Le paradis

Hola mis amigos !!

      It is so good to be back in Versailles with all my friends I can't even express. The sisters here take such good care of me wow...Sœur Curtis legit made us a turkey yesterday. I remember being worried in the beginning of my mission about being surrounded by sisters - I never grew up with them. But I am so so thankful for how much they look out for me and it's good to be back with the family. On rigole bien. 

       My new comp, Sœur Sandres is super sweet too. She likes to talk about psychology experiments (many involving cockroaches) and viruses so I'm learning many things. With all 4 of us in the apartment, we laugh all the time and it's basically a miracle anything gets done HA...today Sœur Sandres saw a bug and whipped out her chanclas to hit it about 40 times - seeing new sides of her every day <3 "those can lay eggs on your head y'know. Ya'll gonna be callin' me to apologize when you get parasites."

        Last night, we had a spiritual veillée with our mission presidency and I loved something Frère Gaston said. He talked about how the results of our work are up to God and how our efforts are what really counts. I feel like this is so relevant because sometimes it's easy to sit back when we feel the work is going smoothly. It works also vice versa for the missionaries who work hard but see nothing- especially in relation to statistics. Even Jesus Christ couldn't save the whole world, he could only open the door. But God sees every effort we make in becoming, growing and serving- regardless of the outcome. 

Je vous aime et Dieu vous aime <3

Sœur McOmber

Every day we get an hour to go on a walk outside and the whole world is out?? Corona has not changed a thing which is...slightly concerning.

Sœur Bourroux bought us all chocolate eggs for Easter

Gordon Ramsey has a restaurant here! Of course it's right outside the gates of the Versailles castle. It's also a hotel and spa at like $1000 a night

Still here

Bonjour tout le monde! 

        So pretty much everybody knows at this point that many missionaries all over the world have gone home. I kind of expected to be one of them but no we're still kickin!! President is taking our équipe out of Troyes and bringing us back to the Center though. Doesn't change much because we are still in captivity, but it's definitely a blessing to have other sisters around to lean on when things get hard. 

        I have to say I desperately needed to hear the message of Elder Holland Sunday morning. When there is no hope, we are left with the flames of the inferno. I was kind of tired of hearing messages of positivity about a week ago as I was really struggling with this. I had never missed my family more, I felt like I wasn't a productive missionary, I was trapped in the middle of nowhere and I couldn't even speak my native tongue. Even though I knew people had it worse, that knowledge didn't make the burden any lighter. I just felt nobody understood. But the truth of the gospel is that there is always hope. There is always somebody who understands. And though I preach that a lot, I really felt the truth of that message this week. Because of Christ, our sadness is not forever- even if the situation seems to be. There is always something to hope for- whether it's the hope of a brighter future or the hope that God has a plan carefully catered to each of our needs. 

       

I love you all and hope you are doing well. Thank you to all those who pray for the missionaries, your prayers are much felt <3

Sister McOmber