This week we had lots of rendezvous and I am loving it! I also am loving the fact it is the school year again because everyone is home and falling back into their routines and has time now! And students!!!! The older French generation is pretty set in their ways but the students always ask us questions, if they are Buddhist or atheist they want to know how God is there and how we know God is there. And the fact we are closer in age makes them slightly more open.
Sometimes they think we are Jehovah Witnesses though and they yell at us and then its sad because 1. We aren't but even if we were 2. Be human. If two young girls walked up to you on the street you don't yell at them, people see our badges sometimes and they get real mean and its really sad. We are all living hard lives and all we want to do is try and make that life a little easier with what we know, and if they are content then we will leave them alone but sometimes they don't even give us a chance. Haha we call it the french finger wave because they will shake one finger at us angrily and sometimes it's kind of funny;p
This week on Wednesday literally everything fell through so we walked for four hours. We ended up porting this nice little mini mountain and we just ended up laughing so hard because every time we hit the doorbell someone would open a window like three stories up and stick their head out at us and would yell and be like they couldn't
hear but that they weren't coming down and for real we were staring almost straight up because of how French houses are built and Sister Merrill and I just kept laughing it was so hysterical and comical the way we were yelling our purpose straight up haha and all those lazy people xD
This week we now have two forever families that we are working with and it is great:) Their kids have baptismal dates and the less active parents are coming back and it is such a blessing:)
I am staying in Poitiers for the next six weeks and I am super excited to see whats going to happen this transfer:) The transfer goes up until my birthday so I will turn 20 here which is super strange.... Haha time... It doesn't ever make sense and it is so weird but that's life;p
This week we went to a bistro which was so so so yummy and good and french which was cool, and its fun to be able to understand what the waiter is actually saying to me when trying to explain the food xD
Other things that happened this week is I fell again. It was so dumb. It was Friday after calls we were outside for 20 minutes and I fell and just landed in the dirt. I was so mad I almost cried. Luckily it wasn't as bad as before but I am done taking the chance on my ankle because I don't know when it will give out so I am just going to wear
this brace everyday from now on because I cant fall again. With each one it makes my ankle worse.
We also went to the hospital this week because Sister Merrill sliced her hand trying to cut an avocado but luckily it didn't need stitches and it was a clean cut:) We had to cancel a rendez vous but it was good because a member was coming and that member was able to take us to the hospital which was super far away! Her hand is healing good though and there will probably only be a small scar soon in a little bit.
Poitiers is still so hot but its finally cooling down a little bit and I cant wait to start wearing my sweaters again! and scarves! I bought a big french scarf and I love it:)
Have a great week! Love you all:)
Sister Beatty
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