Bonjour à tous!
HA this week has been such an adventure. Last p-day I was alone in the city for the first time in my mission. We were buying tickets and the bus arrived and Sœur Madsen was like "QUICK hold the door!!" And so I get in and hold the button to keep the door to the bus open, and the tickets pop out over where Soeur Madsen is waiting, so she sprints over but the door closes even while I'm holding it and we're just laughing as I drive away in the bus. Everybody is looking at me because I'm all in distress (we're 1 hour late for our mangez-vous...pretty much everything went wrong that day). And THEN next stop, the guards get on to see if we have tickets. They have NEVER even gotten on the bus in the 5 weeks I've been here to check for tickets...but of course this is the one time they do. So they kick me off and I'm just looking all confused and lonely on the street corner for 30 minutes as my comp walks to the stop. Wild p-day but it's okay, we're at the Dinge's like every day so they forgave us for our lateness.
The other reason this week is an adventure is we've been hurrying to teach Deborah and Jonathan before their baptisms this weekend. It's crazy because I just invited Jonathan to be baptized like 4 weeks ago. He was chillin at church surrounded by all his friends and Sœur Madsen was telling me they've been inviting him for like months. So I was like okay this can't hurt anything. I just walk up to him (he hasn't met me) "Hi!! I'm Sister McOmber, are you baptized??" And he's like, "...no but I was thinking July 27th??" My companion's mouth dropped, meanwhile we're giving high-fives all the way around. It was crazy but he's definitely prepared. Everything we've taught him he's immediately started living: everything from reading the scriptures to word of wisdom. Even in these 4 weeks he's come a long way. I know God is really proud of him.
I learn something from each ami and Deborah has taught me a lot about humility. She is so quick to learn and really tries to understand what we teach her. When I first met her, she didn't talk much. She'd just nod and I thought she didn't understand what I was saying. But by the end she would practically recite everything I said back to me in MLA format. Sometimes our amis are like teenagers; you think they're not listening but then they bring up random things you say and it just makes you proud.
We've been teaching a lot of lessons about commandments lately and I think I'm really starting to get it (after 19 years of learning about them HA). Following the rules is truly the only way to everything that is good. We can think we know a better way, but God already made the best way. The pathway to happiness is so simple and God has already laid it out before us: just keep the commandments. I'm thankful for the guidance and direction we receive from commandments and know we're blessed for following them.
Love you all!!! (especially if you have made it to this point, this was longer than my English essays ) Hope you're having a great summer 
Sœur McOmber
Castle in Luxembourg. Oh yeah I went to another country - forgot to mention that!! Luxembourg is a tiny country north of France where they speak every language under the sun. It's beautiful, it's like France but a lot of the buildings are more modern if you go into the city.
My favorite Tahitian Elder Hopuu. The whole district is talking and we're like "...where is Elder Hopuu?" So we look around and he's a little speck off in the middle of the field throwing a boomerang HA. He's also my favorite because he eats a lot of everything I make for district council and that makes me proud.
Sœur Dinge cooking for us!!! Look at her is she not just the cutest little thing I absolutely adore her. She's like my mom on the mission and also a cooking goddess. Since she doesn't speak much French, we give her many many hugs so she knows how much we love her.
This is my dream I've been waiting my whole mission for this and I was not disappointed. It's a special French cheese called Raclette that you melt over potatoes and meat. French people smuggle this back into America (it's illegal to bring back cheese) because of how amazing it is!
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