Week number one as a trio has been a blast. We feel pretty invincible because we can visit whoever we want! Normally, we can't visit single men but now we can because we are a TRIO! Okay, let's get down to business. I LOVE Soeur Bonnamy. She is French. She is very honest (which is just her French flaire). She loves nature just like me. She will be walking and suddenly stop in front of a big tree full of blossoms, and say NOOO, c'est trop belle. And then pick a blossom and smell it for the next hour.
She is so silly. I love how much she loves to laugh with me. The other day she went upside down and put her head through her legs and yelled "COUCOU!!" at me. HAHAHAH.
Or lately she has been calling me "Francis" or "Susan" and I am not 100% sure why but it makes me laugh really hard. Also, the other day when we got off the tram, I waved to the tram driver and mouthed "merci." And she asked me "Pourquoi vous faites coucou à le conductor?! Il est votre ami? Vous le connaissez?" (Why did you say hello to the tram driver? He is your friend? Do you know him?) And I was all, "no, I'm just saying waving thank you because I figure no one ever tells the tram driver thank you and he just sits in that box all day long and probably gets lonely." And she was so confused. Hahaha. It was pretty funny!
I can tell Soeur Bonnamy and Soeur Thompson are trying to get used to each other. They are two very different personalities. But I am trying to not be on one persons side when there is a little dispute. But just all get along because that will help us have peace in the companionship.
Okay I had the funnest day of my life on Thursday. Soeur Poissonnier took us and our ami, Christine, out to lunch at the beach in Palavas. Each plate was 16,95 euros. I had a fish soup thing with fancy croutons, LES MOULES (muscles), and a 3 layer chocolate mousse for dessert. The sun was shining, so we sat outside next to the sailboats.
As I sat there basking in the sun eating muscles and salty fries, I thought, am I even on a mission right now? You know- sometimes you contact to grumpy French people and no one listens to you. And otherdays- you eat 16,95 euro muscles by the seashore. The life of a France Lyon missionary. Soeur Poissonnier was laughing her head off because I was appreciating the food so much. I just kept telling her how good the food tasted. Everyone was like, wow, Soeur Jones really likes food. And YES it is because I DO. Hehehe. After lunch, we walked around the port next to the tiny bright tourist shops and outdoor cafés.
Me and Soeur Poissonier
Soeur Poissonnier is so hilarious and spontaneous. She saw the chairlift that goes over the sea and just let out a huge outburst yelling, "OHHH WE ARE GOING TO RIDE THAT!" (In english). So we rode the chairlift over the sea and Soeur Bonnamy and I were laughing so hard the whole time because Soeur Poissonnier was behind us just screaming and laughing, while trying to film at the same time.
This week I talked to a girl from Africa on the bus. Her name is lovely. What a cool name! I was going to explain to her that "lovely" is my friend Jane Froerer's favorite word, but then I was like, no that is way to complicated and too personal for the first sentence of talking to someone. HA! But I thought of you Janey. We invited Lovely to FHE Friday and she called us saying she would like to come. Sadly, she wasn't able to make it. But she wants to come this week!
All the Sisters in Montpellier ward!! Souer Annie Corrado in the back middle just in the front left of me is the one that Uncle Dave Hughes knows!!!
Sacrament meeting was completely packed yesterday. Our ami Samera, from Brazil, came for the very first time. The missionaries have been teaching her for 4 months and that is the first time she has come to sacrament. It was a miracle. And a less active, Karine finally came too! It was such a happy day. Christine is doing well. Comes to church every week, just waiting for her divorce to be settled before she can
get baptized. She is a great example to me of having her heart in the right place and still doing what the Lord asks of her even if she isn't a member yet.
Visiting Soeur Zamori. Every time we visit she gives us apple juice and "Madeleines." She is 94! I love older French ladies!
I am so so SO grateful for the members who made our amis feel so comfortable at church yesterday. One member jumped right in and began speaking Portuguese with our ami Samera and just took her right under her wing. I feel like these amis are my children and just want them to feel included and loved when they come to church. I am grateful these members did that! The two families that we WERE going to teach last week, dropped us and said they were not interested. But that won't stop me from having faith to find more people! I'm just gonna keep going one day at a time.
Today we shopped for Pday and I bought a little backpack. I am feeling very European. I love you all!
Love Soeur Jones
Nightly Planning. Soeur Bonnamy said something so so funny, I can't even remember what, but I laughed so hard and she caught a picture of it.
Best Day Ever!!!
Visiting our friend in Sete. The view is pas mal. (not bad)
At IKEA getting stuff for our apartment. Aimaline, again drove us home with all our stuff. She is the one on the right.
O Tacos for dinner with the other missionaries in Montpellier and Nimes
A View from the Chair lift up in the air!!
Soeur Bonnamy and I on the chairlift
"Poissons" Is fish in French!
Soeur Poissonnier by the Poissons sign
People canoeing in Palavas
PALAVAS
ENTREE LES MOULES (muscles)
Dessert (chocolate mousse cake)
Video of Me trying Les Moules for the first time. I made a wish too. It is a tradition in France when you try something for the first time to make a wish.
Video of me and my companions thanking Soeur Poissonier for taking us to such a fancy place.
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