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