9/26/2016 0 Comments Happy Fall Y'all!Woosh! It's already Fall again!? I feel like I got to Paris and someone clicked the fast forward button on my life, these past weeks went by like a whirl wind. Sometimes I feel like we are just running around like chickens with their heads cut off because of how fast paced things are here hahaha. Probably because that's what we look like! Haha. I am absolutely loving it here in Paris! We have seen so many amazing miracles, and the Lord just keeps on blessing us. This week’s many miracles included a follow up with our bus driver Jean Michel! This guy could not be more cool. We were able to teach him twice this week! Once on the bus, and another time at home with his family. They are amazing. He even read all the materials we gave him in advance and came with questions already prepared both times. My favorite lesson with him had to have been when he told us that he had work all week and wasn't going to be able to come meet up with us... So what did we do? We got on his bus at the terminus and rode with him ALLLLL the way to the end! Which gave us 1 whole hour of solid teaching time! :) It was so cool, we even had several fellow bus riders join in on the lesson as we taught. One cute little Nun came up and said to us (pointing at our badges) "Hey!! I'm a sister too!!!" Hahaha sooo cute!! Tuesday night one of our recent converts invited us to come and play ping-pong next to the Eiffel Tower with him and his non-member friends. Which led to us teaching all of them the gospel, while playing them in ping-pong next to one of the World's most famous monuments, no biggy. The amount of people we talk to in a day is unimaginable; the amount of people we pass in a day, even more so! Recently, Gilbs (Soeur Gilbert) and I made a goal to never allow ourselves to miss an opportunity to teach. We have been doing pretty dang well! Almost every day, Gilbs and I walk to a nearby retirement home to visit a recently baptized member. Each time, as we walk through the hallway, we turn to wave at an old woman who is always found sitting alone in the exact same place in her room. Well, we can't miss any opportunity to teach! So, we decided it was about time! ;) At first Marie-Annette was super unimpressed with us, and not super joyful. It didn't take us long to realize that she had very little confidence in herself. She just kept telling us how ugly and disgusting she was and that she "wasn't like this before". It made my heart ache listening to a daughter of God speak so poorly of herself. When we realized that there was only one person who could convince her of her beauty, we asked if we could pray for her. In the prayer, I simply asked God to help Marie-Annette to know that she was beautiful and one of his daughters. By the end of the prayer, she was wiping tears from her eyes and kissing our faces all over (literally)! Sometimes it's difficult for us to see our divine nature, but our Heavenly Father can and will always help us to see it if we ask him to :). On our way back from Marie-Annette's, we saw a homeless woman living in a little wooden shack on the side of the road. We see lots and lots of homeless people here, but the moment we passed this woman I felt prompted to turn around and go talk to her. With no money to offer her, I reached into my bag and pulled out a Book of Mormon. Then I looked at her and said, "I have no money to give you, but I would like to offer you the thing of very most value to me." She then reached out, took the book, and ran her hands down the pages. Then, she hugs the open book up to her heart and starts sobbing, thanking the Lord for having remembered her and given her such a special gift. That moment had to have been one of the most tender and humbling experiences of my life. For my favorite laugh of the week, I thought y'all would enjoy this little excerpt from Gilbs' Journal Entry haha: "Funny story of the week;) Soeur Wyson got proposed to. Haha! The bus was so crowded that we decided to just walk the rest of the way to the church. About halfway there we hear a man scream and then running footsteps behind us. He asks us if there is any way he could convince our church to let him take us out, and we obviously said no. Apparently he didn't really get the point because then he looks at Soeur Wyson and says, "Look... I saw you walking down the street and I thought to myself... That woman would make the perfect mother for my dear children"... What!? Hahahaha. Then he launches into the story about how he saw a vision of Soeur Wyson and him married in a cute little country house with a dog and lots of children HAHAHA. We got a pretty good laugh, especially me. Soeur Wyson was flattered but definitely a little (a lot) weirded out hahahaha. But we invited him to church!.... I mean... Never say never, right!?" This week I was called to be the new ward translator. I don't know why they trust me with so much power hahaha. I say that because along with being the ward translator, I have also taken it upon myself to be the ward "filterer" hahaha. The other day I was translating for relief society when a woman began bearing a very far-from-doctrinal testimony to our investigators. Soooo, let's just say my translation of her testimony was very "interpreted" haha. I was enjoying the extra time she gave me to teach The Gospel of Jesus Christ ;) The other day I was looking for a way to contact the young man sitting across from me, because I mean, obviously I couldn't tell him I liked his outfit. That might be taken the wrong way haha. I thought for a minute and this is what I came up with..."Are you French?" Hahahaha. DUH. He actually thought it was pretty funny and even agreed to come to institute next week ;)! After several hours of transit contacting, my stomach was beginning to get verrrryyy motion sick. We jumped off the bus and I prayed that the Lord would calm my stomach so that we could finish out the day strong. Just then, a little elderly lady calls out to us from the side of the road. We rushed over to her to see what we could do to help her. She explained to us that she was having difficulty with her legs and needed someone to walk her to her bus. Holding her tight on both sides, my companion and I walked her about 4 blocks to her bus stop. It was so simple and yet she was completely convinced that we were angels. No, just missionaries :) Then she smiled and said, "Well it's too bad I am Buddhist, otherwise you could teach me!!" ... Hey! We still can! ;) We will be going on a picnic with our new friend soon :). While we were walking home I realized as well that The Lord had answered my prayer; I had completely forgotten about my nausea and we were able to finish the day out strong before heading home for bed :). Well, that's a wrap for today!! I wish we had more time to share all the miracles we have been having. There are just so many! I actually had to go buy a little book that I now carry around with me everywhere--dedicated to taking note of all of the miracles and funny things that happen through the day. I titled it, "Miracles Happen...Even in France!" ;). Haha. They really do! 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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