Week 53: I Wouldn't Touch that Cheese with a 9 1/2 Foot Pole.

Salut :)

So I just HAVE to tell you how we started off our week. So there are like 450 different cheeses in France and our bishop had us try the most horid one in existence. It was like red and it just smelt like ... i don't know how to describe it. It was just like a strong cheese at first and then WABAM the taste just hit you like a ton of bricks all at one and IT DIDNT GO AWAY! I dont know what its name is but it should be a crime to give it to someone. 

BAD CHEESE!

Bah dis donc WE FIXED A BAPTISMAL DATE!!! Ah we're so excited! It is with a recent convert's friend, her name is Isabela, I'll attach a photo of her. It is for March 29th. She has a hard time understanding so I hope that we will be able to get her ready!! Also the elders have a baptism this saturday! They found him like 2 weeks ago and he bore his testimony on sunday! so solid. hes a funny guy. 

Yesterday was crazy though! So It is vacation week so no one was at church AND some of the bigger families were sick and or late. Ha we had a random couple show up to church, a member brought their friend, the elders had two investigators there and we had one! There were more investigators than members at first. Ha and we were stressed trying to get them all there and taken care of. Luckily we have some incredible members who really help us out DESPITE the craziness/sickness going on in their lives! I was a bit stressed because we  had to teach thesunday school lesson which we didnt know about till saturday, AND i had to play the piano. Anyone that knows me knows that I dont play very well, especially site reading. So it was such a blessing when i flipped the pages open to see that all of the songs were in keys that im extremely comfortable with. THANK YOU HEAVENLY FATHER!

We also did some crazy finding in the rain. We were able to go do some work in a gorgeous ville called LAON. There is a gorgeous cathedral that you have to like hike up to! so incredible. Ha we also had a Kebab with a Kebab man that loves missionaries. Way too funny.

Unfortunately the family that we found called and dropped us... :( One of their mothers came into town and is totally against relgion  and talked them out of seeing us. The dad seemed so sad to tell us that we coulding come back... We also had a lesson with an investigator. We had brought a member and when we got to the door, there she was, standing with the book of mormon and all the pamphlets in hand. She opened the door and just handed us the material and said we couldnt come back. It was rough.

On the other hand we started teaching a new mom and 3 kids and we got to have a lesson with our neighbor!!! IT WAS SO AMAZING! We gave her a BOM and she said that she is just SO EXCITED to start reading it. She has troubles with smoking and normally she has to smoke every 45 min... but we were with her for about 2 hours and she didnt smoke till 30 min after we left... so if we do the math thats 2.5 hours without smoking! She said that it was a miracle and she could feel that the spirit was helping her! so cool!

Sister Vance and I thought for sure that one of us would be leaving this transfer... but no. President strikes again with his surpirses. Ha so we will have been together for 2.5 transfers! LONG TIME but Im so happy because i love it here and i love my companion and I know well see some great miracles together.

Ha some TJs showed up in the middle of one of our lessons this week.. oh dear thats a whole other story in itself!

Well I know that Heavenly Father loves us. I know that through the power of His son we can be changed. I felt the spirit testify of this truth to me multiple times this week and its just so true. AS WE SERVE HIM, WE BECOME LIKE HIM!

I love you all!!!!