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This week was awesome! 

So Tuesday we had district meeting in Metz, it's beautiful there! But sadly it takes up our whole day... We leave at 8:30 and get home at 4:30....

Wednesday was a crazy busy day.

Thursday we went on exchanges in Paris!!!! So we ended up getting the dumbest detour to Paris. Instead of taking a 20 min train ride to Nancy and then an hour and a half train ride to Paris, we took an hour and a half train ride to Epernay, a small ville out in the middle of nowhere, waited an hour and then took another hour and a half train ride into Paris... But they ordered it for us cause it was the only train at the time we wanted.

But it ended up being super pretty! And the second train was what I like to call a Harry Potter train! See video in other email

But exchanges were amazing! Especially since my stls are the stls that I lived with in Paris! So I got to go back, be companions with one of them and then sleep in my old apartment. It was so nice! I loved it! I had a great time with Soeur Tippett, we just had a lot of fun together. And it was nice to catch up after one week of not being together.

Sunday was stake conference so that was super fun! We slept over with the Nancy and Mulhouse soeurs. 

Basically it was a crazy week! And next week will be too! We have zone conference in Paris again, so another trip to Paris which means another sleepover in Nancy!

Today we went grocery shopping and there was a rat in the store! It was hilarious! Oh my goodness he attacked the workers trying to catch it. Soeur Clements kicked it... Literally laughing the whole time. Who knew my luck with rats and Toul! I can't attach a video because it's to big. But it's up on the Dropbox. And I tried to take a video of the video on my camera. Sorry for the bad quality

Today we visited Touls museum.... It's a joke! They literally have rooms with empty display cases, haha yay Toul!

Well have an amazing week! 

1. The most perfect photo I've ever taken, this basically describes the small towns around Toul. Beautiful houses and lots of cats!

2. Exchanges with Paris stls!

3. confessions in the Toul Cathedral

OH RATS

Hey family!

I love Toul! It's so small and cute!

Okay, I didn't write out a draft before so it'll be a little short.

Okay so I have been shunned out to the middle of no where... And I love it.

So first morning in the apartment I'm sitting downstairs (we sleep up
in a loft) and all the light are off but I see a shadow at the top of
the stairs. So I tell Soeur Clements that I think I see a mouse or a
rat up their, she comes and looks over but of course by then it's
gone... So she doesn't believe me. Fast forward, were about to start
comp studies. Literally about to start singing and we hear something
from behind the desk and then something jumps at me! A rat jumped out
from behind my desk runs under my chair and across the floor, under my
bed and then... It jumps off and literally falls down to the first
floor. Haha we laughed about that part, but by the time we were no
longer shocked and went downstairs we couldn't find him... But we
found a hole in the bathtub, the hole is to let the pipes go in but a
rat could fit in there... So we called our district leader, he told us
to call the senior couple in charge of the apartment and they told us
to by a rat trap and some poison... So we did. Anyway... We still
haven't found him. We found rat poop on Saturday so he's still around.
Don't worry we're being very careful about everything.

Okay so miracle happened my first night! We stopped by an ami who had
a baptismal date for Saturday, but they hadn't answered all summer.
And they answered! And she said she still wanted to be baptized by her
husband (less active) and then they told us that they had a friend
that wanted all the brochures and wanted to be baptized also. So we
set a rdv to see them with their friend and the lesson went great!
Aurore (ami) testified the entire time of the restoration to her
friend (Serge) and at the end we fixed a baptismal date for both of
them for the seventh of November and Eric (husband) is going to
baptize both of them! So cool!

But anyway the branch is so great and so helpful with everything!
They're so nice. There are about 30 members... Which means like 6
families and a few other members. It's a cute little chapel.

Well that's about it! I had a great week and I hope you did too! Je
vous aime gros bisous!

Soeur farmer

1. First photo together!

2. Buying the rat trap and poison

3. The sacrament room. It's that tiny

troisième ville!

Hey family! So I'm out of Antony! And I'm going to Toul!

So Toul is a tiny town in the east of France... There is no public transport.... So we have a CAR! It is the only Soeur ville in all the mission to have a car. Also we're the only companionship in the ville. Okay so I won't be driving because my u.s. drivers license is only valid for 1 year in France so that's up... But I still get to be in a car! 

So yeah that's the news on the ville! I'm super excited! My new companion is someone that I've met like twice and each time I thought "I want to be her companion!" Her name is Soeur Clements and she's my first companion younger than me (besides Soeur dechesne).

Also Soeur pettingill opened the ville for soeurs before she went to angers. And Soeur asay was in Toul before becoming my stl. So I've only heard amazing things! Did I mention it's a branch? Well it is. This is a ville of firsts

First Branch, first car, first only soeurs ville. I'm just super excited!

Other than that this week was bittersweet! Said goodbye to a lot of people. 

Saturday I said goodbye to Marie. Update on Marie... There's some complicated things and so she won't be able to be baptized in the near future. But we're working hard with her and she's doing all she can so that she can get baptized. So that's good! Sunday I said goodbye to basically the whole ward. And I gave my first talk!  I guess I did give a talk at Edna's baptism, but the whole ward wasn't there... So yeah, I was really surprised at how well it went. I like didn't even look at my notes. And I was very impressed with my French! I thought back to when I was in angers giving my goodbye testimony. And now after seven months, I gave a 10 minute talk! So that was super cool.

After church we went and ate with Reyna. I had to say goodbye to her too! And the goodbye sucked cause  we were walking to the train and I thought we had missed it, but we got to the quai and it was there so I turned quickly to Reyna gave her a bisou and then I ran as I was yelling je vous aime! So terrible! But before the train doors closed she also got through the pass check thing and she yelled je te telephone! And I said ok, then the doors shut and she was gone. Oh my goodness I was holding back tears on the train

And then we went to Edna's... We had an awesome time, she made a cake for me. And when it was time to leave we hugged for what seemed like 5 minutes and I started crying and this time I couldn't hold it back. I'm going to miss her so much! I cried down the elevator and then we get a call from her saying we left something... So then I had to say goodbye again! It was so sad!

On the other hand church was awesome! We get to church and there's two girls taking pictures in front of the church. Turns out one is from Barcelona and the other is from Peru. And guess what?! They were both baptized at the beginning of August! They happened to find each other one day in the street, found out they were both members and then found the address to the church! How cool is that? Two solid recent converts just got given to us from out of nowhere.

Also Saturday the Paris ward had a fireside about the Book of Mormon. I played the flute for divin amour (our savior's love) with a quartet also. It was super good. All missionaries within the navigo zones were invited. And guess who else? President and Soeur babin. Not only were they invited they spoke. Soeur babin taught the restoration. It was perfect in every way! I stole some of her ideas for my talk. It was so cool! I loved the whole night!

I think that's it for this week. Sorry that it's long! There's a lot to talk about.

Hope you had an amazing week! I love you all! 

Gros bisous! 

Soeur farmer

1) Goodbye to Marie

2) The district

3) Goodbye to Reyna

C'est la parole de Dieu *african accent*

Bonjour ma famille!!!!

This week was good! although, I don't really remember it, but we did a lot of good things.

Friday we went on another exchange cause the stls wanted to. So i was with soeur asay again but this time soeur bernhisel and we were all in Antony! soeur dechesne went with soeur defranchi (who is French also) in Nogent. so the Americans were together and les francaises were together. But we had a fun time.

today i did my legality! and it worked this time!!!! so I'm legal again! it was scary going 6 days after my visa expired... but that was the prefectures fault, i should have gotten it in time. But dont worry its all taken care of.

Other than that I'm doing great! don't know how to feel about leaving a ville after 7 1/2 months. I'm excited but sad. its even weirder that I'm probably going to my last ville before i go home... Even weirder. I still feel like its forever away, but in two weeks I have 4 months left. so yeah time flies by fast. Did I mention that a year ago last week was when i first got into France and got my trainer? I'm the same age she was in the mission when she trained me! all weird thoughts.

So yeah this Saturday I find out where I'm going to next! so we'll see!

But anyway have a great week! love you all!

Bisous!

Soeur Farmer

1. Went to the mission office this week. got to see presidents office and the transfer board! there i am!

2. Paris zone made a giant book of mormon and have had 3 different activities where they put it on the street and the whole zone contacts people.... Super cool! why am i paris sud zone?! missing out on all the fun!

3. i found a weird fruit on a tree while contacting...

Hermanas Hermanas!

Hey family! 

This week was great! But what happened? I think a lot of good things and miracles.

Okay so Tuesday we had zone conference! It was really good!  Our president started a new way of zone conference. It was just basically practice teaching in front of the two zones. Luckily we didn't have to teach. I'm all for practice teaching, but not in front of a big chunk of the mission and president and Soeur babin.

Then Wednesday we went to the embassy! And guess what? Soeur dechesne was the only one that got to enter the gate! They told us we could wait for her in the park across the street. So we actually didn't get to walk on u.s. Soil :( 

So then this week was a week of miracles!

Thursday we saw Brigitte for the first time in like 2 months! And we asked if she had been praying since the last time and she said YES! (She never keeps her commitments). And she had read the chapter we gave her. Then we taught about the importance of church praying and reading. And she said that when she gets back from vacation she'll come to church at least three times to find out if it's the true church. Then she said she'd take her Book of Mormon on vacation and read every day, and she said she'd continue to pray each day! Seriously came out of no where!

Friday we did planning and then had a few  hours for contacting. So I felt we should go to a certain vile. So we get there and there's no one because it was raining and constantly thundering over our heads. So we contact maybe two people in 4 blocks... So we decide to turn back and go closer to Paris where there was better weather. So we literally had just turned around when we hear "Hermanas, Hermanas!" And suddenly there's a man there speaking Spanish to us. I think he asked if one of us spoke Spanish so sr. Bernhisel and I point directly to sr. Dechesne (did I mention she speaks fluent Spanish). So anyway she talks to him and found out that he was a member and was searching for the church so we gave him the address and he said he'd come Sunday! So that was why we needed to be there that night. Also the rest of the night so. Bernhisel tried to practice her Spanish with sr. Dechesne. I didn't understand any of it. But I spent the rest of my time perfecting my street contact. I now know how to say "hello, my name is sister farmer and I'm from the United States and I know that God loves us". So yeah, that's it... But I'm very proud for learning it

So then Saturday we had a rdv with haibo (Chinese ami) who I haven't seen since like April. We got a hold of her this past week. And we had a rdv with her and her daughter. Okay, so that was another surprising change. Her seven year old  daughter used to be super rude and bossy to her mom! Like not to be rude, but she was a brat. So it was impossible to teach them because the daughter didn't like talking about religious things. But we asked her if she prayed and she said that her daughter prayed more than she did! And her daughter actually stayed calm during the lesson. Oh my goodness it's a miracle what a little time can do for an ami!

So that was our marvelous week! I loved it! I'm starting to realize that I'm almost done here in Antony and I suddenly don't want to go because I'm seeing all these miracles happen with all my old Amis! I love the gospel, no matter what it's always true! 

Have a great week! Je vous aime! Gros bisous! 

Sœur Farmer 

It was a week

Hey this week was a weird week! Each day blends one into another! This whole week was basically finding and it was really good! I don't know what else to say.

we visited tahitian members that are here in france for medical reasons. so that was really nice. i really miss my tahitians!

went to sacre coeur again... it was good. not much to say necessarily.

Also on a side note our zone leader got called as assistant half way through the transfer. because one assistant is going home in like 2 weeks. its so weird. so it basically means that now there's only me and an elder in his 3 transfer that have been in the ville more that 3 weeks... so that's fun!

really i have nothing else to say. our week was just contacting. 

I got to go to interviews with president! So have a great week! Love you!

~Soeur Farmer

1. was contacting sunday night and just came across a view of the Eiffel Tower :)

2. was really close to a smaller but still big airport south of paris. The planes were barely right above us. It reminded me of hearing all the planes back at home :)

Marriages...

Well sounds like everyone had a great weekend at the family reunion. Sad I missed it, but on the bright side that was the last of the family reunions I'll miss!

But hey JULIA'S ENGAGED!!!!!!! I'm so happy i don't even know what to say! And i also found out that Ben, Syveah and now Kaitlin are engaged? That's awesome! Do I get pictures?

Anyway, my week was great! It went by so fast! Don't even know how, but Monday we went to the louvre, we saw everything that I had already seen... But we did go see the Egyptian section, which I hadn't seen before. It was cool! We also ran into 3 member families.

Tuesday I had my tb test and I don't have it! The doctor was very shocked that they had me come in because apparently the elder became contagious in April, and the last time I saw him was mid March...

And then Tuesday and Wednesday I went on exchanges in nogent with soeur asay! She's awesome! First of all she was best friends before the mission with my trainer. So super cool. but we taught a Romanian family and the 9 yr old boy was adorable! His names Brian and I'm so sad that i'll never see him again :( 

after that it was a good week! Lots of contacting and that's about it! Marie is progressing so well! we had planned to teach the restoration in 2 lessons just to help with her comprehension. However we were able to teach all of it in one lesson and she understood it!!!!

So yeah good week! I love you all and miss you so much!!!! have a great week! Bisous

~Soeur Farmer

1. Soeur Asay, Brian, and I

2. Reyna (our less active) and I walking to her place (notice the view!)

3. Contacting and ran into this beautiful park that has dolly parton's face in the middle of the fountaine...