shinanigans + miracles + 3 days sober

SALUT ♡

Hi so pas grandes chose cette semaine. Mostly because I don't remember anything. St. Malo was dope I can't believe that was a week ago I found crabs and snails and ate baguette and did cartwheels and built sand castles.

I QUIT COKE THIS WEEK. I think I drank a little Thursday morning but since then I was like nope I'm putting my swim suit on right as I get home so it has officially been 3 whole days without and I feel good besides my migraines and shaky hands and legs and slight grumpiness 💃💃 MOM, DAD ARE YOU PROUD?!

I have really bad hives, yikes! The mission doctor was like sorry sucks to suck so I'm dealing. One of our amis husbands came in with a huge text book (he literally gave it to us to keep) that goes through the whole Quran and explains it and told me that I will never return to my Mormon parents because by the time I'm finished at his house I will be converted to Islam. I think Islam is real interesting and I even bought Le Quran at a book Marché this week (it has a cute middle eastern design on it I couldn't resist) but no worries the church is true and the Book of Mormon is my favorite and I believe in eternal families and not being saved by myself and God is more than our creator He is our loving Heavenly Father :')

This week the weather was perfect and we talked to so so many people on these beautiful streets of Bretagne. Our mission has a standard of excellence of inviting 20 people a day to meet with us again, one morning we were out and we had lanced 19 and our bus was about to come but we were like we gotta get to 20 before we head home for lunch! Next guy we stopped we were able to invite and he accepted!! If you work towards an inspired goal God definitely blesses. Woohoo.

We also met a miracle ami who we just realized is a miracle ami. He came up to us while we were waiting for a bus to go to centres-villes, we talked the whole way there and gave him a Book of Mormon and he said he would come to our ward game night on Saturday. Then we ran into him Saturday when he came up to us again and said that he could no longer come so we just invited him to church pretty casually not expecting him to come. Sunday Morning in walks Laurent nicely dressed and ready to be there. Stayed the whole entire time. He started reading the Book of Mormon. He told us after that he is "won" and this is his time to turn to his Savior. He was just so chill about everything we didn't realize how cool he was.

We had a bunch of great first rendezvouses with middle aged French women so that's rare and really refreshing. Sweet things.

Also Elder Eyring came in here and swiped one of our amis by meeting them randomly on the street and setting a baptismal date with them!? A man that me and Packard met on exchanges last week has a baptismal date whoa, Rennes is a place of miracles!

Also, I obviously get so excited to stop couples I trip in the process and die. They're like《bye Felicia》

Today we are going to Brocéliande with Michelle. She is picking us up then we are getting lunch and going exploring. If I'm thinking of the right place it's where King Arthur and some knights from the round table hung out. I miss her I'm excited to see her!

Also, exchanges start back up again this week! I'm stoked see yah!

Soeur Nay

District at St. Malo

Baguette at the Beach :)

Hives :(

Ça va toi ;)

Salut!

So it was a great week! We just got transfer news and everything is about the same. We are getting another equipe of elders in Rennes though, we are 8 missionaries here man, 8! This is transfer 10/12 :')

We had exchanges with our Rennes Sœurs to start out this week. Sœur Packard is in her 3rd transfer and she is so stinking fiery I love her. We met some really solid people together.

Haha okay funny story. The sun was amazing this week so we decided to take language study out on our patio. Our back door doesn't have a handle on the outside so we had it cracked open. The other soeurs were about to head out and forgetting that we were out there, shut the door and left. And for some odd reason put their phone on airplane mode. WE WERE LOCKED OUTSIDE FOR 4 HOURS. The clouds rolled in and it started raining lol so the elders came and helped us out by throwing a coke and a jacket over the fence.

Our ami Ketan from India came to our JA soirée on Friday night and then he came to church Sunday! He doesn't speak any French but he was taking in all the translations. It was a weird Sunday so it's kinda cool to pick and choose what you want to translate to your ami hehe. He is awesome though. We followed up on a chapter we gave him to read and he has seriously studied it more than once throughout the week.

Another funny story haha. We always say Ça va toi in a really creepy deep flirty voice around the apartment (we shouldn't usually tutoi as missionaries) Sunday we were all in the car with the Bishop's wife, me and soeur Packard were the children in the very back and someone did something in the front and she blurts out "ÇA VA TOI?!" We were laughing so hard and she was so frustrated because she thought she didn't know what it meant and we had been saying it all the time. Poor girl.

Today we are going to St.Malo the ocean with some JA and one of our amis. ♡🦀🐚

Have a great week!

Also, it's Elder Eyring that is coming in with a bleu he is my new DL lol 

Sheri got booted off the island and is going to Antony.

Mackay's going to Paris Chinese speaking 😂😂


Soeur Nay

Renne District

Burrup, Packard, Me, Bennett (comp and roomies)

St. Malo

Locked out

Mohamed Mohammed Muhammad (etc. etc.)

Salut!

So this week it's 1 yr in Europe whoa man!

All is très bien ici. We've had the greatest success with Facebook finding + Skype lessons! Soeur Burrup joined an Indians in Rennes group and messaged a few people and everyone was so receptive! We taught a guy over Skype who was seriously so cool. He is Seventh Day Adventist but has a few doubts and questions but has so much faith, he was so sweet. We're going to teach him at the chapel this week! We had a rendezvous with another guy from India at our chapel, he was so open to learn and to share what his thoughts were. He said he thinks this is his 2nd chance with God. I asked him to say the closing prayer in Hindi and he did, Jesus is Yeeshu. I was super skeptical about Facebook and lessons with men over Skype but idk we talk to crazies all the time on the street so this is honestly a more selective contacting method haha. AND IT WORKS.

Also, we've contacted so many men students this week. None of them are amis but if I ever come study here in France I will have friends haha. I contacted myself a stalker about two weeks ago so that's fun. Also we taught like 4 Mohammed's this week. Morocco Mohammed. Pakistani Mohammed, Mohammed Ali. Mohammed who was eating a Kit Kat. It's pretty hard to keep track of. Mohammed Pakistani was literally Kasen but Indian version.

On Friday we had the most BEAUTIFUL day ever. It felt so good outside and everyone was out and the sun was shining and we went to the pretty part of the city to find and we got a Catholic grandmas number (never happens) and I got rejected by my future husband whose name was also Mohammed, then we got ice cream and went window shopping during our dinner hour and there was a man in the centre singing Ring of Fire but with a funny French accent and I really loved my life.

Saturday we went to a Marché to find a guy that works at a boo boo stand. Do you guys want boo boos? Or like shirts at least? I can do that. Myla in a Boo Boo 😍😍 or there is the prettiest middle eastern dresses!! Maybe a veil? I kinda want a veil. check out the bread I got for 1€ .

Sunday was neat, I love our ward! We have some really cool JA and recent converts. Our ward also has a ward repas like every other week. Oh la la I love food.

Josué is doing well and so is Michelle. Gabriele will most likely get baptized the end of this month if his dad gives permission. (Have I even written about Gabriele?) If you go to the Temple I would ask you to put Michelle and Pavie on the prayer list. Michelle is going through a cancer treatment that is making her really tired.

Today we are having District Pday. We are going to an Asian Buffet and then playing soccer then more n'importe yay!

Sorry this email isn't the greatest spiritually.

I love you guys for real. Bonnes Fêtes ce week-end ici.😘 Send me a piece of cake.

Soeur Nay


1. When you're freaking starving but the 3 other soeurs are doing n'importe quoi ..goodness
2. YUM

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La Vie en (pressé) Rose

Salut!

Okay so I've had the funnest/craziest/fatiguent/all over the place week.

Monday: We had a lesson with an amazing ami and her cute little kids.

Tuesday: Zone Conference! It was one of my favorite conferences. There was a lot of practice teaching and activities and even though we have a pretty big zone, I'm used to trizones in Paris so it was so laid back and small. Right after Conference we had a lesson with our new ami Josué who we contacted last week, we knew he was going to be solid when we saw him. It was fun, we just pulled in two elders from our zone to teach with us and it went great. He is so interested and open. We extended him the baptismal date of April 28th but he was like "that's too soon!! I need to read this book and know all the doctrine because I can't share it with my friends or invite them to church if I don't know everything!!" We explained more about the conversion process and after General Conference I am sure he will accept a date for April or May. ♡ Then we started exchanges with the Cholet Sœurs!

Wednesday: We contacted like no other! I was with a Sœur in her 2nd transfer and it was so fun. It made me miss my bleu and training. This Sœur is an amazing missionary and her French is already so much more grammatically correct than mine it's so cool to see her potential and see those traits that I still want to develop in my mission or that I have developed through my mission and now can see that I have. In my 2nd transfer I couldn't carry a contact on my own but now it's fun and it doesn't stress me out and I'm pretty good at stopping everyone I see. Even if I haven't felt like it, I've always been moving forward!

Thursday: Angers Exchanges! It was pouring rain so me and my Sœur decided to hop on the tram and do trajet pour tout le matin. It's one of my favorite things, sitting down and talking to whoever sits next to you. We found one new ami and had so many great conversations with people. At one point we were talking to one lady and then the 5 people sitting or standing around us joined in, it was so unlike French people but it was great. Then we went to a cute little shop for a Hungarian dessert and continued finding! That night we left for Paris with the ZL's for mission council. I got to stay at my old apartment in Torcy and see my friends at the Kebab shop. So weird :')

Friday: Mission council was at the mission home and it was so much fun to meet there with most of my mission friends. It was super tranquille and really short, our mission is just climbing and for the most part meeting all our goals. Then we got to meet with the AP's afterwards since there was a grève for SNCF and we couldn't get back to Rennes till Saturday morning. Then we took a Paris sight seeing/weekly planning trip with the ZL's and it was so much fun. The elders needed to get new glasses so we went and helped them pick them out then we set goals and make calls while we waited but then we had to wait for two hours but it was still so fun idk why, finally we left and before heading to Nogent to stay the night we all ran to La Seine and saw the sunset behind La Tour Eiffel. And it was beautiful outside oh my goodness so much happiness. I have too many pictures for my weeklies why is my drive not working!?!

Saturday: Headed back into Paris to catch a train at 7h40 and headed home. Changed for service, painted someones house, ran to catch another train to our ami Michelle's house in Combourg (beautiful look it up, I have pictures of the castle but my tablet isn't wanting to send pics is it?) it's too hard to describe how amazing and how prepared Michelle is. I'll have to do that over Skype. She will probably be baptized by then. But she fed us chilli and guacamole and tortilla chips, I love her American side. She has been listening to last general conference and has loved it. I can't wait to hear all about what she thought of this conference. Michelle reminds me a lot of Aunt Deena, she is pretty funny. When we got home we went to the church to watch the morning session of conference. That was pretty cool...If you didn't feel the power of President Nelson's calling during his sustaining you did during his talk on Sunday. I have chills.
WHATTTTTTT  😭😭😭😭😭😭 I COULD GET MARRIED IN THE LAYTON, UTAH TEMPLE!?!? 😭😭😭😭

IS THERE ONE IN BELGIUM!?!
I knew it would happen soon. :') we can live in Layton during the Millennium.

I haven't heard the afternoon session but President Oaks and then President Nelson holy moly power line up.

Luxembourg got a chapel, the Versailles Ward Split into two and Rennes probably will too! People still think Mormons are polygamists but more and more people are saying oh yeah my brother or my friend is a Mormon, kinda cool.

The end of  President Nelson's talk Sunday morning really freaked me out. Il FAUT LIVE IN THE SPIRIT BECAUSE THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO GET EVEN HARDER.

Sunday Sundayyy (like Monday Monday - Mama's and the Papa's) was so good! Our ami Josué came to the Saturday afternoon session which was at... 14h on Sunday. It's where Elder Oaks read the book of Numbers. It's okay Josué was patient. He literally took notes, followed the songs sang in the cantiques, and stayed awake!! Afterwards we asked him his sentiments about conference and he said that it's something that really makes him want to change. He said that the story of the man who got baptized after attending church for over 30 years really touched him and he knows that God wants him to get baptized. He is getting baptized in May, he agreed to it and wants it he just won't say yes when we extend an actual day the little stinker.

We were planning on going to Mont St. Michael aujourd hui but everything is closed because of Pâcques. I might actually get some good email time. I'll send my thoughts and notes from conference next!

Love y'all

PS. If you wanted to know how most people pronounce my name its Sœur "Nigh" and they aren't used to making that "I" sound so it just sounds throaty and weird haha.


44 Rue de Rennes, Apt. 2
35510 Cesson-Sévigné, France

Sœur Nay

Salut!

It's been the fastest week of my life. We started out in Nantes for exchanges and it was so much fun. The Nantes Sœurs treated us to some Raclette for dinner then Tuesday me and Soeur Nickerson ported some castles in the country side and really practiced trajet contacting. We had to take 2 trains back to Rennes. The first one we had to sprint to catch and then we missed the 2nd one because we were waiting for sandwiches :/ we got home eventually.

Then we saw some miracles in our sector and made new friends. It's fun, we have two universities in our sector so meet a lot of students. We met two guys who are living with a returned missionary from Utah who is here for an internship, they were so chill.

There was a huge manifestation this week that we didn't know was going to happen lol. We got stuck on the same street as the protesters and everywhere we turned they turned haha it was freaky

Wow we have so much fun but my weekly's are getting so boring désolée uh

This week we are so crazy busy. Tomorrow is zone conference, we are giving a formation on the Book of Mormon and then we have exchanges right after until Wednesday night then we have other Soeurs coming in until Thursday night, then we have mission council Friday. :')

I have the cutest video of one of our amis singing so I'll try to figure out the drive!!

Love you guys gros bisous 😘😘

Soeur Nay