Monday we took 12 hours on trains to go to Lyon and then we worked with the trainers contacting Tuesday and that was fun, we found a really awesome Mural which was so sweet and lots of sweet people, and then finished off the day with dinner and a training for the trainers!
Wednesday we woke up and headed straight to Ecully to go and meet our blues and it was insane because AirFrance went on a strike(of course) and so they cancelled our blues' flight from Paris to Lyon so they had
to take a train! With all their luggage, By themselves!!! It was crazy.... The poor blues were so tired but also so cute, they were great and used it as an opportunity to contact everyone they met! We were all so proud of them:)
Waiting to meet them though was awful, we waited to hours in the basement of the chapel during their meeting and then when it was time to find out who would be with who, we walked in and I was too scared to look at them so we avoided eye contact and watched as one by one they opened their letters and read where they were going and who they would be serving with. It was crazy and actually adorable because they couldn't say the french villes at all and it was adorable and I will forever remember the ville Annemasse, which is pronounced (anne-mass) being pronounced by an adorable sister (ann-ee-mass-ee!)
And that is when I got my blue and she read the ville and I wanted to jump up right then but I had to wait for her to say my name and that was the longest few seconds ever! But her name is Sister Merrill and I love her to death! She is exactly like me in a lot of freaky ways and also complete opposite, like we both have altoids that we carry in our purses which is funny and weird and we have the same things like deodorant, toothpaste, qtips and tastes but
then there are other things like peanut butter that we are exactly opposite! (She loves it, i hate it;p )
Wednesday we went to the office and set up her ipad and then went to get dinner and shopping for some things in the nice Lyon mall before we went off to Poitiers where everything is expensive! Thursday she did legality and I chilled in the office, for hours....it was long,and then we went to get on a train and we had 15 minutes to change
trains but our train was late getting in and literally we were running with suitcases with the elders, the conductor blue the whistle, we stopped at the car we were at and just started literally throwing suitcases on to the car! I didn't think we were going to make it, it was absolute insane.
But we got them on the train and walked through the cars with all of our suitcases until we got to our car and sat
down just out of breath....it was absolute insane and I know tons of people missed that train... Because it was late getting but still wanted to leave on time, it was only in the station for maybe five minutes tops! But we made it to Bordeaux and stayed with the sister training leaders there!
We finally made it back to Poitiers but we are moving apartments so we are actually in a hotel for the next few days and then a member offered to let us use an empty apartment until the church finalizes all the paperwork for the new apartment they want to buy so that will be fun! And we get some say in the apartment which is really nice:)
Life has been insane this week and we didn't really get any time to work in Poitiers at all so its really just a five week transfer which is absolutely crazy but I know it will all be good.
Love you all, I hope you are enjoying the rest of your summer:)
Sister Beatty!
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| Mikayla and her bleu, Soeur Merrill |
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| Mikayla and Elder McDaniel |
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| Lyon |
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