Coucou Family!
We had a finding day in Normandy this week, I also celebrated my year mark with my MTC companion, Soeur Hodgman :) The last time I visited Normandy was when I was 15 years old. Plus, the train we took drove right through the little town I stayed in while I was here! It was almost emotional haha. I miss that place! Normandy is a little bit tougher as far as the work goes. Here in Paris we can go out for a couple hours and teach anywhere from 3-6 lessons. In Normandy, we went out for about 8 hours, and between both companionships, we only taught 4 haha. A little more challenging. But it was still great! We prayed a lot and saw some incredible miracles so it was all well worth it. My favorite miracle wasn't actually a lesson, but it sure made us laugh! Soeur Springer and I were sitting on the bus back to the Gare when I turn around to see a young man who looked EXACTLY like Jesus!!! I couldn't believe the similarities! So, I contacted him by saying... Hey, do you know who your twin is?... then I held up a contacting card with a picture of Jesus on it and said...."C'est JESUS!" That got the entire back of the bus laughing, which was great, because then we got to teach ALL of them about Jesus! We even gave him his own Book of Mormon and got his number so that we could set up a rendezvous-- and I got a picture with him!!! Definitely my favorite mission picture :) When we got off the bus we said one last prayer before leaving Caen, asking the Lord to lead just one single person to us before we had to leave. We turned around after saying the prayer and contacted the very first person we saw...who was absolutely not interested at all haha. So, we turned down the next street and contacted the NEXT person haha :). Well, It was actually two persons haha. Two very nice 18 year old girls named Jen and Julie :) The contact started off with us asking them a few fun survey questions, to all of which they replied, "Food!....Cookies!!...McDonalds!!" Hahaha. We came to the point where neither of us had any idea how to use that to transition into a gospel principle. So, I just started laughing and said to them... Well, we are actually here to talk about God, but I mean, everything good comes from him! Including McDonalds! (Okay, maybe only McDonalds in France, it's actually a restaurant here, not a fast-food hahaha). Well, honesty works!! They were atheist but by the end of the lesson they expressed a great desire to believe in God, but said that they simply didn't know where to start. Luckily, that's exactly why we are here! The Caen Sisters will be teaching them again tomorrow :) Miracles happen!!!... Even in Normandy!! ;) If there were an award for "Most accident prone" here in the France Paris Mission, I think Soeur Wyson would take the competition by a landslide hahaha. Thursday night I was joking with Soeur Buchanan about how not even a slipped disc can pull me out of the game and then I turned the corner to go into my room and of course, rolled my ankle... hahahahaha. Oh my goodness, God has a pretty good sense of humor. Well, luckily, He thought that wearing an ankle brace for only two days was enough time for me to learn my lesson haha. :) We had two more baptisms here in the Paris ward, Pamela and Aurélien! They looked so happy, it was such a joy to be part of their special days. On the less special side (or maybe special in a different sense of the word hahaha) we had a less active come to the baptism. I walked into the kitchen and she was pulling chicken out of a black trash bag, microwaving it, and trying to feed it to people hahaha. She also tried some of the elders’ root beer and apparently really liked it because next thing we knew, she was hiding it in the kitchen to take home hahahaha. When Elder Walton saw that he was like "Hey pepita, that's our root beer, we were going to take it home." So she grudgingly left it on the counter near Walton... then, when he turned his back she took an empty carton of orange juice and proceeded to pour almost the entire thing of root beer into the carton. I was dying hahahaha😂 He also caught her at the very last second before she left with their five euro container of Nutella😅 hahaha, oh Pepita... Here in France everyone keeps matches in their bathrooms instead of aerosol because they say that the smoke kills the odors. Which is important information that leads us into another baptism funny... we have a bunch of Africans in our ward here and they volunteered to make the food for the baptism. Well, I don't know if any of you have ever eaten REAL authentic African food, but holy smokes... that stuff has got some serious ZANG!!! By zang I mean spice. So much spice! Hahaha. It wrecked everyone. So basically our apartment has been smelling like serious campfire the past few days. We finished out the week by throwing an African Fete for the ward. Yes, more African food... we bought a lot of matches this week haha. It was super fun! We even wore African dresses and painted our faces--which made contacting on the metro ride home super fun ;)! The little kids couldn't stop staring at me and yelling, "Maman!! Papillon!!!" (Mama! Butterfly!!) Hahahaha. It was adorable. Oh yeah! We also accidentally sent Soeur Buchanan off on a train by herself with no phone hahaha. It was hilarious. There I was hobbling along with my ankle trying to get to the train in time and the other sisters were waiting for me but Soeur Buchanan, being brand new in the mission, just jumps on! Hahaha. Next thing you know the doors are closing and we are stuck outside yelling and running as the train leaves with our little brand new missionary on it to who knows where 😂 Hahahaha. We were laughing SOOO hard. That's all you can do in situations like that hahaha. Luckily we caught the next train, 30 minutes later and were able to meet her at the next stop hahaha. So funny. This week definitely kept us on our toes! Haha. Surprises around every corner! :) I love you all!!!💕 Love, Sister 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
April 2017
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