My trainer is Sister Grant. She is from Utah.
And fun fact, she is also a quarter Asian.
We’ve been having a lot of fun. Sister Grant is awesome and has been out for
almost one year. She will go home in about six months. She will hit her 6 month
mark this transfer.
We serve in Ecully and we have the best apartment in the
mission. It’s got this awesome shower with crazy nozzles and jets. It’s
awesome.
Sister Grant plays the paino, but I haven’t heard her play
yet. Sister Grant is amazing.
France is different. It’s old. Dad and Mom probably know
what I’m talking about. It’s an Old World country, so they have nice things,
but it’s just old. The houses are old, the buildings are older, the sidewalks
are broken, because they are just old. It’s been so fun. France is gorgeous.
Oh! The patisseries are amazing. We have had a bunch of tarts and a couple different baguettes and an
almond twisty thing - I can’t say the name yet.
My mission president’s wife is named Tracy Brown - she used
to be Tracy Bruce and she grew up in Huntington Beach, California. She knows
where you grew up. Did you know her?
There are mirrors everywhere. I don’t know if it’s like this
in Paris, but in Lyon, there are mirrors everywhere. There’s mirrors when you
walk into a building, and out of a building, and in all the elevators. And the
elevators are tiny. You can fit like 2 people and a bag. When we had my
suitcases we barely fit in the elevator.
Our apartment is huge. We have an apartment with three extra
rooms with tons of beds. We have an
apartment near president, so when the sisters come for Christmas conference and other things, they come and stay in our
apartment.
We bought food this morning, which was awesome! We haven’t
had food this week, so we’ve been eating scraps out of the cupboard. It was
like half way through the week and we were supposed to have all these dinner
appointments, but then they didn’t happen. It’s all good. We still got to
porte.
La Porte is the door, so we say we are porting - it means we
are going door to door. Street contacting is still the same. That’s what we
say.
The city is awesome. The fire hydrants looks like little
petite iron mans. The ward - there are a few kids in the ward, but mainly it’s
older. They are all super sweet and everyone does bisous - which is like
kissing on the cheek - but we shake hands with the brethren. With all the
sisters though we bis.
All the sisters are cute and little. There was one lady, she
is tiny. She is smaller than Becky. She is so small, when she walked out I
said, “Oh, i’m so tall!” She was so
cute. I’ve got to get a photo with her before we leave. She was just adorable.
They are all so small and speak really fast French, and I
don’t speak fast French. Well, I can speak fast French, but I can’t understand
fast French. But hopefully that will get better.
We have a few investigators that we are seeing. I’ll write more
about them next week.
I might drive here, and I’m terrified. It’s scary. People
don’t stop for anything or follow traffic laws. It’s waaaaah!!!
We do MANGOs in the morning. It’s an acronym for our morning
routine (including exercise), so we stay charged and are good about it.
Two pieces of advice that was given to me by one of my
teachers. You need two things if you’re going to come on a mission. You need to
believe that you can do hard things and when things get bad, you need to know
where to turn.
If you have these two things, you’re good. When life gets
hard, it will seem even harder when you don’t know what to do and you are thousands
of miles from home. Make sure you believe in yourself and know you can do hard
things, and that you know where to turn when it’s hard.
We got tombe vous a lot. Tombe is the French word for fall.
It doesn’t make sense, but it basically means that people stood us up. It’s French
missionary slang.
Have a good week.
Soeur Beatty
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