12/5/2016 0 Comments A Traditional Thanksgiving...Salam Alikom! (That means "hello" in Arabic)
Today's email will be an interesting melange of the past two weeks since I didn't have the chance to send out a group email last week... We were hardly in Versailles last week so I don't have too many fun stories to recount to you today. We had P-Day in Paris and started exchanges right after. Exchanges went until 9:00 Tuesday night. Wednesday we spent the day in Paris again so that Soeur Neistadt could practice her song (which was phenomenal) for Zone Conference with the pianist and violinist. Thursday... can you guess?... we were in PARIS! Haha. This time it was for the actual Conference. We didn't get home until pretty late that night. Friday morning Soeur Neistadt and I both woke up with the stomach flu and so we had to spend the day in bed taking turns running to the bathroom to throw up. On the bright side, The mailman brought me a little Christmas surprise! Saturday we actually had several Rendezvous and a baptism! It wasn't ours, but the Elders from another area called us the night before and asked if we could play piano for the baptism and come up with a musical number. Hahaha. Yes, the night before. We laughed and accepted, with great faith that we would be healed the next day. ;) Sœur Neistadt must have had greater faith than me because she woke up better and I woke up worse. So she ended up doing the musical number all by herself, again, (what a solid pal). I still had a bad flu of some sort so church was a rough one. Some members threw us a cute little miniature "Thanksgiving Feast" after church :). Granted I didn't really get to enjoy it because Turkey dinner doesn't taste near as good coming up the second time, haha. But my family knows I am just carrying on the good traditions because I am pretty sure I have had the flu every single Thanksgiving for the past 5 years at least hahaha. "TRADITION!" Can't break it now ;). Sunday through Wednesday I was kept in bed with a series of fevers and chills along with a sore throat like no other. Wednesday I also woke up with my eyes sealed shut... Woo Hoo, pinkeye!... Thursday I was still sick, Friday as well, and so on, soooo... it was a heck of a week! 😜 (I have much greater reasoning to all of this than whining about all of my symptoms, I promise!) You may ask what my poor companion was doing all during the 240 hours that I was stuck in bed... It all started off with a call from Soeur Babin (presidents wife), giving her orders to travel to the pharmacy, by herself!! Now, for those of you who are familiar with missionary rules, you understand how extremely strange that must be. For those who aren't--it is absolutely necessary that a missionary remains within sight and sound of his/her companion 100% of the time. With the only exception being the bathroom-- So, in her own words she said.... "I put on my big girl panties, marched out the door, and said... 'I CAN DO THIS!!'......Theeeennn, I called the elders and made them talk to me the whole way there...." Hahahaha. That girl is a hoot. Lucky for me, she made it all the way to the pharmacy and back without any damage, and she came bearing good tidings of great joy (Meds). I also woke up to our entire apartment decked out in hand cut snowflakes and other Christmasy decorations made from an emergency blanket that she found hidden somewhere in the black hole (closet) of our apartment, haha. For those of you who have seen "Elf"...? That is my companion, and that is exactly what our apartment looks like right now. Hahaha. As for all the other days, we have had a series of sister rotations set up in the zone so that Soeur Neistadt was able to go to all of our rendezvous while I stayed home in bed. Speaking of Companion.... Transfer calls came on Saturday! Drum roll please...Soeur Neistadt is leaving Versailles and Soeur George is rollin' in! Add that to my enormous list of companions I have never done more than 6 weeks with hahaha. I don't actually know who Soeur George is, so it will be a surprise :) Now for my "much greater reasoning"... About 5 months ago I made a goal to study and make goals for one Christlike attribute each month until the end of my mission. November was originally set aside to be my month of "knowledge" but I later felt the need to change the order and make it the month of "Patience". The order may not have changed much, but I was very grateful to have had "Patience" as my focus during this month of spontaneous change... and what better way to end my month of patience than with a ten day flu!? ;) hahaha. With that, I have a lovely Holland quote for you :).... "Keep loving. Keep trying. Keep trusting. Keep believing. Keep growing. Heaven is cheering you on today, tomorrow, and forever....If gospel standards seem high and the personal improvement needed in the days ahead seems out of reach, remember Joshua’s encouragement to his people when they faced a daunting future. “Sanctify yourselves,” he said, “for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”" I can't wait to see the wonders of tomorrow!!! :D Remember, Miracles happen!...Even in FRANCE!🇫🇷 Xoxo- Sister Wyson Ps-Happy Birthday to my beautiful Angel mother and my lovely sister Randi this week on the 8th of December!!! I love you both!!
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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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