My week has been great. Working on not
being too stressed and I really feel that I am growing and learning how
to do that better. My companion is Sister Riley. She is from St. George and just graduated from high school. She is just starting to get to know the basics of French. I am always there to
give her a word or a phrase when she needs it and I give lots of encouragement. We just have started with the basics and then memorized
things like a prayer or contacting someones house.
My language is pretty good now. I can have wonderful conversations with people. I don't think I will ever be completely fluent in French before I leave but I will only have spoken it for 15 months. Maybe I will go live in France
for a while later in my life. Who knows? I should plan better.
I think I will some home just before my birthday or right on my
birthday.
I live in a little apartment that's about a one minute bike ride from the
church, so that's nice. We are the only missionaries in our area but in
our branch there is another set of elders and the zone learders are
technically in our branch but they have a little group that go to. The
group comes to our branch every fourth Sunday of the month.
We buy groceries at really big pretty mall that has a grocery store
inside of it and the zone leaders usually give us a ride in their car
because they don't live far from us. If we had to, though, we could go get
our stuff with our bikes. The area is pretty scary. Our bikes got stolen. Haha, but luckily we found them because a member whose house we
were at saw who took them. It was a band of teenagers from the high
school. So they were really awesome and went to the police for us and
got the bikes back eventually. Miracles!!
Yesterday for preparation day we took a
boat to a little island called Les Saintes. It was only about a 15 minute
boat ride and the island was so cute a little and pretty. We ate fish
and ice cream and went to a cool old French fort. Then we had fun running
on the beach and dipping our toes in the water. There are now four
sister missionaries on the island so its really great. We are all best
friends so I feel like I have sisters again!! Soooo much fun!! Mom, I got you
a pretty necklace there. I hope I can come back here again some day
with my future family...and go swimming!!!!
My new companion, Sister Riley is on the far left
This week was great. We are working really hard with the members
and have been starting to teach lots of members family and friends!! So
cool! We are also working really hard with the branch mission president
to find all of the less actives that we can. That will really help this
branch. Working hard and finding miracles. We had an investigator who is
amazing! He is the referral from a recent convert. It's her brother and
and he is actually from Dominica so we teach in English. He has just
really been searching for more in his life and our lessons have always
been so cool and spiritual!!! He was supposed to come to church on Sunday
but when we called to ask where he was he said he didn't have anything
nice to wear to church. Hmph. So we will work on finding him a nice
shirt this week. I think that we can set him a baptismal date this week.
]My companion's French is coming slowly. I just translate A LOT during
lessons so I'm always mentally exhausted. But it will come!!! I love it
here so much!!!! Love you!!
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