Shut Your Mouth and Smile!

Location: Rennes

Hi Family!! How are you all?!!! Can you believe that it is the endish of January already?!! Time just flies by way too fast! Sounds like it has been a fun week there!! Eden and all the little kiddos are getting way too big. It is kind of weird!!! Before we know it, there will be another little dude running around!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!! I'm SO EXCITED!!! 

This week has been SO GREAT!!! 

On Tuesday we went to Paris for legality! I am now LEGAL in France!!!! I love PARIS!!! There is the BEST Missionary Spirit there!! For legality, all the Blues (new missionaries) come back together, and we all go to some legality office... It is quite the adventure! We tinkled in a cup, (that one is for you Doug).  Then we got a chest x ray. So, that meant shirt off for some random French doctor... Ha-ha. It was an adventure to say the least! It was so fun to see the MTC crew and share our fun stories!! SO MUCH BLUE FIRE AND LOVE FOR THIS WORK! Needless to say it was a great way to start the week! 

OH, but before that... On Monday night we saw MIRACLES!! 

As you all know, Mondays are our Preparation Days, so we start working at 6 o’clock at night! Usually we only get about one lesson on a Monday, but Soeur Whisler and I on Sunday night felt like we needed to work a little harder, so we set our goals a little higher! We wanted to get 4 lessons! 

Monday started just like a normal P day! We finished emails and then headed out for the night! We were wandering around Republique trying to find a bus to get us home quickly to grab some Law of Chastity pamphlets, but we watched all our buses pull away... Worst deal! We said to our selves, "There is a reason for everything." 

As we were walking to another bus stop, Soeur Whisler and I both had this feeling to stop and talk to this lady smoking a cigarette! We started talking to her, and she was believing. While we shared a little message with her, her daughter walked up! We said a prayer with them and MADE ANOTHER rendezvous!! 2 New Amis!  

We then had a rendezevous with Maelle, but she called us and said she was leaving her house at 6:30 so we had to come before. It was like 6:05 and we were a solid 15 minutes away, and there were no buses coming in time... So we RAN! We ran all the way to Maelle's, and got there just in time to teach a nice lesson on The Law of Chastity. 

After, we were sitting at the bus stop a little unsure what to do, so we prayed! We decided to walk the rest of the way home and just talk to everyone on the way! After we said "Amen," we looked up and there was a young girl walking in our direction! We stopped and started talking to her! We prayed with her and then made another rendezvous with her... NEW AMIS #3!! Then we continued our walk home! 

We passed another young girl who wasn't interested. Ça va... You win some and you lose some, but we just kept walking! 

It was getting later and time was running out, but we had faith we could find one more person! We said a prayer and kept walking! Then a 24 year old girl came around the corner!! Yep, you guessed it. We talked to her!! SHE IS THE COOLEST! She is from England, has the best accent, and is so dang accepting! She told us she grew up in a household where she had never once talked or thought about God! As we bore our testimonies on prayer and God's love for us, she just kept saying, “This all sounds very nice!" We prayed with her and made another rendezvous with her!! New Amis # 4! 

We met with Amy, the one from England, on Wednesday! She loves this Gospel!! She even said her first prayer! It might have been my favorite moment of my mission yet! She started it by saying, "Hello God. It's Amy. This is my first time praying to you!" I felt the Spirit so strongly!! Our Heavenly Father is just waiting for all of us to pray to him! He doesn't care how we do, just as long as we do it!! 

I love this Gospel!!! I love being a missionary!! I love you all. Sorry I don't have much time! Have a great week!!! I’ll send pictures this week!! Don't forget to pray and have faith! With those two things, anything is possible! 

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