Soeur Sarah Hunt France Paris Mission: This week was great and I loved every second of it!

This week was just long I guess. I mean, not discouraging, but long. It consisted of personal study, finding, language study, finding, companion study, finding and then repeated 6 more times throughout the week. I really don't have much to write. Even with all the finding we've done, we didn't even manage to find someone who was even close to interested. We still have all our amies, but it's always hard getting back in touch with them. It's just the culture here. Caroline is out of town until Saturday and Victor is working and he travels a lot, so that doesn't really help. But it's ok! It’s all good! We’re doing the best we can and we still have great attitudes! This coming week is going to be very busy and I'm excited!

So I'll start first by sharing my wonderful, wonderful gift of tongues story from last Monday. We were headed over to a members house for dinner and family home evening. They're the BEST family. He speaks very clearly and I can understand everything he is pretty much saying. When he asked me things, I never had to say "comment?"(what?) Or look to my companion to help me out. I simply answered back in French and I seriously surprised myself! The whole night was like that, and even I asked him some questions. I found out that he is a photographer for a living and he's very good. He showed me his cameras which I might add, are humongous. So we had that in common. Next we ate the famous dish of Lorraine. It was actually very good and she also made chocolate mousse for us, yummy. Towards the end of dinner when we heading to leave, the dad said, "If only you could speak better because I can tell you like to joke and we would have so much more fun together." That made me happy. They also have a son who just turned 12 Thursday this last week. I'm glad because now I don't have to try and tu/toi. It's hard...

Anyways, moving on, we were heading down south to pick something up when on the bus ride down we saw Nicolas (you don't know him, it's a different Nicolas that who I've talked about so far). He is from down south but moved up here to go to school. He hasn't been coming to church but I guess that's just because he doesn't really know anybody, but he's a member and he's so sweet and awesome. Anyways, we almost forgot about him until we saw him! He saw us and came over to say hello! Sœur Giles was on the phone and couldn't talk to him. Great. That meant I had to speak French and actually try to speak. So I said hi and then looked away. I knew I couldn't just keep sitting there. He looked like he really wanted to speak with us. He probably really needed someone to talk to. So then I said, "Do you have school today?" He responded by saying, "Yes, I have a class soon, and it's going well." Then I asked what he studied. He said he studied mechanics and he said some others things but I didn't understand, but I knew enough so I nodded my head and said that was cool. I think that's as far as I could go. Soon he was leaving and he said goodbye and told us he'd be coming to church. We were so happy! It really made my day.

On Sunday, we did see him and he came over and said hello my Sisters. Haha. It was really nice seeing him and now hopefully we can see him more and get to know him better. I think he really needed that. I think that was the reason we needed to go down south that day. It was for him, he needed to see us. It was a great experience.

I guess now I can add one more thing because I just got back from doing service with a family who is in the ward. They’re awesome. She asked us to help her clean her house because she said she has a hard time cleaning and relaxing when she has to take care of the kids 24/7. She also served us lunch and she told us she likes preparing old French dishes for us. So this time we got rabbit and noodles with carrots, potatoes and a wonderful sauce to go with it. Really good. Anyways, I was really glad to help.

Other than that, sorry to say, I don't have much else to add. This week was great and I loved every second of it. I'm not kidding. I love being here and the people here need help and I'm willing to help them. Thank you all for the support and love. I'm incredibly grateful for this gospel and for this wonderful plan of happiness our loving Heavenly Father has prepared for us. We don't realize how blessed we are. Again, take some time to study to have some quiet time and notice all the things the Lord has done for us. Thanks again for everything!

Love always Sœur Hunt