May 6, 2013

Monday when I left the email place the elders that we were staying with for the night took us to their apartment where we ate and dropped our stuff. Then me and Elder W. high tailed it to the "The Steps of Notre Dame". That’s from Hunchback of Notre Dame in case you were wondering. Mom, this building is simply amazing! It takes my breath away every time I see it. Then Elder W said lets go inside and see inside. So we went and ohh my gosh it is gorgeous! After Notre Dame we went tie shopping for our father son ties. It is where we get matching ties. So cute right haha! Then we ran to the Eiffel tower and it is amazing and so big! Like really big! We did not get to climb it because the lines were really long but we did meet sister missionaries who were serving in the Paris area got say hi. They asked why we were here and then we met a ton of members from BYU Idaho and we got to talking with them.  Then sadly p day was over and we headed back to meet the elders we were staying with. We did some contacting and then they asked us to help clean the baptismal font because they had a baptism the next day. So that was fun and this font was huge. We then went back to the apartment and that was our day. Then on Tuesday we went to the church and met everybody I came into the field with. I got to see Elder K. and everybody else from my MTC district. It was so cool then we did our legality and I am now legal in France. Yea!! Then we got trained by the APs and then we went back to Vannes. Three hours on the train. Then on Wednesday we did some contacting in Vannes but it was so hard because it was May first and it’s a holiday here called MAY DAY. I guess it is like our veterans’ day and all because May Day sounds like what the air pilots say when they are going down. They have this white flower that they give to people who served and they wear them the entire day so we ended up porting and we talked to this lady who explained it to us. Really cool. Thursday we had our district meeting and also we met with L. and had a really good lesson with him. I think he might stop smoking. Then the G. family, they are friends of L’s they introduced us, had us over for tea, it is what they call diner, which was really good and really funny. They are the family we are going to be with when I Skype. Then Friday we did weekly planning and then met the soeurs to get our bus passes renewed. Let me tell you this story. Soeur J. is from Texas as well and she was on sister exchanges. So her original companion was not here. She had a different one and her name is Soeur M. and she is from Texas as well. Galveston to be exact. Any ways she was at this rendezvous and the lady’s dog was so excited to see the missionaries that he started to pee. They saw it on the ground and avoided that area. Then the dog came up to Soeur M. and hiked his leg up and peed on her. She felt this warm feeling and she had to keep her cool because they were still in this lady’s house. It was the funniest thing I have ever heard. The rest of the night we visited this less active and we got him to come back to church. That was exciting. Then on Saturday we did a lot of porting (door knocking) up in Sene and it was hard. Not one person let us in but they all talked to us. But not one lesson and I broke down and started crying and Elder W. came up to me and said this is hard but you are doing your best. We finished up the street we were at and then prayed to know where to go. We felt we were needed in Vannes so we caught the bus back. Then our phone rang it was E. and P. E. is one of our investigators and P. is a new convert and they said they did not have a ride to church so we tried to find a ride but nobody was back from the temple trip yet. We called them back and said we could not find a ride so they said okay and thanked us for trying, Then Sunday we totally forgot to find a ride for us so we walked to church and it took a good hour and it was super hot. Not fun let me tell ya! But church was really good. We got to listen to some awesome testimonies and had a great lesson. After church we ate dinner and did our studies. Then we went to visit E. and P. and told them what they missed and just talked about church and what we felt and we shared our testimonies. It was a very good lesson and I was so happy we went over there. Well that is all for my week!