Week 21: A Wonderful Baptism and a Trip to Paris

Hey Family and Friends, This week was insanity! Ha well on both ends of the spectrum!! It is getting hot! Its super humid and it takes a lot of energy to do anything! But its great because people are outside! Unfortunately everyone and their dog is going on vacation for the whole month of august. its like everyone in the city just picks up and leaves its insane!!

Tuesday was Shaina's interview and she passed with flying colors!! She is so cute! While she was in her interview i was talking with her mom and I asked her if she wanted to take the missionary lessons, and she said yes!! She said that she feels like its time and that shes been discussing the gospel a lot with Shaina! Its wonderful how much influence an 8 year old girl can have on her family!! We've been really trying to focus on finding families as a mission because they really are the support of the church! There are like 2 or three strong families that really just run the church here in France.

We saw Gladys on Wednesday, I've been worried about her because I don't want to just baptize her and then she goes inactive right away... but we did a pre-interview with her and she is good to go... and I can't deny her the blessings that she can get from the gospel. If we don't baptize her, she will never even have the chance to grow.

We worked hard this week getting things ready for the baptism and inviting everyone! Then on Thursday night we went to Paris for Soeur Hilton's legality. We stayed the night and we barely slept, then on Friday her legality went too long so we missed the train. Soeur Hilton is so cute... She ran all of the way back to me from legality because she didn't want us to miss the baptism. We ended up having to stay the night in another city where we didn't sleep at all because we were on these tiny tiny air mattresses and it was FREEZING because they had no blankets and the fan was blowing straight on us.

Quick Trip to Paris for Soeur Hilton's Legality

So we got back to Rennes Saturday morning at like 11... ran home and got ready and ran to the chapel to get it ready and practice since I was playing the piano and we were both playing the violin. We cleaned and cleaned and filled the font and I accidentally started the heater..... which is on an automatic system and stays on for three hours before in automatically shuts off... IT WAS SO HOT IN THERE! Ooopsss

Shaina's Baptism - With her parents

But I was soo impressed!! Her family are not members and they were all there like an hour early!! They had driven in from like Normandy! How cool is that. It was so amazing to see them all there. They even came to the reception du don du saint esprit (confirmation) on Sunday and stayed after for the ward picnic.

Soeur Hilton is sick; right after the baptism she slept all day and then after church all day and today all day. I hope she gets better soon. I feel bad that she feels awful. We are still going to our scheduled appointments this week but were going to take it easy and just focus on these 2 baptisms these week!!!

LOVE YOU