Bien rentrée

Salut mes amis! 

       Bittersweet moment. I'm home everyone. Made it all 18 months and I'm so full of gratitude for the opportunity I had to serve - even with the quarantine making things weird at the end there. My dad asked me this morning if I would do it all again and without hesitation I would. 

        What have I learned? There's a lot of little things like how to live with people, how to navigate a massive metro system, how to cook African beignets, etc. But I am so overwhelmed with the most important lessons I learned about the character of God. He loves His children so much. He loves me. I can see His love for complete strangers and I see His hand in my life whenever I look for it. 

       Even on the flight home, I had 5 separate flights and was just praying on making it home with my 3 overweight bags (my parents had planned on coming to pick things up before the coronavirus exploded). We got there and they let all my bags pass for free. I also forgot my proof of residence and the kindest airport security of my life let me through when technically I was illegally entering the U.S. (don't report me). The plane took off and I was just looking over France and thinking about all the memories as a sad mess. Up until the last moment of my mission, my Heavenly Father watched over me and took me in His arms. 

I love my mission. I love this church and I know it's true. I know that God and my Savior Jesus Christ love us a whole lot. 

Avec beaucoup beaucoup d'amour 

Sœur McOmber 

À la prochaine!! 

If you want my new email it's morganmcomber914@gmail.com. Big thank you to everyone that has been supportive of me throughout this crazy adventure. Je vous aime tous!! 

Last candid of the Bourroux

People think we eat lots of French food, but really the thing I've eaten the most on my mission is these 5€ kebabs

My last p-day exploring Paris. Really gonna miss this

Our ami Elise!! She calls me Barbie - not even sure she knows my real name. My last p-day we cooked empanadas with our elders and invited her to come. She sang Tahitian songs with us.

Homemade Tortillas

Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't written in so long! Like a lot of us I feel I don't have any fresh and exciting updates. I miss nature but I think we're getting to the end of confinement which is exciting. Have to say I'll miss dearly my sisters I've been sharing an apartment with for 3 weeks- I don't think our neighbors will miss me though HA we laugh so hard sometimes they bang the ceiling with a broom (we yodel sometimes as well, we're working on it).

         We've cooked so much too, it's amazing. We eat so fancy. I literally put lemon zest on something the other day AND we made homemade tortillas last night, complete with empanadas made by my Hispanic companion, Sœur Sandres. 

Recipe of the week: Homemade tortillas  

Whisk equal parts veg oil, water, milk. Add flour and combine with your hands until it's not sticky. Roll out and cook on salted pan. 

Note: We also used this dough for empanadas and used about 1c. of water. It makes a ton. 

      These past few weeks have given us a lot of quality time to study. I feel so spiritually enriched. We've also been blessed with video calls from Sœur Eubanks and Elder Wilcox in these past weeks. And the women's conference was so so good (~I invite you~). One thing Elder Wilcox mentioned that surprised me was that Mosiah 3:19 is the most quoted scripture during general conference in the past 50 years. 

"For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father."

It takes effort to overcome the natural man. It takes effort to change. If it were in fact easy, everybody would do it. It builds character to realize we are completely dependent on God- like a child. He can refine us and help us become the Saints we want to be if we seek to include Him in our lives. 

J'espère que tout le monde va bien! Vraiment 

Je vous aime ❤️

Sœur McOmber 

Our homemade tortillas. Mexican food is real hard to come by in France so this moment was sacred.

Brad Wilcox! He's so cute, he got set apart in the Young Men's Presidency and was sad he couldn't hug the prophet. "I hug everything, even trees!"

Schnell, from Africa, showing us her banana trees. Her and her brother read the Book of Mormon every day and write down all their questions.❤️ I have no doubt they will be baptized. 

Got a call from her the other day and realized she changed her profile picture to me HA 

My adorable companion. I love Sœur Sandres, such a selfless, giving, soul. Also, she makes me laugh so hard I'm always stomping (truly, our neighbors detest us) 

Walks with the gang 

I think I could stand to be quarantined here for a while

Randomly going through fiches and realized somebody I found from online teaching last February just got baptized! I only did online referrals for a month, but voila God uses technology to accomplish some pretty amazing miracles.