6/13/2016 3 Comments French Spiders Fly...Coucou à tous !
There is a ridiculous amount of spiders here. They are everywhere! Not to mention, they fly!! I remember learning about these things in my middle school biology class. It must have been a sick joke. Flying spiders?... Right... Well, sadly, the rumors are true...these little guys fall straight from the sky! It's actually quite interesting, and disgusting... They make little web parachutes so that they can catch the wind and travel farther. Then, as soon as they see something nice to latch onto, they release!! Eeeeek. Doesn't that just give you the hee-be-da-ba-gibies? The other day I was out finding with Soeur Johnson. We were in the middle of a really great contact when I see this spider comin' in for the kill. Yup, straight into her hair. Between being terrified of spiders and not wanting to throw off her groove, I was in quite the dilemma. But, needing to act fast, I quickly grabbed her hair and yanked that little dude out! I guess you could say I felt pretty heroic ;) We both felt like spiders were crawling all over us for the rest of the day. They probably were, haha. Sunday in the Metro we were talking with the elders when all of the sudden Soeur Clements' eyes double in size and she says..."Ummm...Elder...? Would you be offended if I slapped you right now?" Very confused, the elder looked back at her, but before he could respond she shrieked and her hand came flying through the air to slap a spider that had gotten a little too comfy on his collar, Hahaha. Everyone in our apartment has been waking up with bites all over their legs. We all had a bit of a bed-bug-panic and washed all the sheets in our apartment. When that didn't work we decided to do a little further investigating... Can you guess what we found? Did you guess, Spiders? If you did, you were right. Those little creeps had been dropping in from the tree right outside our window. Now the only struggle is... Our apartment is a furnace. With no air-conditioning, no windows to open, and a dryer that manages to turn our apartment into a sauna... We are beginning to wonder what's worse. Heat exhaustion...or the spiders? We still haven't opened the windows so I guess it's safe to say no one likes spiders. Well, that's enough talk about spiders... As my companion is tackling the last 9 days of her mission, this past week has consisted of a lot funeral (I mean farewell) errands, and many more to come. Thus, I don't have very much time to write today. But, I wanted to share a quick miracle before wrapping up :) Our district spent an entire day in Valenciennes to help the missionaries out. They set up a "finding Bingo" to give us some fun objectives to complete, such as contacting people on Family history, or giving out a Book of Mormon. We contacted just about every single person in the entire Ville before seeing anything happen. We were pretty discouraged at this point because we had talked to so many people and had absolutely no success in finding someone to teach. As the day was coming to an end and we were running low on energy, we decided to contact one last person... Rafael, a young Christian boy about our age, happened to be on his way to a soccer game when we stopped him. We had a great conversation and presented to him, a Book of Mormon. If that contact was not miracle enough in itself...Later that night as we were headed home, I turned my head and glanced down the street just in time to see Rafael... Walking and reading the Book of Mormon that we had given him. This experience reminded me of one of my favorite scriptures as a missionary, ... "Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brethren, the Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give unto you success." (Alma 26:27) With Love, Sister Wyson
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Diane Wirth
6/14/2016 08:44:52 am
Hi Tracie, I'm your neighbor at Stone Cliff. I've been called as the Ward Historian, and would like to put your last two paragraphs of your June 13th post in our annual Ward History. Let me know if this is okay. I always appreciate your news. Our grandson is in Peru on a mission. Keep up the great work!
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Soeur Wyson
6/27/2016 09:00:16 am
of course you can! Thank you !
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Beverely Telford
6/15/2016 06:18:19 pm
Sister Wyson, just wanted you to know I look forward to reading your emails every Monday. You are hard working and try so hard to be led by the Spirit. You make me want to try harder to be better at listening for direction of the Spirit. I have a niece in Florida and. Granddaughter in Peru on their missions. It is such a blessing to read all these letters! Thank you!!
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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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