So this week was a little different than most! We spent all day Tuesday and Wednesday moving and cleaning. 10 years of missionary build up in one apartment is not pretty! We took out about 10 huge bags of trash. When we went to through them out, there was one bag that was heavy and a little ripped. So they tried swinging it into the dumpster, well on the last swing the bag ripped completely and all the trash flew all over the place. So we went to go get a new bag.
Another thing we did Tuesday night was carry the dryer from our old apartment to the new one. We, as in, me and soeur hunt. Luckily the dryer isn't too heavy. The walk from apartments is about 5 minutes but it took us over 30 minutes because of all the little breaks we took haha. We got many strange looks as we carried it through busiest part of Nancy.
Saturday we helped a member paint a room in her apartment! We helped her come back to church a few months ago and she hasn't missed a Sunday since. She even gave a talk on sunday about divine design, and she shared her own story of being able to help an old lady in her apartment building with her groceries :) it was a great moment for her!
We now have the opportunity to teach Rafael! He was an investigator for the elders but since they left, we get to help prepare him for his baptism the first weekend in December. He is awesome and so ready.
All in all, everything is going well here! Other than this is the first day we have seen sun in the past week. It feels great!
Sœur Giles
Letter to Mom and Dad:
We are in a big apartment building now, we live on the 12th floor. I see Nancy from a different point of view now. Literally!
It's so fun being 4. We went grocery shopping together and we bought so much food, it was awesome.
A few of our amis are on vacation right now. But we have some good member rendezvous this week.
Also thats so awesome!! Ah i really hope that lesson goes through on Thursday that would be so awesome!! So it's a husband, wife, and boy? Does clay know the kid? What would they be taught next?
How much did you teach with members when you were on your mission dad?
Also thats so sad about Brenda! I'm sure she loved the music. That was such a nice thing for you to do mom, you are awesome. I'm proud of you!
So the family we met a few weeks ago ended up not wanting us to come back but we met another lady with a daughter, we are going back on Wednesday. Good promise there.
They put up a ginormous tree in place stanislas, and there are some things hung between buildings. It'll be fun when There are lots all over the place. Apparantly they eat lots of sea food for Christmas. Like oysters and clams and things like that. It'll be interesting.
It's been a fun week of adjusting though. Little different than before.
Yesterday I had a great personal study on what diligence and why we should be diligent. I went through chapter one of preach my gospel and pointed out all the things that are our duties as missionaries. And then in the book of mormon reading I happened to be in Alma chapter 8 where alma gets transferred to ammonihah and he gets rejected but the angel tells him to go back and then he meets his new companion, amulek! I liked the part where the angel tells him to rejoice even though he was accepted. He went back and ended up finding some one super cool! It was nice reminder that heavenly father has a wonderful plan even though it doesn't look like it to us. He knows when people are ready and he knows how to helps us to find them.
Thanks a million for all your support and guidance you've given me the past few years. You're the best!
Love,
Sœur Giles
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