another jour de (day of) preparation, at a little internet cafe inMontpellier....its hard to believe the transfer is halfway over! In three weeks, I won't be bleu(what they call a new or ‘green’ missionary) anymore! Crazy!
Well, this was a great week for mail, thanks to all of you! We had our zone conference this week, which means the office Elders brought us the mail that went to Geneva and what to my wondering eye should see but a letter from Hannah Elizabeth Miller and Elizabeth Jane Waldron! THANK YOU! I'll add that the return name on Hannah's was very appropriate from: 'the best thing that's ever happened to you.' ha. Thanks also to Sister Engstrom, Sister 'Geneve' Johnston :), Grandma Waldron, and Sister Wiley for the emails! Your support is very touching to me. I love you all a great deal!
I have been reading the conference Ensign this week, and I love it! The two talks that have been on my mind the last couple of days were those by President Packer and Elder Oaks...so inspiring! What a blessing it is to have revelation in our day. (The Ensign is a monthly magazine that is published by the Church. The conference edition contains the talks given by the general authorities from the church that occurs twice a year in April and October.)
I am doing great. Mom asked me to tell her what a typical Pday was like? Ha, I don't know if we ever have typical preparation days but here’s what we do generally. We wake up and do our exercises (sometimes...other times we start cleaning) and then study. Sometimes we get our proselyting done in the morning (three hours) so that we have the rest of the day, but that wasn’t the case today. WE sometimes nap and write letters, shop, take pictures, buy groceries...all I know is they always go by really fast! Today I wrote a long letter to Hannah and cleaned and read :) good day. Now we are here at emails!
Well there’s not a ton of time left so I will just tell you a little bit about my week. First of all...WE HAVE 2 AMIS (people to teach)! Count ‘em, 2! Haha, certainly that is not an exciting number for every missionary, but for us after three weeks of pretty much nothing, we are on cloud nine! Ha, you should of heard us on our way to our meeting with the ward mission leader 'we have an ami lalalalala.' One is named Quincy, and we met him while we were lost the other night. He was helping us with directions and it turned out he was interested in our message. He is a singer in a rock band, and is also an illustration major. (Heidi, I told him that one of my best friends was an illustrator in SF and he thought that was super cool, I told him to look at your website :) The other is a woman named Rose, who we met on the bus. She lives above a bagel restaurant that is decorated with things from San Francisco, yes we ate there and yes it was amazing! They are both of African origin, and they are both great! We are excited to find more people to teach, and to continue to teach in the streets every day!
We are also still getting to know the members here better, this is a special ward(congregation) and I am thankful to serve among the people here. What a privilege!
I've been reading in the Book of Mormon about the Sons of Mosiah lately, and it is incredible how much their experiences relate to me and my work here! If you want to know what contacting is like in France, read Alma 21. And if you want to read what I KNOW the Lord has in store for His children here, read verse 18. Yes, it’s true, serving the Lord is difficult. I think of the words of Elder Holland (one of the Twelve Apostles today) who told us that it wasn't easy for Jesus, so why should we expect it to be easy for us? He taught us also that Salvation is Not a Cheap Experience, and it is true, we were bought with a price.
Well, that is all for today. I hope you have a blessed week, and that you know that you are loved by our Father in Heaven, and He sent you here to succeed, and that through the Atonement of our Savior EVERY single one of us can. Oh what a marvelous truth!
A bientot! (See you soon)
Love, Soeur Waldron
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