11/21/2016 1 Comment A Cookie and a KissCoucou tout le monde !! 🌎
Rubix Cube Speed Contacting... Everyone here is extremely impressed when someone can do a rubix cube. So, Neistadt and I studied the French Rubix Cube Manuel for language study so that we could learn how to do them and use it as a contacting technique on long bus and train rides. Neistadt has known for a while how to do it so she is crazy fast already. I'm working on catching up hahaha. Anyways, our first day was a success. We met a man named Jean-Philipe who was of course impressed with our mad puzzle solving skills ;) okay, maybe he was only impressed by Soeur Neistadt's... But, he asked how to do it and of course that led to the response of us being missionaries hahaha. He was atheist but interested in the Book of Mormon. So, we gave him a card and a Book of Mormon and told him to call us. He said he would. Though, so do all the other 100 people a day that we give cards to hahaha. Later that day we get a call and my companion answers. Next thing I know she is yelling "Stop it! Stop it!" Into the phone while trying really hard not to laugh. Listening to her end of the conversation, I assumed it was just the elders. The problem is... so did she. Hahaha. Well, the person who she thought was the elders calling and pretending to be a French man... actually WAS a French man. Yup, Jean-Philippe called! Ha! Neistadt was pretty embarrassed. She immediately started trying to explain to him that she thought he was our "American friends" hahaha. Luckily he thought it was just as funny as I did and we were still able to fix a rendezvous hahaha. The next day it was my turn to do the Rubix cube on Trajet (transit?). My companion was teasing me because she said I was a beginner and it wasn't going to impress anyone that I could do a rubix cube in Ten Minutes. She was right, hahaha. But I did it anyways. Half way through, I turn to the girl next to me and say... "she teases me for being slow, but these things are hard!" I didn't think it was actually that funny, but she sure did! In fact, she thought it was so funny that she wanted to take the missionary lessons after ;). Okay, that's not why she wanted to take the lessons, hahaha. But she was awesome! We are going to see her this week :). The Miracles of HeadQuarter referrals... Boy do I love referrals! We received a self-referral a few weeks ago of a woman named Madame Ambert. The referral said that she wasn't interested in taking lessons at all but that she just wanted a Book of Mormon. Well, it took about 3 weeks for that referral to process and get to us. So, by the time we passed by, she had spent the past 3 weeks researching and reading everything she could about the Mormons on all of the churches websites and said to us, "I have researched over a hundred religions, and I am completely convinced that there is no other church that raises youth to be as strong as yours. It must be because you have a prophet!" Family nights and homemade hummus!... We had to sprint through Versailles after our miracle with Madame Ambert in order to get to our next RDV with Salah and Ynesse on time. We were having a FHE with one of my very favorite couples in our ward. We didn't quite make it "on time" haha. But we made it! The night went really well too! We actually taught about Temples, which Salah and Ynesse found SUPER cool! Salah is progressing much quicker than Ynesse. Just because he wasn't a “practicing" Muslim as Ynesse is. So it's a lot easier for him to leave some of the old traditions behind and try something a little bit different--Like not having memorized prayers and just praying from your heart. It's quite amazing to observe the difference of progression between someone who is praying from their heart as opposed to someone who is reciting a memorized prayer. Prayer is the key to receiving answers to our questions. We cannot receive answers to questions we do not ask. On the less-spiritual side of FHE, we played a card game called, "Exploding Kittens" Hahahaha...Weirdest game I think I have ever played. Wrong Bus. I Mean Right Bus!... Every time we get on the "wrong bus" it ends up being the right bus! Neistadt and I made a goal this week that we weren't going to allow ourselves to sit down on trajet unless we talked to someone. Otherwise it's just too easy to get comfortable on all those long rides haha. Well, we got on a bus that actually happened to be a private student bus and not a public bus (awkward), so we figured it probably wasn't the best idea to be contacting since it technically isn't allowed on private buses. So instead, I just told the young girl next to me that I liked her lipstick and I figured, considering the circumstances, I could probably sit down after saying that. To my surprise, she responded with, "Thanks! I'm Christian too! Only not practicing. Are you here to teach people? Can I have your number?"....uhhh yes you may!!!...So we exchanged numbers and fixed a RDV for next week :). Contacting... African Style!... As you have probably noticed, we did a LOT of contacting this week. So we tried a lot of different techniques to keep things interesting. Well, one of them was to take the most enthusiastic African man in our ward out to contact with us hahaha. Let's just say, some methods of contacting are a little more effective than others, haha! I think he was just a little bit TOO enthusiastic for the French hahaha. I felt like I was at one of the African Markets that they have here, only we weren't selling Corn or Piment, we were selling Church! hahaha. But, I can honestly say that was the most entertaining contacting session I have ever experienced! ;) Praying in Spanish... We met a really cool Spanish lady on the road. She didn't speak any French or English, and we don't speak any Spanish ahaha. So I'm not sure how well our message got across, but I prayed for her in "Spanish" ahaha. Meaning I just rolled all my R's while speaking French, hoping maybe she would understand a little more haha. She told me after than she was really impressed with my Spanish ;) which was actually just French. I don't know any Spanish. She was definitely just being nice hahaha. Cookies and a Kiss... Saturday, every single one of our rendezvous fell through and so we had nothing to do. Well, as much as we love contacting all day, that's about all we did all week haha. So, instead, we made about 200 snickerdoodles and passed by about 30 member families! We even found some new investigators along the way! We wrote this cute little card about giving them "a cookie and a kiss" and then kissed all of the notes with red lipstick. Our first pass by was one of our old friends (our hair stylist). He thought it was so cute hahaha, then he read the card and said, "I'll take both!!" Then before I had time to shake his hand, he slapped two nice, big, slobbery grandpa kisses on my face, Hahahaha😂. He loves us. He calls us the "Mormon Models". I'm not sure why hahaha, but I guess he thinks we are pretty cute ;)! On Sunday, the members were all so happy and smiley! They were all showing off their little cards from us and giggling among themselves about "comment c'est adorable" (how adorable it is). Hahaha. I love being a missionary. Elder Packer was right; the two essential ingredients ARE a cookie and a kiss!!! ;) À Bientôt ! A cookie and a Kiss, Soeur Wyson
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Tino
11/21/2016 11:35:23 am
J'en voudrais bien un de vos biscuits.
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Tracie WysonI feel very honored to have had the opportunity to serve as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the France, Paris Mission. Archives
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