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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TYLER!! I just can't believe how old you are!! I hope the family spoils you and that you have way way way too much fun!!
So before I forget, MAKE SURE TO WRITE SOEUR Kohlert on my mail because my name is not on the box... so anything without the word SOEUR on it will not make it to me. If youre worried just send it to the mission home!
I also just had to tell everyone that Sister Brandenburg (Colten's sister) replaced me in St Quentin.. soooo cool. AND Elder Davis, another one of my friends from that ward in Seattle is our new AP! WAHOO
Okay so I just love Lille. Its so crazy to be back in the same place that I lived seven years ago. As we are walking around I keep remembering things that happened in these same places but in completely different circumstances. We are busy busy busy and it reminds me of the beginning of my mission in Rennes, RUNNING AROUND EVERYWHERE! I love it. Its so nice to have people to see!! And we have a metro again!! I LOVE THE METRO. Finding on the metro is one of my favorite things so im a happy camper.
My companion is a 19 year-old from Kaysville Utah. Her name is Sister Nielson and she is just wonderful. She is a civil engineering student at USU and we get along great! She is so good at french that I would have never have guessed that she just got done being trained last week! We live with two other sisters. Its the first time that I've lived in a four-man apartment, but I really like it alot.. except for I'm not sleeping as much; and therefore I'm exhausted! Just thought I'd tell you that!
Oh boy oh boy.... have we been seeing miracles. So you know how I've been trying to be healthy? Well I cracked. On day one we decided to get a Kebab and we started talking to this group of students. Well the conversation ended naturally when our food came out and we ate seperately. Then I heard one of the girls say to the group "Hey, Im going to go see the mormon church down the street, you can come if you want to." Well of course I told her that we'd give her a tour cause she can't get in without us and our key! Ha so we showed her around and had an amazing first lesson with the whole group. We testified that if she would read and pray about the BOM she would receive an answer and know that this is Christs church.. she said "I sure do hope so". We're meeting with her again on Friday. Noria.
I met the ward and they are just wonderful!! We get invited very frequently and the ward really does take care of all of us 6 missionaries!!! There are 6 in our ward (Villeneuve D'Ascq) and 6 in the afternoon ward (Lille). AKA this place is a gold mine! Im excited to get to know them all better and its sooo fun because I know lots of them thanks to Soeur Vance!
Day number two was just wonderful! We taught an amie named Christelle! She is so adorable and we were able to set a date with her for August 23rd.. ya after my mission is over... but thats ok. Shell probably need to get married first. We set the date thanks to a member (ya i told you they were great) who compared the baptismal date to an exam date... you won't study until you know that they time is approaching! Christelle accepted the date!! Waho Wonderful Fabulous!
So after lots of fun and exciting work... which hopefully we will see the fruits of very soon, we got to go to church. Well we always like to get there a bit early and stand by the door to great the members as they come in. Well as we were doing so, an Excommunicated Polish Member (its capatalized because it is his official name considering he only speaks like 5 words of french and 5 words of english and so no one knows his real name) comes up to me and gives me a HUGE bouquet of flowers.... haha welcome to Villeneuve D'Ascq Soeur Kohlert... I felt soooo awkward walking around church with them. He ended up getting a little more creepy as he proceeds to take pictures nonstop of all of us missionaries.. from all angles... that was fun. Ill send some pictures.
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| Beautiful Floweres from the "Exommunicated Polish Member" |
Ok well to finish off this GINORMOUS email.. I need to tell you about someone named Fabienne. So about twi weeks ago, the sisters here found a Fabienne in the park. They fixed a rendez vous forthis Saturday and like good missionaries we texted her to confirm. She called us back and changed it to Sunday. Sweet shes commited. So on Sunday we walk up and Sister Nielson didn't really recognize her.. she asked, "Are you Fabienne?" She said ya! So we gave her a church tour and she said "I know, I know, Ive been to church lots of times"... WHAT? Well it turns out that we had accidently called an old investigator named Fabienne. She was taught by my trainer a year and a half ago and had a date but backed out because of her family. While talking to her she expressed to us how AWFUL she felt after she left.. She took that as her answer. She knew it was true... And therefore she was sooo happy when we called her. It was her second chance. We fixed a date for the 28th of June. She will be one of the 125 if all goes well. What a miracle. Isn't God just funny?
I love you. I love my mission. Im so tired. I can't wait to see what God has in store for me in the next two months as I give it my all!!
Soeur Kohlert
I'd love to hear from you all still!!!
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