Soeur Nielson left me this week :( It was hard to say goodbye but I know that she is off to miraculous things in Toul (over by germany, congrats to damon by the way since the won the world cup!!).
With Soeur Nielson sent off, I got to welcome my new companion. Soeur Tane. As I mentioned last week she is from Tahiti and she is just a ball of paradise. She is absolutely adorable and her smile is so bright. She wears extremely bright colors and braids her hair and always has a beautiful flower in it! She is teaching me tahitian dances and helping me with my french. Its been pretty cold here and Sister Tane is freezing. its the middle of july and she is wearing her snow coat, which she bought here of course. At the age of 24 she has never seen snow! We definitely dont come from the same part of the world!
So on Friday we received a call from the 2nd counselor of the bishopric... you know what the means, definitely giving a talk in church (it was nice to have a few days notice though!). I wasnt expecting to give my "farewell" talk so soon, but he said jokingly, kind of trying to persuade me to speak this week instead of later he said, "ya know what soeur kohlert, i think you should give your talk this week. maybe it will be so good and so spiritual that it will make the members want to work with you during your last 3 weeks." ha i laughed and agreed to speak.
I obviously wanted to do a good job and so i used every spare moment a could to prepare the talk, i even used my francophone companion to make my french made sense. I felt ready to go with what i thought was a strong departing talk! But of course, Heavenly Father had a different plan.
Right before I stood up to speak, i just felt sick about what i prepared and an experience from my mission kept coming to my head from the beginning of my mission, week 14 to be exact ha. So i set my notes aside and shared that experince and i felt good, like i had followed a spiritual prompting. That is definitely a feeling I have grown to love on my mission.
After wards a ward member came up to me with tears in her eyes and expressed how much that story had touched her and how she had just been through a similar experience. She thanked me for the talk and we just went on our way. Then her husband approached me and said, "Soeur, your talk touched my wife so deeply that she just wants to have you over to teach this less active next sunday. Please oh please tell me that you will still be here." I was SO happy that i was able to say OUI!
I just don't want my mission to end.
I forgot my SD card so no pictures this week. Désolée.
I love you all so much. Know that I think and pray for you often. à bientot!!
Soeur Kohlert
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