Well the good news is that I got to celebrate thanksgiving this year!! And it was super good! We had a party! I won't spoil the letter but it was really fun! IM THANKFUL FOR YOU:) hope you are all ready for this week. And just so you know I'm accepting all Christmas packages;) haha
We had a rdv with our new investigators tonight and so we were pretty stoked!! We were pretty sure that we told them 6:30 so we came home after emails and kind of took our time and got ready to head over to their house. When we got over, they were sitting there waiting and told us that they thought we had said 6!:/ soo I felt bad cause they'd just been sitting there waiting for us. We had decided to teach the restoration to them so we pulled out some pamphlets and taught them all about the restoration and Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and all that stuff. They stopped us along the way and were asking questions and bringing up valid points and what not and then we finished and asked if we could maybe come back next week to teach them again and he told us no cause he wouldn't have read the book in time. He told us that he needed a month or two to read the book and come up with questions before he could invite us back over...so we were a little bummed. They didn't deny anything, but they also didn't accept everything and so we will see what goes down and if they ever call back.
TUESDAY
today went pretty well! All except for the fact that my umbrella....is MIA...we cannot find that thing ANYWHERE. I was pretty sure that I had maybe brought it to St Omer last week and so it might be there but the elders say that they can't find it and we have torn the apartment apart looking for that thing and can't...so it looks like I might have to go and buy a new one....ugh!!! So anyway yes it decided to rain today and it was super fun to walk around in all day! I'm just hoping I don't get sick;) I'm kidding, I've got a super strong immune system. NOTHING CAN TAKE ME DOWN! Lol so we studied this morning and after we finished with that, we went out to go try to see one of the ladies that we met the other night while porting. She told us that mornings work best for her and that we could try to pass by Tuesday morning. So we got out to her house and she remembered us! 
🏻 but she told us that it wasn't going to work for her today and that we could try to pass by another day...so that was a bummer. Then we contacted all the way home. And because of the rain and all that, there wasn't a ton of people out on the streets and so we didn't talk to a ton of people, but the people that we did talk to we got to have super good discussions with. So on the way home we stopped and renewed my bus pass cause it expires tomorrow. (One reason I wanted to leave! My bus pass would have expired the day I left!;) ) Then we stopped by Jean Paul's to check my skype. A few months ago the Romanian mission sent out an email saying that if we ever ran into any Romanian investigators that we should contact them and then they could skype us and teach them for us! And with our new Romanian investigators we thought it would be a good idea to try that! So they responded and told us that they would help us out and that we just needed to tell them when they needed to be there and they would come. After that we came home and had some lunch and then went out and did some less active searching. We went and found 3 out of the 4 that we were looking for and were super happy about that. Sadly only 1 answered and the one that answered told us that he didn't want anything more to do with the church 
which made me sad. But that's something we have to learn is that people here on earth have their free agency and sometimes they choose wrong or something we don't want....so after we had finished with that, we were supposed to have a rdv with Dominique so we made our way to his house and on the bus ride over he called and canceled and so we were like what do we do?? We port! So we found a building and then went porting and we rang on this one mans doorbell and he answered and long story short, he said some really pretty words to us and told us that if we didn't leave right then and there that he was going to call the police and have them arrest us. Which is funny cause we were NOT doing anything wrong or illegal. People are just funny. So we then made our way to another members house. She is mostly active, meaning she comes to sacrament meeting most Sunday's. He is not active and we found out today that he was only baptized for her. She had told us he is trying to slowly make his way back and so we asked if we could stop by and she told us he might not like that but she'd let us know. She had told us to come over tonight and so we went! We got there and small talked and shared a little message on scriptures and challenged them to read and then he asked us, Do you think you could come back? I want to quit smoking and slowly make my way back cause I like how your church is centered on families and I want my family to be happy. We were all YEAH! So we fixed another rdv for next week and challenged them to read one chapter together by next week, just a little bit each day and they accepted!! It was great! On the way home we ported on another apartment building and the same thing happened. Some old man came down and told us he'd never let us in and told us some pretty words that meant get out of here hahah we then stopped for kebabs on the way home.
🏻 but she told us that it wasn't going to work for her today and that we could try to pass by another day...so that was a bummer. Then we contacted all the way home. And because of the rain and all that, there wasn't a ton of people out on the streets and so we didn't talk to a ton of people, but the people that we did talk to we got to have super good discussions with. So on the way home we stopped and renewed my bus pass cause it expires tomorrow. (One reason I wanted to leave! My bus pass would have expired the day I left!;) ) Then we stopped by Jean Paul's to check my skype. A few months ago the Romanian mission sent out an email saying that if we ever ran into any Romanian investigators that we should contact them and then they could skype us and teach them for us! And with our new Romanian investigators we thought it would be a good idea to try that! So they responded and told us that they would help us out and that we just needed to tell them when they needed to be there and they would come. After that we came home and had some lunch and then went out and did some less active searching. We went and found 3 out of the 4 that we were looking for and were super happy about that. Sadly only 1 answered and the one that answered told us that he didn't want anything more to do with the church which made me sad. But that's something we have to learn is that people here on earth have their free agency and sometimes they choose wrong or something we don't want....so after we had finished with that, we were supposed to have a rdv with Dominique so we made our way to his house and on the bus ride over he called and canceled and so we were like what do we do?? We port! So we found a building and then went porting and we rang on this one mans doorbell and he answered and long story short, he said some really pretty words to us and told us that if we didn't leave right then and there that he was going to call the police and have them arrest us. Which is funny cause we were NOT doing anything wrong or illegal. People are just funny. So we then made our way to another members house. She is mostly active, meaning she comes to sacrament meeting most Sunday's. He is not active and we found out today that he was only baptized for her. She had told us he is trying to slowly make his way back and so we asked if we could stop by and she told us he might not like that but she'd let us know. She had told us to come over tonight and so we went! We got there and small talked and shared a little message on scriptures and challenged them to read and then he asked us, Do you think you could come back? I want to quit smoking and slowly make my way back cause I like how your church is centered on families and I want my family to be happy. We were all YEAH! So we fixed another rdv for next week and challenged them to read one chapter together by next week, just a little bit each day and they accepted!! It was great! On the way home we ported on another apartment building and the same thing happened. Some old man came down and told us he'd never let us in and told us some pretty words that meant get out of here hahah we then stopped for kebabs on the way home.
WEDNESDAY
it was transfer day today and so naturally I was a little sad that I wouldn't be able to go into Paris cause going into Paris is so much fun! But that's how it was and we stayed here and we stayed here and worked. We had a decent day full of searching and finding and running. We started off the day with rdv with the less active that we see pretty regularly who likes it when we sing for her and so we got out to her house and talked with her for a while and shared a conference talk with her for her home teaching and then she was telling us how she was sick of her friends complaining and being all bitter cause of different reasons and telling us that she's told them that they should just stop complaining cause life is better when we don't complain and it was funny cause of the way she was saying it cause she was complaining and so I was laughing in my head heheh then we were in the neighborhood of some less actives that the branch had told us about before and we'd tried to stop by earlier but they weren't home and so we decided to go and stop by one more time. They told us that they were doing fine and that things are good just the way they are but we could come back another time maybe and see them. So we made our way home for lunch. After lunch I was thinking we were just going to go contacting but elder Sorensen wanted to go and try to see this one guy we'd met a couple weeks ago...so instead we went to his house. I don't think he is all the way there in the head, but Sorensen seems set on trying to see him and so I decided we can go and at least try to teach him and see where it goes. So we went and taught him the restoration and he actually took it pretty well and said he understood so maybe all will work out with him? We'll see! Then we had a rdv with Dominique and we talked about family history and why we do it and what is important about it cause he was interested in family history. He also told us that he'd caved and smoked a couple cigarettes this last week...keep him in your prayers! We went contacting after that and then came in and grabbed our coats cause it was getting cold and went to our rdv with Jean Bernard, another less active we're working with. We talked about faith and that faith can help us act and grow and asked him if he'd be willing to work on quitting smoking and he told us yes! So we're going to find the church's program for quitting smoking and get it for him! Then we came home for dinner and then made our way over to Mike's house for a rdv and his roommates let us in and then he came out and told us that tonight wasn't going to work for him. So we made our way home. I got a call from St Omer today telling me that they found my umbrella!!! So that rocks:) and tomorrow the branch is having a thanksgiving party!!
THURSDAY
so today was great! Like I said the branch was having a thanksgiving party! Like I said last week, I don't know why the French don't celebrate thanksgiving...they sure do love it! So we made our way to the church first thing this morning cause before branch council we had a home teaching appt with one of the members. He likes it when we do his home teaching at the church and so we do that for him once a month. We shared the talk from the women's conference by dieter f Uchtdorf a summer with great aunt rose and he liked it. He said he liked the idea of getting the most out of our circumstances and this time when I watched it the thing that I took from it was that more blessings come from doing what we don't want to do. Numbers cannot count the amount of times that I've just wanted to stay in the apartment and take a nap and not go out and do work, but the lord blesses me when I do his will HAPPILY:) I've been counseled to 'always wear a smile' from a very Jolley grandma:) after we went in and had branch council and it went really well and we got a lot of the things done that we needed to and the missionaries got to talk this time!!!!!! I felt super happy haha we talked about the couple investigators that we had or that we'd found and how to help them. It was great to have some help. After we'd finished, we went and had an amazing thanksgiving FEAST! It was so good! The members went all out and tried to make it legitimately American! Which is so much better than last year....do you all remember what I did? We had breakfast burritos...lol I like turkey and potatoes a lot better;) we spent most of the afternoon with them and ate tons of everything and they even attempted at a pumpkin pie!!! It was pretty great. And one of the members spoiled me with my very own Coke;) I had asked him if we were going to have Coke at thanksgiving and he told me no cause we didn't drink Coke at thanksgiving and I told him YA WE DO! And so he told me he'd get me my Coke;) so I got it!! After we had all eaten we went and taught a lesson to Mike about repentance and it went well. He told us that there was a lot going on in his life and so he really needed to learn about repentance. So keep him in your prayers!! We then went home and I had my Christmas package!!! So I got Christmas and thanksgiving in the same day!;) we went up and took our dinner hour and I opened my package and we found a little puzzle that told me I could open now! So I did! We had it finished pretty fast;) after dinner we went out and ported up a neighborhood and we got let in by someone who let us pray and talked for a while but told us they didn't really want us to come back. So after we'd finished we went to a rdv we had made with Jean Paul and talked about the priesthood.
FRIDAY
Today was alright. A day with weekly planning can't be any better right?? Haha jkjk no it went well. We also got to go into St Omer tonight cause there is a new baby bleu there and he didn't know how to drive stick shift and so they asked me to go in to teach him!! My talents of driving manual have finally come in handy;) haha it was fun. We had our studies and then went out and contacted for a while this morning. We went all over the place and then some. This cold weather up here is making it that much more difficult to be able to contact people cause there is just hardly ever anyone outside. It's a little hard sometimes cause we just have to go and walk the road in the cold, but we're doing it. The wind here is like penetrating haha I can't even describe it. It is SO cold. So after a few hours of contacting we headed to the gare to wait for our potential to show up for a lesson. We found his name in the area book and he told us he'd be coming in to Dunkerque for the day and that he'd meet with us. So we waited for him and then taught him a little bit and he agreed to meet with us again! His name is Francis and he's African so that'll be fun to teach him again. When we had finished with him, we made our way home for lunch and then weekly planned. We were planning for about 2 or so hours when we had to stop cause we needed to head out to catch our bus to St Omer. We got in and then me and the little bleu went and learned how to drive while the other two elders went to work! Haha and the bleu did really good! He got the hang of it pretty fast and was driving us around the town within 2 hours. So I guess you could say I know how to teach people to drive stick. I take cash or card, and charge lower than your average driving school;) after he'd had enough for the night, we decided to go and park the car for the night and go and do some contacting. So we went and didn't have a ton of time but talked to a couple people before we headed in for the night. We then planned and went and played monopoly deal until the wee hours of the night. 
and by that I mean 10:30 cause we are good missionaries. And I won most of the rounds so I guess you can say that I am getting pretty good at Monopoly deal!
and by that I mean 10:30 cause we are good missionaries. And I won most of the rounds so I guess you can say that I am getting pretty good at Monopoly deal!
SATURDAY
today was kind of an interesting day...it was a little rough. We had an interesting night that just made me feel stupid haha but we woke up this morning and we had to leave fast cause our bus to get back to Dunkerque was early so the elders from St Omer took us to the gare and the little baby bleu hadn't forgotten how to drive! So I am a REALLY good teacher I guess. We got on our bus and made our way home. When we got home we got to the church cause after thanksgiving, it was a little messy and Soeur Deslypper told us she'd be going over on Saturday morning to clean it and I asked if we could help. So we went and helped clean the chapel and all that jazz and then headed home so that we could finally eat some breakfast! Like I said, it was an interesting day haha so after we spent a few minutes eating our breakfast we decided to hurry and finish up our planning. We were planning for about an hour and then had to go and pick up Jean Paul to make it to a rdv with a less active. We got out to her house and taught her about the sacrament and then she all of the sudden goes, 'thank you for this lesson! It has reminded me so much of the temple! And I loved the temple the 2 times I went and have never taken off my garments.' So I'm really hoping that once she's healed and better we can help her get back to church so that she can make it back to the temple. Cause temple blessings can only be found within the temple! Or so I've heard;) then we made our way home and me and elder Sorensen went in to eat something really quickly and finish planning and then we went contacting and we passed the best boulangerie ever! And me and Sorensen decided that from now on we are getting up in the morning and running to the boulangerie and getting our 'daily bread' and then taking the bus home before studies. Sounds like a great idea right?! So we went home and dropped off the bread that we bought and then headed out and knocked on a few doors before our rdv with Mado. After we'd finished we headed to her house and shared a conference talk with her. Sadly tonight we didn't have a super spiritual rdv and it was more just talking and comparing. When we got home for the night we got a call from president Duez telling us of some drama going on with someone...lets just say that we had to call president Babin to get some things sorted out. It was kind of embarrassing.
SUNDAY
We had some good meetings today that helped me feel the spirit:) and with a night like last night that is what I needed. The lord is good:) we got to church today and learned about Revelations and let me tell you that that is an interesting book in the bible! Haha as we were singing the closing hymn, I felt the spirit like a lightning bolt/brick to the face. I'm gonna have to translate the French version cause the English version hair doesn't sound the same;) 'abide with me lord! And stay by my side, we I turn to you savior, I am comforted.' And it just made me happy that's all;) after all the meetings, the wind was blowing 100 km/hr no joke! So Jean Paul got a ride home with some members and me and elder Sorensen had to take his little walking machine home and drop some nuts off as Mado's from the Duez's. So we did that and then finally got home for lunch! I was starving. After we'd finished with that we went out to go contacting and elder Sorensen had been really wanting to go and do some work in this small town in our sector and so we went and looked at bus times. We had 45 minutes and so we decided that we would go and maybe try to find this one less active. So we went and found her but she told us that she had left the church because people didn't respect the choices she made...so she told us no and we headed out. We caught our bus and headed out to Gravelines. There was a less active that lived out there who used to be the branch president and so we tried to stop by his house but he didn't answer so we just did some porting! All was well. We then got a call from Mike telling us he was sorry that he hadn't been at church today and asking if we could go over and give him a blessing. So we went and headed home to Dunkerque so that we could give him a blessing. We spent a while sitting there talking and then he asked me to give him a blessing...in French! 
😬 one of the first that I'd given and I'm pretty sure I messed up a ton. But it was good and he said it was what he needed and gave me hug after. Then we headed home for the night. It was good! And we had a good week!
😬 one of the first that I'd given and I'm pretty sure I messed up a ton. But it was good and he said it was what he needed and gave me hug after. Then we headed home for the night. It was good! And we had a good week!
Well I hope that you all gained some weight this week! Thanksgiving is always a good time:) I'm happy to hear everyone is alive and doing well! Can't wait to hear from you all soon! Talk to you l8r:)
Elder Libby
Well the good news is that I got to celebrate thanksgiving this year!! And it was super good! We had a party! I won't spoil the letter but it was really fun! IM THANKFUL FOR YOU:) hope you are all ready for this week. And just so you know I'm accepting all Christmas packages;) haha
We had a rdv with our new investigators tonight and so we were pretty stoked!! We were pretty sure that we told them 6:30 so we came home after emails and kind of took our time and got ready to head over to their house. When we got over, they were sitting there waiting and told us that they thought we had said 6!:/ soo I felt bad cause they'd just been sitting there waiting for us. We had decided to teach the restoration to them so we pulled out some pamphlets and taught them all about the restoration and Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and all that stuff. They stopped us along the way and were asking questions and bringing up valid points and what not and then we finished and asked if we could maybe come back next week to teach them again and he told us no cause he wouldn't have read the book in time. He told us that he needed a month or two to read the book and come up with questions before he could invite us back over...so we were a little bummed. They didn't deny anything, but they also didn't accept everything and so we will see what goes down and if they ever call back.
TUESDAY
today went pretty well! All except for the fact that my umbrella....is MIA...we cannot find that thing ANYWHERE. I was pretty sure that I had maybe brought it to St Omer last week and so it might be there but the elders say that they can't find it and we have torn the apartment apart looking for that thing and can't...so it looks like I might have to go and buy a new one....ugh!!! So anyway yes it decided to rain today and it was super fun to walk around in all day! I'm just hoping I don't get sick;) I'm kidding, I've got a super strong immune system. NOTHING CAN TAKE ME DOWN! Lol so we studied this morning and after we finished with that, we went out to go try to see one of the ladies that we met the other night while porting. She told us that mornings work best for her and that we could try to pass by Tuesday morning. So we got out to her house and she remembered us! 🏻 but she told us that it wasn't going to work for her today and that we could try to pass by another day...so that was a bummer. Then we contacted all the way home. And because of the rain and all that, there wasn't a ton of people out on the streets and so we didn't talk to a ton of people, but the people that we did talk to we got to have super good discussions with. So on the way home we stopped and renewed my bus pass cause it expires tomorrow. (One reason I wanted to leave! My bus pass would have expired the day I left!;) ) Then we stopped by Jean Paul's to check my skype. A few months ago the Romanian mission sent out an email saying that if we ever ran into any Romanian investigators that we should contact them and then they could skype us and teach them for us! And with our new Romanian investigators we thought it would be a good idea to try that! So they responded and told us that they would help us out and that we just needed to tell them when they needed to be there and they would come. After that we came home and had some lunch and then went out and did some less active searching. We went and found 3 out of the 4 that we were looking for and were super happy about that. Sadly only 1 answered and the one that answered told us that he didn't want anything more to do with the church which made me sad. But that's something we have to learn is that people here on earth have their free agency and sometimes they choose wrong or something we don't want....so after we had finished with that, we were supposed to have a rdv with Dominique so we made our way to his house and on the bus ride over he called and canceled and so we were like what do we do?? We port! So we found a building and then went porting and we rang on this one mans doorbell and he answered and long story short, he said some really pretty words to us and told us that if we didn't leave right then and there that he was going to call the police and have them arrest us. Which is funny cause we were NOT doing anything wrong or illegal. People are just funny. So we then made our way to another members house. She is mostly active, meaning she comes to sacrament meeting most Sunday's. He is not active and we found out today that he was only baptized for her. She had told us he is trying to slowly make his way back and so we asked if we could stop by and she told us he might not like that but she'd let us know. She had told us to come over tonight and so we went! We got there and small talked and shared a little message on scriptures and challenged them to read and then he asked us, Do you think you could come back? I want to quit smoking and slowly make my way back cause I like how your church is centered on families and I want my family to be happy. We were all YEAH! So we fixed another rdv for next week and challenged them to read one chapter together by next week, just a little bit each day and they accepted!! It was great! On the way home we ported on another apartment building and the same thing happened. Some old man came down and told us he'd never let us in and told us some pretty words that meant get out of here hahah we then stopped for kebabs on the way home.
🏻 but she told us that it wasn't going to work for her today and that we could try to pass by another day...so that was a bummer. Then we contacted all the way home. And because of the rain and all that, there wasn't a ton of people out on the streets and so we didn't talk to a ton of people, but the people that we did talk to we got to have super good discussions with. So on the way home we stopped and renewed my bus pass cause it expires tomorrow. (One reason I wanted to leave! My bus pass would have expired the day I left!;) ) Then we stopped by Jean Paul's to check my skype. A few months ago the Romanian mission sent out an email saying that if we ever ran into any Romanian investigators that we should contact them and then they could skype us and teach them for us! And with our new Romanian investigators we thought it would be a good idea to try that! So they responded and told us that they would help us out and that we just needed to tell them when they needed to be there and they would come. After that we came home and had some lunch and then went out and did some less active searching. We went and found 3 out of the 4 that we were looking for and were super happy about that. Sadly only 1 answered and the one that answered told us that he didn't want anything more to do with the church which made me sad. But that's something we have to learn is that people here on earth have their free agency and sometimes they choose wrong or something we don't want....so after we had finished with that, we were supposed to have a rdv with Dominique so we made our way to his house and on the bus ride over he called and canceled and so we were like what do we do?? We port! So we found a building and then went porting and we rang on this one mans doorbell and he answered and long story short, he said some really pretty words to us and told us that if we didn't leave right then and there that he was going to call the police and have them arrest us. Which is funny cause we were NOT doing anything wrong or illegal. People are just funny. So we then made our way to another members house. She is mostly active, meaning she comes to sacrament meeting most Sunday's. He is not active and we found out today that he was only baptized for her. She had told us he is trying to slowly make his way back and so we asked if we could stop by and she told us he might not like that but she'd let us know. She had told us to come over tonight and so we went! We got there and small talked and shared a little message on scriptures and challenged them to read and then he asked us, Do you think you could come back? I want to quit smoking and slowly make my way back cause I like how your church is centered on families and I want my family to be happy. We were all YEAH! So we fixed another rdv for next week and challenged them to read one chapter together by next week, just a little bit each day and they accepted!! It was great! On the way home we ported on another apartment building and the same thing happened. Some old man came down and told us he'd never let us in and told us some pretty words that meant get out of here hahah we then stopped for kebabs on the way home.
WEDNESDAY
it was transfer day today and so naturally I was a little sad that I wouldn't be able to go into Paris cause going into Paris is so much fun! But that's how it was and we stayed here and we stayed here and worked. We had a decent day full of searching and finding and running. We started off the day with rdv with the less active that we see pretty regularly who likes it when we sing for her and so we got out to her house and talked with her for a while and shared a conference talk with her for her home teaching and then she was telling us how she was sick of her friends complaining and being all bitter cause of different reasons and telling us that she's told them that they should just stop complaining cause life is better when we don't complain and it was funny cause of the way she was saying it cause she was complaining and so I was laughing in my head heheh then we were in the neighborhood of some less actives that the branch had told us about before and we'd tried to stop by earlier but they weren't home and so we decided to go and stop by one more time. They told us that they were doing fine and that things are good just the way they are but we could come back another time maybe and see them. So we made our way home for lunch. After lunch I was thinking we were just going to go contacting but elder Sorensen wanted to go and try to see this one guy we'd met a couple weeks ago...so instead we went to his house. I don't think he is all the way there in the head, but Sorensen seems set on trying to see him and so I decided we can go and at least try to teach him and see where it goes. So we went and taught him the restoration and he actually took it pretty well and said he understood so maybe all will work out with him? We'll see! Then we had a rdv with Dominique and we talked about family history and why we do it and what is important about it cause he was interested in family history. He also told us that he'd caved and smoked a couple cigarettes this last week...keep him in your prayers! We went contacting after that and then came in and grabbed our coats cause it was getting cold and went to our rdv with Jean Bernard, another less active we're working with. We talked about faith and that faith can help us act and grow and asked him if he'd be willing to work on quitting smoking and he told us yes! So we're going to find the church's program for quitting smoking and get it for him! Then we came home for dinner and then made our way over to Mike's house for a rdv and his roommates let us in and then he came out and told us that tonight wasn't going to work for him. So we made our way home. I got a call from St Omer today telling me that they found my umbrella!!! So that rocks:) and tomorrow the branch is having a thanksgiving party!!
THURSDAY
so today was great! Like I said the branch was having a thanksgiving party! Like I said last week, I don't know why the French don't celebrate thanksgiving...they sure do love it! So we made our way to the church first thing this morning cause before branch council we had a home teaching appt with one of the members. He likes it when we do his home teaching at the church and so we do that for him once a month. We shared the talk from the women's conference by dieter f Uchtdorf a summer with great aunt rose and he liked it. He said he liked the idea of getting the most out of our circumstances and this time when I watched it the thing that I took from it was that more blessings come from doing what we don't want to do. Numbers cannot count the amount of times that I've just wanted to stay in the apartment and take a nap and not go out and do work, but the lord blesses me when I do his will HAPPILY:) I've been counseled to 'always wear a smile' from a very Jolley grandma:) after we went in and had branch council and it went really well and we got a lot of the things done that we needed to and the missionaries got to talk this time!!!!!! I felt super happy haha we talked about the couple investigators that we had or that we'd found and how to help them. It was great to have some help. After we'd finished, we went and had an amazing thanksgiving FEAST! It was so good! The members went all out and tried to make it legitimately American! Which is so much better than last year....do you all remember what I did? We had breakfast burritos...lol I like turkey and potatoes a lot better;) we spent most of the afternoon with them and ate tons of everything and they even attempted at a pumpkin pie!!! It was pretty great. And one of the members spoiled me with my very own Coke;) I had asked him if we were going to have Coke at thanksgiving and he told me no cause we didn't drink Coke at thanksgiving and I told him YA WE DO! And so he told me he'd get me my Coke;) so I got it!! After we had all eaten we went and taught a lesson to Mike about repentance and it went well. He told us that there was a lot going on in his life and so he really needed to learn about repentance. So keep him in your prayers!! We then went home and I had my Christmas package!!! So I got Christmas and thanksgiving in the same day!;) we went up and took our dinner hour and I opened my package and we found a little puzzle that told me I could open now! So I did! We had it finished pretty fast;) after dinner we went out and ported up a neighborhood and we got let in by someone who let us pray and talked for a while but told us they didn't really want us to come back. So after we'd finished we went to a rdv we had made with Jean Paul and talked about the priesthood.
FRIDAY
Today was alright. A day with weekly planning can't be any better right?? Haha jkjk no it went well. We also got to go into St Omer tonight cause there is a new baby bleu there and he didn't know how to drive stick shift and so they asked me to go in to teach him!! My talents of driving manual have finally come in handy;) haha it was fun. We had our studies and then went out and contacted for a while this morning. We went all over the place and then some. This cold weather up here is making it that much more difficult to be able to contact people cause there is just hardly ever anyone outside. It's a little hard sometimes cause we just have to go and walk the road in the cold, but we're doing it. The wind here is like penetrating haha I can't even describe it. It is SO cold. So after a few hours of contacting we headed to the gare to wait for our potential to show up for a lesson. We found his name in the area book and he told us he'd be coming in to Dunkerque for the day and that he'd meet with us. So we waited for him and then taught him a little bit and he agreed to meet with us again! His name is Francis and he's African so that'll be fun to teach him again. When we had finished with him, we made our way home for lunch and then weekly planned. We were planning for about 2 or so hours when we had to stop cause we needed to head out to catch our bus to St Omer. We got in and then me and the little bleu went and learned how to drive while the other two elders went to work! Haha and the bleu did really good! He got the hang of it pretty fast and was driving us around the town within 2 hours. So I guess you could say I know how to teach people to drive stick. I take cash or card, and charge lower than your average driving school;) after he'd had enough for the night, we decided to go and park the car for the night and go and do some contacting. So we went and didn't have a ton of time but talked to a couple people before we headed in for the night. We then planned and went and played monopoly deal until the wee hours of the night. and by that I mean 10:30 cause we are good missionaries. And I won most of the rounds so I guess you can say that I am getting pretty good at Monopoly deal!
and by that I mean 10:30 cause we are good missionaries. And I won most of the rounds so I guess you can say that I am getting pretty good at Monopoly deal!
SATURDAY
today was kind of an interesting day...it was a little rough. We had an interesting night that just made me feel stupid haha but we woke up this morning and we had to leave fast cause our bus to get back to Dunkerque was early so the elders from St Omer took us to the gare and the little baby bleu hadn't forgotten how to drive! So I am a REALLY good teacher I guess. We got on our bus and made our way home. When we got home we got to the church cause after thanksgiving, it was a little messy and Soeur Deslypper told us she'd be going over on Saturday morning to clean it and I asked if we could help. So we went and helped clean the chapel and all that jazz and then headed home so that we could finally eat some breakfast! Like I said, it was an interesting day haha so after we spent a few minutes eating our breakfast we decided to hurry and finish up our planning. We were planning for about an hour and then had to go and pick up Jean Paul to make it to a rdv with a less active. We got out to her house and taught her about the sacrament and then she all of the sudden goes, 'thank you for this lesson! It has reminded me so much of the temple! And I loved the temple the 2 times I went and have never taken off my garments.' So I'm really hoping that once she's healed and better we can help her get back to church so that she can make it back to the temple. Cause temple blessings can only be found within the temple! Or so I've heard;) then we made our way home and me and elder Sorensen went in to eat something really quickly and finish planning and then we went contacting and we passed the best boulangerie ever! And me and Sorensen decided that from now on we are getting up in the morning and running to the boulangerie and getting our 'daily bread' and then taking the bus home before studies. Sounds like a great idea right?! So we went home and dropped off the bread that we bought and then headed out and knocked on a few doors before our rdv with Mado. After we'd finished we headed to her house and shared a conference talk with her. Sadly tonight we didn't have a super spiritual rdv and it was more just talking and comparing. When we got home for the night we got a call from president Duez telling us of some drama going on with someone...lets just say that we had to call president Babin to get some things sorted out. It was kind of embarrassing.
SUNDAY
We had some good meetings today that helped me feel the spirit:) and with a night like last night that is what I needed. The lord is good:) we got to church today and learned about Revelations and let me tell you that that is an interesting book in the bible! Haha as we were singing the closing hymn, I felt the spirit like a lightning bolt/brick to the face. I'm gonna have to translate the French version cause the English version hair doesn't sound the same;) 'abide with me lord! And stay by my side, we I turn to you savior, I am comforted.' And it just made me happy that's all;) after all the meetings, the wind was blowing 100 km/hr no joke! So Jean Paul got a ride home with some members and me and elder Sorensen had to take his little walking machine home and drop some nuts off as Mado's from the Duez's. So we did that and then finally got home for lunch! I was starving. After we'd finished with that we went out to go contacting and elder Sorensen had been really wanting to go and do some work in this small town in our sector and so we went and looked at bus times. We had 45 minutes and so we decided that we would go and maybe try to find this one less active. So we went and found her but she told us that she had left the church because people didn't respect the choices she made...so she told us no and we headed out. We caught our bus and headed out to Gravelines. There was a less active that lived out there who used to be the branch president and so we tried to stop by his house but he didn't answer so we just did some porting! All was well. We then got a call from Mike telling us he was sorry that he hadn't been at church today and asking if we could go over and give him a blessing. So we went and headed home to Dunkerque so that we could give him a blessing. We spent a while sitting there talking and then he asked me to give him a blessing...in French! 😬 one of the first that I'd given and I'm pretty sure I messed up a ton. But it was good and he said it was what he needed and gave me hug after. Then we headed home for the night. It was good! And we had a good week!
😬 one of the first that I'd given and I'm pretty sure I messed up a ton. But it was good and he said it was what he needed and gave me hug after. Then we headed home for the night. It was good! And we had a good week!
Well I hope that you all gained some weight this week! Thanksgiving is always a good time:) I'm happy to hear everyone is alive and doing well! Can't wait to hear from you all soon! Talk to you l8r:)
Elder Libby
