Soeur Sarah Hunt France Paris Mission: 3 DAYS LEFT!!!

Hello everyone! This week has been slow yet very fast. Slow because I’ve been counting down the days and fast because there is always so much to do here so it makes it go by fast. I love being here. I love all those who are in my life that support me. God will bless all of you because of your love of this gospel.

This week has been very interesting. Let’s start with Sunday. Sunday was very awesome. We all fasted. It was actually very awesome. I didn’t even get hungry. Probably because I was so busy. I fasted that I would regain my health. Yeah, I got sick again and right now I sound like smoker. I’m praying that I feel better by my flight over to France on Monday because I don’t want to feel like poop since I’ve been waiting for this moment my whole life. It’s been really good until yesterday and now it’s a cough but not supper bad still. Anyways, we had this guest speaker in our nightly devotional that night. Her name was Jenny Oaks Baker. She is a professional violinist who went to Julliard to start off her career. She was so inspiring. Before this devotional I kept having a hard time with comparing myself to everyone else. I kept thinking I wasn’t pretty enough or smart enough etc. But then when she spoke it meant a lot and answered my concerns:

*Place trust in the Lord

*The Lord needs all of us to build the Kingdom of God.

* You can’t build it by yourself.

*He's waiting to shower blessing on you.

* Don’t be prideful, love what you have and love what others have. You can’t expect to be the only person who has the best everything. We all need each other to build the kingdom of God.

Afterwards, they made a special announcement saying that instead of all of us going to see our separate choice of movies we were to all stay in the gym and watch the Character of Christ whether we’ve seen it already or not. OK, we did and it was as awesome as the first time. There were a couple of things at the beginning that stood out to me this time. I should have seen it before, but this time it was just smack in the face telling me... THIS IS JEFF. So Jeff, these notes I took are for you specifically, but it’s important to everyone:

* Don’t waste time jotting down, word for word, what speakers say.

*All you’re doing is making history of the lesson.

*All you’re doing is making your own large plates

*Write down what the Spirit teaches you.

*It’s not that the church isn’t true to you; it’s that you’re not true to the church

I LOVE Elder Bednar. He always knows what to say and he says it with such authority.

After the recording was done the conducting speaker told us to stay in our seats and Elder Bednar and his wife came in to the auditorium. In person. Everyone stood up and were whispering and gasping once we all realized what was happening. Best Day of My Life! I've been praying to have an apostle come speak to us. Even better Elder Bednar came!!! He came and had us just ask him questions and he would pick on someone and he'd answer. It was really, truly awesome. He’s so nice, but direct, he knows what he is talking about and isn’t afraid to offend someone because his faith is so dead set on the Lord that no one can drive him astray. By the time we finished everything it was 10. And we had to be in bed, lights out at 10:30. Worth it!

Monday was average, good but nothing crazy different happened. We’re practicing our goodbye song for sacrament on Sunday. It’s I Know That My Redeemer Lives. First verse in French and then we all split the other verses and come together in the end. It’s awesome! Makes me cry every time. It’s my favorite hymn. That hymn is my testimony.

I was able to see Kyle Mills and Josh Salter this week! They seem to be enjoying everything. I also saw Josh Jessop during my hosting in the tour. Also Saw Katie Ann Powell during hosting. Boy do I love seeing familiar faces! It’s a nice treat. I love hosting! I love chatting with people. Some come from so far! Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, India and so on. I also think I saw Alex Wonders on the tour while I was in my classroom. I’m pretty sure it was him, but I could be wrong. I waved to him at the last second before he went behind the building and I think he saw me but I don’t think he knew it was me. Very sad, but cool enough. I’ve seen Braden a couple more times but it’s more like he sees me and yells, "SISTER HUNT!" from across the road. I love it! Michael is loving life and is working hard.

Mother I got your email about Jamie and Brandon coming on tour at noon when I was in class at 3:45. Sad I missed them but don’t think I have that great of luck to have seen them. But I love you all and say hi to Jayda for me! I miss her too!

Random thought…It’s funny, every time I get in the shower, by the way it’s not the tree of life, I always hear a choir. It’s like they’re holding choir in the showers. One time I was showering and they were singing Amazing Grace and it’s not like they sound bad either! I felt the spirit so strong while I was washing my armpits that I almost started crying! Can you even picture this??! Yeah it’s weird, but cool.

Also, everyone thinks my comp and I make the best Parisian missionaries because we look so elegant and very French all the time. They always say how perfect we are for France. Hehe I love it!

Also every time we say hi to one another in our zone it goes like this, “Bonjour! Bonjour, Bonjour, Bonjour, Bonjour! And then I just start singing the Beauty and the Beast song in my head... There goes the baker and his bread like always. You get the idea. It's hilarious to me. I love it.

I love everything you all have done for me. Thank you for all the letters everyone. I love letters but don’t send any until after I’ve made it to France in 3 DAYS!! because I might not get them. But I love letters! They mean a lot. Thank you mother for the packages. I will send one to you of anything I don’t need and yeah! Hopefully everything will go well! Next time we will speak will be from the airport going to France! And the next time I speak to any of you, it’ll be from France!!! YAY! It’s finally here! I’m so excited for this next big adventure. Love you all and thanks again for everything you do for me!

Much love always,

Soeur Sarah Hunt