We have a winner!

This week was full of surprises, miracles, parties, parades and much more!

First, I'd like to explain what France does when there is a celebration of any sort or in this case the World Cup. Sorry for the lack of information about this subject because it's something that's REALLY important that everyone understands.

First in any given celebration people get in their cars and just honk their car horns. The creativity in France... It’s Impressive. No seriously! They deserve a metal. Usually that's about it though but granted this time it's the World Cup. Here’s an experience we had last week:

Anyways yes, the streets go absolutely NUTS. They just honk their horns screaming and waving their flag around and its quite...Terrifying. I really wonder what the people think as we contact them, here we are screaming above the noise around us, THE SPIRIT IS LIKE THE WIND YOU CAN'T SEE IT, BUT YOU CAN FEEL IT, WHY CAN'T YOU FEEL IT NOW!?!? I bet they think we're a bunch of idiots LOL. The terrifying part is when they throw little firework explosive bombs from their cars onto the sidewalk when you're trying to do some contacting. You can't see the bombs, you just hope and pray that you won't die. Next thing you know, BLAM and then you basically start crying or your heart stops beating. It literally felt like we were in a war zone. So... Yeah, Go France!!

Moving on to our wonderful miracles. Seriously if you were here in the moment of these miracles you'd have to believe that there is a God, if not then I don't know what would.

Miracle #1, #2, #3: we were at a member’s house pulling weeds and eating lunch for a few hours. We left for our bus to find out that we had missed it by 1 minute. Not good. It was 12h55 and the next bus didn't come until 13h56 and we had a rendezvous at 14h. This rendezvous was important because we had been trying to meet with this guy for 2 months. His name is Jean-Pierre and I met him when I was with Sœur Skouson. We didn't know what to do but my comp just thought we needed to wait a few more minutes before we started walking. The thing with buses is that you have to take them in the right direction depending on where you need to go but this particular bus goes in one huge circle, so it doesn't matter which direction you take it because you'll end up where you'll need to be. By waiting a few more minutes the bus came but going the opposite direction but no big deal because it goes where we want! Miracle! So, we took it. We got back and changed super quick (we were in service clothes). The time now is 14h02. Crap! As we walk out I remember praying for the little mini free bus to come by. You never know when that little bus comes because there's no schedule for it. So right as we walked out of our apartment I saw the little mini bus coming right down the street.  We immediately start booking it for the bus stop before it passes it. We made it and hopped right on! Miracle! We got to this man's place and first in case some don't know, if you're a sister missionary you can't teach a man who's alone, so we tried to get some members to come with us, but they were all busy and couldn't come. Before we sonned (rang the doorbell) into his apartment we prayed and also prayed that his girlfriend would be there because he said sometimes she's there if she's not working. If she's there we can teach a lesson and if she's not we just give him a book of Mormon and leave and hope we can meet with him again. Guess what, she was there! Miracle! One right after another! After these I just knew that God wanted us to have this rendezvous. We taught them, and it was a really good lesson. You could see it in his eyes that he understood! He loved seeing how the authority was passed down from Christ to the apostles and then to Joseph Smith. We hope to see him this week again and fix a baptismal date!

Miracle #4: We had 2 amis at church!!!

Miracle #5 We got locked out of our apartment. But this wasn't just a regular oh we left our keys in the house but more like we left the keys still in the key hole on the inside of the door. We called the member who has our spare, but they weren't home! They were in Lille for a family party, but they said that they gave their next-door neighbor the spare to their house so all we had to do was knock on the neighbor’s door and then grab our keys. We got there, and their neighbors weren't home. What do we do now!? Well, we said it would be an absolute miracle if their neighbors just came home right now. Guess what, right as we said that they came home! Miracle! They just pulled right up to their driveway. We got our keys and headed back to our apartment. But get this because our keys were still in the key hole we still couldn't open the door from the outside. So, we called members to help us figure something out. These two members, (the Savasta Sœurs) are the literal best example of ministering. The ward is always thanking them for something because they're always doing their part to help and be good members. Long story short we ended up calling a professional because our door is like security on steroids absolutely no way you can even try to get in. We’re blessed to have members who love us and a Heavenly Father who is always looking out for us as well.

Anyways quick side note. I don't think I'll ever be scared to give talks in sacrament anymore when I get home. I won't have to do it in a broken language and back home they give you a few days to prepare for it too. Last Sunday 2 hours before sacrament started bishop called and asked us to speak (for not very long) because one speaker got sick and couldn't come. We spoke about faith. It went really well. I remember having just a few ideas in mind but the rest I let God be in charge. Seriously if you absolutely hate giving talks in front of large crowds because you get super nervous or whatnot, I want you to remember that fear is of the devil not of God. So, if you place your trust in God and know that everything will work out according to what He wants then it really will. I promise. Ask for courage and he will give it you. He wants the best for the people you will speak to and he wants the best for you. Anyways every time I do that it works so I promise you it really works.

Anyways I love you lots and I encourage you to have faith in miracles and if you do that then you will see them. God will make them known to you according to his will. I love you and I hope you have a miracle filled week and have fun! It's summer!!

Love Sœur Hunt

One of our amis, Nicolas

Our ami, Nour

 Photos of the beautiful city of Calais