Bonjour à tous !
Man, I can't believe it is already Monday! This week wasn't a very eventful one. We mostly just did a lot of exchanges, as usual :). Though we did have quite the exchange miracle on Tuesday! As well as about a million other weird experiences hahahaha. So basically this email will be dedicated to Tuesday. Tuesday I had an appointment with the physical therapist, which was inconveniently placed smack in the middle of exchanges. But that's okay, we enthusiastically took the challenge to find a new investigator while doing physical therapy! ;) Of course every time you are in a hurry to get somewhere, the metro comes to an abrupt stop and a fight breaks out between a bunch of scary shirtless men. Which delayed our arrival to the hospital by about 30 minutes. Placing us at the check-in desk at just the perfect moment to meet an adorable little old lady named Marie :) Marie was also trying to make her way to physical therapy but had gotten a little lost along the way. We were able to help her find her way by inviting her to walk and talk with us. :) She excitedly grabbed my hand and she held it so tight the WHOLE way hahaha. It was adorable. For the next 30 minutes she couldn't stop telling us how nice Canadians are. Even after repeating about 50 times that Soeur Larsen and I were actually American hahahaha. Then she would say, "Oh oh right, Americans!"... Then, less than a few minutes later each time she would start asking us questions about life in Canada hahahaha. Eventually we just went with it :) Before leaving, Marie grabbed my companion's hand and put something in it before forcing her fingers closed and insisting that it was her gift to us...TWENTY EUROS! What!? There was no way we were about to take twenty euros from an old lady! We tried to give it back at least the equivalent, 20 times, but she refused to take it and kept forcing it back at us telling us to go buy ourselves lots of cookies and candy and cake hahahaha. She then told us, "when French people give you a gift, you are obligated to accept it." She then grabbed my hand, shoved the bill back into it and said," I bet you didn't expect the French people to be that nice!" Hahahahaha. She was right! We laughed so hard! She was sassy! We were so sad when we had to say goodbye to our new little friend... Luckily, we only had to say goodbye for a week! Soeur Weckesser and I will be going to her house for dinner this coming Sunday :) Speaking of cookies, candy, and cake...All of my 40 day fasts up to this point have been focused on spiritual health. Well, now that I am pumped full of positivity from my 40 day happy fast, I'm ready to get physically healthy!! Woot woot! :D 40 days without sugar! I am so pumped. So far I have made it 3 whole days. Which is easily the longest I have gone since getting to France hahaha. First thing in the morning (On Tuesday) we got on a bus, which is fairly normal. Until we found ourselves about 1 meter away from a man who starting twitching dramatically when we got on. In France, especially Paris, you see weird things like that all the time. So we didn't think much of it. Until I started getting weird feelings. It almost looked like he was having a fist fight or like he was trying to battle something... It was strange. Then, he whipped around and stopped right in front of my companion and yells saying that she was the devil, very loudly and multiple times...Then he continued his way making sure to let everyone on the bus know we were the devil...We decided to get off the bus. Probably a smart decision. One of the funniest lessons we had this week was with Lucile, who REALLY wants to be baptized. She is sooooo adorable hahaha. Lucile is really old and has a bit of a memory problem. Which makes for some really fun lessons because you just never know what kind of response you are going to get! Haha :) Also on Tuesday, I went over with another sister during exchanges and we were teaching about modern day prophets. We started off by asking if she knew who our prophet is today and she excitedly yells, "Toma!" (Thomas) hahahaha. We were so proud! Yes! It is Toma! After talking about prophets for about 20 minutes, we were sure she was ready for the final question! "Lucile, do you believe that President Thomas S. Monson is the true prophet of God?" Then, she looks up at us smiling from ear to ear and says..."No!" It took every serious bone in my body to keep myself from bursting out into laughter. It was like one of those moments when a little kid comes up and tells you something bad they did, but they are just too dang cute you can't help but laugh haha. Then I just said...Ummm... Okay... I think we need to start the lesson over... LOL. So we taught the WHOLE lesson over again hahaha. Turns out the full name just threw her off a little bit, she was sure about Toma, just wasn't positive about Thomas ;). As you can see, this week was quite the adventure haha! But that's mission life and I LOVE IT !! :) I can't even begin to explain the beautiful change I have felt and seen as I fasted from negativity these past 40 days. Choosing to be happy really is easy! Even on the difficult days, when I felt like choosing to be happy was impossible, I chose to SING! Which of course inevitably made me happy every time :) So choose to be happy! And when you can't choose to be happy, choose to sing! :) (or whatever else makes you happy :) Have a wonderful week!! 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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