A few things I failed to mention... Coucou mes amis ! First off, I LOVED hearing from all of you this week! I think I broke my record for incoming emails, it was awesome! Thank you everyone for the love and support that you send, you are all absolutely wonderful! As I mentioned in my subject line, I left out a few details in my email last week. So, before going into this week, I am going to back up a little bit and catch up the last :) You might remember this piece from my most recent email : "We missed our connecting to Angers so we stayed in Nantes for the rest of the weekend, it was an adventure! Hahaha :)".... Well, It was an adventure for sure! We were on the train headed back to Angers after a finding day in La Rochelle when I starting getting incredibly sharp pains in my abdomen. When it started bruising and swelling (after having been up all night throwing up the night before) the STLS called Soeur Babin, our mission president's wife. Soeur Babin then got on the phone with the mission nurse, who did an over the phone examination through Soeur Bond haha. While I lay down in the middle of the Gare, Soeur Bond performed a variation of tests as instructed by the nurse. I'm sure everyone in the Gare thought I was either dying or just had a little too much to drink hahaha. Immediately after, the nurse sent us to the nearest Emergency room in Nantes...(hence the reason we missed our connecting train hahah). Well, the hospital didn't give us any information, except that I discovered it is really difficult to communicate medical terminology in a foreign language haha. But the good news is, I am learning SO many new words!! :) The elders met us at the hospital and escorted my companion back to the apartment with the other sisters and Soeur Bond stayed with me at the hospital. It was a pretty long night; we were there from 9:00 at night until 5:30 in the morning, we didn't get into the apartment until around 6:30am. If the Doctor wouldn't have been so young and dreamy it would have been a lot easier to get upset with him when he gave me a laxative prescription and sent me home telling me that I was probably just "backed up" hahaha. We stayed in Nantes for a few days to rest before heading back to Angers to see a specialist. We had our Appointment with the specialist on Tuesday and he was absolutely incredible. He ran tests, did paperwork, gave me a diagnostic, and wrote my prescription, all in less than 30 minutes! It was amazing, he really knows his stuff! He diagnosed Stomach ulcers and sent me back to do some blood tests for Anemia. I told my companion..."No wonder I can eat SO much, I have a hole in my stomach!;)" We picked up the results on our way to Paris on Thursday and as soon as the Doctor saw us she gave us the results and told us "Il faut" (it's necessary) that we return to the doctors office asap because of the "results that disturb". That was a bit disturbing because we had no idea what she actually said until we looked it up in the dictionary. Not exactly what we wanted to hear haha. We received a call from the insurance later that day, telling us that they scheduled another appointment with the doctor for tomorrow to discuss the results of my blood test. Shortly after, we received a call from the doctor, telling us that there had been a mistake with the results that had been given to me. The secretary had confused me with another patient who came in at the same time. So, my "disturbing" results actually weren't my results at all! PHEW! It was truly a miracle, I know that my Heavenly Father is watching over me :) This week has been a crazy one, but my French has skyrocketed! I think at this point I can explain medical anatomy more efficiently in French than English haha :) Not many missionaries get the opportunity to learn how to do that! To add to the chaos of our week, we got a call from our district leader yesterday telling us to stay inside. Apparently there were some pretty crazy "manifestations" going on in the streets today because of a big soccer game. The elders were confronted by some big groups of people yelling at them and calling them names, no one was hurt, they just tugged at their ties a little bit. We were okay with staying inside because I was still pretty sick, so we spent our day doing book work and weekly planning. :) We did see some pretty interesting things from our window! When we heard sirens and loud voices, we looked out the window to see fire trucks lined up outside our apartment and firemen running around down below. It was pretty crazy, we got to watch them climb up the giant ladder on the truck and break into our neighbors window with a hatchet. It was awesome haha. No one was hurt :) But we did film it! Luckily it wasn't anything serious. All that excitement over a broken carbon monoxide detector hahaha. Jacqueline is doing awesome as always :) She sent us a text the other day saying that she read 26 chapters in the Book of Mormon the other day! How COOOL is that!? I think I learn more from Jacqueline than she learns from me haha. We are changing her baptismal date from the 14th. We found out that the 14th is her wedding anniversary and her husband was feeling a little neglected. But no worries! It just gives us more time to make sure she is good and prepared :) We had an awesome miracle the other day! We were running to catch a bus and we decided to risk missing our bus and just try to get one more miracle on the way haha :) we contacted a woman really quickly and she was so sweet to us! Turns out, she had met with the missionaries a few times but she lives an hour out of town and so after those missionaries were transferred, no one knew about her! (This is why it's important to keep the area book updated, missionaries!) Anyways, we are going to take a bus out to see her this week! :) We had to stay home from church because I was up all night with a fever and chills. It was really funny because we got a call from an ami and since we weren't at the church she thought they had to cancel the meetings hahahah. At least we know she thinks we are important ;)! It was so sweet, the primary kiddos made me get well soon cards and brought them over that night with chocolate and treats :) we have an awesome ward. Today is the last day of my 40 day fast from negativity! Can you believe it has already been 40 days? I don't want it to be over! The good news is, it is never over !:) If I did the math right, it takes 40 days to build a habit; positivity should be drilled into my head by now! Woot woot! :D I've been giving a lot of thought to the goal of my 2nd fast and I have decided to title this fast: "This ye shall do that God may be glorified!" I read this phrase while studying in Doctrine and Covenants and it immediately stuck out to me. Something that almost every missionary seems to realize at some point on their mission is that this work is not about you. We are here to serve and glorify our Father in Heaven by serving his children and inviting them to come unto him...Jacob 1:7 "Wherefore we labored diligently among our people, that we might persuade them to come unto Christ, and partake of the goodness of God"... Mosiah 2:17 "when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God." So, over the next 40 days of my mission, I will be fasting from glorifying myself and instead, I will boast in my God! Alma 26: 35-36 "35 Now have we not reason to rejoice? Yea, I say unto you, there never were men that had so great reason to rejoice as we, since the world began; yea, and my joy is carried away, even unto boasting in my God; for he has all power, all wisdom, and all understanding; he comprehendeth all things, and he is a merciful Being, even unto salvation, to those who will repent and believe on his name. 36 Now if this is boasting, even so will I boast; for this is my life and my light, my joy and my salvation, and my redemption from everlasting wo. Yea, blessed is the name of my God, who has been mindful of this people, who are a branch of the tree of Israel, and has been lost from its body in a strange land; yea, I say, blessed be the name of my God, who has been mindful of us, wanderers in a strange land." I LOVE this scripture. My favorite part is when Ammon says, "now if this is boasting, even so will I boast"!! He is right!! Have we not reason to rejoice!? Life is beautiful! The gospel is beautiful! God is wonderful! The other day my companion and I were walking down the street and I thought I felt a raindrop hit my cheek. I didn't think much of it at first, because it is ALWAYS raining here. I began to wonder if it actually had been raining and I had just become desensitized to it. I extended my arm out in front of me and sure enough, it was rain! It made me think of how the Lord is so mindful of us...he is constantly raining blessings down upon all of us, but over time, we tend to become "desensitized". Even though he is still pouring those blessings down, we stop recognizing them. I hope that we can take the time to pause and "extend our arm" so that we can feel the love of our Father in Heaven, raining down blessings upon us. I love you all so much and I love this gospel. It has brought an unbelievable amount of joy into my life and I have seen it change the lives of so many others. If you haven't felt that joy, I invite you to extend your arm. I promise you, it's not just raining in France! :) Xoxo- Sœur Wyson The pictures are from a game called "flan suck." You have to suck up the flan in one quick suck!
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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
April 2017
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