Rosalee in Paris: Playing Tourist

This week was actually one of the longer weeks, which i have no idea why because it was just a normal week.

So much to talk about...

I'll start with Halloween. It was a very sad day... it was our weekly planning so we were inside most the day. we celebrated Halloween by taking a break and going down to the boulangerie below us and buying the most american thing we could from there. Our options were donuts, cookies (which are different here, i dont know how, but they're not as good), brownie ( which isnt like a brownie at all) crumble or chocolate cake ( which is more like a brownie than the actual brownie). I got the chocolate cake, soeur p got the crumble. then we went back upstairs to the apartment and turned off all the lights and turned on the electric candle in a plastic jack-o-lantern that soeur p got in a package.... later we sprinted to catch a bus, so that was fun... and lastly the best part of the night. we had a soirée familiale with mimi and a member family. So we didnt eat dinner because in french mormon culture soirée familiale means have dinner and a lesson. yeah apparently these members didnt get the memo. they didnt feed us. and on top of that they taught the lesson instead of us, which is weird, and set us behind on the lessons we need to teach mimi by next sunday... so finally we got home starving at 9 at night. so we made toast, but the problem is that we dont have a toaster (or an oven) so we use the microwave oven to toast our bread. so we put it in and started planning.... bad idea, we forgot about it. so our Halloween dinner was burnt toast. so that was my day.

Okay castle it was beautiful of course! and i got to sit in the throne :) don't worry i'll send lots of photos.

Tuesday we went to paris for soeur p's legality. we got to the préfecture at 11:45, I went to the bathroom while soeur p was standing in line. When I came out she was done and we left the building at 11:50. so then we had 3 hours before our train ride... so what did we do? EIFFEL TOWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so yeah we went to the eiffel tower nbd! don't worry i'll send tons of photo's. but yeah it was the dream. after being there it officially hit me that i'm in france, dont know why it didnt before. but yeah tuesday was basically a second pday, loved it. also I had this viennoiserie thing i think it was called a nutella brioche. which is basically a roll with nutella in the middle. I'm pretty sure there was more nutella than actual bread... so good! sorry I forgot to take a photo. but yeah paris was awesome!!!!

Mimi is doing well. a little worried about how we're going to be able to fit in all the lessons before her date because she fruged us saturday and sunday, so we're a little behind. but it's still do-able. she's really excited for it, we just are hoping that she understands how important it is.

It's been really good weather up until yesterday.... super sunny and then today it's been raining non-stop, so basically like home. I love the rain, but not as a missionary. no one is out when its raining and we basically can't talk to people because they don't want to be outside. so we've started to do a lot of porting houses. Last night it was pouring down rain and we had forgotten our umbrella's so we were soaked. so that was also fun.

Well this is the last week of this transfer and it it very very likely that soeur p will be leaving :( so i'll be getting a new companion. we wont know until saturday so next pday i'll give you the news. i'm just hoping i don not get a call from the ap's saturday morning because that would mean i'm training. which could be likely if its a big group. so yeah things are going to be changing there.

There's not much else to say. love you all so much! have a great week! miss you! groses bises!

~Sœur Farmer

1. picture with the Eiffel Tower