Bonjour les gens!!
So before yesterday I might have actually said I'm getting the hang of this French thing, but yesterday we had a speaking test and...not my best work. First question: "What is it like where you are from?" Me: "Uhhhh il est tres chaud. Il est tres tres chaud parce que le soleil." (It is sooo hot. Sooo so hot because of the sun) I guess that's all I can think to say about Arizona hah. I was tresssss stresse. However, everybody in my group says I've grown so much in my French this week and I can teach entire lessons now in French! We're Sister Training Leaders so we don't have a ton of free time, but I practice in the shower and that helps HA. We went from memorizing phrases to actually being able to converse with people...in a week. The gift of tongues is real.
Jesus thought: This week, we talked a lot about enduring to the end. For amis de l'eglise (friends of the church), this usually means helping them keep their commitments and covenants. I was thinking though...what does enduring to the end mean for me? The definition is to choose righteousness always, even throughout temptation and adversity. The first adversity I thought of here is all the rules. Everything you can think of, there's a rule about it. And if I'm honest, it's super hard to follow all of them. We're not allowed to say "guys" and I've said it about 47 times this week. But enduring to the end means doing my very best so I keep working at exact obedience. Everybody has different challenges, and if it was easy to endure and be like Christ, we would have all reached perfection by now. Fortunately, Christ doesn't ask us to be perfect right now, he just asks for our best. I hope someday I can meet Christ and say "I did my very best. I did exactly what you wanted me to do even when it was hard." And that is enduring to the end.
My comps left for San Fran to get their visas on Friday so I got to hang out with the Paris district!! They're so cool I love them. We played Uno for approximately four hours.
Just us...drinking lake water.
Somebody (confidential) brought us donuts and Martinelli's for New Years!! I didn't know how to say donuts or Martinellis in our prayer so I said "Nous te remercion pour le vin et le pain sucre." (thank you for the wine and sugar bread) and my teacher lost it...he was the only one who understood. 😂😂😂
Our New Soeurs!! Soeur Tigno and Talibran (left) are from the Phillipines, and Soeur Opperman (right) is from Logan, Utah.
Soeur Jacobs hurt her finger playing volleyball and we were very sad...for about two seconds until we realized we got to go on an adventure out of the MTC!!! We beat an iSpy book in the lobby (we're children) and then they let us go to Target to get some new clothes. Never take Target for granted people.
Hope everybody had a good week! Thanks for the love and memes.
Soeur McOmber
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