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 💕