Joyeux Noël!!!!!!!!!!

So where to begin this week. it was another so so week. I honestly don't remember any of the stuff we did this week except for thursday which was the conference. so i guess i'll write about that haha

So thursday we had conference in versailles with president teixeira it was with half the mission. I actually was part of the program. President chose two people (a sister and an elder) to read one tiny section from the missionary handbook in front of everyone. and apparently i was the sister chosen by president. so like yeah... that was cool i guess. afterward we were going to go try to see the eiffel tower but didnt have time. but its okay cause while we were taking the metro back from versailles obviously we had a very clear view of the eiffel tower just right there and all lit up beautiful at night!

 Anyway at the the conference they kind of cassé'd us for not working hard enough. but it was also inspiring haha. President Teixeira told a story about his son's mission. how he looked up the statistics for his son's mission and they were not good. so he made his son promise to teach 21 lessons his first week (3 a day) and his son taught 22 lessons!!!!! he also that him and his companion just decided to invite everyone to church while contacting. and randomly like on sunday 12 people showed up! so soeur r and I decided to do exactly that. luckily our ward had printed pass_along cards for our christmas progam on sunday. so we made a goal to get rid of all of them... and we did! sadly none of the people showed up. But we're definitely going to start inviting people to church in our normal contacting each day. I like it. 

Also i'm super excited for christmas not only because i get to skype home, but also we were invited for christmas to a members and the wife's english, husband's french (but served a mission in england). so basically we were told that it would be  a very englishy american christmas! and we're spending christmas eve with the bishop family who is scottish. so like don't have to speak french and can just chill! so yeah it doesn't feel like christmas is in 3 days, christmas is weird on the mission. 

sunday we taught the youth sunday school. and we bribed them with american cookies :) it worked, we even got them to sing the first verse of like 8 different christmas songs!!!! haha best lesson with them so far. 

Well I think that'

s it. I hope everyone has an amazing christmas. sorry i don't have many photos this week, but a lot more next week I promise! miss you all tons! bonne semaine et joyeux noël!

~Soeur Farmer

1. contacting in the parc just across the river from the castle has become our new favorit activity!

2. J, this ones for you, swan lakes playing in Angers! too bad i'll be long gone by then