OKAY 2 EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENTS ahhksrlgken I'm excited to announce:
- We now run the facebook page for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for all French speakers and...
- I got to be a tourist last p-day finally and see the Eiffel tower & Notre Dame. Pics at the bottom.
(Note from Danette: Morgan sent this letter on Monday a week ago...a few hours before the fire happened at Notre Dame. She had just visited Notre Dame on her p-day the week previous. The first picture below was taken from the steeple on the roof of Notre Dame. I'm really glad she got to have that experience when she did. The video footage that day brought tears to my eyes...such a beautiful building with so much history, built out of a love for God.
We received an email that evening from Morgan's Mission president:
"We write to confirm that all missionaries in the France Paris Mission are confirmed safe.
I spoke this evening with a Catholic Priest we know from the nearby Église de la Madeleine and he reported that Notre Dame Cathedral just celebrated 850 years. While they are so sad at the damage to this house of worship, he said 'if it had to happen, Holy Week is not a bad time. Easter is all about resurrection and rising from the ashes.'")
I'll start with what's actually related to missionary work HA! So last week we had this meeting on the calendar, and honestly I thought nothing of it, but we all get to the Visitors Center basement and these men in suits are like "we have a project for you." And so for 6 hours they show us how to run the church's facebook page and direct message all the people that leave comments. This is such great news ya'll you don't understand!!! This is the future!! I missed online teaching so much, it's such a great finding resource. So all day we created "memes" (that's what they called it but it's actually just inspirational quotes HA). We still only have 2 days in the Center but we have special time set apart to create memes and message people in French. This is super cool because online you can find people that really want to hear the gospel super quickly, even though we sometimes have to send them to other missionaries. C'est triste, but as we know if one baptizes, we all baptize.
Meanwhile, the French is coming along I think. We had a district council on speaking our language and for a practice activity all these francophones gave us super hard words and we had to make a sentence out of them. Then we gave the French speakers English words HA, so Elder Vincenzi had to say iridocyclitis, patella, gynecologist, and discombobulated. Definitely one of my favorite councils HA honestly he deserved it after giving me "anticonstitutionnellement" rip in peace.
For zone conference this week we talked a lot about what makes a good teacher. One of the points I liked the most was how we need to truly love the people that we're teaching. For me, I've found that some of the best teaching doesn't always come in the form of a lesson. We can teach in many different ways. Through our examples. Through service. Through listening.
Mosiah 18:9 says, "Yea, and [be] willing to mourn with those that mourn; yea, and comfort those that stand in need of comfort, and to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things."
Some of my favorite things I've done on my mission so far have been the things I least expected I'd be doing. It's not always lessons. Sometimes it's arranging a blessing for a member that really needs it. Sometimes it's visiting somebody that's going through a really hard time and just letting them talk to us. Sometimes it's helping a busy mom make dinner for her family.
I absolutely love being a missionary. I love the people I've been called here to serve and I'm so excited to find more ways to love them for the next 13 months.
Love you all, find somebody you can serve this week and make your favorite missionary proud 
Sœur McOmber
The view from Notre Dame...
...Love visiting all these Cathedrals they're so cool. I've gained a lot of appreciation for stained glass because we learn so much about it as Temple Sœurs
Bubbles!!!! And Hôtel de Ville that's pretty cool too I guess HA.
Rule is, you take a picture with a Book of Mormon then you have to get rid of it and we most definitely did, first rendez-vous coming soon.
I'm in Paris I will never be over this. Wow I love my mission.
We found the best waffles place ever this week. Even better than nutella is ~speculoos butter~ it's the butter of airplane cookies. Amazing. Did ya'll know that exists in America??? Anyway, amazing.
My comp took a picture of me when we drove by the Eiffel Tower because I was so captivated by it HA it's way bigger in person than I thought it was going to be.
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