April 30, 2018

So this week was really cool! For district meeting we went to Saint Nazaire, a little beach town not too far away. Right after that we went to Rennes to have exchanges with the sister training leaders there! Except we missed our train by 2 minutes and had to wait around for another 2 hours haha got some good language study in!

Rennes is a cool university city so there are tons of young people to talk to. We met this guy who came from Iraq and is studying to be able to help the refugees that are coming into France. He gave us a really good perspective on what they go through because he was one of them but was lucky enough to get help from someone else. He wants to do the same for others! Anyways he was really happy to have talked to us, he said thank you multiple times!! 

We also taught a university student in a cafe, she was so nice and said she would read the book of Mormon!

The rest of the week was spent out finding and teaching a little bit. We met with an old investigator(she was a former investigator and she is in her 70s...) she made us crêpes and really liked reading about Lehi' s dream in the book of Mormon. We read the verse about the fruit being more delicious than any other fruit and she said "yes it must have been very sugary". When we told her it represented the love of God she said she got goosebumps! 

We live in the region le pays de la loire.We also took a boat across la Loire river and went to the island with a member. We got ice cream and then started talking about the temple and she really felt like that was the next step in her life. There is a trip on the 12th of may so hopefully she will be able to do baptisms.

After church a single old lady came up to us and started telling us a story how she felt lonely and prayed to know what to do and she felt to go to a certain park so she went and met another old lady who was lonely. Now they are friends! It was cute :)

Today our ward mission leader took us to see Saint Malo and Mont Saint Michel. It was so cool!! Here are some pictures. And some flower ones for you Mom :) the waves were super strong and they came over the edge of the wall and I got splashed because I wasn't looking haha it was cold!!

Yeah I can for sure make the group on Google hangouts, how early do you want to do it? It's in the afternoon for me so whatever time works for you is good for me...

Other than that the week was super good, lots of rain and lots of smiles :) tell clay I say hello!
Love,
Sœur Giles