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Salut ça va ?

I can't really remember my week..it was pretty busy though. Lots of miracles.

We did really well with teaching with members this week! We taught our ami Mikaël with Sr. Letort (this is more for my memory I know you don't know these people haha) and it was 2 hours long. He came to the baptism last week and really was just searching for answers. He is having a midlife crisis and just sold his home and is leaving sans portable for who knows how long or where with a backpack and his Book of Mormon. So it was like a keep your butt here and get baptized and have that kind of restart lesson. We taught about half the lessons and he asked question after question. Sr Letort was on fire but he is still leaving but he will be back and we know it, it's okay #Godsplan :')

We also had exchanges twice this week. The first time me and Soeur Packard just had a good old time in really freaky Batiments. A Satan worshipper was blasting his deep music as he prayed.  I'm serious we ran so fast then got chased by a homeless guys dog (all homeless people have freaky dogs here and look like pirates. I'll get a picture. I don't understand it) then we stopped because there was this old couch sitting on the side walk so we took a lot of pictures sitting in it. And we sat down by a bunch of people and preached the bon parole de Dieu. #ministering

Okay, and then the bus story... I attached as a voice recording. That happened Saturday. First time I've been mocked liked that my whole mission. Like I've had obviously individuals or tiny groups of people but not like that. I was a little ball of anger right after haha not gonna lie :) what a rush
Then yes we taught a beautiful family from Kenya. Amazing amazing like so amazing they are searching for a Church and they are just so put together,  their house was so clean and just the kids participated and were well behaved. They speak English, French and Swahili. So yeah me and Sr Packard just had an exciting time together.

Okay, then Sunday comes and I just was not excited. I'm sorry I really hate Sundays on the mission it's just Nay being a little stress monster all day usually because I forget to get a coke in advance. But anyway we went to the JA class because none of our amis showed up for amis class :( Then we get a text and the other missionaries are like come here you have an ami! We were like comment. So we go at the end and it was Akil. A man from Iraq that we met on the street Saturday. We had given him a Book of Mormon and explained the Plan of Salvation to him, I wrote the address in the book and was kind of like if he comes he comes but he didn't seem too interested, he is Muslim. Well he came and they talked about eternal families in Gospel Principles and he explained to us that like 3 of his brothers were killed as rebellions. Anyway, just sad stories but we asked for a return rendezvous and he said yes Wednesday afternoon I will make a cake and we will talk over tea. So sweet!

Then after church we had a rendezvous with Yoanne, he is in charge of the JA or the young adults. He is so cool my goodness. And then we went to the sketchy batiments to pass by some friends. We met a guy named Oscar on the bus who has member family in Congo. He read the introduction to the Book of Mormon and was like what the heck this makes so much sense so we rode that bus to the terminus where he got off and then had to sit there to go back with a bunch of sketchy people it's okay, Oscar was a miracle !

I'm a little energy ball but I'm also super tired so I'm probably pretty frightening honestly. I can't even sit still to do an hour or 30 minutes of calls. I used to love weekly planning and now I try to squish it into 15 minutes.

Voilà I've survived this week Par la Grâce de Dieu

Sœur Nay

The Ministry 🙏🏻

Salut la famille et Burrup hehe wesh là mec !

I had a good long week. And so did you...

Tuesday we did a whole ton of finding by contacting but we had a lot of solid contacts so it was just fun. Then we went to a bye-bye milkshake reunion with our JA. This ward's JA...I just love them.

Wednesday..saddest day ever. Woke up early so we could go to the gare to say goodbye to Thomas. Ow. Then we did finding then we had a picnic at parc du thabor to say goodbye to Lafrance (he had a later train the opposite direction) It was like saying goodbye to Camden again the little punks. But we will see him at zone conference :') Wednesday afternoon we had straight finding as well. I can't walk in a circle all day so we went through the old area books and entered all the fiches into our maps that only had an address and no numbers (these never get done, no one ever actually gets to passbys) and we picked an area where there were a few and went! First one was a lady who had a baptismal date back in 2012 who lived in this ginormous batiment. She answered and let us in and we had a lesson with her and her like 25ish yr old son Thomas. He is super interested!!

Thursday we went and saw Juliette all together. We really got into baptism and after this whole weekend she has decided that this church is true and she is tout disposer to be baptized !! MIRACLE. She also made us plantains and chicken 😋 and sang and danced for us. I love her so much.

Friday we had district meeting. Elder Benson who was with me in the Charleroi District in Belgium for two transfers is my district leader, he is in St.Brieuc right now. We have an 8 person district but for some reason it feels so tiny. Then that night there was just a lot going on so we went on splits and me and Burrup taught their amazing amie Maeva and it was just great! Wasn't it burrup? :')

Saturday!! Okay so amazing day. A man named Chari that we met on that most awkward street corner 6 weeks ago got baptized. When we met him on the street he just kind of seemed like he was mocking us but he gave us his number he showed up to a rendezvous we set and we passed him to the Elders because we didn't know if he was weird or not before the rendezvous. Well he isn't, he is so sincere and so ready to serve in the church, he already hasn't missed a week since we met him. Juliette came to the baptism and I told her that he was from Cameroon and she waddled up to him with a huge smile on her face and told him where she was from and he was so touched. He was like I don't feel alone today! His testimony was hilarious. He told everyone how that day we contacted him, 3 different equipes of missionaries had stopped him. He had taken a Book of Mormon 3 times and was planning on rejecting us when we called like he had done in the past. But then he realized that God had placed each and every one of us in his path that day, he was so stubborn that that was what it was going to take. Well now he is baptized, got 'em. Koroma, an amie of Burrup and Packard also got baptized after 6 weeks of being taught. He is just the sweetest little guy. Then we went to lunch with the JA and dinner with the Bishop's family :)

Sunday! The two of them got confirmed while wearing white shirts and ties. And Josué came!! If you remember him from like April, he was a miracle find and came to conference then had a hard time coming because he was in Paris a lot. He has been to church two times since then, always wearing the most amazing booboos. Him and Chari are best friends now and Chari is going to baptize him, he believes next Sunday but it will most likely be in August haha. Aren't they so cool.
Then Sunday afternoon, we all ate Quail eggs raw, I'll send you the video! Then us Soeurs had a batiment bat off at the huge buildings where we did pass bys. We only got through three floors and found 4 families to teach this week!! Too good. Voilà

Today we are going to a lake beach with the JA and playing sports and just chillin maybe doing some shopping... surprise surprise you might get a package this week.

Me and Burrup also danced a lot this week. She's a real good tango partner hehe.

Okay good luck Cam! If you're bored just write me emails and draw me some pictures. 😘

I'm sorry about your grandpa back dad. Get well soon :/

Bye Felicias

Quail Eggs

Chari and Josue (in his nice booboo's)

Love her!

Bye-Bye Milkshakes

Transfer 12 is here!

I'm staying in Renne!! And so is BURRRUP. 😭🎉
McDougal is going to be ZL with Pickard. Lafrance is leaving but he is going to Vannes which is in the same zone! Thomas is leaving for Paris :( McBride is STL in Paris Sud. I probably won't ever see her again here :/

We had zone conference and exchanges with the STL's and district meeting and got dropped by an ami and then had one cool amie Emmanuella agree to pray about Baptism and she recognized us as servants of the Lord with the Holy Ghost.

Also, freaking France won!! Transfer me 1974739 dollars if you guys want a Jersey from the Nike outlet.

Okay love you guys. 6 weeks. Bleh bleh bye

(apparently she wasn't in the mood to write today)

BLAH 🇧🇪 VS 🇫🇷 !!!

Letter from 7/9 (I'm a little behind)

Okay first off, PLEASE RECORD THE WORLD CUP GAME ON TUESDAY AT 20H..NO 12H USA TIME. Wooohoooo I can't decide who I want to win. I think Belgium. Yeah Belgium but allez les bleus!! :) and then record the rest of the games after that. Also I will for real try to find a jersey for Conner. What size? I can ask the members where to get them. Si non there's a cheap little book I can get him from Carrefour with all the players in it. I can't tell you how many times little kids have explained every single person inside it to me when we go over to their house haha.

Well, it's been hot and I basically have died. Not really but I'm covered in bug bites that have bruised from head to toe. Also I got a blister and then put my feet in the ocean for a couple hours and then it got infected and then my foot was swollen all week but I didn't know what to do so I just walked around all day and then the Elders finally sat me down on Saturday and took a hot needle to my foot. Yummmayyy

Then the 4th of July 🎉🇺🇸🎉 We made a breakfast for a few families in our ward who we just love and wanted to say thanks to and sang the Star Spangled Banner and forced America on them! Then afterwards we had a great first lesson with an ami named William with one of our members in a beautiful park, so great! And then we had a district meeting BBQ with a recent convert from Anthony. (I will tell you about him later so cool)

Then on Thursday we had a fun little surprise party for our DMP and his Thai wife roasted a pig and we (10 missionaries this day) got lost in the really hot French countryside. I sent a lot of people pressed flowers this week.

Voilà ! Pas grands choses. Last week of the transfer this week. And we have zone conference!! Rep day is the 16th, transfer day is the 18th. Ahhh so scary.

 sic em bears

Bye

Operation Blister

9 Semaines en Plus 🇫🇷🍦

After that lesson on Tuesday we went to a soirée familiale with the Kumbo family and their friend who has been coming to church with them. They were running a half hour late so we went and did some porting near by! The 2nd door opened and a Muslim lady came out and we explained The Book of Mormon. She said she never really reads but she will read this book then she invited us inside to explain more. Her husband was a little freaky and definitely wants us to worship Allah but we taught all of retab and have a return rendezvous set up with her. She gave us Algerian cookies and they were soooo tasty (in the bag).

Then we did some contacting to get shakes and chased a bus across centre-ville and along the river. And those are going to be the times I miss the most when I'm so tired from the day but I also feel so good having been outside in the most beautiful place ever. Having weird things happen but also miracles and running so fast after busses that I flash my garments accidentally one or two times.

Wednesday morning we had a really good contacting session and found three people who were interested! We also got bised by a crazy older guy. That was the highlight of my day 😙

On Thursday it was the festival of music in all of France! We went to the park and sang our favorite hymns. One of my favourites is "Au Jardin". It's only in French but maybe you can look it up. We only got a few smiles but that's okay it was super fun.

Have a great week!

Soeur Nay

10 semaines en plus ?

Coucou Quoi'ts up

I had an okay semaine! Our whole apartment was sick but it's okay "Well I got betta". We also had 3 mangez-vous with the best French families. 1. Aubins (then we went back yesterday for cake and ice cream)  2.Pateas (they own a crêperie man) 3.Évêque Chevée's Family! So we really had some bénédictions this week.

Other than that we did a TON of finding. We even went porting for a couple of hours. Honestly not a whole lot of success at all this week but the three people we did find to teach are really cool!

Saturday we taught two of them! Chari, we decided to pass to the elders because when we met him on the street we couldn't decide if he was crazy.  I mean he might be but he is really serious about progressing like our rendezvous was solid.  Then we taught Arnaud with Soeur Aubin and it was so cool! So he got contacted like a month ago and was given a brochure because he wasn't trop interested and then he texts us and was like, "Hey I read your pamphlet and I want a rendezvous". We were expecting an older French guy but he is a young masters student from a small country in Africa and yeah just so cool. His testimony of Christ isn't there right now and he knows that and he wants to ask questions and he wants to figure out what the truth is. Oh haha, and 40 minutes into the rendezvous he goes "oh that reminds me of that Mormon group in America!" Hahaha oops, coucou c'est nous 😋

This week I also had an angry amie call me and scream at me for 20 minutes. Not gonna lie I laid down and closed my eyes during it. At the end she calmly told me she was free next Monday for a rendezvous.  🙃

Okay picture explanations: I'm working on a whole tub of coconut ice cream with sprinkles as I do language study. Also me and Soeur Packard are working on my essays. She is a great personal tutor. Perks of having 8 missionaries in a ville, lots of pictures of you getting rejected. We heart attacked Pavie and got pitas. This is Anny, a member from Columbia/Canada/Spain/Japan. She just moved here to France.

Okay c'est tout. ALSO, I LOVE MY POPPISON.

Sœur Nay ♡

Anny

Pitas

Rejection

Heart Attack for Pavie

AHHHHHH RENNES ♡♡

Salut!

Okay so here is the low down on Rep day. I got a call from the AP's.  I'LL BE STAYING IN RENNES!!!! Soeur Burrup will be with Sœur Packard (my favs for real) as Stls and I'll be taking over the second sœur equipe and polishing my new comp Sœur Skouson. They promised I'll be staying here for the rest of my mission. AHHHHH 😍😍 literally the dream.

Okay so really crazy week. Every day I was like what's happening.. I'M SO TIRED!

So first we had a rendezvous with a new ami, Jackie on Monday. She is the first Tahitian I have taught! She has had a baptismal date in the past but wanted her mother's permission, her mom said no but she still has a desire to be baptized. We met her again Wednesday and oh my I just already lover her. Two rendezvous in and she already has a coke waiting for me when we get there. That's a golden ami. :)

Then we took off to Paris. Took some pics (meaning I gave the elders a photoshoot) at the Eiffel Tower then we went to dinner with a huge group of missionaries. Including: MCBRIDE. Burgoyne and Mackay! There were so many equipes in Paris for legality and for mission council it was so fun. McBride and I were able to catch up and have a sleepover @ the Paris apartment. I love her

Thursday was great. Mission Council was actually really fun. Everyone was relaxed and participating and we actually debated a lot of different new topics. Then us Rennes folks went and got cheesecake to share at the gare. ♡♡

Friday, we had district meeting. It was Eyring's last one so we made it a little special and did it at Parc du Tabor and ended with doing flan sucks. That tradition is kind of dying in our mission so it was fun to see a ton of missionaries do it for their first time hahaha. When I went to do it I dumped it all over myself and Elder Crane (who is leaving our district..tragic) *see picture*

Saturday! We went to our DMPs house and ate Thai food and did yard work for a few hours!  I got a little distracted and just searched for escargot families with my little friend. It was a really good day..but when we got home my tag flew off of me and literally bounced into the toilet bowl. Life is hard.

Have a good week!
Soeur Nay

Nay, McKay, Burgoyne, McBride - Reunited

Service/Snail finding.. 

Elder Eyring's last district mtg/flan suck

Flan spill..