8/15/2016 0 Comments Hiccups and Spiders...Ciao family and Friends!
After having written an extremely juicy and intricate weekly email, my iPad flipped out and deleted all of my notes and data from the past month, including my weekly... So positivity is a little “less-easy” today than usual haha, But hey, It's okay! Still positive! (Eye twitch) Sadly, I don't have time to rewrite everything because we don't actually get a P-day today. Instead, we will be spending the day on a train! Woot woot! :D So that will be quite the adventure! :) With that, I apologize for my "weak-sauce" email this week -- as my little brother would say haha. With an outstanding variety of underground transportation, namely RERs and Metros, there is little need for buses. Though one day on our way home from the chapel, we decided to switch things up a bit and hit up the bus. Typically, as a missionary, the moment you get on a bus you begin looking for people to talk to. Though rarely is it ever the actual bus driver haha. Jean'-Michel is our bus driver :) A little background story about Jean-Michel... Several weeks ago my companion was running late for a RDV when she had a sudden urge to buy ice cream. She didn't even want ice cream. But, she bought it anyways haha. When she saw her bus leaving the stop without her and her companion, they began running and waving their arms rapidly, with hopes of stopping the advancing bus. The bus stopped. That never happens. They were so grateful that they gave the bus driver the ice cream that they had not yet had a chance to eat, along with a Book of Mormon. Moral of the story... Ice cream is ALWAYS a good idea ;) ... Hahaha okay that's not quite it, because the story doesn't end there! Weeks later, Soeur Weckesser and I jumped on the bus and to our great surprise, it was the same bus driver! We ended up staying on the bus for about 45 minutes talking to him about the church as he drove his course. He had even been reading the Book of Mormon that they had given him, with his family! We also had the chance to meet his family, who happened to be on the bus that day as well. It was incredible. We will be teaching Jean Michel and his family for the first time this Friday! :) There is nothing more annoying than the hiccups when you are trying to testify. Especially when you're trying to speak another language. Between your accent and your spontaneous outbursts of breath, no one can take you seriously. We were sitting in a lesson with Lucile, who is preparing to be baptized the 28th of this month, when the hiccups hit me like no other. I couldn't say a single sentence without hiccupping. Clearly I wasn't the only one who was getting annoyed because within the first 5 minutes of our lesson, Vanessa (25-year-old daughter) tells me that all you need to do to get rid of the hiccups is to take your fist and jab it into your sternum. Yikes! She kept trying to show me on herself what I needed to do but I did not think it was a very good idea hahaha. I was just imagining the worst case scenarios. Finally, she tells me I need to not be a baby about it, she gets up and comes over to me to do it herself! EEK! I threw my arms out to block it and then instantly, my hiccups stopped. Hahahaha. She literally scared the hiccups right out of me!! Lol. My companion couldn't stop laughing. I was a little traumatized. I try hard to be positive. But there is little happiness found in a shattered iPad screen. Luckily, The Lord always gives us reason to be positive about everything, even broken screens. We sat and waited for the iPad techs to give me a bid on fixing my screen when one of them looks at my badge and says, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints... What do you teach?" Giving me the perfect opportunity to teach the entire Restoration to the IPad technicians. Hahaha, so cool! Everything happens for a reason right? When I came back to pick up my iPad we made a little exchange, they gave me my iPad, and I gave them a Book of Mormon... Most expensive Book of Mormon I have ever given! (150 euros later). We were out on exchanges the other day when one of the sisters began to cry. In my goofy attempt to cheer her up, I lunged at a pigeon and gobbled. I scared the little guy so badly that it leaped and pooped right in front of my shoe. It was a close call. Too close. But it definitely cheered her up!!! This wouldn't be a real Soeur Wyson email if it didn't include a spider story. Our apartment is pretty old and very French (which is awesome). But, the only problem that the creaky old wooden floor panels present is...with pretty decent sized gaps between the boards, they make for a perfect home for our little spider friends. Only... They are not so little. Lots and lots of 'em! We're talking borderline tarantulas living beneath our feet. Needless to say we have been faced with several near death experiences throughout the week. All the movement and changes must be summoning them from their hiding places... So the four of us have been living arachnophobia, some more than others. So my companion and I, being the jokesters that we are, decided to take advantage of the situation and we put a huge plastic spider in the other sisters’ lamp Hahahaha. It looked SO real!!!! I even freaked myself out a little bit. Anyways, later on that day we got the funniest voice mail either of us have ever received in all our years of living. They were absolutely terrified when they saw the spider Hahaha. They took several videos when they found it while they tried to build up the courage to kill it. It took them 30 minutes of screaming, crying, and panicking before they realized it was fake! LOL. We came home to a "you're dead to us" note on the door with a picture of a spider drawn on it. We laughed for a solid while. In fact, the four of us are all still laughing! Though my companion and I are a little on edge about what's coming for us but it's part of the fun hahahaha. One of our companionship goals this week was to strive to have charity and to serve those around us in every way we could. As volunteer missionaries, we ourselves have nothing to give in terms of money or foods. But there are so many other ways we can serve :) One idea my companion and I came up with was, Origami! Paper is cheap and origami dragons can make ANYONE smile!! The other day we were walking out of the metro when we saw a woman holding a sign asking for help. She seemed so incredibly sad. We only made it about half way out of the metropolitan before stopping and pulling out a piece of paper. Then we went back and presented the woman with a little origami bird and a smile :) It was so sweet to see the change in that woman's face that was made by a simple little origami bird :). Again, I'm sorry for the very lame and random email. But on the bright side, at least you know that mission life is keeping me on my toes!! ;) I love you all!!! Love, Sœur Wyson
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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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