Paris Again

okay, there's a lot to write about my paris trip....

I'm now legal. We got there had an hour meeting then had lunch and left. we  got there and it hadnt opened yet so we waited for twenty  more minutes. we then found out that i was in the second group to go... so i had to wait another hour. so we went out bleue contacting! so i went with soeur erikson from the other zone in the mtc. I contacted two people and handled the situation all by myself! it was super fun and cool. and now i know that i can contact on my own. but we contacted a lady from spain who had taken lessons from missionaries there but then she moved here. so I got her number and reffered her to the sisters in that area! and as we were leaving she was like "should we say a prayer" and i was embarrassed i didnt think to ask. but she said a prayer in spanish. then i came back and had legality. got that done with and went back to st. marie to reunite with my trainer. while i was gone she went to the eiffle tower.... not fair. but i'll do that when my bleu does legality so oh well. we had time to get a crepe/panini/drink for 5 euro's it was nice. 

so now time for the way back. we got on our train. everything was awesome, then we stopped in Le Mans at 7:45 (normal) and sat there for 20 minutes (not normal)... then someone came on the speaker and said that they changed the destination of the train. it is now going to rennes not nantes... so everyone going to angers or nantes, get off. so we did. and we were just standing at the voix not knowing what to do. then the speaker person came back on and was like never mind get back on the train. so we started walking to the train and speaker was like never mind don't get on. so we didnt get on and the train left. then they told us to go to a different voix to get on a different train. they did that like 5 times and finally a train came that we could all get on that wasnt filled already. we got there and they said we'd take off in 10 minutes. 30 min later they say never mind we don't know when we can leave. so finally at 9:30pm (we're supposed to always be home at 9:00pm each night) we called our zone leaders and they said to stay the night with the Le Mans soeurs... so we did... then the next morning we caught a train back. so annoying. and the worst part is the reason for it was that someone committed suicide on the tracks between Le Mans and Nantes (which apparently happens often). so when we got on the last train and waited forever, the tracks were cleared and we had permission to go... but we couldnt go because there was a two hour back up of trains... so thats why they didnt know when we could leave.

anyway this past week we had our last district meeting for the transfer. and we always take photos with the number transfer your in. so our zone leader had a brilliant idea to stack chairs of the number of transfers your in and sit on them. i only sat on one. but you can see the beautiful picture below. elder mattson and haskell will finish their mission at the same time that soeur p will. 

speaking of end of the transfer.... transfer changes!!!!!! soeur p and i are staying (obviously)! but here's the scary thing.... two sisters from the group that came in with me are training... 3rd transfer training is pretty common. and there actually have been two sisters who fast tracked and fast trackers used to come in halfway through the transfer. so two sisters were trained for 9 weeks and then trained. but it's never happened that a blue has trained after only doing half of their training! crazy! so glad it's not me. but anyway. Elder Mattson is leaving and being replaced. But this is the cool thing! Angers is getting another companionship of Elders! so theres going to be 6 missionaries in Angers! and the new companionship coming in is going to Elder Platt (an old office elder) and another Blue!!!! I wont be the youngest anymore! i'm super excited! anyway thats all thats really changed (and it wont change until wednesday...) so yeah. our week was good besides that. I have a lot of pictures to send from our hike and not much time left.

Our investigators at the moment are: mimi, emma, tania, teng, nadia, and fernande. We havent taught teng since the first lesson, but still trying to get ahold of her. emma is doing amazing.

my district

us waiting around for two hours at the gares

the hike was so beautiful!!!!!

Paris?

okay a lot happened this week. i'll start with the subject of my email. Paris?...

So I got an email last week for my legality appointment. I read it wrong.... so we went to Paris on thursday, only to be told that actually it's THIS thursday... It sucked, it was such a waste of time! So we went to paris for two hours this week... but its a two hour train ride so we wasted six hours of our day....  but one thing my companion and i have really seen this past is how Heavenly Father makes our weaknesses strong (Ether 12:27). But seriously, its true. In my weakness i read the email wrong, but its okay because Heavenly Father gave us a wonderful experience that ended up making our pointless trip have a meaning.

 First of all when we got back to change our train time we could have caught one that was leaving five minutes later and then just gotten lunch when we got back to Angers. or we could catch one 40 minutes later and have lunch right then. We both felt like we should take the later one (which made the least sense). So we went and got lunch and obviously that included pastries!!!! haha but anyway, we had lunch and then got on our train. while waiting for the train to take off i was praying that Heavenly Father would give us someone to talk to so that there would be a point to our trip. one minute after the train had left a guy sitting across the aisle from us turned to us and asked (in english) where we were from. we told him and then he said, it touches me so much to be on this train with angels. and we were like "um thanks?" and then he told us his story. 24 years ago he fell in love with a mormon who was in france to teach english. They fell in love, but when she had to go back to the U.S. she wasnt ready to stay and he wasnt ready to go... sad kind of. Now she married and has kids and they still keep in touch. But anyway the point is he said that she saved his life. He had grown up in a bad family and bad circumstances and had no confidence in himself. well anyway she helped him find confidence in himself so forth.

 But so he kept telling us we're angels because we're saving peoples lives. but then for the rest of the train ride we just talked about religion. He's christian (and his name is actually christian) and actually was on his way to study for a whole week with the monks in some other town. apparently he does this every now and them. But I seriously think he taught us more than we taught him. This is what he taught us. First he taught us that when you have doubt or fear instead of faith, you're actually being prideful! haha talk about being cassé'd (the verb to break)! It makes sense because fear is the absence of faith and faith is the absence of fear. If you have faith in Christ and God, its fine. but when you start to fear and doubt your being prideful because you're not trusting in God's abilities, you're trusting in your own abilities. So you're being prideful because you are trusting in yourself and thats when the doubt and fear comes (because we're not perfect so obviously we cant do everything. But God can!!!!) so yeah that was super cool to learn. 

secondly he taught us that we are all lamps. Through us (the lamps) the light of Christ can shine. But the problem is we're not perfect, we sin, make mistakes, have weaknesses.... so our lamps really dirty and the light can't shine through. So our whole purpose in life is to clean our lamp. I really love this idea because it makes me think of Matt. 5:14-16 about letting your light so shine forth... but i loved what christian said, it's not our light, it's God's light! we're only the means by which it shines. And how can the light shine if the lamp is dirty!

thirdly, he talked about values. In the church we often say the world has no values...  which is true, but at the same time its not. The world is trying to undo what Adam and Eve did. Before they partook of the fruit, there were no values, everything was just everything. but after they did, there became values. and now the world is trying to create the "no value" thing again. Nothings good or bad it's just something. but the funny thing is that by doing that, they're creating a "value" of "nothing is bad" which they then value more than everything. Its a little confusing, i don't know if I explained it well. but it's super cool to think about. 

Okay i'm done with that story, i could go on for hours talking about it. Just one more quick thing that someone taught me this week. we contacted this lady, we talked for a while. but one thing she said really touched me. "you can't have true happiness that lasts forever, unless you know who you are". I can honestly say that i am so happy and its not just for an instant. Even on the mission with all the hard things, I still am constantly happy. And at first i didn't understand how was still happy through all of it. But the lady told me. I'm happy because I know who I am. I know i'm a daughter of God. I know my purpose in life. I know why I'm here. I also know that i'm not perfect, but I can continue to try and become a better person. So yeah loved that too.

Okay, but now i'm really done with all that i learned. I don't know what else to write.... a lot happened this week but i've already written a ton. Friday we had a rendez vous at the church but they didnt show up... so we walked to her house cause it was close.... but it was raining and we forgot our umbrella's and then we have an old amis who lives close by so we decided to stop by her since she was close. she wasnt there so we just ended up going to the church for the last 30 minutes to do some of my training that had to be done on the computer.... but we were soaking wet. enjoy the picture below.

This week at district meeting we had Flan suck.... Flan is this pudding type cup that you can dump it onto a plate (but it still keeps its shape) and eat it. but it's a tradition to instead eat it whole.... I dont have a video because i hadnt gotten my new camera yet. but Soeur P. did so maybe she'll send that home. I'm terrible at it. basically your supposed to just go down and shove it into your mouth while swallowing at the same time. i shoved it into my mouth but couldnt do the swallowing part... and i only got half of the flan... Elder Mattson, my zone leader, did a double flan suck (two stacked onto of each other) though. i'll put that on my bucket list before the end of my mission. 

I think thats all the things i wanted to say... yesterday we got fed all day... The Chevé family fed us after church and they also had the poznanski's over (not the old mission president, the old mission presidents son and wife_. and then we had a rendez vous with Rahel, a convert two years ago, but kind of went in-acvtive... only because she had to work on sunday's. but she doesnt work anymore so she came back to church! but yeah her mom fed us... they're from ethiopia so it was really spicy and we ate with our hands, which felt very weird.  

So  i'm going to paris on thursday... again. Also this is the last week of the transfer. which means that i'm already half way done with my training. which is a very scary thought. also that means that a new group of blues will be coming in... blues is the word they use for the newbies here, in the states they call them greenies. but here you're called a blue because apparently thats what they call the new recruits in the french army. also this last week i hit my month mark in france. it doesnt feel that long... seriously time is so weird. it goes by so fast and it makes it seem like  its been maybe a month at most. but at the same time my first day in the mtc seems forever ago because i've grown so much. Anyway, i think i'm officially done. it's only been a few days since we've cut off pastries because soeur P hit her 6 months to sexy mark... I already miss the pastries. I have to have a baguette at least for either lunch and dinner and now we can't... also I need my pain de chocolat or viennoise chocolat or nutella panini at least every other day. i'm dying already...

okay well i love you all. can't wait to hear from you!

avec amour ~Soeur Farmer

 this is called a religiouse. it is basically a giant chocolate cream puff

this is called la tour de Raiponce or Rapunzel's tower

just the cathedral thats a block away from our apartment. so pretty!

pic. us after walking around in the rain

I don't think i've sent a picture of the castle yet. this is like a 10 min. walk from our apartment. we haven't gone through it yet because you can get in for free if your legal, rather than paying. so we're waiting until i'm legal... so maybe next pday?

Les Miracles‏

Okay so last week when i wrote you, we had had a very bad week.... this week was definitely a miracle! I don't even know what to write there is so much.

first i'll write the funny stuff that happened. we taught TJ's (jehovah's witness), that was interesting. my companion testified of the Book of Mormon and the spirit was so strong and before i could even testify the girl cut in and changed the topic completely. instantly the spirit was gone, i have never felt that strong of a change before. also it was really awkward because we had met this girl, set up a rendez-vous and then when we showed up she had brought a friend... this "friend" had served a mission for 4 1/2 years in africa for the TJ's. so she was no help. 

We celebrated 9/11 by buying kebabs. speaking of which, we ate out a lot this week which is bad because we got a lot of pastries..

this weekend there was a giant festival type thing in centre ville and we live in centre ville so that was interesting. there were concerts and acts all day for three days straight. and it went till 12:30... but i still slept fine. But you know that giant festival they do in utah in like march each year where they throw chalk... yeah they did that yesterday. always been a dream to do it. but i was the closest i've ever been haha. i ate dinner while looking out the window at the packed centre ville throwing chalk everywhere.

another experience, we went to a small town outside angers to deliver a book of mormon. we didnt know the town so we asked people for the rue we were trying to find,,, in short they led us the wrong way, we asked directions from someone again and the only way to get there with the limited time we had was to walk on the side of the freeway. haha that was interesting and very weird, but thats not even the best part. after we had dropped off the book of mormon and got some dinner we were waiting for the bus back. and this teenager and his friends come up to us and invite us to a party. we said no and he asked where we were from (because of our obvious american accent) and we said we live in angers but we're from the united states. then one of his friends started talking to Soeur P and the guy that invited us started talking to me. I understood nothing.... he was talking fast but not only that he had a weird accent and on top of that i think he was using slang, which of course i dont know... but apparently he just wanted me to say something in english. but it was scary cause he kept getting closer to me and soeur P was distracted and couldnt help me hahah. but then before he left he asked if he could bisous (the kiss on both cheeks) us, we said no but he still tried to get close... it was so awkward. first time a guy had tried to bis me. all the sisters in the ward bis and we do it with our girl amis. so it's not weird, but when a guy tries it is.. 

okay now to the miracles! 

the lady who had requested a BOM gave us a phone number, her name and street. so we got to the street and it was a long street but we didn't know what house number. so we decided to go  looking at all the mailboxes and if we didnt find it in time we'd turn around... it was the fifth house on the street! miracle!!!!!! and this is where the story gets sad. we knock and ask if carole is there... the people that answered said no, we're her parents. And then we told them she requested a BOM and gave us her number and such. and they stopped us and asked what the number was. we said it and they were like that's not her number, but can we take it. apparently carole is 45 and was diagnosed with cancer a year and a half ago. but she ran away 8 days before we came because she doesnt want to be treated anymore and just wants to die.... but the thing is we got the request 2 days after she had ran away... so the number she gave us is the one she's using at the moment. we left the BOM with her parents.... but it's just a miracle that we were able to give them a number that could possibly get them back to her.

second miracle, Nadia. theres so much to explain. Aparently Soeur Wynn, the sister i replaced, gave Souer P. a referral before she left. all it was was a piece of paper with a first name, a phone number and an address on the back. when asked who it came from soeur wynn replied i dont know. so we looked it up. we found the appartment and was about to call them up when a lady came who lived in the building and so we just followed her in. we started looking at the mailboxes and i thought wait what if the lady that let us in is her! she was checking her mail, so i nonchalontly looked.... IT WAS HER! and so we played dumb and said "do you know a nadia?" and she was so surprised she said "i'm Nadia!" then she invited us up to our apartment. she had met the sister missionaries on a bus 2 years ago. but she talked about how she was very believing and went to church, but when her mom died and she had a son at age 15 who was autistic she started to be mad at god... and then she started sinning and she knew that she couldnt sin and have a relationship with god, so she chose the sin. anyway long story short, she's a miracle. she is so interested in the gospel! when we introduced the Book of Mormon she said "I didnt know! there's more than just the Bible, thats so cool! so yeah she's perfect. we've taught her twice and she just is so excited to learn more! also this is the part that was definitely the hand of God in us meeting. She told us that she doesnt like people that much anymore so when people call her apartment, she doesn't let them in. whether it's someone she knows or doesnt know.... but we just happened to be at the gate at the same time she was and got let in before we started talking to her... Truly a miracle. also at the end she gave us a paper with her number because her number had changed... when we got back we compared the two papers... it was the same hand writing on the front of the one soeur wynn gave soeur p.... so Nadia gave her number to the soeur missionaries 2 YEARS AGO and somehow its stayed around for two years. I love Heavenly Father and all the things he does! truly it was the perfect time for us to meet her. she is definitely so ready to learn about the gospel.

okay thats been my week. as you can see it's been great. last time i wrote you pretty much all our amis dropped us.... but thats okay because we now have 4 new amis in just one week! I have seen Heavenly Fathers hand in my life this past week and it is amazing. I'm so grateful that i'm on his side, doing what he wants me to do. I have no idea how this would be possible if i wasnt doing his work. I love Him so much, already i can see myself changing for the better.  I've learned so much already and i can't wait to learn more. I hope that all of you reading this know that Heavenly Father loves you so much!!!!!!! I can't even explain how much he loves you (besides that he sent his son Jesus Christ to die for our sins so that we can live with him again.... No big deal). But Heavenly Father loves each and everyone of you and I know that if we follow the things he wants us to do, he will help us. and he will be give us so many tender mercies and miracles. because he loves us and he wants to do that for us, but first we need to come to him in prayer. I LOVE prayer, it is the way that i can talk with my heavenly father and i cherish those moments each day, and hope that you do too. 

Je vous aime tous mais aussi Dieu, Notre Père Celeste, Il vous aime beaucoup!!!!!

~Soeur Farmer

just walking down the freeway.....

opened up the computer screen today in the church and look whats the background!!!!!!!

9/11 celebration

cute little flower all alone on the side of the freeway

haha sharing an eclair

Angers and a trip to Paris

So much to write and i don't know what to say. okay so right after I wrote you about Jessie, she dropped us. We think someone told her we were a cult because she said she didn't want to participate with our "community". she used a french word that basically means community but implies a cult type group. so we texted her back asking if she had heard we were a cult and said we weren't and we could explain it further for her. but if she didn't want to we would respect it. then we said how we know with all our heart that it's the right church and that it could bring her happiness.  it was a perfect text.... but she never replied back. so that's sad. But Emma's improving. we had a soirée familiale (fhe -so dinner with a spiritual thought) with her and the poznanski's (the mission president before president babin). it was nice because it was in English so i actually lead the lesson and it was great! haha now i just need to be able to lead the lesson in french... but we did this cool pyramid cup visual thing for the gospel of Christ. the spirit was so strong and i know that Emma felt it. sadly she couldn't come on Sunday to church because she had a huge project. so that's how my amis are. there are obviously more than just emma. but the never answer us or set up rendez-vous with us. it sucks. last week we had 5 lessons... and that's only because we prayed with 3 people on the street so it counted as a lesson. all we do is contacting, which gets very tiring. 

Actually that brings me to Friday. Friday, the France Paris mission and the mission of Lyon joined together in a day of finding. everyone canceled all their rendez-vous (we had none to cancel) and contacted or ported (door to door) from 9 am to 9 pm. and we had a lunch and dinner break. but besides that it was 10 hours straight of walking. It was really hard. also every 30 minutes we'd stop and pray for our mission and the mission of Lyon. it was super cool, but super exhausting. By the end of the day i was exhausted physically, mentally, and spiritually. a lot of other people had miracles happening all day, but we just had one the last hour of the night. We contacted this girl and she said she used to go to church with her family and such. and then she just asked us "how do you pray?" and we were like "what do we do when we pray?" and she said "no, how do you continue to pray?" it was such a cool question, we started to answer and then she said "actually I don't have time but here's my number, i live just over there, i'm going out of town on the 11th but i want to see you before then to talk more about this. i just want to know how you can continue to be practicing in you religion" it was awesome. usually we ask people for their number, people don't just give it to us...so that was cool. her name's aurore, we might see her tomorrow. i'll keep you updated. also on this day we "had" to buy a mille feuille for lunch. don't know if the second word is spelled right. but we got it because the goal for both missions was to find 1,000 people, and mille is 1,000 in french. so yeah that was cool.

Thursday we went to Paris. so our train was at 6 which meant we got up at 5.... fun. it took us forever to get to the legality place, but we did. after my companion got all her legality stuff done we went to what missionaries call consecration hill. i don't know if i wrote about it in my first email. but the first morning after we arrive they take all the missionaries to consecration hill. its a park in Versailles area and it overlooks Paris. it's beautiful. but we go there and we make goals for our mission. so we were already right there for the legality so we just stopped by it. it was perfect for my companion cause it was a year ago that she was in that same spot. for me it had only been two weeks and a day. it was weird for both of us. her cause it'd been a year. me, because it had only been two weeks when it felt like two months... i was thinking last night and by the time i'm done being trained i'll have almost been out for 6 months which would be 1/3 of my mission already. super weird.  but after consecration hill we went to Paris to really quick get lunch and get some pastry's from soeur Pettingill's favorite boulangerie. coincidentally it was the same two pastrys that she got with her trainer from the same store a year ago for soeur p's legality. haha so everything was perfect! then we had to rush back to the gares to catch our train and go back to Angers.

Last Tuesday we had our zone conference. there were three zones there, Angers, Rennes, and Tour. I saw my companion from the mtc there. she's really struggling with the language since her companions Tahitian and speaks little English. but it was weird seeing her. the mission president and ap's came. Aunt Jane yes i know Elder Davis. we're good friends now. the conference was all on how we can teach better. so the stl's taught about using scriptures. the zl's talked about unity in the companionship while teaching. the ap's talked about commitments. and the mission president talked about having our lessons be less of us talking and more of our amis talking. it was super good. and it was fun to see everyone. i'm sure that you saw photo's on fb from soeur babin of it. yes we did get pizza and it was really good! for those who don't know there is an fb page of my mission called 'France Paris Mission Babin" (https://www.facebook.com/pages/France-Paris-Mission-Babin/1439081099693073). you'll see me on there from time to time. 

This week was a lot better with French. I was really trying and sometimes i didn't think i was improving at all. but during my companionship inventory my companion said how much I've grown in the language, even each day. and then i was able to look back and see that i had improved a lot and that helped me not be discouraged which means that i can continue to grow. French is awesome, the way they say things is so beautiful!

okay, i think that's it for my week. today we may go hiking to this place that overlooks angers that no one knows about. so that'll be fun. so idk how many pictures i'll be sending because while i was in Paris i dropped my camera... it looked fine and everything was still working, but the next time i went to take a photo the picture had this cool blur affect on the edges. kind of like when you focus on one thing and everything else is blurred. well its like that, but its all the time... so i can't take pictures without half of it being blurred... which brings me to what i was going to ask you... Clarissa do you use your camera anymore now that you have my smartphone? cause if you don't you could just send that to me and i can use it. otherwise i'd have to buy a new one and i don't want to spend the money.... okay that's all.

Can't wait to hear more from you all! I will send a letter and postcard home today. I wrote it last week, but i forgot to buy stamps on pday. so i'm buying them today and sending it. so ignore the date i wrote at the top of the letters... cause it's a week late. love you all. i miss you all so much, but i'm so happy to be hear in France doing the lords work. I know without a doubt that this gospel is true and that we can live with our Heavenly Father again. so it doesn't matter if i'm away from you right now, cause i'll be with you all for eternity!

je vous aime beaucoup, toujour! et aussi vous me manquez beaucoup!

~Soeur Farmer

Consecration hill!

The two pastries in paris. ones calles an pistache, chocolat escargo (no snails in it, just the shape of it) the other is a croissant with almond and nutella. super good!

 The mille fieulles

on thursday we were walking around and found a bus stop called "champ du martyrs" which means "field of the martyr". just decided to take a picture with it

Angers Mailing Address

31, rue de la Roë

Angers, 49 49100

FRANCE 

Angers email and pictures

Bonjour!

Okay this week. I don't even know where to begin. the language is so hard. i just keep getting down on myself because I want to be better at the language already. I'm learning and improving, but I feel like I'm getting less confident which sucks. I can't wait for the day when I can say i'm fluent. but until then I must work.

French food.... so amazing, everything I eat is so good! you'd be surprised that I'm starting to like some cheeses. but apparently its just the mild ones.

Tuesday we had our district meeting in Nantes afterwards we had exchanges. So I stayed in Nantes for a day. Everyone said that Angers is the best ville, but I didn't realize it. Nantes wasn't French looking. Angers has the perfect french style and it's not to big and not to small. Also people in Angers are so nice.  Contacting in Nantes is impossible. You say "bonjour madame" and she sticks her hand in your face and keeps walking, and that happens each time. In Angers the people are at least nice enough to stop realize what your saying and then say "oh no merci, bonjournée" so yeah, but it was still fun to do exchanges.

Something I forgot to tell you last email is the mission rules. in the France Paris Mission we are not allowed to contact Muslims (kind of obvious) and sisters aren't allowed to contact men. So when we contact we can only go up to women and couples together. So it kind of sucks. If a man talks to us we can talk to him but as soon as possible refer him to the elders.

Okay another miracle happened this week! We have another amis! Her name is Emma, she's Chinese and she doesn't speak French, just Chinese and English! so we get to teach her in English, which is really cool, I like it a lot, but it's weird. She went on mormon.org and had tons of questions for us and whenever we answer then she says it make sense. She's turning 23 in November so she's Julia's age. She's super fun to be with! So we have two amazing amis, Emma and Jessie. they both are progressing amazingly.

Last Monday after pday was over we taught one of our amis in the park. but it started to lightly rain so we took out our umbrellas and shared two amongst three of us. We were half way through the lesson when it because a downpour. We were still managing with two umbrellas though so we continued. By the time we were done my companion and I were soaked! our amis wasn't cause she was hogging the umbrella's, but whatever. We walked her back to her apartment and then walked home. We had planned to contact but no one was out so we just went back to the apartment and made some calls. I know it rains alot in Seattle and that there are downpours, but I realized that I've never walked around in one. Back home I'm inside or in a car. now I have no car and I'm going to have to get used to walking outside.

I had my first French meal with a member it was good. They actually have the different courses and don't bring them out until it's finished. Also another thing I love about the French. they have a baguette with every meal and they use it to wipe the plate clean after your done eating. So if you have sauce on your plated you wipe it with a piece of the baguette and eat it. so cool!

I gave my first invitation to baptism! It was a soft invite, but it was awesome. We were giving Jessie a church tour and we stopped  by the baptismal font, talked about baptism and then I invited her. she said it was a big decision and that she'd need to think about it. But it was awesome!

On Thursday were going to Paris for my companions  legality.  it's also her one year mark so that'll be a fun celebration. although our train is at 6 in the morning so that wont be fun...

So that's basically been my week. The mission is hard, but I've grown so much! I am so grateful for this gospel. Each day I tell people that I am here in France for 18 months because I know that my faith in Jesus Christ has helped my life. And it's so true, each time I say it. None of us are perfect, but I'm so grateful that we can become better through Christ. I'm constantly trying to be a better person and to be closer to Christ and I have seen how much Heavenly Father has helped me as I do these things. I'm so grateful I have a loving Heaving Father and brother that loves each and everyone of us, and will do anything to help us if we ask. l'eglise est vrai!

Je vous aime beaucoup!

~Soeur Farmer

Angers castle from across the river.

My first croque monsieur and raspberry pastry during exchanges. Croque monsieur is an amazing french grilled cheese sandwich

A chapel in Saint Sylvan

Also i went to my first french cemetery