Rosalee in Paris: Always look on the bright side of life

Well this week was a pretty hard week.

So Tuesday is normally district meeting, but it got changed to Friday. So we had all day Tuesday, and no rdvs, so we ported for like 4 hours straight! Wow haven't done that since angers. So it was a hard day, job one let us in, no lessons, nothing. Then we did have a rdv with an ami but he wasn't there so then we had about an hour left before going home. So we walked over to another ami and on the way there was one woman so we obviously contacted her. And she stayed and listened and was nice. She's Buddhist and not interested, but she was nice and she let us pray with her. So that was a little tender mercy that we met her.

Wednesday was our busy day, thankfully. We had 4 different rdvs and dmb meeting. So that was a fine day. At dmb we planned Aurore's baptism, and our dmb is taking care of everything! So awesome! She's having her interview this Friday the 30Th of October. So pray that all goes well. She had been clean of smoking for two days on Sunday!!!

Another side note, Eric and Aurore's smells constantly of smoke. Every time I leave I smell like smoke. You'd think that I was actually the one smoking... Perks of serving in France!

Thursday was busy too. We ported for an hour and a half in the morning. We chose a cute little town 15 minutes away... Most catholic town ever. Everyone in France is Catholic but not "practicing". Every door we knocked on said they go to church every Sunday! That almost never happens in France, so yeah that was interesting to find a whole village that is really really practicing.

Friday was district meeting and it was super good. They opened up another equipe in Metz, so now we're 10 including the zone leaders who usually come to our district even though they're not in it. District meal was so good! We had meat triads Mexican style. It was my first time having one. Meat triads are a Belgium thing. They basically stick meat and fries in a baguette. But this one was Mexican style because our district leader is from El Salvador. Speaking of him, it was a struggle understanding him! He spoke French before his mission cause he lived in Belgium the last few years, but he has such a strong accent! For example the word toujours, you pronounce the j, he doesn't, so he says touhours. Haha but he's like the most happiest person I know, so it's fine.

Then Saturday came. This was when it really went downhill. So there was a relief society activity and we had been volunteered to help the blind member make a dessert... It is a lot harder than it sounds. So, yeah we did it! And like no one thanked us.... Okay like two of the members did. But the relief society president was just getting mad at us over tiny little things. So we help clean up, and she and another member were about to leave and I said I'd lock up because Soeur Clements was practicing a song for our baptism. Then the relief society president asked about the baptism because she didn't know. (Background note: Aurore's baptism is the 7 nov. and the 13 nov we are having a fireside for our Amis, and then serges baptism is the 21 nov). So then she started lecturing me on how I should do missionary work. She said that all those activities are to much... And that no ones going to come to all of them. And then she had the nerve to say we should push back Aurore's baptism so that we could have the soirée ami de l'eglise right after... I'm sorry, but no! You don't push back someone's baptism for the convenience of others. She wouldn't even let me speak she was just attacking me, and my collegue wasn't even there to help me.

So yeah let's just say after that, we had no motivation our two rdvs that night had canceled and we were left to porting.... So yeah super hard day.

Sunday morning I wake up, not wanting to face the member, still unmotivated to do anything. We get to church and are holding it together for the most part. And then our dmb (who at this point was the only person who hadn't been rude to us) comes up and gets mad at us for erasing the board in priesthood when we cleaned the church... Right then choir started and I made it through the prayer and then I ran to the bathroom crying. I honestly felt so unappreciated. I feel like no one in the branch understands what it is to be a missionary because most of them are converts and never served a mission.

I honestly feel like Saturday and Sunday I couldn't do anything right, no matter what, someone in the branch got mad. So yeah... Like I said really tough week. But it's okay because it's pday and I get to rest!

But to leave you on a happy note, I got a video of sandy licking the leftovers of brownies on the spoon. Enjoy down below!

I love you all so much! Have a great week!

Gros bisous!

Soeur Farmer

1. We decided to take cute fall photos