Well we had a vacation!! Ha it was kinda wonderful not gonna lie.
Except for the fact that I was the sick one and I slept for half of it. We were inside for like two and a half days. Im still strugglin, especially in the mornings, but Im feeling much much better. My lovely companion cleaned the whole apartment, set up a Christmas tree that she found and made lots of baked goods. I think I know all the church movies by heart now in French and English and I read all of great grandpa Jess's history. That was pretty cool.
On Monday my companion was having a rough go. So I was probably the most sympathetic Kristy I've ever been and we just talked about our value, even if we don't feel like good missionaries, God loves us and we may be good at other things and have other talents that God can use. I actually read the last paragraph from mom's email together and we laughed and cried while reading it. Mom has so much knowledge and wisdom it's crazy. She knew just what to say and when!!! Not only did my bio mom help us out, but so did presidents wife. She had a good long talk with sister Denning, where she just told us that all those home sick and worthless thoughts are from satan! sometimes I am afraid of president because I want to make them proud and I know that i don't always live up to preach my gospel standards because i just can't.... but we got to see them this week and they just love us. They really are mom and dad for 18 months. They feel our pains and our sorrows and really would do anything for us. I just felt their love radiating from them. I understand mom and dads love for us better, as well as Heavenly Father's love, thanks to them.
We got to go to france 2 times this week! Once for week two district meeting and then we had one lesson after with Lena, the Russian who is just so cool. Then Wednesday we had a booked day and I made it through about half of our rendez vous and then i just couldn't do it anymore. We went home and stayed in all night in bed. Then on Thursday we canceled all but Adele's lesson since she is so close to baptism! We talked about prophets and she just loves us. I liked Tasi's advice to make sure that they love Christ more than they love us. She's praying to God now but her angels as well and that worries me. F
riday i still wasn't feeling well, so we did a bunch of area book work. We had four huge binders to sift through and update and got it down to one.
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| Brother Chaston |
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| Sister Chaston |
Saturday we went down to Nancy again for stake conference. There were so many missionaries there, it was fun to see them all. We also got to visit Brother Chaston, a couple missionary that we just love and had a heart attack a month ago and just got out of the hospital. He calls his wife his babe and said that shes been his girlfriend for like 48 years and they've been married for 46. Ha, I think that they are just so cute. He said he felt the taste of death and just shared his experiences with us and how we will have a host in heaven praising us for the work were doing. I hope I can be like him when I grow up.
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| Sisters that We Stayed With In Nancy, France |
Sunday we were still in Nancy and this cute little family with no dad asked us to eat with them after. Everyone had brought food and everyone just ate in the cultural hall after the meeting before we all drove for a couple hours home. They were sooo happy to share their food with us and to have SISTERS be with them. There are only elders in their ville. I felt like a celebrity. They only had bread ham and a banana to give us while everyone else was eating quiche and chocolate moose... but i was so grateful to be eating crappy white bread and a slice of ham with them instead because I saw what it meant to them. On the bus ride home I sat by a 16 year old girl from the same ward who just was awed by me. I felt so humbled. we talked about her desire to go on a mission and how even in Utah there are trials for the youth to hold their standards. She thought everyone was just perfect in "utat". ha we exchanged cordonnées.
Well I best be going! I love you all loaaaddss and I hope all is going well
God lives and loves us!
LOVE
Sœur kohlert
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