Hello all the bodies!
Wow. What a week it has been. I am so tired but so excited that I'm finally
here. This week has been crazy so here we go! Week one has been the fastest and
the slowest week of my life. Like I can't believe it's already done, but how is
it only Tuesday? On Wednesday right when I got away from all of the emotional
people, cause I wasn't one, I immediately stopped crying and they legit sent us
straight to work. It was just one thing after another and I legit did not know
what was going on. I got my name tag and room key and went to put my stuff in my
room and then off to class. Like legit no time at all for anything...haha just
one thing after another. but it was definitely good! We had class and meetings
and met our zone leaders and teachers and by then it was already time for bed.
It's crazy how long the days feel but how fast they go by. We woke up on
Thursday at the crack of 6:30...holy cow...getting up sucks...we had a class
very first on how to not judge people, which was alright but i didn't really
understand the point of it cause he literally jumped around on everything and we
watched some videos and he talked way fast and kept turning off the lights but i
guess it was good. anyway, we had a 4 hour class for french that day! holy crap!
that was a long day..but it was way good cause i actually really look forward to
french cause i like learning it. it is really coming along too! maybe i'll bear
my testimony at the end?;) but we met our first investigator on thursday and
learned about her and then found out that we had to teach her on Friday....in
french... so that was good. anyway that night we had a 3 hour meeting with our
Branch Presidency and then single interviews...I guess i should've dumbed down
just a little bit because guess what that interview did? Made this kid the
District Leader of District 46C! Which isn't bad cause that's just a fancy name
for the person that gets the sacred privilege of picking up the mail and then
attending extra meetings on Sundays... haha on friday morning we had a service
project which was just us cleaning another districts dorm...not too fun but not
too bad. Today we taught our first lesson to Carmelle, our investigator, and it
went alright but we told her notre objecif comme missionaires (our goal as missionaries). Inviter les gens
a venir au Christ en les aident a recevoir l'evangile retabli par la foi en
Jesus-Christ et en son expiation par le repentir, par le bapteme, par la
reception du don du Saint-Espirit, et par la perseverance jusqu'a la fin. go
translate it. (Invite people to come unto Christ by helping to receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement, repentance, baptism, the reception of the gift of the Holy Spirit, and perseverance until the end) and when we told her that she asked what expiation is...which is
the atonement. i about died. it legit took me 10 minutes how to figure out how
to say can we teach you about that later...and that might just be my favorite
saying now...haha my french has gotten a lot better since but it's still not
perfect. i can pray in french, i can ask where the bread is, and i can sing a
few hymns, and that's about all i need to survive right? that was the first
night we got mail, and i just happened to find some doughnuts for me;) Saturday
started out with another meeting with Carmelle, which went sooooo good. we
taught her about prayer. we asked if she had problems in her life that she would
like god to help her with and she told us she didn't want to bother god cause he
didn't want to hear her problems but that she was looking for a job cause she
just moved here from Paris 3 days earlier. we got her to pray but she forgot to
ask her help finding a job so we challenged her to pray for that. Saturday I
memorized notre objectif comme missionaires! all of it! I was pretty happy about
that. then we had gym and one of the childers in my group, elder wells, self
proclaimed himself as my personal trainer. so i've been getting some good
workouts in and may not come home as fat cause he's going to Paris too! Sunday
was just like any other sunday... we woke up and went to meetings all day...i
had 3 extra meetings cause im district leader but it went good. Sacrament
meeting went good. Here at the MTC, each missionary has to have a talk prepared,
in French, every Sunday, cause they randomly pick speakers. Luckily it wasn't me
this week! but after sacrament meeting we went for a walk to the temple, and i'm
probably not supposed to say this, but i really don't think the Provo temple is
all that pretty, and the whole way up i was kinda like,,,ehhh but i kid you not.
when we were up there just silently walking around and taking pictures with
everyone, the spirit of the Lord was so strong and i've never realized the true
beauty of a temple. not once while we were up there was the temple ugly to me.
it was a good time to feel the spirit and i am so glad i got to experience that.
we then headed back to have a devotional and film which were way good. First off
for Monday, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MOM AND DAD!! 25 YEARS!!! ok now onto the
important stuff;) jkjkjkjk i woke up and as a district we've decided that the
last one on the floor after the alarm clock goes off has to pray so that's
pretty good i guess! We then had another lesson with Carmelle about the book of
mormon and she agreed to read it! we realized that every other companionship had
asked if she'd be baptized exept for us so we decided to ask her and she said
not yet...but we had her pray again and she prayed that we'd have confidence as
missionaries, that we'd learn our french, (not sure if that's a compliment or an
insult) and then that if God was real that he might help her to find a job. The
spirit was amazing and i'm so glad she's praying. we then had class and brother
pehrson had asked me to pretend to be Carmelle, (not sure if that's a compliment
or an insult) and that he was going to answer some of the questions she'd asked
us. i never have felt the spirit so strong as when i did when he was teaching
me. it was quite an amazing experience that i won't soon forget. then
today....wow...today has been interesting to say the least. first off, which is
not bad at all, i actually am so glad i got to go!, we went to a temple session.
then we got a nap, HOLLA, then laundry and ***********SPOILER: ANYONE WITH A
SENSITIVE STOMACH SHOULD NOT READ TIL THE STARS :) we got a note from the MTC
presidency on like friday or so saying that all those serving in the Paris
mission had a mandatory visa meeting to attend today at 1. those at the MTC who
have experienced this before call it the Happy Tuesday. well we heard that it
was for the Belgian visa and that we needed to get our blood drawn to see if we
had parasites and worms in our system...which was true we had to give blood, but
also a stool sample. yup i have officially donated a stool sample in my lifetime
now! pretty much the most disgusting thing ever... but it's over and done. and
i'm glad!**************
K well that's all for this week! thank you everyone for the letters and
emails! i'm trying to write to everyone but an hour goes so fast here!!! Je
t'aime et je sais que l'Eglise est vrai. A semain prochain! (I love you and I know that the Church is true. Until next week!)
Elder Libby :)
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