Let's start off with the miracle! So Wednesday night our rdv canceled
on us and our dmb pushed our meeting back for later. So we decided to
go porting kinda close to the church. Well we were porting and porting
and having no success when I realized we hadn't started Christmas
caroling yet! Last year in November we were given a formation on the
Christmas caroling and contacting... So I had totally forgotten that
we could do that. So we decide we're going to sing and knock on the
first door. It's a mom with kids and she lets us in to sing for them.
The kids loved it! We invited them, to the ward Christmas party and
asked if we could leave them with a prayer and they said yes! Next
house we try and she says yes so we sing for her and her kids! We also
invited her to the ward party, but didn't pray with her.
Really shows the spirit of Christmas! Everyone was saying no to normal
porting, but as soon as we started caroling we got a lot more yes!
Okay so conference was crazy! I've never really participated in one...
So of course I end up doing EVERYTHING my last zone conference. The
night before conference soeur perles called me asking if I could
accompany an elder duet on top of everything else because the soeur
that was supposed to accompany them couldn't find a cello she could
borrow. So we slept the night at Nancy and then caught our train at
6am got to Versailles by 9:15. Kinda tried to practice with people,
but not everyone was there to practice... Then conference started. So
the program after the song and prayer was the presentation of the
bleues. So I got up and presented soeur fouti-makaya. After that were
the dying testimonies.... So I got up and gave my dying testimony.
Then it was the musical number with the elder duet. And then the
senior couple in charge of the the building of the Paris temple spoke
and showed us lots of pictures of the construction of the temple! It's
so pretty! Then a new senior couple spoke and then I played the flute
duet. Then we had a break and then after the break elder congerton and
I sang silent night and then afterwards it was president and soeur
babin's formation and then lunch.... Oh la la. It was basically the
soeur Farmer show up there. I was exhausted by the end. After lunch
they opened up the curtains to the stage and there were tons of
packages for every missionary! Thanks for sending a package! It was so
fun everyone got a little Christmas :) We left as soon as possible and
we still missed our train coming back. We were all following the zone
leaders and then suddenly amidst the crowd they were gone... The zls
were the only ones that caught the train. Everyone else (us Nancy
soeurs, Nancy 2, and epinal) had to catch the next train. So we ended
up getting home at 8:40pm.... Long day!
You know in the song "be our guest" from beauty and the beast there's
a line that says "course by course, one by one, till they shout,
enough I'm done!" Well there are these less active members (less
active because they're so old they can't come to church because of
health). They feed us about every two weeks. Well this song basically
describes our meals with them. First course is chips, second course
salad, third course appetizer, fourth course the main meal, fifth
course cheese, sixth course dessert, seventh course second dessert.
I'm so proud I've finally mastered how to eat a little of each but
make it look like I ate a ton. This week was the first week I left
their house not feeling like I wanted to throw up!
Serge might have a coordonnee for us! We taught him plan du salut at
the church with Frere and soeur Benoit. Serge mentioned that last
Sunday he helped an old man with cancer back to his house and that he
talked to him about being Mormon. Serge even taught the man how we
pray. Afterwards the man gave serge his card and told him to make good
use of it! So Frere Benoit asked him how he could make good use of
it... Serge said call him to see if he's interested in learning more.
Frere Benoit replied, send him two angels! Then asked if he knew who
those two angels were. Obviously he said the soeurs. Oh my goodness I
love Frere Benoit! He called us Angels! Seriously the members are so
nice here!
I love you all have a great week!
Gros bisous!
Soeur Farmer
1. happy holidays
2. Soeur fouti makaya and I playing the flute
3. Samuel Régnier from Angers who is visa waiting in our mission! Saw
him at the conference!
4. Toul has a little bookshelf where people can leave a book and take
a book! We've put the Book of Mormon in a few times now and it always
disappears!
5. Funny signs. Normally it says "Attention! Chien dangereux" which
means "beware of dangerous dog" but this one says "Attention! Chien
d'ange heureux" which means "beware of happy angel dog". The thing is,
when you say both of them it sounds the same!
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