Hi I'm in Torcy forever and ever

Hey,
So répertoire day was uneventful and my whole district is staying the same. And we now have senior companions I guess (me) and we are to stay in our villes for about 8 months so I might leave my mission after 2 villes 🎉🎉 (un enthusiastic but I will survive... maybe... I hope.. I'm going to cry a lot see yah)
Enough of my negativity... Because Torcy rocks...we met with Chelsea last Monday and got cheesecake and chatted and gave her a Book of Mormon and she is sweet and then randomly texted us throughout the week. She is great!
We got to do some yard work this week and it felt so great yayyyy pants. I collected a lot of pet escargots.
English Classes - We started them on Wednesday and it went so well for the first class. We had three people come, all non-members.
Ruiz family - We had a rendezvous with the Ruiz family, Sr Ruiz and her two daughters. Basically they gave us the spiritual pensée and we just sat there and cried because their testimonies and their love for their family were incredible. It's in the top 5 rendezvouses of my mission.
Also, I locked us out of the apartment and I met a guy named Edwin who was Hindu.  These are pics of Chelsea and Sourivang and these are terrible district photos.. good thing we can retry next transfer.

Les Missionaires 

Soeur Kennady Nay

2 Rue Bernard Palissy N173 

77600, Bussy-Saint-Georges

Sœur Nay

District

Chelsea

Sourivang

Week 30: 🇬🇧🕉️🕋

Hi great, great week. I tried peanut butter with pickles bone app the teeth mmm..
This week there was just a continuation of fantastic people making being away from my family and room that much easier and so worth it!

Because miracles always happen Monday nights, God led us to Chelsea. We went to a call opening for a girl in our ward (she's going to Tahiti yayy🌺) and afterwards a ward member offered us a ride to the Gare! We ran onto the RER just in time then when we got off and were headed out the cutest little British accent calls out to us and asks if we are tourists because we were speaking English. We ended up talking for an hour in the Bussy gare about everything and everything and laughing cuz she is stinking hilarious but yeah we taught retab and she was super down. She was raised Catholic but she said she doesn't feel close to God at church, and she doesn't like evangelist churches because they are a little too in your face about God and we were like sweet come to the Mormon church. She said we inspired her and that she knows God wanted her to meet us and she is 18 and super dope.

The Tati's!! The Tati's are both recent converts of almost a year and less active because they work Sundays. Frère Tati is the most faithful guy ever I'm tellin ya and he wants to come to church so bad so it's been amazing working with him and his wife. On Friday we planned to show them a video on temples and then plan a day to go together. We sit down and Frère Tati goes "Hey not this week but the next week I have work off. Can we plan a day to go to the temple in Versailles together? Also, I can come to church this week!"  😮 Ahhhhh and they came.

On Saturday we met Obah + Sumaya + Assiah + etc etc etc. We were batting trying to find a lady named Jeanette but instead found Obah, an Islamic woman + her 5 daughters! She let us in to talk about God and we taught about the restoration and she shared about Islam, I never really knew too much, so it was amazing. We read some of the Quran then we gave them one of the sachets from our Primary Activity! The girls loved it and loved the pictures on the inside of the Book of Mormon. Oh my goodness, cutest little girls. At the end, they said one of their 5 prayers that day with us there and it was AMAZING. They faced the 🕋 and recited a beautiful prayer in Arabic (it sounds like a song) and we just watched and followed along with the Quran. Also little Sumaya had my Jesus plaque on while she was praying to Allah..haha. Then we said a kneeling prayer for their family and got lots of hugs and bizes from the girls and left! It was probably one of my favorite moments from my mission. Never did I ever think I would have little girls with veils on kissing me on the cheek, playing with my hair and drawing me pictures while I talked to their mom about Muhammad.

One of the funniest moments of this week: Sœur Hicken wearing a Grand Teton sweatshirt to do service. Hi we are in France, do you know what that means?? Hahaha too good. I also cleaned a hoarder's house. And had the sensors go off while walking into the grocery store and had a random guy yank up my shirt. Ah Europe..
Bonne Semaine ✌️

Les Missionaires
Soeur Kennady Nay
2 Rue Bernard Palissy N173
77600, Bussy-Saint-Georges

Sœur Nay

The cutest 💗

Obah and girls

Picture from Sumaya

Week 30 Coke pic

Pickle with Peanut Butter

Week 28: Torcy

So, good people make life good.. also so does food.   I had O'Tacos 5 times this week. Oh boy, love of my life!

On Tuesday, we were unlocking the church and a lady named Snezana walked up with her son and was like hey is this a church? So we gave her a church tour and she told us how she was in the November 2015 Paris Attacks and God saved her so now she is trying to come closer to him. It was insane, her scars were showing all up her arms.  I was kind of shocked but yeah she is the coolest!

We also saw Yuna this week. She is a recent convert who has trouble coming because her dad doesn't like the church. She is so cool!! She gave us the idea of asking different people about God or Jesus or happiness and making it into one video so we can share it on Facebook, so we started with her!

We also met with Jospehine. We met her on the RER while on exchanges and she loves Jesus so she was like porquoi pas come on over. She made us cookies, we listened to gospel music during our lesson, and talked about Jesus it was awesome.  She was saying she has seen us so many times but for some reason she felt like she should have us over this time. She also has two daughters that she wants to meet with us. She is the funniest Evangelist I've met so far, I stinkin love her. Amennn.

On Saturday we met with Emeraude + her friend. It was my 2nd bible bash of my mission, I went in prepared but everything I brought up she was like honey, you are wrong, tu vois? We got sick of it so we ended up all sharing our conversion stories to Jesus, that ended the lesson well. :)

Today while waiting for the RER with groceries I was drinking a Coke and some French guy came up to me and said "Tu vas grossier" so that ended week 28 well. ♥️

Also, photocred to the Meaux Elders because I didn't have any. (Whoah a drinking fountain in Europe what?)

Okayyyy have a good week my folks!

Sœur Nay

Yuna explaining who God is

My week threw up on me but my tablet is fixed

HI, I JUST WENT TO PARIS AND SAW NOTRE DAME, THE LOUVRE, AND THE EIFFEL TOWER. I'LL SEND PICS. AND MY TABLET JUST GOT FIXED HALLELUJAH PRAISE.

My week was stinking packed with miracles + Satan (and agency)  raining on my parade.

Miracle 1) Christelle. Monday night we recieved a referral from Versailles and we were like heck yeah then we got a call from...the referral! "Can you come to my house tomorrow?" Uhhhh BIEN SÛRE GIRLY. Christelle has been researching the church on her own for years, and knows just about everything. She called herself a convert our whole rendezvous and said the only thing she was not sure about was if she could pay a full tithe. Long story short, she is an angel but lives 5 minutes closer to another ward and wants to go there so we have to pass her :( ça va, her and her son enjoyed church on Sunday and I'm so excited for them!

Miracle 2) Fabrice. I set my first baptismal date!! Soeur Hicken met Fabrice while on exchanges on Thursday and we met with him Saturday. The rendezvous went well and he asked a lot of questions, and had read a whole lot of the Book of Mormon before he even came.  Then he just started talking about baptism and long story short he has a baptismal date for the end of November. Here comes Satan though, we get a text from Fabrice that says "Catholics don't accept the Mormon baptism." Bud, you're not even Catholic! But he will still be meeting with us this week so please pray for my guy Fabrice.

This week we also had a primary activity with our stake. The kids wrote their little testimonies in the Book of Mormon and made little candy sacks to give to our amis. Stinkin cute. Afterwards we went to our Primary President's house and gave a little Penseé to her and her husband on the Book of Mormon. I guess he is not a member! And she was so excited because they had stopped reading it together a while ago and now they are going to start again. We will be meeting back with them this week and I'm excited. (Not as excited as her though haha)

Sunday was cool. We had a lesson with our ami Michael...in Mandarin. So cool! Turns out he can't understand anything in English and he has just been smiling and saying yeah to everything haha. We clued in on that, so we had the Mandarin Elders come and meet him. He had been reading the Book of Mormon on his own and is really open and now he will be able to understand so I'm so excited for him! We also got to watch the Ballard Conference on Sunday night. If you can please look it up. I got teary eyed so if that says anything to you GO WATCH IT. Elder Ballard melted my heart a little.
(Note from Mom, the Meeting was Elder Ballard with adult members in Europe)

Also, my comp reminded me to get more coke before Sunday and I am really grateful for that.

Chouette HAVE A GOOD WEEK.  I'm sorry if this all just sounds like shenanigans.  I had to hurry fast.  Okay, bye!

Les Missionaires
Soeur Kennady Nay
2 Rue Bernard Palissy N173
77600, Bussy-Saint-Georges

Sœur Nay

Primary Activity - Bags that the kids put together

hi hi hi hi it's me hi guys hi

Hey,

So Torcy is great haha, uh can't really remember this week.

On Tuesday, we had zone conference and got Facebook.  Weird, very weird (I liked living in my bubble) and I got to see some homies. Oh and my tablet stopped working so I was pretty old fashioned this week. That was pretty dommage.

Oh miracle for this week: On the way to a baptism Sunday night we decided to walk instead of taking Trajet and on the way there Sœur Hicken was like "Ah Ramadans!! Where do they live?!" (The dad is less active and his wife +twins aren't members) So we looked it up and we were standing right in front of the gate to their apartment. And the gate was unlocked :') God is great and lets us into apartments, so we made it up to their floor and they were home! It stank of alcohol and he was so super drunk, but Soeur Ramadan was so glad we came. She looked so stressed. We prayed with her and her kids and we are going back next Sunday. I'm so excited to work with this family!! (Also, I kinda halfway got proposed to by Frére Ramadans drunk brother. Those French men, I'll tell ya.)

My first normal Sunday at Church was great. The ward is pretty big, a little bigger than Nivelles and the members are pretty sweet (except the guy who asked me to speak next Sunday)!

This week we have exchanges and a primary activity so we are keeping pretty busy. Life is good. :)

Have a good one my folks.♡  LOVE YOU GUYS.

(her tablet stopped working after the Facebook download.. so there is only one random picture)

Week 25: TORCY 🇫🇷

HEY,

It was a long stinking week. From packing & bizing in Belgium to meeting new ward members & amis here in Torcy! France smells good. My new companion is Sœur Hicken, and she LOVES to cook. How about that. And she is my first comp from the 801. Our district is super cool and they live across the street from us so we play soccer together in the morning and they just make me laugh so life is good. 🤙

For conference on Sunday we had a portes ouvertes (an open house), we had a bunch of signs + posters and a table set up with brochures + cookies (basically just one upping TJ's) It wasn't too successful but it was a great idea from the ward and now people know that there is a church here!

Last conference I was in the MTC (what in the world?) and I remember thinking about our two investigators and being like wow this talk is so relevant to them, haha it was so much cooler this time thinking about my amis and the people I have met so far on my mission and how well conference addressed their needs. One of the Elders amis, Maria, came to watch conference and I was sitting by her and every time she said amen at the end of a discourse it was like an amen hallelujah from the soul kind of thing and I loved it haha. At the end I asked her what she thought and she said that those testimonies touched her so much and she didn't understand how they were all so relevant for today.
She thought it was amazing how much people can learn from it.
It was also really cool listening to it in French. We watched one session, maybe Sunday morning, I'm not sure.., in English and I realized my notes from the French sessions were a lot more of what I needed to hear or thoughts I had as they spoke.  While in English, I was like waiting for a power packed phrase like 4th floor last door or something haha idk. But there you go, they might have been saying completely different things than I think but conference was great! Comme toujours.

Alrighty that's all I got.  I haven't been to Disneyland yet but I will bientôt. And I have Zone Conference tomorrow and we are getting trained on using Facebook, yikes! Friend me hehe. It's also all three Paris zones so I get so see a couple of homies.🎉

Have a good one.♡

Soeur Kennady Nay
2 Rue Bernard Palissy N173
77600, Bussy-Saint-Georges

Saying goodbye to Patricia

Patricia

New District

Soeur Hicken (from Ogden)

Elders at the Open House

Open House

Open House

Bye Belgium ✌

Hey, I'll cry too much if I write a lot about it but I'm getting booted out of Belgium and I'm going to TORCY. Paris. Disneyland. Yay. But I'm going to miss Belgium and all of its friteries, chocolate, Flemish, sauces, 11 yr olds smoking... ahhh it's the dreamland. And my companion, ah man this is tragic. But hey, on to new adventures and new culture shock and new people to love. My new companion is Sœur Hicken, she is in the same transfer as McBride so I am her "Polisher", I still have no idea what I'm doing though quite honestly. Hot mess express baby.

My last week in Nivelles went so well! A lot of miracles and craziness of course. 1) Mom and Dad don't read this.  I was getting off the train and my tablet slipped out of my hand and went underneath the train !! Didn't think that could happen. And then an angel tall man came and dropped himself onto the ground and reached for it.. everyone was like ahhh attention but he did it, he was safe, and my tablet is in one piece and then he just got up and jogged off.  I was shook.

On Tuesday, we had a lesson with our ami, Josette. She said that one of her neighbors was going to come because he wanted to meet these Mormons, we kind of got an idea that he might be...a weirdo so we had Frere Vannuvel come with us. The guy didn't end up coming because a few days before our lesson he showed up at Josette's wrote cuss words in the Book of Mormon and scratched out a members testimony that was in the front. He then hid the book from her. Before we got there she had a thought to look under this big cabinet behind her dinner table and it was there! We had an amazing lesson with her and she felt and recognized the spirit, and knew that the spirit was what told her where to find her Book of Mormon. It honestly freaked me out a lot opening her Book of Mormon to that.

Sunday was really hard! I didn't cry until I got to the stand because they asked me to share my testimony! I love these people. Patricia was sitting by me yesterday and held my hand, she was crying. Tonight, we will see the Desmedt's and I know I'll cry on that one.  Tuesday, we are going to Natalie's, De Lauw's, and Nancy's for a sec and eating dinner at Patricia's.  I love this ward! But I'm so glad I got to serve here, it's crazy that if I didn't decide to serve I would've never met these people in the random ville of Nivelles Belgium..or tried peaches and tuna.

Here I come France and Transfer 5 :')

GROS BISOUS BONNE SEMAINE ✌

(Oh yeah and my district brought me my fav drink)

Fav drink (it's really just Coke.. in case you translate)

LouLou