Surprise!

First of all....daddy. Happy Father's day. I really miss you. I think of you ever morning when I go running. I cherish the things you have tuaght me. I marvel at your goodness and consistency, and I thank the Lord that He allowed me to be entrusted in your stewardship on this earth. I hope that things are well. Thank you for your hard work, and your determination to serve God and our family forever. Thank you for your love of the truth, and for using your personal agency to provide your family with experiences we needed to learn and grow. I LOVE YOU DAD! I think we should go camping when I get home. Or maybe we could come back to switzerland and do that? good ideas!! 

I am still alive! So sorry it has taken us until THURSDAY to get our emails in...would you like to know the story of why we had no time on P-day? I thought so.

So. Great news, I have a new companion AND sister Bicchierri stayed...which means we are a threesome again! Soeur Bartlome is from Utah, and this is her last transfer (she was in the MTC with Soeur Madsen...who is still in Montpellier so if Brother Bize goes to church on Sunday that will be a fun connection to make. :) ) But, we really love our new companionship...tis great because we have SO much to do and we can do member splits a lot easier, in theory, and we are just excited to keep on rolling! 

So we went and picked up Sr Bartlome (who came from Dijon, so that was fun to exchange some stories,....it seems like it was forever ago that I lived there!) and we put her bags in our apt and had to leave toute de suite because we had a rdv with this person whose name we can't understand who has been trying to meet up with us for over a month I believe. He didn't show up. ha. But, this led us to another adventure! We saw this old lady in a wheelchair going downhill and basically, it was just all bad, she was kind of going off the curb so we ran to help her. We asked her where she was going, but she is from Spain, and pretty much only spoke old lady spanish and so we were all having a hard time understanding, even soeur bicchierri! haha, so she is like pointing us in all sorts of directions and pretty soon we've walked like half a mile and we are next to the lake, so we just kind of promenaded a little. There is a music festival in Geneva this weekend so there are pianos all over the city, and they 'Jouez...je suis a vous' which is basically just saying these pianos belong to the community so we can play them as we wish. So Soeur Bartlome sits down and plays Souviens-toi, a french hymn,  and we gave a little concert to the passers by. We are going to get together today with a bunch of missionaries and go around to the different pianos doing the same thing. Seriously, Isn't my mission the best? I LOVE GENEVA!

And so then we are starting to get a little worried for our new friend and we call the spanish elders and they are having a hard time getting anything out of her. This is when we discovered she probably has dimentia because she was telling us how she was going to her mothers house, and she was also talking into her life alert thinggy as if it was a phone. Ha. So, we did our best to help her find home, and we prayed. It was quite the adventure. And, this is why we had no time to do emails on Monday. Hahahaha.

Ony recieved the gift of the Holy Ghost , the Aaronic Priesthood, home teaching assignments, and a calling as a ward missionary all in the same day. He is so AMAZING! After a person is baptized they are confirmed a member of the Church through a priesthood ordinance where men who hold the Melchizedek Priesthood lay their hands on the person's head to bless them and confer upon them the gift of the Holy Ghost which means as they keep the commandments they can receive guidance, comfort and inspiration through the Holy Ghost who is the third member of the Godhead. Ony's wife could also be having a baby at this very second for all we know. He is already doing so much for these Mongolians. He organized a bbq on saturday by the lake, and he made SO MUCH MEAT and it was AMAZING! Mongolian bbq anyone? But seriously. The man is incredible, and him and brother gabriel are becoming best of friends. SO HAPPY! Ony's mom also came to church again last week...we are excited for her to start learning. How cool would that be for Ony to baptize her and his wife? ETERNAL FAMILIES! Speaking of, Bibiana and Gabriel taught gospel principles class for Brother Volpicelli on Sunday...and it was so good. Seriously, you would have to do some pretty hard convincing to get me to believe she has only been a member for two weeks. Last time we went to their house for a RDV we brought Stephane and we all talked about the temple. The Best. They are all so excited to go. We might or might not have all set up a rdv for June 17 2013 (one year after Stephane's confirmation) at the temple in Zollikoffen....so I told them that we all need to set up a little 'sister waldron fund' and pinch our pennies. I WANT TO GO SO BAD. On verra. We can't speak of such things in the oh so distant future just yet because that means I will no longer be a missionary and that is super weird. Speaking of, happy hump day--this is missionary lingo for reaching your half-way point! Yes, today is officially my nine month mark...whaaaaaaaaa???? how did this happen? Oh also speaking of Stephane, lets all keep praying for him, ok? Basically, he's still tempted by cigarettes and just wants to overcome the temptation...and its harder for him than he expected. But, we KNOW he can stay true! We have lived too many miracles together, and he has had too many witnesses of the truth for him to fail. A cool miracle happened...his girlfriend from Lyon came to his confirmation with her two kids (so cute, I'm totally in love with them) and she told us that her sister is actually an active member of the church in Lyon and now she is going to start looking into the church! We taught her a little bit of the first lesson and she loves church already. BEAUTIFUL! But yeah, things are great. Stephane's friend who is being taught by the elders (they didn't know that one another were both taking the lessons until they saw eachother at churhc) should be getting baptized soon too. his name is Ousman. NEAT! 

Another family, Sonya Bronco and children (and the boyfriend, Carlos) A portuguese family who could use a lot of prayers. they are in a tough situation and just need some more TLC chez-eux. Jose and jessica are the cutest kids on this planet, and we love them a lot. There is also Luis, Paula, and Paulita who we are starting to work with. then there is Lucy from Liberia. SHE HAS SUCH A TESTIMONY! We are meeting with her and Bishop Kimball is coming tonight at 8:00. I don't know what time that  is in CA but that would be neat if you prayed for us! Thanks for your prayer, by the way, I KNOW they are answered. 

So much more I could say, but for now I will just testify that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not just another church, it is the Lord's Kingdom established on the earth today, and is the fulfillment of ancient prophecy. I love the gospel. I love people, and I love teaching and meeting people from all over the world, with all of their diverse experiences and opinions. I love to know that they are all my brothers and sisters, and that God loves and cares for every single soul. I love that He cares for my soul. He cared enough to put me through immensely difficult trials of faith during my mission, so that I could leanr and grow and become, and so that I myself could be converted. Conversion is not something that takes place once in a lifetime, but it takes a lifetime. Saving ordances, such as baptism, are essential aspects and outward expressions of our inner conversion, and they allow us to deepen and strengthen our relationship with the Divine. 

I love you so. 

Soeur Waldron