Rosalee in Paris: Transfer 3 Quoi?‏

okay so theres alot to write about. first of all the transfer. Soeur Pettingill is going to Brussells Belgium as STL!!!! I'm staying in Angers with my new companion Soeur Rasmussen, how do i always have companions with long last names? She's going into her 7th transfer and I actually will leave my mission with all the elders she came in with. so that'll be cool to find out who they are. the night we got the repetoire she called us and it was a little awkward because we were just like "hi, we're going to be companions..." and did the whole, where are you from stuff. but yeah we'll probably only be together for 4 weeks because she hasnt trained yet and Angers is a training ville. So i'll have to leave right before Christmas :( but i'll write more about my new collegue next week when i actually know her.

So mimi.... saddest story ever. I don't know if I've already explained her situation. She has four kids that don't live with her because the government took them away a year ago, and she's been trying to get them back ever since. so friday morning we're trying to get a hold of her and finally she calls us back. And she told us that she finally got a rendez-vous to go in front of the judge for the following week so we were super excited. However, she said that before she goes in front of the judge, she has to spend a weekend away alone in an apartment with her kids and a social assistant. So mimi then told us that she cant be baptized this weekend. She was freaking out, she was like "i really really want to be baptized but i have no choice they say i have to go away for the weekend but i cant because i have to be baptized and so i don't know what to do". She did everything she could to change it. She asked them if they could change it to a different weekend or if she could just do it friday night till sunday morning. but it had to be friday night to monday morning... she had absolutely no choice, its so sad. but its okay, she's getting baptized next sunday. so its okay, and now it gives us more time to finish the lessons and not be rushed. but it was just so sad. It's amazing what happens to keep people from baptism. Its my first one, so i dont really know. but soeur p said that never has she seen the devil fight so hard against one of her amis to the point where they have no choice. its amazing. anyway so we havent heard from mimi all weekend, but we hope her weekend went well, because we really want her to get her children back.

okay just one last thing i did this week, it was Emma's birthday and Fei Fei's birthday, so we went to Saumur (a small town outside of Angers, but still in our area) where Fei Fei lives and we celebrated their birthday. It was so fun. Saumur is beautiful!!! it was super fun, i loved it.

okay nothing else really big... oh wait no. 7 elders are coming in and 14 sisters. never has that happened there's always more elders than sisters or its even. but anyway 7 sisters that i came in with are training (so glad im not) and 1 sister who came in last transfer is training in her 2nd transfer.... its just crazy. and Elder Rollins from my district is training (only one from my group) so yeah. that's weird.

1. half of the saumur castle because the other half was under construction....