Usually it is distributed with two sets of Elders and one set of Soeurs. And what's more, THEY'RE SPLITTING SOEUR BARTON AND I UP!! Mince. I love her so much. So we will be both getting baby blues this Wednesday. Our new companions are probably leaving the MTC as you read this.
I’m sad to be splitting up from Soeur Barton…but we’ll still be in the same apartment so the split is not that permanent. (Yeah!J The mission is in the process of finding us a bigger apartment but until then, we will just have to rearrange…and snuggle haha. But what this means is that most likely I will be in Rennes for another two transfers!! So I’ll be here for Christmas!! In this ward that I love SO much. WIN!
One of my favorite moments from this week was from our lesson with Annabelle. We had a FHE with her and a couple from the ward. We visited her later that week and Annabelle suddenly had this new fire for the Gospel. “Il faut croire! IL FAUT CROIRE!!” She went on and on about how you have to have a desire to have faith first and that leads to an increase in faith and it’s a continual process. She said, “I know that you have told me these same things many times…but it finally clicked when that man was talking about conversion!”
Happiness! She has a new fire for the Gospel and it has finally clicked for her that it is so much more than just reading scriptures (although-she is doing AWESOME at that. At the last lesson, she had read the all the way to Mormon so she’s almost finished! She’s read the entire conference ensign many times over, the proclamation to the world…basically all the materials we have given her haha). It’s still hard for her because she comes from a French Catholic background and although she is not practicing, getting baptized would be like a betrayal to her culture and heritage.
Slowly she is realizing that it is more about our relationship with God than anything else. The first time we met her she was deeply opposed to going to ANY church…and now she’s coming! And in her words “the three hours actually passes pretty quickly”. So she is doing well!
Ayn (anne) is doing really well too. We had a lesson with her this week and she told us about how much she LOVES institute. She loves hearing the experiences from the returned missionaries and everyone’s testimonies. She was so sad that she missed Stake Conference. She asked us to recount all we remembered to her. So sweet. We’re really starting from the beginning with her because this is her first time learning about deism…let alone Christianity. But she is doing really, really well and she has a strong desire to have faith and to learn more. Which that is a lot already.
*We interrupt this email for an important update: I will be spending the rest of the day moving our stuff into the Elders apartment and moving the Elders stuff into ours. Oh what JOY!*
Anyway now that I know we have SO much to do, we should probably get off emails and get to work!! Pday fail.
Haha I love you all so much.
Soeur Bitter
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