La mission de Soeur Giles: January 8, 2018

This week was really good! We don't necessarily stay in the visitors center but we do lot of planning there and teaching. It's a nice central location for people to come. We contact tons of people on the street! No one else is staying in our apartment but we get a lot of traffic. So whenever sisters come into to Paris for legality or doctors or conferences they stay with us so most of the time there are other people there. As sister training leaders we go on exchnages with the sisters in the zone. There are only 2 companionship so that's not hard. We went on one last week and will go on one tomorrow. And we are in charge of their emotional needs! The district calls them and takes care of their physical needs and we call them and help them in any way we can! We also have an accountability call every week based on what happened last week and what their goals are for the next week.

Also in Paris we help out with whatever president needs us to do at any moment. So yesterday there was a midnight transfer we spent a few hours helping people move from train station to station with all their suitcases. 2 sisters slept at our apartment last night and went home today so we were in charge of getting them where they needed to be on time and safe! One of the sisters who finished her mission lives in Switzerland and we made the train by just a few minutes this morning. Tender mercy!

Paris life is different. Not as much french culture as Nancy but it's still really good. People come from all over the place!
This is a map of the city and the brown outlines our sector!
We had a really delicious whole grain baguette the other night with some fondu cheese and that was awesome!

So David archuleta came to our zone conference and we got to go to the fireside with him and bishop caussé that night as well. And it was super good. He sang some Christmas hymns and regular hymns. Last Christmas was fun as well. But he shared mission stories with us!

Our new mission president is really cool. He is very focused on setting goals and plans to achieve those goals. We met at mission council last week and fixed a monthly goal for the mission and it was 30! The stake presidents of all the stakes in our mission set a goal for 409 for the year as a total. This year we had 216! So not bad but there is work to do!

We set a baptismal date today with Pablo and that was awesome!!
We also found other cool people and are meeting with them this week.
We saw the sacré cœur cathedral today, so pretty!
Life is good!
Avec amour, ta fille préférée qui est en mission,
Love,
Sœur Giles

Nancy zone!