Finding prepared humans

Hi everybody!!!

Another fabulous week in the city of Le Chesnay 

    Sœur Janda is doing well and I have really enjoyed training her. This week I taught her to pray in English and now she always says the cutest little prayers in English. She learns so fast too - I went to the temple office for like 30 seconds and came back and she was teaching temple visitors a full on lesson. They even accepted a card at the end. She's been taking her battle wounds like a champ (still wearing flip flops but not even complaining) and we went finding the other night and she contacted her first human!!!! They were really interested actually so it was good experience (don't know if I can say that about my first contacting, I couldn't speak French and accidentally said "c'est génial!! (That's great) to a guy who said he got a divorce and couldn't talk to his kids anymore). 

       This week, we also set a baptismal date with an ami I met in January way back in the day. Her name is Hillary and she likes asking questions and looking up bad things about our church on the internet (don't do that). But she's overcome a lot of her doubts since I knew her and is growing her testimony by continuing to read her scriptures and pray. Those are very little things but it's true they make all the difference in our faith and I can tell she's realizing that. Testimonies don't grow overnight and require some work on our part but the more you grow it, the more strength and peace you have in your life. 

I hope everybody is doing well and is continuing to share the restored gospel of Jesus Christ with their friends hallelujah amen 

Que Dieu vous bénisse 

Sœur McOmber 

Wow I missed the Bourroux so much. They gave me a birthday "Kouign-amann" which is like a pastry cake thing from West France. Look at lil Elder Bourroux eyes all glistening in the light I love them. After that, Sœur Bourroux proceeded to tell us how argile (clay) can heal all our problems in life - supported by scriptural references. 

Sœur Janda likes to whisper "gros bisous" (big kiss) to me in random situations and so she was very excited to find this HA 

My comp is hardcore

 Hello everybody!! Hope you had a stellar week. Meanwhile nothing is stable in my life so let me give you some updates... 

        I met Sœur Dampt on transfers Wednesday and turns out she had a few medical issues and needed to go home. President and I were hoping and praying for a miracle but, in the end, it was really the best decision for her to leave. I enjoyed our solid 3 days together and I really got to love her over that short time. Honestly, there's other ways to serve than on a full-time mission. It's not for everyone. But I'm excited to see what her future holds and know she's going to do great things. 

        Also, best birthday present ever I got another companion! Her name is Sœur Janda. I'll take more pictures next week because I don't have any but she's from Toulouse, France and I'm training her fresh from chez elle to the field! She didn't even go to the MTC because she's a visa waiter. She's called to Salt Lake Temple Square mission but doesn't know English yet so we're learning it. I can tell she's hardcore already. We did some walking/finding while getting her a bus pass and she was brave and talked to everybody with me. I'm a proud mom. Then, we get home and she takes off her shoes and her socks are both covered in blood. Like, half her heel is missing and she didn't even mention it - how hardcore is that!!! Anyway we're gonna wear flip flops for a while because I'm not trying to kill my new missionary. 

       In other news, my birthday was really good. Before I left Metz the Dinges threw me a party, I called my family, got showered with Patisseries, and some of the Center Sœurs came over for dinner. So pretty much a rager. 

       Something I've learned - whitewash training is really fun. It is also sometimes pretty stressful. You have a new missionary depending on you while at the same time you're not entirely sure what's going on yourself. I only know 2 of the 13 people we're teaching. But I've learned that everything is easy (and a lot more fun) if we just take it step by step.

 King Benjamin (and Jesus) taught "And see that all these things are done in wisdom and order; for it is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength (Mosiah 4:27)."

Even Jesus doesn't want us to be overstressed. If you are too stressed in your life, slow down. It's not necessary that everything gets done at once. These are lessons that you learn when your companion can't walk and you have straight 0's for your statistics :))) Everything is going to be okay because Christ is always there and if nothing else is constant, that will be. 

That's all for this week! Take care everybody 

Sœur McOmber 

Blurry and nobody is paying attention but it's the iconic Dinge family. Definitely gonna miss going there like 5 times a week. 

For my birthday dinner we had Moules Frites (one of my favorite things Lilian makes) and then ate ice cream bars as an appetizer for ice cream as an appetizer for crépes with ice cream as an appetizer for chocolate. I've gained 5 kilos since I have met Lilian. 

Lilian!!! We call her D'ima (it's mom in her Surinam dialect HA) and she calls us D'imis which means kids. I love her so much. It was so cute, before she left she said "SISTER MCOMBER, I lubah you." Only English I've ever heard her speak and it was so precious 💕

The Muniers are heading back to Barcelona. I am going to miss them a lot, don't know what the Center will be without them.

Sœur Dampt! It was a short one but a good one. Lille is lucky to have her.

Attempting to inhale a flan in one swallow (a mission tradition here...the Elders did it when I first arrived)😂😂😂

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~ Franchement ~

Wow hey it's that time again! 

       Hit my halfway mark this week so that's pretty cool, 9 months left! Heard a Post Malone song today and got a little trunky but it's fine I'm fine... 

       In other news, we got transfer information today and I found out I'm basically "whitewash training" at the temple. We have a sister that got here about a transfer ago and now she's coming to the temple so I'm gonna teach her all of our ways. She's my second Francophone companion so I'm gonna be fluent now ya'll watch out (there's 3 francophones in our apartment, I'm the only American). Anyway, she's super cute her name is Sœur Dampt and she's from Lille I'm excited!

       I'm kind of sad to leave Metz but also I miss the temple family. It's like my second home - I'm really excited to see my Sœurs again and meet the new Sœurs too. And we're off to President's ward so...guess I need to be obedient now (blagues, blagues) 

       Anyway, this week we had some fun adventures in Metz. We taught our ami Dan, who has a baptism date for December, about the word of wisdom. He loved all of it, but at the end he was like....wait so can I still eat my coffee éclairs? And we didn't actually know but Sœur Madsen assumed no and testified of commandments and was like, "You can choose your éclair OR you can choose to be ~ éclairé ~ (enlightened)." She was really proud of that one HA. Dan was still pretty distraught about it but commited to quit his éclair habit. Then we consulted with bishop and with the district and discovered there actually is in fact, not coffee in éclairs and so they're perfectly fine (kind of what I assumed). We called Dan and he was so happy I thought he might cry. But I really admire his determination to drop something he loved simply because he understood it as a commandment. We should all be like that.  

       ALSO we had such a spicy lesson in relief society yesterday. I was just eating popcorn in the back row it was great. But anyway, a member we had recently reactivated was asked to give a lesson on the Sacrament. Then a few ladies that were visiting from another ward started saying things like "if women wear pants or kids are wearing sneakers to church, we honestly shouldn't even let them in to sacrament." (Our friend teaching the lesson was wearing pants) Meanwhile, I'm sitting next to my recent convert, who is also ~wearing pants~, deciding to just go ahead and not translate. They kept going on about things of the same idea- even saying the sounds of children ruin the Spirit of the Sacrament. Then my hero, Sœur Voss, piped up from the back row like "FRANCHEMENT, (honestly) the fact that these people are even at church is something we should be celebrating. If you can't afford church clothes or have noisy children but you still make the effort to be at church, we should always welcome those people because that's what Christ would do." It was interesting as well because the women who visited came from a ward that is known to struggle a lot with missionary work. I imagine It's really hard to come to a new church when you feel like everything you do will be judged. I think we can all do a better job of loving those who live the gospel differently than us because, as the Savior taught, the greatest commandment is love. 

Anyway, still out here learnin' things and teaching my brothers and sisters in Christ. Hope you all had a great week!

Sœur McOmber 

Elizabeth made us a mirabelle tarte it was the sweetest thing. Everytime I see her at church she grabs my hand and just holds it for like 5 minutes while she talks to me HA love her. 

Finally tried a Merveilleux! It's meringue of different flavors, these are cherry and speculos (airplane cookies). 

A membre made us Moules Frites 

Les Montgolfières! Hot air balloons are out all day every day in the summer. 

Tried to take a pic with them but now it's just an awkward picture of me and S. Madsen 

Myriam's baptism! If you're a true fan you remember her from St. Ouen. Sœur Ilizarbe sent me these and I'm so happy for her decision. I know she's setting the best example possible for her children they're so lucky to have her.

The man himself. EMEKA. Many have been brought to the waters of baptism through this man. He's such a personality he always slaps my wrist when I try to shake his hand and told everybody my name is Morgan so now all the Nigerians call me Morgan HA 

Lilian's birthday!!! We made her a cake and wrote her a card in Dutch (she's from Surinam) and apparently she can only read in French but it's okay HA Léo translated it for her it was really cute she was so happy 💕

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