tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47486294133017739812024-03-04T23:36:24.859-08:00Abby in LyonAbby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-84192545493858376972018-01-22T08:26:00.000-08:002018-01-22T09:07:59.507-08:00Week 76 "THE FINISH LINE!" <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGEO1OhcMhsWx75kw9VC593CosStsdnAIVSL9iyedNMRcbGKHcLqxW2TbZQuTNMYfkJ1tnFErcJA78vfGspR3KS9xpuiRFmVNULABHzSfX45dRYL2Zf_o8lYYkDqypMFUGHH0cV-6TsRI/s1600/IMG_1554+2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGEO1OhcMhsWx75kw9VC593CosStsdnAIVSL9iyedNMRcbGKHcLqxW2TbZQuTNMYfkJ1tnFErcJA78vfGspR3KS9xpuiRFmVNULABHzSfX45dRYL2Zf_o8lYYkDqypMFUGHH0cV-6TsRI/s640/IMG_1554+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Well. Here it is. My last email on the mission. It is hard for me to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">describe what I have felt these past few days as I prepare to go home. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">My heart is full. My heart is overflowing. With love for these people </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">I have met along the way as well as all those people who have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">sustained me, encouraged me, and inspired me back home.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicM1wXHst7f0fjjR-0WDUFe4D_uXemYDecwSUEcnGy9JjDAHp9774pdywtT8jkb40wlgdRDhCST3nKw9dw_9SQLq600k7HZr2SK8nnDFhChhaGjIBt_eaOxCxVWFAg_FckBvTu_EPyUug/s1600/IMG_1565.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicM1wXHst7f0fjjR-0WDUFe4D_uXemYDecwSUEcnGy9JjDAHp9774pdywtT8jkb40wlgdRDhCST3nKw9dw_9SQLq600k7HZr2SK8nnDFhChhaGjIBt_eaOxCxVWFAg_FckBvTu_EPyUug/s640/IMG_1565.jpg" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Last Wednesday Zone Conference giving my farewell in Geneva.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Last night I knelt in prayer and no words could come out. I sat there </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">in silence. And all I could feel was gratitude. Gratitude to my father </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">in heaven for giving me these 18 months of my mission. I have never </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">felt so vulnerable, so humble, so discouraged. I have never felt the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">spirit so strong, been so at peace, felt so much joy. I am grateful to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">my Savior and friend Jesus Christ who has let me go through those low</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">moments on the mission in order for me to grow. I am grateful he has </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">never left my side. He has stood by me to comfort and lift me when I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">told him I was ready to give up. I have never felt closer to my savior </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">and Heavenly Father than I do now. And because of that. I know that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">the mission is not the end. The Savior has stayed my side these past </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">18 months and I know he will stay by my side as I go home.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGpy7vq8TxvPiG-cNJTC6qjO4BDaYG1Yg6XeZkbryYC4FLOvK0WtyNO9UGklid-OuaSTyU9lADjSCXEXkINV7O18-Lcuj8a3kRTICN15mApGFW3gIoS0zeR5knywEPCh-nCzWRMkbyQs/s1600/IMG_1557.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGpy7vq8TxvPiG-cNJTC6qjO4BDaYG1Yg6XeZkbryYC4FLOvK0WtyNO9UGklid-OuaSTyU9lADjSCXEXkINV7O18-Lcuj8a3kRTICN15mApGFW3gIoS0zeR5knywEPCh-nCzWRMkbyQs/s640/IMG_1557.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Cathedral Saint Pierre</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">This week went a lot different than planned. "L" didn’t show up to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">his baptismal interview due to family complications back home. While </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">it was a hard reality to accept that I will not be there for his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">baptism, I felt at peace. I am grateful I got to play a small part in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">teaching him the gospel. I am proud of "L" and "C". It has amazed </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">me to watch how they have become more reliant on the Savior and made </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">him apart of their lives. I love them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK8nzs1Mm8tsEDCxBjB8BbryDxjVzT99vYL5QNz6b9sEP-UxAFdzjTZO_b2soAOfWVpXfYJh3uGpjkFpUOjiVRDFWSIeoCif_gm0vC5ZnkArU6NIAiUioC9HikQuLkrCEaG0YOoqL9T0A/s1600/IMG_1556.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK8nzs1Mm8tsEDCxBjB8BbryDxjVzT99vYL5QNz6b9sEP-UxAFdzjTZO_b2soAOfWVpXfYJh3uGpjkFpUOjiVRDFWSIeoCif_gm0vC5ZnkArU6NIAiUioC9HikQuLkrCEaG0YOoqL9T0A/s640/IMG_1556.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Card I made for "C" with all my stickers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I love the people here in France and Switzerland. I love trying to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">pick only one chocolate bar from the long isles of chocolate. I love </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the smell of fresh baguettes as you walk past a Boulangerie. I love </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the gloomy gray sky and rain. I love singing the Cantiques in French on Sunday. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> I love greeting the members Sunday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and doing the bise </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">over again. I love giving away "Le Livre de Mormon". I love hearing the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">bells chimes from 20 different cathedrals at 12:00pm</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. I love when people </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">say classic French phrases like, “Ooh la la” and “C’est la vie.” I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">love the train rides. I love President and Sister Brown.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFx7B7Bsed5sustYpE_m2PbkdOHmJi63Vkf6pFiu38pKtYlzsaMqMx0DjbKEuFFn0PD81AEsyeRC8qyz7Dw2B1L99G9F1mxc0m369YxXHBy1UG9-SsN-RFFDw7-u_awbUH0Gh5rO40tMo/s1600/IMG_1552.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFx7B7Bsed5sustYpE_m2PbkdOHmJi63Vkf6pFiu38pKtYlzsaMqMx0DjbKEuFFn0PD81AEsyeRC8qyz7Dw2B1L99G9F1mxc0m369YxXHBy1UG9-SsN-RFFDw7-u_awbUH0Gh5rO40tMo/s640/IMG_1552.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">So as another chapter closes, a new one opens. I am excited to apply </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">all the lessons I have learned to my new life. To continue to share </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the gospel with those around me. I feel at peace and excited for what </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">God has planned for me next. Forward with faith.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I DID IT!!! I DIDDDD ITTTT!!! WHOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">See you soon! Á bientôt!</span></span><br />
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OLY TITANS. Hoggan Blackam from my Highschool back home.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Wednesday at zone conference we went to the manor for breakfast with the whole district, we went to the top of saint Pierre's cathedral while it was so windy and listened to the beauty and the beast soundrack in French, I bought macaroons for Elder Johnson, Elder Blackham and Soeur Wilson and at Ladurées, and then we came to the chapel and a Tahatian elder made the whole district burritos. Then everyone went around in a circle and told of what they remember the first time they met us (two going home) It was an awesome way to finish my mission! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our district made us sit up on this stand today (since we are going home together). We sat here while they told us what they loved about us. </span><br />
<br />Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-29298805646041182672018-01-15T11:55:00.003-08:002018-01-15T12:26:15.201-08:00Week 75 "Am I serving in Switzerland or Italy?"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt2WqOjfGdYABJSUCIMNgBtLRsf6HDf7_SD5ekbuW8xLpAvHxlgB9gOsDvw8SlL_uEmqqVShvRlFE3HxBBXC7Sg5EIFoWOxa5e6fitAR5nmWikRdi16-yLUuZTBdWq6GdcspUNlYgzoo8/s1600/IMG_1535+2.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt2WqOjfGdYABJSUCIMNgBtLRsf6HDf7_SD5ekbuW8xLpAvHxlgB9gOsDvw8SlL_uEmqqVShvRlFE3HxBBXC7Sg5EIFoWOxa5e6fitAR5nmWikRdi16-yLUuZTBdWq6GdcspUNlYgzoo8/s640/IMG_1535+2.JPG" width="478" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This week was so happy!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We were able to see "L" and "C" (from Italy) three times this week. Once at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">their home with "D" also present and another we taught "L"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> about tithing with the bishop at the church and another time the B</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">onny family invited us, "L", and "C" over to eat on Saturday. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Soeur Wilson and I walked downstairs at the chapel and found "L" in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the chapel kitchen surrounded by pizzas! He told us he was making </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">pizza for 200 people for the Stake party that night. He had GARBAGE </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">BAGS exploding with pizza dough.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At one point, all the Italians </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">gathered in the kitchen together and were just yelling and singing... it's</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> just how they communicate with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">each other. Pizza dough and sauce was flying everywhere and "L" just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">kept wiping the sweat off his face. He was totally in his element </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">haha. Well probably the best news of this week is we refixed "L"s </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">baptismal date for the 27th of January</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">. And he is really serious about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">preparing for it. His baptismal interview is this week. "C" is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">still waiting for an answer to her prayer to know when she should be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">baptized.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-bpLBAiCBqGjh8Fi7lbSBPTWc8yQED0zJM7IYbfMdrKgukSdVvEod4hN2Fwh0FuZmGyaPyEBspQh8H-1-tTRAAlwcqspRwJjSz-sKgOL0R55BktUJJxk3-kgYmGxKRP-glAiDN2ojKcU/s1600/IMG_1532.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-bpLBAiCBqGjh8Fi7lbSBPTWc8yQED0zJM7IYbfMdrKgukSdVvEod4hN2Fwh0FuZmGyaPyEBspQh8H-1-tTRAAlwcqspRwJjSz-sKgOL0R55BktUJJxk3-kgYmGxKRP-glAiDN2ojKcU/s640/IMG_1532.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Another amazing moment this week was when "L" showed up at church </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">bright and early at 8:45am. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Frere Volpicelli explained to "L" that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">it might be good if we wore a suit and tie next time. And "L" said, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“Oh, I didn’t know I was allowed to. I thought it was only if you were </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">a priest.” We taught him during Sunday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">school with the Volpicelli </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">couple and the bishop. We taught about tithing and "L" really </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">accepted it. Right after the lesson, he asked if he could pay his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">tithing right then. We explained that he didn’t need to until after </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">his baptism. But what a good example to me of obedience and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">faithfulness.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjC_svO_X-XdGRm9j8uxV1_RenZTxAnyTcF_vxtHcB20J_Y4TgpPaAAHQqQ5R5-RNsfRfpIWtG2PVH0M1_aA3s8fxAuD-B3HKa65G_8qOL6Z2z0kaiK7Wfw869RBgsUkHwGyrdEULDSCk/s1600/IMG_1543+2.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjC_svO_X-XdGRm9j8uxV1_RenZTxAnyTcF_vxtHcB20J_Y4TgpPaAAHQqQ5R5-RNsfRfpIWtG2PVH0M1_aA3s8fxAuD-B3HKa65G_8qOL6Z2z0kaiK7Wfw869RBgsUkHwGyrdEULDSCk/s640/IMG_1543+2.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Another happy moment was when we rode to a lesson on the tram and I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">sat next to "C". She told me she had some questions about how our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">bodies will be perfect after that life. We turned to the Book of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Mormon to look for the answers. She sat next to me on the tram, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">reading out loud in the Book of Mormon. It was so cute. She amazes me.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0qEUoEvS9ZPH9Tk3CnCpKw9OKLfcHFbt0Jv0laGIWc97CiT9m6XmbRxAsrwsbumqqG_uqrvoZSwtUfTDke6Fdf4bUXF3TeSrswzDkbm3pM4yRZUngVUdHe7EtXTX27qQeOQ8C4f5mGtg/s1600/IMG_1545+2.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0qEUoEvS9ZPH9Tk3CnCpKw9OKLfcHFbt0Jv0laGIWc97CiT9m6XmbRxAsrwsbumqqG_uqrvoZSwtUfTDke6Fdf4bUXF3TeSrswzDkbm3pM4yRZUngVUdHe7EtXTX27qQeOQ8C4f5mGtg/s640/IMG_1545+2.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">An amazing miracle happened this week. Erika (Giulliana's Mom) from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Ecully got baptized on Saturday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. I am so proud of her!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9wMLcfu0kQFa6ffusolM3aVD3aYO-pkIwttmtW4HLrgomrHBQ6vBoZhGnUMfQUdnIW4SuYJCjNT_uq0WpJsw8ui4ZZSS0ODzVX7Ht97TKrf3rTOfxI4TB-GMai9C-cPgUb5CdNOkydc8/s1600/IMG_1546.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9wMLcfu0kQFa6ffusolM3aVD3aYO-pkIwttmtW4HLrgomrHBQ6vBoZhGnUMfQUdnIW4SuYJCjNT_uq0WpJsw8ui4ZZSS0ODzVX7Ht97TKrf3rTOfxI4TB-GMai9C-cPgUb5CdNOkydc8/s640/IMG_1546.JPG" width="640" /></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am grateful for the challenges the Lord has given me. I am grateful </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">for those moments like last week when I felt really low. They make me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">so much more reliant on the Lord. When I think, oh wait, I really </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">CAN’T do this all on my own. I need the Savior. I need his strength, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">his peace, his help.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> I am so grateful for our dear prophet Thomas S. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Monson who passed away last week. I have kept a quote up on my desk my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">entire mission from him about “finding joy in the journey.” It has </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">been a really big moto for me on my mission to just be present and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">enjoy today rather than wishing for better days ahead. I have a sure </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">testimony that the apostles and prophets and leaders of the church are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">called of God. Yes, they have their imperfections (thank goodness).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">But they are called of God and they lead and guide this church. As I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">have applied their words of advice and let the Holy Ghost teach me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">what I need to learn, I have been less stressed. I have been able to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">better see my worth in the sight of god. I have felt more personally </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">of gods love for me. I love the gospel of Jesus Christ. I am grateful </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">for the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. These things are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">REAL. These are things that last.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love Soeur Jones</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">She ran up to me and said "I love your Grandparents!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Dead after 4 days of traveling and exchanges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Neuchâtel</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On exchange with Soeur Ogunleye in Lausanne</span><br />
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<br />Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-14736872083532158902018-01-08T10:36:00.000-08:002018-01-08T11:28:36.923-08:00Week 74 "The Savior Understands"<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXdyr5LguE3rHupdawl0vfwyBfR7nxji5vY_l48hMmSF_ZoJVRUPSRtkaZOgDsBAVXnRWVcfB_-SiPU4VulpQmzmfaN5Clz0zcfVy_vlAvRAfIEwTKCgVMwQMfNYxcavhsHHCA36jHxKw/s1600/IMG_1505+2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXdyr5LguE3rHupdawl0vfwyBfR7nxji5vY_l48hMmSF_ZoJVRUPSRtkaZOgDsBAVXnRWVcfB_-SiPU4VulpQmzmfaN5Clz0zcfVy_vlAvRAfIEwTKCgVMwQMfNYxcavhsHHCA36jHxKw/s640/IMG_1505+2.jpg" width="478" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Lausanne Switzerland on an exchange today</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Soeur Abby Jones and Soeur Wilson on exchange with Soeur Myer and Soeur Ogunleye in Lausanne Switzerland. See abbyinlyon.blogspot.com for video</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I feel like my mission will never end. It feels so weird. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> But then again I know it will end one day. Ahhhhh I don’t know!! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I’m just trying to be present and soak up every day these last few weeks!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_zi1Njj38gRr8NkazlOrRjs7bO3Tiest9tWP9nDrqFU39TA8IiA5CSvsgNI5RPX9RtflM8DVLNit_5r3rjgjJWbyuioOLJZxPWML_M9KdbELdbd9WpS36qsRFNY3nHO2ikdXhhdOYsQM/s1600/IMG_1507.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_zi1Njj38gRr8NkazlOrRjs7bO3Tiest9tWP9nDrqFU39TA8IiA5CSvsgNI5RPX9RtflM8DVLNit_5r3rjgjJWbyuioOLJZxPWML_M9KdbELdbd9WpS36qsRFNY3nHO2ikdXhhdOYsQM/s640/IMG_1507.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Sadly, we were not able to see "L" and "C" this week. There were </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">miscommunications with the location to meet and sigh... it’s okay. But </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">just pray for him and his family. It is a little complicated right now </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">with his family situation. But I believe that with time,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">... there is room for healing in the family. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggFvXUikvMqQgW_33kfyoAUs3TjuO79Kx5xIaKTeMSbSPJISYYX_1kW3aqpSeUYPNWYfMRc7jZQTwyuejcNO3DmyBdLg5Chsc8yd_pWWyDy5Xcj1Yz7Xpjut1bvufrbMc3JQTKZc7rGOM/s1600/IMG_1510.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggFvXUikvMqQgW_33kfyoAUs3TjuO79Kx5xIaKTeMSbSPJISYYX_1kW3aqpSeUYPNWYfMRc7jZQTwyuejcNO3DmyBdLg5Chsc8yd_pWWyDy5Xcj1Yz7Xpjut1bvufrbMc3JQTKZc7rGOM/s640/IMG_1510.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This week we went on a lot of exchanges and we have two more </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">in Lausanne. I went with Soeur Juarez and Soeur Ehlert. They are both </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">bleues in their first transfers. Something I have realized from going </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">on exchanges with sœurs is that every sister struggles. I love being</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">able to go on exchanges with sisters because it helps me have so much </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">more compassion for them and help encourage them when they are going </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">through hard times.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIOG5kPHT3mq7hW4UIeeFbVSvullwgF8vc4i-qevm_2bVZvmGeEzjW2ZvcwUlAiRYyVrxwtwjV89K9OXKFoQXy5_UHjajl2CQeLAZC7-9W5869jvnmJ1J6Bs3h2tv-8xCVfEfN7x5oUuY/s1600/IMG_1508.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIOG5kPHT3mq7hW4UIeeFbVSvullwgF8vc4i-qevm_2bVZvmGeEzjW2ZvcwUlAiRYyVrxwtwjV89K9OXKFoQXy5_UHjajl2CQeLAZC7-9W5869jvnmJ1J6Bs3h2tv-8xCVfEfN7x5oUuY/s640/IMG_1508.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This week was a little bit hard. I don’t even know why. I just have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">such a mix of emotions. Trying to enjoy my mission and trying to give my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">very best. It is really easy for me to look back and say, well.. maybe </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I haven’t done my very best. Maybe I could have done better. But I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">know those thoughts come from Satan. I have never realized how real </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Satan’s influence is until coming on my mission. I have never been</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">able to better discern what comes from Satan and what comes from God </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">as I have now. I woke up one morning and decided just to let Christ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">help me. I made my prayers more sincere. I tried to be more focused </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and guided by the spirt during my studies. I felt the Holy Ghost bring </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">peace to my heart. I felt better. I felt happier. It was a big </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">reminder for me of how important it is to do the daily things: Sincere</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">prayer, repentance and pondering what message the scriptures teach us and t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">rying to follow the spirit. I truly need these things every day. When </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I don’t have them... 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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Muellers who know my Grandparents. They have really taken care of the missonaries:)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I was reminded this week that the Savior knows how I feel. He knows my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">worries, my doubts, my weaknesses and my mistakes. He also knows my pains-emotionally</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and physically. I am so grateful for the Savior who stands my by side </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to comfort me. He doesn't just rush though hard moments, but he really sits by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">my side, and cries with me. A mission has felt quite lonely at times. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">But there is one person who has never left my side and that is my S</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">avior and best friend and most loyal companion, Jesus Christ.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj3dgqTcZeUNRwjw7q8X-OfHfV1Be2KM07m5JiQeKvbQuVw6JQ9lvixwdSnPSpJXQmh8Z7ZZOxkHWfekjR0nWF1Hx33C3Us6FRhEeBZBPxkob22cl7rvIxyV2V3cyDdFeruXNGgkDAsw4/s1600/IMG_1521.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj3dgqTcZeUNRwjw7q8X-OfHfV1Be2KM07m5JiQeKvbQuVw6JQ9lvixwdSnPSpJXQmh8Z7ZZOxkHWfekjR0nWF1Hx33C3Us6FRhEeBZBPxkob22cl7rvIxyV2V3cyDdFeruXNGgkDAsw4/s640/IMG_1521.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I am grateful for hard moments because it fills me with more</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">compassion for others who are also struggling. We were in a lesson </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">with a member today (21 year old girl). She said, “Can I ask you </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">something?” And I said "Sure." She looked me in the eyes and said, “Are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">you happy?” I thought for a moment and replied... “Yes.” And then she </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">looked and me still and asked again, “Really, are you happy?” I didn’t </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">answer for a second and I thought about what a challenge this week has </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">been. I wanted to answer "No." But I told her "Yes, Yes I am happy."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Elders "Made us dinner" since we were on exchange all day and didn't have time to make food. They live in the same building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">But... you know... I wouldn’t say every moment of my life is happy. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I’m not always “happy.” But I told her that is apart of life. I have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">hard moments and the gospel of Jesus Christ allows gives me hope and I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">allows me to push forward with faith. I am happy because I have Christ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">as my center. I am happy because I know certain trails are temporary.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I am happy because I know hard moments make me grow and help me become </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">more like Christ. So yes. Despite my challenges, my fears, and my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">imperfections... Abby Jones is happy. I am happy to have the gospel in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">my life. I am happy to have a father in heaven who listens when I feel </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">like giving up. I am happy to have a savior that is full of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">forgiveness and mercy and love.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Love Soeur Jones</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Photos from the Holidays:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I got the prize so I'm the queen for "galette de roi"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elder Blackham (from my High School)was the King. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A funny gift my family sent (look closely at "little Debbie") </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christmas PJ's and fun gifts</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Soeur Morabito fixing my scarf since I was impulsive and cut off the pom poms</span></div>
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Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-54828264293853911792018-01-01T09:00:00.002-08:002018-01-01T10:10:31.600-08:00Week 73 "Happy New Year 2018"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGlDc1XY0V1AxrNHcG-MIDiSvqZB-baUU1WAAcmDZt-ZPdI4QMpg7kdzp7ogBrGCDjeOXsEwYudVuY-93YaRJoy0TjuASC64jaH8Ww5yqddTc2x7L7r3IipVdTIvAibOBznV4awdjLCws/s1600/IMG_1490.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGlDc1XY0V1AxrNHcG-MIDiSvqZB-baUU1WAAcmDZt-ZPdI4QMpg7kdzp7ogBrGCDjeOXsEwYudVuY-93YaRJoy0TjuASC64jaH8Ww5yqddTc2x7L7r3IipVdTIvAibOBznV4awdjLCws/s640/IMG_1490.JPG" width="480" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Abby Skyping on Christmas Day & video (on abbyinlyon.blogspot.com) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Christmas in Geneva was something special. We spent it with the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Muellers. We ate cheesy raclette and laughed a lot. I also loved </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Skyping my cute family on Christmas day. Every time I see you guys I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">remember how much I love you and how lucky I am to have you as my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">family.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSxE4VBwu0h1QBgGNo9tfdqMl6VJMuL-0FQgW5iuv6-Tv3aynvZ-vrkW_ItuMlen0qxnxlEvjSgThODf7fL3feqnqChQwVZIBhfP9eilHYyX1PNtwbM4T-Q0E2-M3czlS3g_d7iCUABGA/s1600/IMG_9898.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQStMv0JbkQbtHrIwXM9d4ORYG9N81Zf4V58qN-lWVGTRmXQuXNdv7TsjLU8U3rGJYADctKyMJXmQ8LWG4SU7IpDwRGIFcu5Ve7A3UCvqTUB6J2UW7u_93hNUZGRqJPySOYYCHAO5cEw/s1600/IMG_1492+2.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQStMv0JbkQbtHrIwXM9d4ORYG9N81Zf4V58qN-lWVGTRmXQuXNdv7TsjLU8U3rGJYADctKyMJXmQ8LWG4SU7IpDwRGIFcu5Ve7A3UCvqTUB6J2UW7u_93hNUZGRqJPySOYYCHAO5cEw/s320/IMG_1492+2.JPG" width="240" /></a><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSxE4VBwu0h1QBgGNo9tfdqMl6VJMuL-0FQgW5iuv6-Tv3aynvZ-vrkW_ItuMlen0qxnxlEvjSgThODf7fL3feqnqChQwVZIBhfP9eilHYyX1PNtwbM4T-Q0E2-M3czlS3g_d7iCUABGA/s320/IMG_9898.JPG" width="220" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Abby Skyping Jamison and Haylie in Provo</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We have been able to see "L" and "C" a couple times these past </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">couple weeks. It is beautiful to watch them change little by little, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">day by day. We taught them the plan of salvation by playing a board </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">game soeur Wilson made. "C" is so spiritually mature for a 9 year </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">old. Or maybe that’s just how children are. When we taught about the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">life after this life... "C" asked, “What about my friend in my</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">class. She believes in Jesus but she doesn’t ever talk</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">about him. What will happen to her?” </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Their family situation isn’t the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">easiest right now. But the gospel has really helped "L" to have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">perspective and to push forward. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Also yesterday we went over to "L's" </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">house. As we were sitting there, I noticed a portrait of Christ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">hanging up on their fridge. It is one done by an LDS artist so I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">assumed he must have grabbed it from the church a couple weeks ago.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">When we asked him about it, he said, “Oh yeah, I found that picture 15 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">years ago and decided to put it on my fridge.” Wow. It reminded me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">that God prepares people along the way. It is really amazing to be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">a part of this process of teaching "L" and "C". But we seriously </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">couldn’t do it without Frere "V" (the member friend who </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">referred him.) He knows "L" way better than we do. He is able to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">talk to "L" at 3:00 in the morning when we calls and needs help. He is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">able to counsel him on personal problems. He is the lifelong friend</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">that will be there for him after we leave. Frere "V" has been </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">such a great example to me of serving others and sharing the gospel </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">with our friends because we love them. I hope I can be like him when I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">get home from my mission.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT2_93pW_lTLgJfbxgp3B13aHNKRJvN9eeGRCVdwbOosya-MrdqpV1lTsSpcEHVY-IZhPs1nS9O_U3WHZggTZRaERdv0ktnjDleqb4VQ6eptJLssSnkb5UK_mmzHSuzlT2bNrxb6jJvfQ/s1600/IMG_1503.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT2_93pW_lTLgJfbxgp3B13aHNKRJvN9eeGRCVdwbOosya-MrdqpV1lTsSpcEHVY-IZhPs1nS9O_U3WHZggTZRaERdv0ktnjDleqb4VQ6eptJLssSnkb5UK_mmzHSuzlT2bNrxb6jJvfQ/s640/IMG_1503.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">This week we had MLC (missionary leadership council) in Lyon. I was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">reminded how grateful I am to have President and Soeur Brown and my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">mission parents. While they have taught me a lot through what they </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">have said, the most I have learned from them comes from their example.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Their love and concern for one another. Their desire to do what the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Lord asks of them. The time they take for each missionary to feel </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">loved. I also had to say goodbye to some dear friends at MLC. Like Soeur </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Cusick. I’ll see her again in another 3 months when she comes home </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">from the mission. But I’ll miss that little nut in the mean time.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33mmPt4g7gdsmLrHhPCCtlpgNoHadN7zH4dZV5y_iaUUwIXPVG_YW6rO2gV9sfgKGsgDhJ9EnHXJYA4eD72MqujWyo9w6Y8CQ6f1eMqUADRs8i6m7J8HhTIg2l6RAIQsmCCtEceHUYGs/s1600/IMG_1502.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33mmPt4g7gdsmLrHhPCCtlpgNoHadN7zH4dZV5y_iaUUwIXPVG_YW6rO2gV9sfgKGsgDhJ9EnHXJYA4eD72MqujWyo9w6Y8CQ6f1eMqUADRs8i6m7J8HhTIg2l6RAIQsmCCtEceHUYGs/s640/IMG_1502.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This is the last time I'll see Soeur Cusick before she comes home.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">This week we were also able to watch BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Fidalgos house as a Christmas present from president. I just have to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">say that it was amazing. I liked all the little French words that were </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">thrown in there.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKGLcMlM_ZO9S7UxeO07ghigzAsS7K5Z4nka2xz0aRNk6AfDZAEuE52ADi2OgEHPcYu7_N_12U7U9J9fSiV9j2tksqjLi9bIk6pCJcpBa0xYVh8xZI-XkEuxhVz-tSdFVXf7PSHPxuEtQ/s1600/IMG_1494.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKGLcMlM_ZO9S7UxeO07ghigzAsS7K5Z4nka2xz0aRNk6AfDZAEuE52ADi2OgEHPcYu7_N_12U7U9J9fSiV9j2tksqjLi9bIk6pCJcpBa0xYVh8xZI-XkEuxhVz-tSdFVXf7PSHPxuEtQ/s640/IMG_1494.JPG" width="480" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">Some of my best friends</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’m doing well. I don’t really know how I’m supposed to feel at this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">point. It is weird being at the end of the mission. I’m trying to soak </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">every day up. The mountains, the chocolate, the people, the French, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">testifying of Jesus Christ. But it takes a consistent effort. I don’t </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">really know what my life holds in these next few weeks or months.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> All I know is that I trust Heavenly Father. And I will </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">continue to put my trust in him after the mission. Continue to let him </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">lead me along. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">(Abby's apartment in France: view @ abbyinlyon.blogspot.com)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">I’m grateful for general conference talks. I’m grateful for apostles </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">and prophets. When they speak, I feel good and uplifted. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">I read a couple talks this week and just felt so much peace!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Love Soeur Jones</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trying to get rid of the bags under our eyes with Soeur Wilson</span><br />
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Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-82165286300689298592017-12-18T11:13:00.001-08:002017-12-18T11:47:22.964-08:00Week 72 "The Best Christmas Gift Ever"<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPqfdjmeREaTf74nFqUZzXqWwe_3WX98_gRvVofjrGbn-w5_tk-1ok3Dzs7tseGQMff9Q3D8FEl-ZsP0EMdZ6xtXoiwV5A6S4tJeAEVNHFKuZAmPx5zK5XC0vqf19w44A19719LfA2VUA/s1600/IMG_1458.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPqfdjmeREaTf74nFqUZzXqWwe_3WX98_gRvVofjrGbn-w5_tk-1ok3Dzs7tseGQMff9Q3D8FEl-ZsP0EMdZ6xtXoiwV5A6S4tJeAEVNHFKuZAmPx5zK5XC0vqf19w44A19719LfA2VUA/s640/IMG_1458.JPG" width="424" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">So transfer calls went a little something like this:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Soeur Jones we’ll start with you. You sure love those people in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Geneva don’t you. You have some amis that are ready to be baptized in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">these next couple of weeks.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(Me nodding my head over the phone.)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> “Soeur Jones. Do you know how much the Lord loves you?”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“A lot”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Oh Soeur Jones. You don't even know half of it. You are going to be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">staying in Geneva for your last transfer, with Soeur Wilson. You will </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">be trading apartments with the Geneva English sisters and living in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">France so that you can continue serving in Geneva.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I didn’t even have words to say back to President Brown. I just sat </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">there and cried with tears of joy.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr_OY3duGwbjn_OvNizQeO0rmbZZeSs5dwnYMDOTCn1vcKIasB67aBdUk85rcP7NOPfKzQdiX5IHOTR2gW0sSPy59VLIJmIs2axHNW-UT92RVv02Ki0ZcbL40FZlpVk8fIgNPPBHkiiC8/s1600/IMG_1457.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr_OY3duGwbjn_OvNizQeO0rmbZZeSs5dwnYMDOTCn1vcKIasB67aBdUk85rcP7NOPfKzQdiX5IHOTR2gW0sSPy59VLIJmIs2axHNW-UT92RVv02Ki0ZcbL40FZlpVk8fIgNPPBHkiiC8/s640/IMG_1457.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">That is literally the LAST thing I thought would happen. I knew I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">would leave Geneva since it my 3 months of being legal were up. But </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">President found a way to make it work. THE LORD found a way to make it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">work. This is truly, the best Christmas present I could ever ask for. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I love these people here in Geneva with all my heart. I was not ready</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to leave them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXyGgeQ9c0LMCUAMeFjnPQ_A7h6qCY50W3Cihc8v8gO070p9ESOG-mWZHy86oG-Hjd66DnvWmI4x7_uFrgYBW0m21Iugs9fVgsyhxV2-5d2z6q1Dag7q98673DWXKFTiVFEnuZ-yLzEp4/s1600/IMG_1456.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXyGgeQ9c0LMCUAMeFjnPQ_A7h6qCY50W3Cihc8v8gO070p9ESOG-mWZHy86oG-Hjd66DnvWmI4x7_uFrgYBW0m21Iugs9fVgsyhxV2-5d2z6q1Dag7q98673DWXKFTiVFEnuZ-yLzEp4/s640/IMG_1456.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">When I first began my mission, I decided I would leave my mission a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">transfer early to start school in January. Several months ago, I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">decided I needed to pray and fast about the decision because I wasn’t </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">feeling so good about it. It really scared me to think of waiting 7 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">months to start school. I told myself it was just better to go home a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">transfer early. But after praying and fasting and talking with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">President Brown, I decided I would stay until the end of my mission. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It was a decision that took a big leap of faith. But I felt good about</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">it. I knew this last transfer on the mission would be really special </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">because the Lord had told me to stay for it. I always thought it would </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">be because he really needed me here until the end, or that I would </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">train a bleue who really needed me. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNYpfkalq-a-FHJlgnfsLYocMJOG7sSHi6q-TTdEoDMDMGS1SKQqGHy-fDQcY633OBS_2zcF-ct8SrmXS2bgJvhTCoqkACJXcgoLOgQXd3sGvkiWRXB81Hj4BfpJX3ZgDJdeJg2mk35I/s1600/IMG_1446.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNYpfkalq-a-FHJlgnfsLYocMJOG7sSHi6q-TTdEoDMDMGS1SKQqGHy-fDQcY633OBS_2zcF-ct8SrmXS2bgJvhTCoqkACJXcgoLOgQXd3sGvkiWRXB81Hj4BfpJX3ZgDJdeJg2mk35I/s640/IMG_1446.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And now I see that it wasn’t </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">because of that. It was simply a gift from a loving Heavenly Father. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To LET me stay an extra transfer in Geneva. With these people who I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">loved even before I got here. It is truly the most special gift I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">could ever ask for.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8eHumMd-S8Y9bA7wQk9F0V3Xiv_MWvMbusXngoq-izqIMwrenwsEdzIjX47GGxcxQ9qgEP6hCKDKMagw565yX8GCGsgeBOjULtwHNrMZcoikD_Qbckvz5WdYb-Ns6S1AyeclbXmModkk/s1600/IMG_1451.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8eHumMd-S8Y9bA7wQk9F0V3Xiv_MWvMbusXngoq-izqIMwrenwsEdzIjX47GGxcxQ9qgEP6hCKDKMagw565yX8GCGsgeBOjULtwHNrMZcoikD_Qbckvz5WdYb-Ns6S1AyeclbXmModkk/s640/IMG_1451.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week we were not able to see "L" and "C" because they have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">been sick ALL WEEK! But we are not giving up! We will see them as soon </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">as they are better. On the bright side, "N", that guy we gave a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">chapel tour to last week, came to the ward Christmas party AND church </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">yesterday! As I was giving a talk in sacrament meeting, I looked out </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">and saw "N" sitting in the very back. Wow! What a great miracle.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb7YP0uMrIrKixyf-HsUud8kzhdutc0WSbdBTE8Hg0NlnCWcN-NwFC_a9FlHW2rshKOCx10ylZ5ESchRcZSqZNw_WUJlBsC9kQ-grfMC7ehpxgEhfM6D4Zafc4EOORHj1GWgmEDH-opfg/s1600/IMG_1447.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb7YP0uMrIrKixyf-HsUud8kzhdutc0WSbdBTE8Hg0NlnCWcN-NwFC_a9FlHW2rshKOCx10ylZ5ESchRcZSqZNw_WUJlBsC9kQ-grfMC7ehpxgEhfM6D4Zafc4EOORHj1GWgmEDH-opfg/s640/IMG_1447.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The nativity done by the Primary</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I am going to miss living with the spanish Sœurs. They make me laugh </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">so hard. This week we had a dance party at night in our apartment with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">them. Oh they are crazy.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnq9_KGSc6F9JETDT5fzyWSVcDXOJho5J6Q91-zmSmb4aQpfJSSKmJjJ6Qj0jJtp26QJV71qTFjtk-OKrBGEGC4Ogo7GlS7eTk9VV0cpxisyvFqzHCagu1fVmMReLD3MnsjQo_P97pHIw/s1600/IMG_1449.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnq9_KGSc6F9JETDT5fzyWSVcDXOJho5J6Q91-zmSmb4aQpfJSSKmJjJ6Qj0jJtp26QJV71qTFjtk-OKrBGEGC4Ogo7GlS7eTk9VV0cpxisyvFqzHCagu1fVmMReLD3MnsjQo_P97pHIw/s640/IMG_1449.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Today we moved into the English Soeurs apartment (16 avenue voltaire, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Apt 2, 01210 Ferney-Voltaire, France). It is refreshing having a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">change. The apartment is... well a missionary apartment. But small and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">charming. And it is on the 4th floor. We have a perfect view of Mont </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Blanc.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdN2HZ3Z65Wbsk2O_uFMO9BY4GRgd78rdLTPASu5LA0ahWQvB4G1yan2klxIHZqug_KiI2rsqkTnhER7I26BxNjNrZTf8IRfojCq0qIb_hp1XLvoLfSjH2hAa7oRVG62RKVAZvVpk7zgk/s1600/IMG_1455.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdN2HZ3Z65Wbsk2O_uFMO9BY4GRgd78rdLTPASu5LA0ahWQvB4G1yan2klxIHZqug_KiI2rsqkTnhER7I26BxNjNrZTf8IRfojCq0qIb_hp1XLvoLfSjH2hAa7oRVG62RKVAZvVpk7zgk/s640/IMG_1455.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I don’t really have words for the joy I feel. As I begin this last</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">transfer, I feel nothing but gratitude. Grateful to be a missionary. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Grateful to STILL be in Geneva. I spent this week saying bye to so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">many people I love, only to see them again Sunday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> and tell them I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">am staying! It was the absolute best.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Ps. I will skype at 5:00pm </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">my time, 9:00am</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> your time. :))))))) Talk to you soon!!! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Love,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Abby</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This list goes around the relief society every week to feed us. Look how many people signed up this week! I'm going to get so fat. YAY!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Soer Tchumi</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eating some Japanese candy that Soeur Oritz's sister sent her</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My umbrella broke. It was literally just a metal stick with some fabric. Everyone who passed me just started laughing. My comp kept telling me to just throw it away, but I loved that people kept laughing. I love making people smile.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Soeur Gillet. A widow in the ward that I LOVE!!</span>Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-2816113564126859032017-12-13T08:55:00.003-08:002017-12-13T09:53:18.774-08:00Week 71 "Christmas Zone Conference"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">🎄I really don’t have words for this week. There were so many miracles </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and so many really really hard moments.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUQO7TcpIJqdF4g_aOSaWQgpTNIMiYgoyA-hWekSHa9TVYMfShztyNBo0c76NpbrUiQN4rM9wDFuRlS4m8-hKOJiyAwr9EcZQkPR1tVfHX4pM3hfsnq5xZLBPPHohURxQ5S1QaOVMKMM/s1600/IMG_1431.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUQO7TcpIJqdF4g_aOSaWQgpTNIMiYgoyA-hWekSHa9TVYMfShztyNBo0c76NpbrUiQN4rM9wDFuRlS4m8-hKOJiyAwr9EcZQkPR1tVfHX4pM3hfsnq5xZLBPPHohURxQ5S1QaOVMKMM/s640/IMG_1431.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Last week, we have a RDV with "C" and "L" (the family from Italy). It was with the member in our ward Frère "Volpicelli." </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We taught about the restoration and watched the movie about Jospeh </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Smith. It was incredible for me to sit there and hear "C" respond </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to the spirit. When we asked her how she knew God was there if she </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">can’t even see him. She told us, “because he speaks to me. When I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">pray, I talk with him. “ It was so simple. But true! She is very in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">tune with the spirit and I just adore teaching children.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We felt very </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">strongly that they were ready to be baptized. We invited them to be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">baptized Saturday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">(the 16th) and they said yes. They have such a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">strong desire to follow Jesus Christ that it just came naturally. We </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">were so excited after the RDV, we cried. I also did the jump splits to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">celebrate (after they left).</span><br />
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"L" and "C" drew this after we taught them about faith in Jesus Christ and repentance.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Singing the Traditional Escalade Song in at the Ward Party (Geneva Switzerland)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">(video can be viewed at abbyinlyon.blogspot.com) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Escalade Pot: It's a tradition to smash the pot and I got to do it:)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">But miracles come with opposition. Soeur Wilson was sick almost all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">last week and we had to stay in the apartment for four days. It is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">hard for me to not get outside. But the lord helped me. He sent me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">angles to help me not go crazy. Then Frère Volpicelli got sick. Then </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"L" got sick and wasn’t able to come to church Sunday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. So we have to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">push his baptismal date back. Sigh. I know. But I still trust the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">lord. They will be baptized when the time is right. I am just grateful </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the lord let me play a small part in this incredible miracle. The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">biggest miracle for me out of this experience, was watching Frère</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Volpicelli share the gospel with his friend. Listening to him testify </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">of his own experiences, and seeing the joy it brought him was a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">miracle. I love seeing how "L" and "C" have already changed. They u</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">nderstand that Christ loves them and will give them strength. They </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">know that in Christ, there is hope. They are happier. They are closer </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">together. When families TRY to live the gospel, they are blessed.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDXA2-vPygO_Nv2eLM9A8YSEdZxvhJpk4nbR7McOkkRB6H3y4IkSWhaJPspYY71vX2VbQub94m2Fm0Sr7y2cv7EVtU_Y3MCO5bn-8PE1u0L4l1G1JwkJhzjfZ8JqmnUV15kXPP5cn5OfM/s1600/IMG_1438.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDXA2-vPygO_Nv2eLM9A8YSEdZxvhJpk4nbR7McOkkRB6H3y4IkSWhaJPspYY71vX2VbQub94m2Fm0Sr7y2cv7EVtU_Y3MCO5bn-8PE1u0L4l1G1JwkJhzjfZ8JqmnUV15kXPP5cn5OfM/s640/IMG_1438.JPG" width="480" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTg_uSLE4tN150MPPni2SPmiLq23oEuJsMYPh8qN9T39XTbpLleDRD6bXND_I8P36Ram_CGAkEmQ9xEMzj6RHo0gqzBz8XjpCVkOGv6HWUrx_NImgcED8Lc514nFq4XVm_di1yQMhF6Io/s1600/IMG_1424.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTg_uSLE4tN150MPPni2SPmiLq23oEuJsMYPh8qN9T39XTbpLleDRD6bXND_I8P36Ram_CGAkEmQ9xEMzj6RHo0gqzBz8XjpCVkOGv6HWUrx_NImgcED8Lc514nFq4XVm_di1yQMhF6Io/s640/IMG_1424.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Tonight we had the craziest miracle. This guy named "N" texted us </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">wanting to see us later today. I though it was "N", the recent </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">convert I know, from Ecully. So we agreed and went to a café to go </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">meet up. But as we were waiting at the café, this man walks up to us </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and shakes our hand, introducing himself to my companion as "N." </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">My eyes got wide. I was so confused. This wasn’t the recent convert </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">from Ecully. Then I realized that I had contacted this man on the bus on Sunday. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> He had told me he would text me but then I forgot about it. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Turns out his name is "N" too. So we acted natural like we knew </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">all along he was coming. Then we offered to go over to our chapel and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">give him a tour. We gave him a tour and talked to him for a while. He </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">was so curious to find out about what we believe. He is feeling pretty</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">lonely here in Geneva because he doesn’t have his family here. He has </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">one son, but he lives in the south of France. So now this man is a new </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ami we are teaching. It just blows my mind how the Lord uses us as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">instruments in his hands to do miracles.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuG_Y3uDRdMCCo8iKH846KuTC9ajyeV1LahqWfi8RHpQxfXgm268Nvbo_XGdGPtC33-x2EfW4tIDKIDzOnZTVH-Ero2GjtGDsW8vcOlXfZjKnEXG-VzDj8X22tuVJzVZH94IVaFgkQsy0/s1600/IMG_1420.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuG_Y3uDRdMCCo8iKH846KuTC9ajyeV1LahqWfi8RHpQxfXgm268Nvbo_XGdGPtC33-x2EfW4tIDKIDzOnZTVH-Ero2GjtGDsW8vcOlXfZjKnEXG-VzDj8X22tuVJzVZH94IVaFgkQsy0/s640/IMG_1420.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We also had Christmas conference yesterday. That was so magical and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">fun. Soeur Brown organized it so of course it was fun. We listened to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Christmas music, ate a lot, received our Christmas packages, and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">watched CARS 3! Honestly, I almost cried during the movie. Hahaha. As </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">missionaries, we naturally find the spiritual message in every film, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">music, etc. because that is what we are used to doing. We also did a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">fun “light the world” activity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> We passed out little bags of candy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">with a candle and a light the world card to random people on the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">streets of Lyon (Ecully). It was pouring rain and we were all just so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">happy. Running up to random cars and knocking on the window to give </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">them candy. Some people were freaked out and wouldn’t answer. But most </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">people laughed and smiled. It was pretty weird being at the Christmas </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">conference with almost everyone in the mission. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I realized it was my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">last big conference (since the next one is just single zone). I also </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">realized I probably won’t see Soeur Cusick until she goes home in 2 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">transfers. We cried about that. It is starting to get real. This is my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">last week in Geneva. Then I find out where I will serve for my last </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ville! I am grateful I still have time left in the mission. I don’t </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">want this to end yet!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love, Abby</span></span><br />
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Sour Morabito<br />
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These people served in the Paris mission. She knows Haylie (my new sister in law who served in the Paris mission as well)<br />
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Cécile, a member from Swiss Germany. 16 years old and wants to go on a mission. I love her!!<br />
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Bishop (Corneta's) house for lunch todayAbby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-19341266095899424922017-12-04T08:15:00.001-08:002017-12-04T09:14:24.895-08:00Week 70 "Marshmallow World"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzWCLmGqZdQWcnNveidKdZa5L8W8Lnkt4qeoXGFLoDQJ1KXsyeWocivIjNOK1c-J_qjxareO_cpCaC57lL1jAs-9aPPz_-Y_MajsOEHdZe4t5T2yFLnHuK6fjXSl8vhHVW44PMakgEmTY/s1600/IMG_1406.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzWCLmGqZdQWcnNveidKdZa5L8W8Lnkt4qeoXGFLoDQJ1KXsyeWocivIjNOK1c-J_qjxareO_cpCaC57lL1jAs-9aPPz_-Y_MajsOEHdZe4t5T2yFLnHuK6fjXSl8vhHVW44PMakgEmTY/s640/IMG_1406.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love Geneva. Switzerland is really special. I love the class. I love </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the cows. But most of all I love the members here!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwN30tqHgSuon0ZPQin5ekC92bISKv-wSLh57Tp3pSB4Cgv4SutpWUqjHYCmr2SllI8rV4BclvHq0ZeOiMN5TQinm4WRgJt1DtsUAFX4p0NuS23GPkLDh5yw4zDX2AZuNT0EmND3DH3GA/s1600/IMG_1395.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwN30tqHgSuon0ZPQin5ekC92bISKv-wSLh57Tp3pSB4Cgv4SutpWUqjHYCmr2SllI8rV4BclvHq0ZeOiMN5TQinm4WRgJt1DtsUAFX4p0NuS23GPkLDh5yw4zDX2AZuNT0EmND3DH3GA/s640/IMG_1395.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thanksgiving Dinner (Last Week)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This week we were able to have another FHE with the "V" and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the "P" family. "A" came as well! "L" made pasta this time. We </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">were able to talk more about the Book of Mormon and how it can </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">strengthen their family. The bishop invited us and "L" to his house </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">this week to eat with them. He also came to church yesterday and was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">serving everyone hot chocolate at the ward activity after haha. It is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">awesome how well the ward is already just embracing them. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"L" and his daughter "C" have been reading in the children’s Book </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">of Mormon together. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeDeFPwREX595CYPuimCz-sP7cZbnMotJTw44sgNPr-wxC4zDcyQ0gQe95qUACrje1skyFuS52WvszsuF-tHCzbtQSRiXSeNto1WqhQG2u7lXQaOqUy3n2vH37UOubKYSfugjhz6spi1Q/s1600/IMG_1400.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeDeFPwREX595CYPuimCz-sP7cZbnMotJTw44sgNPr-wxC4zDcyQ0gQe95qUACrje1skyFuS52WvszsuF-tHCzbtQSRiXSeNto1WqhQG2u7lXQaOqUy3n2vH37UOubKYSfugjhz6spi1Q/s640/IMG_1400.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Our lesson with "A" went SO WELL this week. She is really humble </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and ready to change. Some amis that we teach aren’t actually willing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to apply the things we teach. "A" asked such sincere questions, like</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> “what is your advice for me to better follow the commandment? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Where should I start?” We told her to start where she is. Start with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">something simple like praying every day. She as well has come to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">church these past 2 weeks. Sadly, we will be passing her over to the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">English sisters because she will understand church better in the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">English ward. But oh well because we are all on the same team, doing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the same work for the lord.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">It SNOWED this week in Geneva. I was doing the dishes one night before </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">bed and looked out the widow to see fat snow flakes falling in the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">light of the street lamp. It was so magical. Sadly the snow only </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">stayed for a couple hours. But still. What a little gift from god.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTB4bX3Uql55DizW9Ebav8VzzJsrAes4Y8gdq1w6p3aimhV3mosuzxjnqkGX6zzBZEALmscyx_GYf6N_DcxmFuDE7oTJ1sKx_ljG-XFcPF3f80LsoiZeS5ixXnjK6ODfUkXuV7amwAxh8/s1600/IMG_8329.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTB4bX3Uql55DizW9Ebav8VzzJsrAes4Y8gdq1w6p3aimhV3mosuzxjnqkGX6zzBZEALmscyx_GYf6N_DcxmFuDE7oTJ1sKx_ljG-XFcPF3f80LsoiZeS5ixXnjK6ODfUkXuV7amwAxh8/s640/IMG_8329.jpg" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Best moment of the week: Everyone in the apartment was feeling kind of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">down. It was a bit gloomy in our cave like apartment. So Soeur Wilson </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">got her speaker and started blasting her favorite Christmas song </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“Marshmallow World.” Then we went in the Spanish Sœurs room and we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">formed a train and started dancing. We were all copying the leader in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the front dance moves as we danced around the entire apartment. We </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">were all laughing so hard after. Soeur Jimenez makes me laugh so hard. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">She tries to be Beyoncé all the time and will just like drop randomly </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and I love her. I am grateful for young sisters in the mission who </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">have so much life in them still. They keep us old grandma missionaries </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">laughing.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYX-LZV4LjyvysX5aOMD4hbjSTxRW-swoIXEIlPsoZ9Qtm25XLhOoKwmh15EKxZJOA-pNeG9L2py9HkGNwZ0oOSjacQNvJTZ1tch7TAGRexC7XPkKy8ISoXU402_PQsEYByKi7SdYJ9t0/s1600/IMG_1390.JPG" imageanchor="1"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4wNcqmgDOw3p6Q-QXDr-jCK5e2cCjJfBtcqcC5cmJ8HwOm_MISnIM0N2tFBmQgC_RAbcskZ6QYJ8jSgCyx-2mGqwh71m9_KOiRsq2Pr4NOMy_muSu_35itbGRK4-LhTWGrFwlDb54BN8/s1600/IMG_1386.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4wNcqmgDOw3p6Q-QXDr-jCK5e2cCjJfBtcqcC5cmJ8HwOm_MISnIM0N2tFBmQgC_RAbcskZ6QYJ8jSgCyx-2mGqwh71m9_KOiRsq2Pr4NOMy_muSu_35itbGRK4-LhTWGrFwlDb54BN8/s320/IMG_1386.JPG" width="320" /></a><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYX-LZV4LjyvysX5aOMD4hbjSTxRW-swoIXEIlPsoZ9Qtm25XLhOoKwmh15EKxZJOA-pNeG9L2py9HkGNwZ0oOSjacQNvJTZ1tch7TAGRexC7XPkKy8ISoXU402_PQsEYByKi7SdYJ9t0/s400/IMG_1390.JPG" width="300" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I think it is starting to hit me that I am going home soon. I have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">moments where I have fear for the future. So many people keep telling </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">me that life is tough after the mission. And that scares me. Because I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">feel like I have grown so close to the Savior and just learned to turn </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">outward on my mission and I’m scared that I will just turn into a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">piece of poo when I go home. But I know those thoughts come from</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Satan. In all reality, life will never be easy. Even after the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">mission. But after I had this little moment this week, I prayed and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">read in the Book of Mormon and was able to feel at peace. I felt the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Lord tell me “look unto me in every thought, doubt not, fear not.” I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">know that as I continue to put my trust in the Lord after my mission, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I have nothing to fear. Not even the future.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A member made this advent calendar for us </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Danielle from the Spanish ward who loves my Grandma Nancy. She said how institute always smelled like cookies!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">My breakfast</span><br />
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Laudrée (a favorite store that sells Macaroons and lots of cute French things).Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-88096076616626659882017-11-27T09:32:00.000-08:002017-11-27T10:03:58.006-08:00Week 69 "Lasagna"<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Beautiful miracles are happening with members and missionaries working together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So like I said last week, the Volpicelli family prayed for a missionary opportunity and received one. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1142266898" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Monday</span></span> night, we were able to do a FHE with the Volpicellis and their friends, the "P" family from Italy. The Dad loves to cook and made the most incredible lasagna I have ever eaten. The mom is from Bolivia and actually knew the missionaries when she was younger! She read some of the Book of Mormon but then lost contact with the missionaries. The daughters name is "C". She is 9 years old and has so much faith. When "C" came to the FHE the other night, she was holding the Book of Mormon in her hands with a bright yellow homemade bookmark to mark her page. She has read 3 pages of the Book of Mormon and had brought it to school with her that day! When we invited the family to be baptized, "C" thought for a second, looked right up at us and said, oui. I am seriously so inspired by the faith of this 9-year-old girl. It is such a special experience teaching this family. Especially because the Volpicellis get to be apart of it and feel of the joy of missionary work. We are teaching the "P" family again <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1142266899" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tonight</span></span> at their house! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Second huge miracle. "L" BROUGHT his friend "A" to church yesterday with him. She is also from Italy. They both stayed all 3 hours at church yesterday PLUS the baptism after church. "A" is super open to learning more and kept saying "see you next week!" to members at church. She will be joining our lesson <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1142266900" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tonight</span></span> as well with the "P" family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is crazy because I didn't do anything special to have this family meet the church. God has been preparing them their whole life. And, it is the member who brought this family to church. We never know when miracles will happen. Sometimes I work hard on my mission to find new amis, and I want the results right away. But I have learned that we just need to keep being diligent with following the spirit and in God's timing, we will receive the blessings. When everything in our life seems to be falling apart, we just need to keep pushing forward. One step at a time. Because God will not leave us. We must advance forward and keep trusting in him and his perfect plan. Easier said than done. I'm still working on this. But I'm trying. And I'm learning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1142266901" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday</span></span> we went to Lyon for a Thanksgiving with President Johnson. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">From the conference, I learned the mission is only the beginning of hard experiences. My life will not suddenly snap into easy mode after I finish my mission. Trials and huffing and puffing are a part of life. It is how we grow. I also loved something President Brown said in MLC. He said, "relax, and <b>listen</b>." He was talking about when we teach or talk to people. How we just need to relax and sincerely listen to what they are saying. The spirit will guide us. The spirit will touch the people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was also able to see my BFFS, Sœur Cusick and Sœur Goold at Conference. Sœur Cusick literally waited by the door for an hour for me to arrive and then cried when she saw me. Hahahaha. I love her so much. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dad! Today is your birthday! November 20th! Happpyyyyyy birthdayyyy! I love you dad. I feel so blessed to have you as my daddy. Things that remind me of you.... Protein drinks, Freshly cut lawns and the smell of grass, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_628481122" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> walks, Hot tubs, Annoying animals and wandering dogs, Utah Utes and football games, Hawaii, Fall, Cool weather, Chocolate chip cookies, Carrot cake, Pollyanna and game nights, Going to bed early, and Marathons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dad, you inspire me to work hard and give me the confidence that I can do anything. You have a perspective that makes it seem like everything is going to be okay. I'm grateful for your advice you gave to me to "be present." It has carried me through these past 3 years of my life and certainly my mission. I hope you eat something unhealthy for your birthday! I love you so much daddy and can't wait to give you a big hug in a couple months. Happy birthday! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week we went down to Aix en Provence to pick up my legality. We went to a boulangerie for breakfast and I got a warm, flaky pain aux chocolate. I DIED! I forgot how good fresh croissants and pain aux chocolate taste. Here in Suisse, we sure do have good chocolate. But France really is where they have the boulangeries and patisseries. Oh man, I'm going to miss that when I go back to America. I also bought a Santon nativity in Aix. I have been dreaming about buying one my entire mission. So I did it! Oh it is so cute and will look so cute in my future home lol. It was also fun staying over with Soeur del Mundo. She cracks me up. She is so real and we just love laughing together. Oh... and I got my french legality! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So guess what? Last week we had a soirée familial with the family Volpecellis. We invited them to pray for missionary opportunities every day. So they did. Then, a couple days later, frère Volpecellis friend, "L", asked him if he could come to church with him. So yesterday, "L" and his daughter showed up for church! They are from Italy. It was such a miracle. AMAZING things happen when missionaries and members work together. So now <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_628481123" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tonight</span></span>, we are teaching "L" and his family here at the church in a couple houses. Wow! This is the quote we shared with the Volpecellis: </span></div>
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Geneva Zone for our district meetings this week.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes I am fearful. It is still scary talking to people on the mission. Even after being here for over a year. I can understand the people and communicate. That is not the problem. But it is hard! I sometimes worry more about what people think of us. Or I doubt and say, eh, they won't be interested. Or I just get scared to be vulnerable and get rejected. Choosing to have faith over fear takes a constant effort. Faith is a living thing. We have to feed it. I think it is natural for us to doubt sometimes and think of the worst possible outcome. But Christ's way is always full of light. It is always replacing fear with faith. Even if that step of faith is so small. It is hard for me at times to see the results of my efforts here as a missionary. But I know this is where God called me to serve. So I will continue to take those daily steps of faith. To the very end of my mission and for the rest of my life to come. And I know one day, it will all make sense. </span></div>
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Making decorations for the Holidays<br />
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This is our house in the background. We live in the basement<br />
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Top of cathedral Saint Pierres<br />
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Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-43453466682517921732017-11-13T08:54:00.002-08:002017-11-13T10:30:23.119-08:00Week 67 "Old Ladies are the Cutest!"<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">It reminds me that we are imperfect humans. And as members, we will never be perfect members of the church. So we just need to forgive and know that even members of the church make mistakes. Because the reason we go to church is to strengthen our relationship with Christ and serve others at church! We also took Soeur "G" on a walk around her neighborhood after. We stopped by her friend "J's" house and took the two old ladies for a walk. I felt so much pure joy during that walk. Widows really need someone to listen to and love them.</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk0t8L3JBQNIXo6j4Lvw9nafZ27nQTl2VzSfRQs3mae7YWThdkTVd8fIHByLSEj2gfgAHpm6c6yA0alq0M84xlAX5mUR1kEtfjDlMjXpt0SkrAYNt_nZ-GrrraqAV8vMLqGMrTJiEvBew/s1600/IMG_1313.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk0t8L3JBQNIXo6j4Lvw9nafZ27nQTl2VzSfRQs3mae7YWThdkTVd8fIHByLSEj2gfgAHpm6c6yA0alq0M84xlAX5mUR1kEtfjDlMjXpt0SkrAYNt_nZ-GrrraqAV8vMLqGMrTJiEvBew/s640/IMG_1313.JPG" width="478" /></a><br />Soeur Bonnamy is the new sister in the English Ward</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">A member named "J" did one of the most inspiring things I have ever seen on my mission this week. We went over to "J's" house to eat lunch and share a spiritual thought with her. Her family situation is difficult right now so we shared decided to share the "courage" video about Esther with her. Midway through the </span>video<span style="font-size: large;"> she says, " Pause the video." And we were super confused. But then she says, "I need my friend to watch this video. She really needs this." And right then and there, she calls up her friend (who is her next door neighbor) and invites her over. Her friend "G" is going through some really hard trials right now because she found out she had cancer a couple years ago. As "G" sat down, "J" explained to her that this is something she has wanted to talk to her about for a very long time. She sat there with tears in her eyes telling "G" how much she loved her and how she wants to share the thing that is the most precious to her, the gospel. We started the video over. At the end, both were in tears and he spirit was so strong. I admire "J" so much. A- for having so much faith to invite her friend over. B- for acting on the prompting of the spirit the second it told her to invite her friend. THAT takes courage. Wow. It was so so inspiring to me.</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtjbdIuc45ZfzwmrO75RyjsHbW4w6h0rBC5bWHwl_ZqbMpQUwKJ9-_dccdesuXiUvxMP_6bM7_LEboRB-QLFcNOdUJGPy3wZLdJZJ7KTk6gHDYvOPDt4ctYydwkKIaGlWU4aD_tmmuq8w/s1600/IMG_1314.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtjbdIuc45ZfzwmrO75RyjsHbW4w6h0rBC5bWHwl_ZqbMpQUwKJ9-_dccdesuXiUvxMP_6bM7_LEboRB-QLFcNOdUJGPy3wZLdJZJ7KTk6gHDYvOPDt4ctYydwkKIaGlWU4aD_tmmuq8w/s640/IMG_1314.JPG" width="478" /></a><br />Elise got baptized! She is the Elders Ami</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week was hard. Every single RDV with our amis got canceled. I felt discouraged. I felt like giving up. Sometimes, we give so much effort. We expect our efforts to have a certain result. And when they don't, it takes a lot of faith to keep going. To keep trusting that one day, we will see the results of our efforts. I had one night where I just felt so low. Like I was in a hole. And as I prayed to my Heavenly Father that night, I felt like Christ was the only thing that could give me light. The only one who </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">could </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">lift me up out of that deep hole. I thought of Christ during my prayer and he just gave me this feeling of hope. The next morning, I woke up feeling at peace. It was </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_909233819" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. And I just felt this feeling of a fresh start. Like a clean slate. I felt pure joy taking the sacrament and just an overwhelming feeling of love from my savior.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh21p2e78u_I-kmR090S6eBofsEkk6gnRRK_X80VIS9VwAzrZgeZumVi_GzqJ4euxG4UF9CmIXMk15WMFsQ6yLIbEUm97CRlfH7BmKTEfmVXxVe19UVfRNtErQseluMRnIZjUbxk0lE-Ik/s1600/IMG_1316.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh21p2e78u_I-kmR090S6eBofsEkk6gnRRK_X80VIS9VwAzrZgeZumVi_GzqJ4euxG4UF9CmIXMk15WMFsQ6yLIbEUm97CRlfH7BmKTEfmVXxVe19UVfRNtErQseluMRnIZjUbxk0lE-Ik/s640/IMG_1316.JPG" width="480" /></a><br />I also learned that most often, Heavenly Father answers our prayers through other people. Soeur Fidalgo was an answer to my prayer. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_909233820" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Sunday</span></span> she got up and bore her testimony about how much it helps her family to have the missionaries come over. She explained how every <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_909233821" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday</span></span> night she has the missionaries come over and eat and share a spiritual thought. And how it is always exactly what she needs to hear. That just meant so much to me because it helped me see that we are affecting so many people's lives that I don't even know. It is a miracle to be the answer to someone else's prayer.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4xFhj445zTfYqAJZgEfVPhUdLQ6Vz_yucv-vKHpAcGbS7_Q1GbDyFgX8Pg7iF8l6coo8IkYZgG2Efve_0d3936kAyXX6HSVC9rc1IzUfbUkhiy9YKVfaeL3HFB47-ldMr83H3-ZqMNnM/s1600/IMG_1324.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4xFhj445zTfYqAJZgEfVPhUdLQ6Vz_yucv-vKHpAcGbS7_Q1GbDyFgX8Pg7iF8l6coo8IkYZgG2Efve_0d3936kAyXX6HSVC9rc1IzUfbUkhiy9YKVfaeL3HFB47-ldMr83H3-ZqMNnM/s640/IMG_1324.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />I love this month of November. I have been trying to be more grateful this month and I am just so much happier when I remember all my blessings. I love this video: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2017-02-6300-principles-of-peace-gratitude-princeofpeace?lang%3Deng&source=gmail&ust=1510677757249000&usg=AFQjCNH26aP8kD3nHHRa9KDdp_0jRhZxUw" href="https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2017-02-6300-principles-of-peace-gratitude-princeofpeace?lang=eng" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.lds.org/<wbr></wbr>media-library/video/2017-02-<wbr></wbr>6300-principles-of-peace-<wbr></wbr>gratitude-princeofpeace?lang=<wbr></wbr>eng</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Christine was baptised! She was our ami from Montpellier with Soeur Poissinnier.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Right after she was baptized, she requested to FaceTime in with all the old missionaries who taught her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soeur Poissinnier from Montpellier was facetiming with us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drinking Hot chocolate in the cutest vintage café</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friends from Nice. Fileberton and Christinne</span>!<br />
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Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-19064857898373842022017-11-06T10:51:00.002-08:002017-11-06T11:21:00.465-08:00Week 66 "No One is Ever Poor by Giving"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2LmbqT2zmTPPv9FYkfDR4tEX1rozpLZJMNT-KqpoQY6gcyKb2lrmkgA_SdliSEEkB1IQkE4t0KkkHV3Lk6OXig8h3mVUKCAGSZz75kZKAr_WtLJQt4bli8zs82XFK2VnfaxxbTlrkwdI/s1600/IMG_1292.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2LmbqT2zmTPPv9FYkfDR4tEX1rozpLZJMNT-KqpoQY6gcyKb2lrmkgA_SdliSEEkB1IQkE4t0KkkHV3Lk6OXig8h3mVUKCAGSZz75kZKAr_WtLJQt4bli8zs82XFK2VnfaxxbTlrkwdI/s640/IMG_1292.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Another transfer down. And a new transfer begins! I will be staying in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Geneva! I will be receiving Soeur Wilson. Soeur Goold trained Soeur </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Wilson last year so this will be crazy being comps with Soeur Goold's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Bleue! I am currently just waiting at the gare right now for Soeur </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Wilson to get in. I don't know a ton about Soeur Wilson other than her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">hair is so cute and curly. And she is a great person and missionary!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe1OG6hEDS68_gpVZRHTswsLRHIihZdGFffNwi2X_BGPLn92wT00p6U4-jdFnFAfoEXpMEW0v9kMXZEPEQzhb7jmn760oZ56THtrHXv_K0wHKCH6Gcrfx7iENOuxehZI7ETZOcCTmw7j0/s1600/IMG_1282.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe1OG6hEDS68_gpVZRHTswsLRHIihZdGFffNwi2X_BGPLn92wT00p6U4-jdFnFAfoEXpMEW0v9kMXZEPEQzhb7jmn760oZ56THtrHXv_K0wHKCH6Gcrfx7iENOuxehZI7ETZOcCTmw7j0/s640/IMG_1282.JPG" width="480" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This week we saw our ami "K". It was sooooo cool. She has a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">cousin who is a member in Texas. We were able to skype he and his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">little boys into the lesson. She hadn't talked to her cousin in 10 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">years and we were able to get in contact with him and tell him his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">cousin was being taught by the missionaries. So it was so cool for her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to see him and they talked in Spanish together. He testified about how </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the gospel has blessed his family. The little boys even told how they</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">know the Book of Mormon is true. It really was a testimony to me that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the most important missionary work we will ever do is the work within </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">our own family.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4oVIlkdfgEGVE04AcMUcH5gJudx8_TJKbqW9AJo_8qc49_3EcYO_meGNZfjsYpXifzxWLnM-EjcBRsbTtj6ZWuuu6e0UZ6sUv4qPzvyw4TvL5l4dQu7yc_WhUt3D4BUIeDI5FeLUbxH8/s1600/IMG_1289.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4oVIlkdfgEGVE04AcMUcH5gJudx8_TJKbqW9AJo_8qc49_3EcYO_meGNZfjsYpXifzxWLnM-EjcBRsbTtj6ZWuuu6e0UZ6sUv4qPzvyw4TvL5l4dQu7yc_WhUt3D4BUIeDI5FeLUbxH8/s640/IMG_1289.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We also saw "F" after a lonnggg time this week. She says that since </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">she met with us, she has had a better relationship with God, has been </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">teaching her boys to pray, and even found a job! I looking forward to seeing</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> her again this week.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO7reWkYwbT1iDSkJKskYpr1i24QFqIAZKG3G4E356Ahc5tG4Zkjbo0lUTCjqVUGR8VLUQdPIAdbGnZW4woAMdCFhhxNdtYp_22fzk6kjyGNzfvukdsfsKLL-h0MDDPkjHFxZR71-f_XI/s1600/IMG_1302.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO7reWkYwbT1iDSkJKskYpr1i24QFqIAZKG3G4E356Ahc5tG4Zkjbo0lUTCjqVUGR8VLUQdPIAdbGnZW4woAMdCFhhxNdtYp_22fzk6kjyGNzfvukdsfsKLL-h0MDDPkjHFxZR71-f_XI/s640/IMG_1302.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This week I had a monumental moment. I have a goal to be more </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">selfless. It is sooooo completely human to be selfish. To not want to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">share. To think "it's mine." To think of what would be best for us </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">first rather than best for others. It's natural. It's human. But I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">want to be better about it. So last night about 6 other missionaries </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">stayed at our house. No one had eaten. And the food is so expensive </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">here in Suisse. So me being human, didn't want everyone to eat our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">food. But then I remembered my goal. And I saw my peanut butter in the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">corner....peanut butter that you never find in Europe. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I thought and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">then made a decision. I told everyone they could eat my peanut butter </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and any food in the house they wanted. Hahaha. I know this sounds </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">silly. But for me it was a step just a little closer to becoming more </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Christlike. I shared my peanut butter!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ47h6Z4xsyiEpHnNPj77Arzhjfj7swkXzxClaWTUnIbJ9fMN0nJwEzClLrinM4EEZCNFU2XQ-Sd2ruxcIfydqVO2cGMf_eoZes1kMXGLnRwxe0F2HYgUtyJTtCS1p3iQzx7mgxZBoJUo/s1600/IMG_1287.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ47h6Z4xsyiEpHnNPj77Arzhjfj7swkXzxClaWTUnIbJ9fMN0nJwEzClLrinM4EEZCNFU2XQ-Sd2ruxcIfydqVO2cGMf_eoZes1kMXGLnRwxe0F2HYgUtyJTtCS1p3iQzx7mgxZBoJUo/s640/IMG_1287.JPG" width="480" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I am inspired by my Dad. He is so giving and never stingy. I am trying </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to be more like him. He shared with me a quote that says, "No one ever </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">became poor by giving." So I challenge you- whoever is reading this- </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to give something this week. Whether it is your time, listening to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">someone even when you are tired, playing with your little sister when</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">you don't want to, letting your mom borrow your favorite shirt, giving </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">your best friend the bigger half when you split the dessert.... just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">give something! You will walk away feeling like you have more! I love </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">this season of thanksgiving. Super hard to believe I only have 12 more </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">weeks of the mission. I'm just going to let the end sneak up on me.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Abby</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Halloween</span><br />
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Winter is coming in Geneva<br />
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<br />Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-24671524774709841582017-10-30T11:10:00.002-07:002017-10-30T11:53:58.652-07:00Week 65 "The Little Things"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggPbLZN1xFI4ChrZ2l7_pU215snalBW_mFtMJ8KT5GDYpBJHdjxtnRfwUN9mzl9QMsTF7e-Y2T3vV2OMUl1KhXp-l5uaJuDFMl2FnBeFbpAWFlnhiNScA4bodwjj1L3xY5SWouSaAwV-E/s1600/IMG_1265.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggPbLZN1xFI4ChrZ2l7_pU215snalBW_mFtMJ8KT5GDYpBJHdjxtnRfwUN9mzl9QMsTF7e-Y2T3vV2OMUl1KhXp-l5uaJuDFMl2FnBeFbpAWFlnhiNScA4bodwjj1L3xY5SWouSaAwV-E/s640/IMG_1265.JPG" width="478" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Bonjour!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> This week we had Zone Conference. Soeur del Mundo and I presented and the subject we chose was "joy." A lot of missionaries forget that they are supposed to have joy. And there are a lot of young missionaries in our zone so we felt like we needed to remind everyone. Literally all the sisters were in tears as we presented because they are sometimes so hard on themselves. They compare themselves. Missions are hard. But there are so many reasons to have joy. Not just seeing people come unto Christ. But the pain aux chocolates, the flowers, being with other missionaries, eating raclette!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV5B2az7sPMFph-Jw4k9YwwTjW91vTHdFGktaRNyioTLgtSNCzMl4RUQDqp1TFlxcnpbVI-GV0m8WqnPtbVfWPLxd4cEYZFvSmUn_n3A4nuMDNGkrgkcI5HoZAtBmfIZSd3lTKfcaPlo4/s1600/IMG_1268.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV5B2az7sPMFph-Jw4k9YwwTjW91vTHdFGktaRNyioTLgtSNCzMl4RUQDqp1TFlxcnpbVI-GV0m8WqnPtbVfWPLxd4cEYZFvSmUn_n3A4nuMDNGkrgkcI5HoZAtBmfIZSd3lTKfcaPlo4/s640/IMG_1268.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> I loved my interview with President Brown. I asked him what advice he would give me for these last 2 transfers. He sat there for a while thinking. Then he looked and me and said, "Let it sneak up on you." As in, let the end sneak up on you. Because you are so in the present, you don't even see the end coming. Then he said, "Savor every day. The desserts. When you walk down the street... soak in all the flowers around you. The members who are filled with the Holy Ghost. Every time you get to speak in French. Go outside, and seize the day. Every day."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1WWkz6xO5qkiwLr1-Ld6WFjofMFiUnzwKAdiwIjtEKNvQ6tzHlbxRfKkoGwPVya1usvLHm54mcA-gdyUPH-IVv3GBcXvrP2jfYYA7zBJDj3qSqfBmeIgPMdUxCocyxQGtP2r2kYbeMIQ/s1600/IMG_1269.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1WWkz6xO5qkiwLr1-Ld6WFjofMFiUnzwKAdiwIjtEKNvQ6tzHlbxRfKkoGwPVya1usvLHm54mcA-gdyUPH-IVv3GBcXvrP2jfYYA7zBJDj3qSqfBmeIgPMdUxCocyxQGtP2r2kYbeMIQ/s640/IMG_1269.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> I loved this advice. President Brown and I are really similar in that aspect. We love and admire and appreciate all the little beautiful things in life. Sister Brown said sometimes the president will sometimes just stare at the sky and say, wow, isn't the sky just so beautiful. Haha. Just like me! So it is really nice having a mission President and his wife that I really relate to.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSaW9etOGCUxQItLaX-Cu80lHXfXVCbznIiZ56FhkGW1J8FCpKxqliUBZ2SMAZTXL3iHrr4kspA9zGXXCMVMWvv5myuqpHEa3WowZI84eIn7FBLqO5k0TPNiv1NrnxOyWiBuPeTgPSIYA/s1600/IMG_1276.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSaW9etOGCUxQItLaX-Cu80lHXfXVCbznIiZ56FhkGW1J8FCpKxqliUBZ2SMAZTXL3iHrr4kspA9zGXXCMVMWvv5myuqpHEa3WowZI84eIn7FBLqO5k0TPNiv1NrnxOyWiBuPeTgPSIYA/s640/IMG_1276.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> This week we were able to see "K" twice! What a blessing. She is so sincere with her questions and is just so sweet. She had been reading in the Book of Mormon but hasn't come to church yet. I'm really praying she comes to church this week. "L" also wanted to see us again. Even though we passed her to the English elders. We went and got hot chocolate. She is doing so well and has read a ton in the Book of Mormon. Her baptismal date is set for the 2nd of December.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> Can you believe it? We only met her on the train a month ago. And now she will be baptized. Even though the English Elders get to teach her, I am just happy that I got to be some part of the process for her. Whatever part God needs me to do, I'll do it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7tIHaNSuOPDiQF2t4IqhEGvcdVs4lFQ3mE7x8_omqXnQrjheFbUhwyTADT5SgJ8D9fZHwz2xzKV2_K_Yd9tXYFlLwYwg_8_mu2tWr3By8ka4KA-gblvXl3YjzxPNdyluxP4sx6gtAAGU/s1600/IMG_1272.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7tIHaNSuOPDiQF2t4IqhEGvcdVs4lFQ3mE7x8_omqXnQrjheFbUhwyTADT5SgJ8D9fZHwz2xzKV2_K_Yd9tXYFlLwYwg_8_mu2tWr3By8ka4KA-gblvXl3YjzxPNdyluxP4sx6gtAAGU/s640/IMG_1272.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> For pday this week, we went to a Chinese restaurant and then to the parc with the other sisters and elders. One reason I love the mission, is any free time we have, we just really make the most of it.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyIopmNNqzCoy49e0VsVaibbTK6dY0BiQ6LEAY7x68gZGVowA-HcnORnZkC5-T0feLbj-LQyYde1leS_c1ajeDZj0wSCwQHCmqL10oLebndUggFw-SZtdV5APaKZY4RvZuAWfOKxXYYag/s1600/IMG_1278.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyIopmNNqzCoy49e0VsVaibbTK6dY0BiQ6LEAY7x68gZGVowA-HcnORnZkC5-T0feLbj-LQyYde1leS_c1ajeDZj0wSCwQHCmqL10oLebndUggFw-SZtdV5APaKZY4RvZuAWfOKxXYYag/s640/IMG_1278.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> We were hitting pine cones with a stick and just throwing around a soccer ball at the park and it was so fun. I am content with where I am in the mission right now, and in life. I know the future will come before I know it. So I am content where I am.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj25LoO71rVgTtKicBjRTSqgOYRvkUZR0kyJidvMBfLzVhQPmITFQtbQZbU_po-i_JnD8GS8VMzmdj9zYTPCNj1SibfPiSa_n44inLWvI8TiG4qCio4dQ-kQOhbWCcdovE6rhZLeG2wsQI/s1600/IMG_1279.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj25LoO71rVgTtKicBjRTSqgOYRvkUZR0kyJidvMBfLzVhQPmITFQtbQZbU_po-i_JnD8GS8VMzmdj9zYTPCNj1SibfPiSa_n44inLWvI8TiG4qCio4dQ-kQOhbWCcdovE6rhZLeG2wsQI/s640/IMG_1279.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> This week I had a pretty... annoying hard... moment. I have been praying to have more charity and practice charity this week. So I was on the train. And I told God, okay... I'm going to talk to whoever you need me to talk to right now. I'm going to just open my mouth and do it. So I sat across from this lady. I told her I liked her scarf and she said very loudly back, " J'AI PAS ENVIE DE PARLER AVEC VOUS." (I do not want to talk to you.) </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I just told her that, oh sorry, I just like your scarf. And then I sat there just silent for a few minutes praying asking for charity. Then I turned to her again and I said, are you from Suisse? And she just started yelling at me. That she didn't want to talk to me. It was the my stop for the train so I said have a good day and I left. I felt so heavy and down after. But I felt Heavenly Father telling me, you did everything I asked you to do. It doesn't matter what her response was. So I prayed for that woman. To feel loved in her life. Love from others and love from God. I learned from this experience that God gives us what we need to grow. He gave me a chance to try and love someone even when it was hard.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHDJRrOQcx1kCq3ikXpYQ969NIpVaYa7FDJby6FXMkIqNTwitnzLWISRnauS__kCd11m0TKY3y8oWkw-3D-Hsm1u-nZNoakOo61kXB7HW9u_Gfoeh-i2_4_K7ajI1Xboz73m5GOnRpabI/s1600/IMG_1266+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHDJRrOQcx1kCq3ikXpYQ969NIpVaYa7FDJby6FXMkIqNTwitnzLWISRnauS__kCd11m0TKY3y8oWkw-3D-Hsm1u-nZNoakOo61kXB7HW9u_Gfoeh-i2_4_K7ajI1Xboz73m5GOnRpabI/s640/IMG_1266+2.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Raclette at Fidagol's home. Rosie's daughter trying on my hair</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> I hope you have a great week and spooky Halloween!!!! </span><img alt="👻" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f47b" goomoji="1f47b" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f47b" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> I LOVE you!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> LOVE Abby</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4rdrzvw0Bkfol7KB6WII9_Tul1gfvUVtoQBwjIpIIn4sojmjfUDak5mj9hZoFT-IjiPvm413IsTkGUZjkl_RzXaYBkNZWMeG580b19bZkI83_hWllwFnLXPmdhpkSm928qx0uOXKNRjI/s1600/IMG_1273.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4rdrzvw0Bkfol7KB6WII9_Tul1gfvUVtoQBwjIpIIn4sojmjfUDak5mj9hZoFT-IjiPvm413IsTkGUZjkl_RzXaYBkNZWMeG580b19bZkI83_hWllwFnLXPmdhpkSm928qx0uOXKNRjI/s640/IMG_1273.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This was my mission announcement photo! "The Change" LOLOLOLOLO</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Wooley's came to visit some family in Switzerland. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">They are my neighbors from SLC</span><br />
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"CHRISTMAS CARD"<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We finally found breakfast food. They don't serve scrambled eggs in France. It's usually hard boiled and not always for breakfast.</span><br />
<br />Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-58579576992747197272017-10-23T06:36:00.002-07:002017-10-23T07:07:31.991-07:00Week 64 "Raclette" <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">If you don't already know, Suisse is famous for its fondue. But there is also "raclette." We have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">also been eating raclette every single time we eat at a members house. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Which means a LOT of gooey, delicious, melted cheese poured over bread </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and potatoes and bacon or sausage. OSdkfnadsjvfanodjfh;dskjf !!!!!!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I THINK I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">AM GOING TO EXLODE. One, because it tastes so good. And two, because </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">my arteries might get clogged and my heart might not work any more due </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to all the wonderful melted cheese in my body. ITS AWESOME!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMguxpVSV5-9tfxYjwTIQUkfhuQHho2LmHaQF0rSODdXV6yUG5u5L-LpQEzNzzapJoV3jNY6TjOqtzn4te6AIUJ2QBH65GsWjGBMQR7UPKPSsJtnhoDsRiNzWVxx71LpFU6pysbgxDbXQ/s1600/IMG_1252.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMguxpVSV5-9tfxYjwTIQUkfhuQHho2LmHaQF0rSODdXV6yUG5u5L-LpQEzNzzapJoV3jNY6TjOqtzn4te6AIUJ2QBH65GsWjGBMQR7UPKPSsJtnhoDsRiNzWVxx71LpFU6pysbgxDbXQ/s640/IMG_1252.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This week was actually pretty hard midway through the week. Every </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">single one of our rdvs with our amis got canceled. Soeur del Mundo </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and I had a little mental breakdown one morning just after studies. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Sometimes you just feel like exploding on a mission... so you need to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">just let it out. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I told Soeur del Mundo we needed to take </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">a walk. So she grabbed the can on whipped cream in the fridge, we put </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">on our flip-flops and pulled our sweatshirts over our head and took a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">little walk outside. We talked out our feelings of stress while half </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">laughing and occasionally squirting the whipped cream can into our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">mouths. We looked like homeless children/ crazy people walking around </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">with our whipped cream and flip- flops. I love that I can do that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">with Soeur del Mundo. She is super real and honest. That is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">refreshing.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_AJL6ngph_pc6jOMyS6PkDSd_FJZiH4Er3LccUe7y5B4uIfR5LeCUyCwQBfuNZs1GY-tiIoEA33aExADy3QMbJApBltjzJ6dlbc9oUnWNdaYRuRilREGYR237gOben4wYKsaP8CTNJv4/s1600/IMG_1250.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_AJL6ngph_pc6jOMyS6PkDSd_FJZiH4Er3LccUe7y5B4uIfR5LeCUyCwQBfuNZs1GY-tiIoEA33aExADy3QMbJApBltjzJ6dlbc9oUnWNdaYRuRilREGYR237gOben4wYKsaP8CTNJv4/s640/IMG_1250.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Saturday we had a pretty cool miracle. We were on the bus going out to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">eat at our dmp (ward mission leaders) house for lunch. We were about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to get off the bus and I saw a woman staring at our name tags. I told </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">her I liked her ring even though we were about to get off the bus. We </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">talked for a second. Then, she ended up getting off the same stop as</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">us! She was carrying a lot of groceries so we offered to help her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">carry them. Normally people say no. But she was really happy we asked </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and let us help her. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I have a testimony that Christ wants us to have joy and satan wants us to be miserable. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Opposition is real. You will not make it through </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">your life without it. Letting Christ into our lives takes a daily, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">consistent effort. It is a choice actually. But a really, really good </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">choice. And how do we let Christ in? Fill our lives with things that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">are good. Fill our lives with things that help us feel the the spirit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhh7croFuPfUIQ4y7yGeQXx_gtoyVGhpoyPifxbZc-xSPaFwcluo6j9qjR4ecjElAsY5R9p0V-LJmVSUTP7vx9x0EMnmnTxwkMSwb8ek4_h4DVNY_ik1EO32T1ossHOCN7rjYSR9gU2zE/s1600/IMG_1248.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhh7croFuPfUIQ4y7yGeQXx_gtoyVGhpoyPifxbZc-xSPaFwcluo6j9qjR4ecjElAsY5R9p0V-LJmVSUTP7vx9x0EMnmnTxwkMSwb8ek4_h4DVNY_ik1EO32T1ossHOCN7rjYSR9gU2zE/s640/IMG_1248.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Communicate with Heavenly Father daily. Prayer, music, scriptures. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Even now, near the end of my mission, it is easy to let Satan </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">discourage me. He will do everything he can to make me give up, or </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">feel to tired, or fearful. But Christ gives me peace. He is literally </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">my rock. Christ is ready to forgive us, help us, and bless us. If </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">there is one thing that has changed through my mission it is my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">relationship with my savior. He is real. I love Him. I testify this to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">people wherever I go. Sometimes people don't listen. Sometimes people</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">think we are weird. But I want you to know, whoever reads this, that I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">love Jesus Christ. I know he lives.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love Soeur Jones</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rosie. Cutest girl! We ate fondue with the Fidagols Friday. They love having missionaries over!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to wear a wedding dress and this is as close as I got. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-57115420688942020122017-10-16T14:08:00.002-07:002017-10-17T13:46:02.910-07:00Week 63 "Jamo & Haylie are Married"<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Jamo and Haylie are marrieddddd!!!!!!👏</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> The wedding looked so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">happy and I laughed really hard that everyone crowd surfed my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">cardboard cutout. Thanks guys. That means a lot. Haha.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizkIwLw0PWG1HXUvSyWpnq1xolQu9NJB86k_2fHD2tuDchpM3ApKv0zL42pr7UQ4mvognEo6FylUQZRXxowAaBLdMsSW4zfiZIMWzldb34hnUr-KRyCsf275li55dm0yAh2U0h2qHlGF4/s1600/IMG_1223.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizkIwLw0PWG1HXUvSyWpnq1xolQu9NJB86k_2fHD2tuDchpM3ApKv0zL42pr7UQ4mvognEo6FylUQZRXxowAaBLdMsSW4zfiZIMWzldb34hnUr-KRyCsf275li55dm0yAh2U0h2qHlGF4/s640/IMG_1223.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Friday night I kneeled down and said my prayers at exactly 9:40am (1:40 Utah time) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">so I felt like I would be there with the family in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the temple as Jamo and Haylie got sealed. I felt the spirit wash over </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">me and felt so much love and gratitude for this new change in our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">family. I am grateful for the temple. I am grateful our family can be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">together forever.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is a photo Jordan Jones took on the way out of the temple after the beautiful wedding ceremony and sealing of Jamison Jones and Haylie Van Den Bergue. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This week we had some really great RDVs with our new amis. We saw "K"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> again and taught her about the restoration. She has been </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">reading in the Book of Mormon and even reached out to her cousin who </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">is a member of the church to tell him she met us. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"United Nations" me and Soeur </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">We also meet with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"F". </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">She moved here from Paraguay ago ten years ago. She has two </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">kids. She hasn't been to church in a really long time. But I met her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">on the train last week and she said she would love if we stopped by.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">We went over and it was such a sweet experience to remind her of how </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">much God loves her. She wants us to come by twice this next week! We </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">also met with "M". I also met him on the train last week. He is an </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">older man (70ish) and just very sincere. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">When I met him, I gave him a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Book of Mormon and explained how precious the Book is to me and how it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">has really taught me about who Christ is. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He has been reading in the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Book of Mormon this week and even came to church on Sunday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ALlenbachs. They love Nanny and Grandpa. This is the Allenbchs son who was in innstitute with my Grandparents and now has 2 kids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">So viola-</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Those are the miracle people from this week. We were even able to see </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">sweet "L". She came to our ward activity Sunday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. She said she has </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">been reading in the Book of Mormon and she is just so curious to find </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">out more about what we believe. She knows she is mission something, b</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">ut doesn't know what. We are going to try and pass her to the English </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">elders this week because she speaks English.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4GsN_f2vdKmW_24Ld3FN2YJQ0ztT6RNh1_QNCu6hURCjEghL1xKtXZiWhtdEgEcjljvPpZnKXzCdECkPz3MORxhvYBp2wCbz_vbNy3KAh7h2FwjtfU8FSi0xun4Jxp43oLsJnvyuo0WE/s1600/IMG_1226.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4GsN_f2vdKmW_24Ld3FN2YJQ0ztT6RNh1_QNCu6hURCjEghL1xKtXZiWhtdEgEcjljvPpZnKXzCdECkPz3MORxhvYBp2wCbz_vbNy3KAh7h2FwjtfU8FSi0xun4Jxp43oLsJnvyuo0WE/s640/IMG_1226.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">"L" from Holland</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some girls ran up to us at the gare saying "Sisters!" They were members from England. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Funny note. There was the biggest spider in our study room this week. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Soeur del Mundo and I are both terrified of spiders so we both just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">started screaming. We yelled for the Spanish sisters to come in and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">kill it and they were laughing so hard at us.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkcEdL0Pok3DNCiBlY6akM5MxbJVhdr48yH3FUXcrI8cG2vRqTrioEvc4EUZdYT2UuUaI7KNm5RD4_MAtPvRf_jrL5gBG9w2FRJw-sBGCxsEoyhZ2_U1b3b_FLCwxe_hdy_IyQ_dMFPYA/s1600/IMG_1236.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkcEdL0Pok3DNCiBlY6akM5MxbJVhdr48yH3FUXcrI8cG2vRqTrioEvc4EUZdYT2UuUaI7KNm5RD4_MAtPvRf_jrL5gBG9w2FRJw-sBGCxsEoyhZ2_U1b3b_FLCwxe_hdy_IyQ_dMFPYA/s640/IMG_1236.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Soeur Ortiz made deep fried...everything! Deep fried Oreos were the best!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Yesterday night, I was scrolling through the photos from the camera I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">brought to the MTC. Seeing all those pictures of me from the very </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">beginning of the mission freaked me out. I was so bright, so fresh, so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">blonde, so ready to go. And now- over a year later... I</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> am a little </span>more tired, a lot less blonde, and still goin strong. But man, these rollercoaster<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> experiences have</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> shaped me into something better, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">someone changed. Yeah I am tired... but I ask for the Lords strength </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">every day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> I have been stripped away of everything I thought made me, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">me... and been sanctified through Christ into the person god knew I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">could become. I know that as we trust the lord and just put our lives </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">into his hands... he will mold us into the best version of ourselves.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It is hard for me to believe over a year has passed since I entered </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the MTC. And now. I'm here. How did that happen? I am so grateful for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">all the challenging experiences I have had.. and still have... that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">make me so dependent on Christ... and HIS strength.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjomrC55v0fdXve4cACcvi0yos6T12xuX1Hcxz1pIxFCLEo09KmHABtcMq3VBhQaG287C0gERk-4qTrxhsISZLmq8DIY65Bc1vpWy6U9ook4OD1Gs7QueETWJhb9xkqLfcsjhdFB23Je_0/s1600/IMG_1234.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjomrC55v0fdXve4cACcvi0yos6T12xuX1Hcxz1pIxFCLEo09KmHABtcMq3VBhQaG287C0gERk-4qTrxhsISZLmq8DIY65Bc1vpWy6U9ook4OD1Gs7QueETWJhb9xkqLfcsjhdFB23Je_0/s640/IMG_1234.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I love you. You want to know what I love most? My family. It is truly </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">God's greatest gift to me. And yes, it has been a sacrifice being </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">without you for 15 months. But it has made me realize how blessed I am </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to have a family like you. And I know that this mission is exactly </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">what I am supposed to be doing right now. When people ask me on the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">bus, woah... you've been away from your family for over a year... is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">that hard? I say... yes. It is. And I smile. But then I tell them that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I sacrificed that little bit of what I love to share the gospel with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">them and all the people here. And yes it is worth it. Some days it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">doesn't feel like it. Some days I forget why I came. But in the end, I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">know why I am here. I am here because I love Jesus Christ. I love </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">sharing his gospel with others who do not know. And I will sprint to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the finish.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Love Abby</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">CHOCOLATE at the grocery store!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Dessert. Cooked apples. You should try this, Dad. You would love it. You just peel the outside and carve out the inside, then put nuts and almonds and dried fruit inside. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">PDAY</span><br />
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PDAY AT THE PARK<br />
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3 legged chair by the United Nations<br />
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<br />Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-57661137977774462632017-10-09T08:45:00.000-07:002017-10-09T10:01:59.580-07:00Week 62 "Precious People"<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I want to start off by saying.... CONGRATS to JAMO and HAYLIE who are getting married <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1991500813" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">this Friday</span></span>. Holy cow. That is going to be so awesome coming home to a sister in law. I am sad to miss the wedding but know that I am where I am supposed to be right now. So it's okay. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sisters at MLC</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week was incredible. Sooo... we didn't really have any amis when I got here. We had one amis and that was it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Both Soeur del Mundo and I were so determined to find new amis that we just went "ham" this week. There is a big push in the mission right now to "contact everyone." And honestly, that has helped us find new amis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The other day we were getting on the train and this cute blonde girl was getting on too. We started talking to her and she ended up wanting to see us again. Her name is "L" and she is from Holland. We went over to her house and taught she and her husband, "M". They got married about a month ago and are so adorable. We talked about the temple with her and told her she could be together with her husband forever by being sealed in the temple. And she said, "Wow, that's great, I want that!" She is honestly so prepared and just ready for the gospel in her life. And guess what.???.. they came to church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1991500814" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span>. Sad news is, they will be passed to the English elders since they will be in the English ward. Good news is, it doesn't matter who teaches them because they will have the gospel in their life and that is amazing! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Porting (knocking on doors)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another miracle. I was on the train and I talked to this cute lady named "K" from Peru. She was so kind and agreed to see us again. We met with her <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1991500815" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span> and gave her a tour of the chapel. She is so humble and open. She was really touched when we gave her a Book of Mormon. I love that. It is amazing because her cousin is already a member in the states. But she has never asked him about the church. And I just happened to meet her on the train. We talked about Heavenly Father, who he is and how much he loves her. She told us how good it was to hear that because she had forgotten. We invited her to be baptized the <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1991500816" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">11th of November</span></span> and she said yes! It was amazing. We thought she would be passed to the Spanish ward but then when we asked her, she said she would like to be in the French ward cause she is here to learn French. So we get to keep her. Finally! We get to keep an ami we found. These two miracles taught me that we just have to keep being diligent and have faith cause we never know when the Lord will give us miracles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ward gave us chocolate bars on Saturday at the end of "Secret Missionary Night" The ward showed us so much love that night!!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Honestly I feel famous in this ward. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are so many different cultures and languages and people here in Genève. I also absolutely adore the ward here. They treat us missionaries very well. We had an activity <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1991500817" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span> night called "secret missionary." Everyone watched a slideshow of pictures of us when we little and stuff. And everyone was able to find out a little bit more about us. They found out what we like to do, where we are from and what our family is like. It was crazy because I never talk about myself as a missionary so it was kind of like... oh yeah! I still am a human. I had a life before! Haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What a precious experience it is for me to be here where my Grandpa Max and Grandma Nancy (Nanny) served. It was so special for me going to church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1991500818" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span>. It was fast and testimony meeting and Frère Allenbach got up to the stand after I said the Jones were my grandparents. He talked about how Grandpa Max "Frère Jones" showed him so much love. Everyone keeps telling me that Nanny and Grandpa were the best couple to ever serve in Geneva. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two experiences from this week that I wrote down to remember: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Frère Allenbach- bore his testimony about how much Christ must have loved us to have given his blood. He talked about how grateful he was for "Frère Jones" (Grandpa Max) and how Frère Jones showed him so </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">much</span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> love. He explained how much he helped him when he really needed it in his life. He explained how Max and Nancy were the best missionary couple to have ever served here. </span><br />
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"Brother Allenbach ran up after the meeting and said" Ahh I love your Grandpa so much"<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then came up after and talked to me and had tears in his eyes. He said how grandpa was always pondering and thinking deeply about things. He remembers grandpa sitting in the corner one time just reflecting on how he could be better and help the ward. Frère Allenbach's son came up to me with his baby and said how Nancy and Max were there when he was in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">institute</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and left on his mission. He said they were the "Best teachers" in the institute. </span></div>
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Allenbachs....the son knew Max and Nancy when they were in charge of the institute. He is now married in the temple and has 2 kids.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Soeur Volpechelli- said how grandpa was always telling funny jokes all the time. And how Nanny is the sweetest person. How she is very "douce" and has a sweet voice. And is cute and small. She said how Nanny gave her 2 dresses or shirts or something to remember her and she still has them....She wore the outfit to church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Seriously it is a dream being here in Geneva. I know that this is exactly where I am supposed to be right now. I know I needed to be here at the end of the mission too so that I could more fully appreciate and understand the people here. I looked over in church yesterday and Soeur Volpecelli was wearing Nanny's outfit that she had given her. And I seriously felt the presence of Nanny and Grandpa here. I don't think they fully realize the impact they had here. </span><br />
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Soeur Muller who literally was clinging to me like this because she loves Nanny so much!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">People LOVE them and still remember them. They are so special to the people in Gèneva. And that is what I love about French/Suisse people. They are so loyal and once you are friends, you are friends forever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Je vous aime! Abby </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MLC in Lyon. I got to see Amandine again!!!</span><br />
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Wow, we are so spoiled in this ward. This is a "feed the missionaries" sign up sheet. The top line says, "be charitable and invite the missionaires" ha ha<br />
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My previous companion Soeur Cusick at the MLC<br />
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My Companion Soeur Goold from the MTC.<br />
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Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-28569930966833550802017-10-02T07:41:00.002-07:002017-10-02T08:40:51.213-07:00Week 61 "Switzerland!"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLC80vXNmSbAQzfjgDB_wk3w6jtY2PcQVeAFd3GsrVlWVAkFDDxcsG7ry_hD4wQvaYjMH5X1Jk2Z5xYAIjIaqdaQfsH625g5p3mgvZRTsuOGKYOQw50EJHRQVAulTxY30zIT1Sdjsvvz0/s1600/IMG_1168.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLC80vXNmSbAQzfjgDB_wk3w6jtY2PcQVeAFd3GsrVlWVAkFDDxcsG7ry_hD4wQvaYjMH5X1Jk2Z5xYAIjIaqdaQfsH625g5p3mgvZRTsuOGKYOQw50EJHRQVAulTxY30zIT1Sdjsvvz0/s640/IMG_1168.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our house in Genèva</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">It is crazy being in a different country. Sometimes I think I am still </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">in France and I have to remind myself that I am in Switzerland. They </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">are more similar than Suisse compared to the US, but Suisse is still </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">pretty different than France.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-HgdtAeXAtyJz7w_yETRsXj5zaLmU-ND32XLoA5x_kymOaYfn7FrJ0vJYlrPlQ8rZjc2C8vuXfk2f2WxNWDEoHwcyW2dRol2Wx8Poj0RVCvP1kcELsc6wruTW8STRlLSFsDBaaSZMCk/s1600/IMG_1175.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-HgdtAeXAtyJz7w_yETRsXj5zaLmU-ND32XLoA5x_kymOaYfn7FrJ0vJYlrPlQ8rZjc2C8vuXfk2f2WxNWDEoHwcyW2dRol2Wx8Poj0RVCvP1kcELsc6wruTW8STRlLSFsDBaaSZMCk/s640/IMG_1175.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">The first thing I thought when I arrived at the train station that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">first day is, WOW! Everyone is sooooo classy. I was actually pretty </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">intimidated by the people, to be honest. They are so classy and wear </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">such nice clothes. Fur and chic and cute heels and just wow. People </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">even walk differently here. They walk like they know they are classy and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">very in style. I look like a hobo compared to people here hahahaha.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgChQu56Alq8Aprn9qKJHPLW3D_HJ3MtA5BHp7KtGed1KIHaTmLsMDo0eSRM7OvN7jep_zWMZsYPIjbiaWWknwr8vLeftBkHn1Nd_qskwzxyNol3XPejG0WijGw7GgrNxRfdWZUu9i7bNU/s1600/IMG_1171.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgChQu56Alq8Aprn9qKJHPLW3D_HJ3MtA5BHp7KtGed1KIHaTmLsMDo0eSRM7OvN7jep_zWMZsYPIjbiaWWknwr8vLeftBkHn1Nd_qskwzxyNol3XPejG0WijGw7GgrNxRfdWZUu9i7bNU/s640/IMG_1171.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">Our chapel in Genèva</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Genève:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">-we live in the basement of the old mission home with 2 other sister </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">missionaries. They are the "spanish" set of missionaries. It is nice </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">being able to be around other girls.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">-There are 3 wards here in Genève. Genève Lac (French ward), and then </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the Spanish speaking ward and the English speaking ward.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me, Soeur Del Mundo, Soeur Jimenez and Sour Ortiz</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">-There are people from ALL over here. I contacted 2 people this week </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">on the bus that spoke ONLY Spanish. So I sat there and tried to type </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">words in google translate and then said, me gusta horchata. No haha jk</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I didn't really say that but I should have. It is hard because the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Spanish and English speakers here are generally more open to talking with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">us. But then we don't get to teach them. We pass them to the other </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">missionaries. But it's fine. Because it's all the same work!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3nyuvjnkYh7SLJvRKwRXBDtqYYdS0JBFDpgywye4HOU4Me2aEk9h2km79MaLg46F8sec3U8-30ogI9xnnY_d9gVnCaZoZhXgHV10eNX06gkX9G2uhvebY2u-0oyAWJQqJ2te1UUCTMv4/s1600/IMG_1161.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3nyuvjnkYh7SLJvRKwRXBDtqYYdS0JBFDpgywye4HOU4Me2aEk9h2km79MaLg46F8sec3U8-30ogI9xnnY_d9gVnCaZoZhXgHV10eNX06gkX9G2uhvebY2u-0oyAWJQqJ2te1UUCTMv4/s640/IMG_1161.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">-Suisse is expensive. I mean EXPENSIVE. I bought a 4-inch by 4-inch </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">salad at the grocery store and it was 10 francs. That is like 11 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">dollars. Oh man.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">-The chocolate aisle is GINORMOUS. Sooooo many different kinds of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">chocolate. We buy a chocolate bar almost every day. Hahahah. #profitez. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> And Suisse chocolate really is THAT good. It melts so nicely in your </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">mouth.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh39e_E4XxRxQ1vvn7Pvjrnyx8pR-N2rJcqdviTDAgCi46xnRx3OVjGbyIOxz63J5T7LhhLKqZf6MxQRByZfU_byk8WhafFW4LpkCFapllOV-_sGOMiwgYsuHs-ISK8oHpuyY6Otsebmsg/s1600/IMG_1179.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh39e_E4XxRxQ1vvn7Pvjrnyx8pR-N2rJcqdviTDAgCi46xnRx3OVjGbyIOxz63J5T7LhhLKqZf6MxQRByZfU_byk8WhafFW4LpkCFapllOV-_sGOMiwgYsuHs-ISK8oHpuyY6Otsebmsg/s640/IMG_1179.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">-The streets are so clean here I never see any garbage laying out</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">-Our sector here in Genève is not that big. So I don't really get to go </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">out and see those big Suisse mountains and all that but Geneva itself </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">is nice.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVBLXkPYeotGo1C0Ss6c_cn5u0Kmkrpvr8a-IKE-j3w3bzHKTmxnL1BeQ5Ne-3oeuy_YdlTr5Du1l5_1ISpuCDajwRejr79Yy1hTFOY1-RmptrP2sdvGJM2xmU6n3KZRLXxtDOcC-Cs0w/s1600/IMG_1174.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVBLXkPYeotGo1C0Ss6c_cn5u0Kmkrpvr8a-IKE-j3w3bzHKTmxnL1BeQ5Ne-3oeuy_YdlTr5Du1l5_1ISpuCDajwRejr79Yy1hTFOY1-RmptrP2sdvGJM2xmU6n3KZRLXxtDOcC-Cs0w/s640/IMG_1174.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My new mission companion, Soeur Del Mundo from Toronto Canada. She plays field hokey, likes looking girly, is very non-drama and works hard. I love that she doesn't get stressed out. She and I both love chocolate and she loves dinosaurs. We were in the MTC together. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">As far as the missionary work goes, we currently have one ami. Her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">name is "S." She is a young mom and has one </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">baby girl who is about 2. The sisters have been teaching her for a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">month and she wants to get baptized SO BADLY. She </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">is so grateful that a family here in Geneva </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">introduced her to the gospel cause it has helped her so much. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">So many women I have taught on this mission want to be baptized but haven't been able to because </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">their spouse isn't okay with it. This has taught me that there is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">ALWAYS opposition when there is truth and goodness. I have faith that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">God knows the desires of each of these amazing women's hearts and that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">they will be able to be baptized one day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDyJxwsbiZsnUW1PmnSBKkUjBiG1bBWtdYIFSIJE1DOuQqnJvfnp1_1x1rcUetG80O6bQn54wyRDQHZBxJJOUpJysY20l-sIER6AEuN585FokNHVp-g_-AsPAljgdQFYETyruiTU_DS2Q/s1600/IMG_1164.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDyJxwsbiZsnUW1PmnSBKkUjBiG1bBWtdYIFSIJE1DOuQqnJvfnp1_1x1rcUetG80O6bQn54wyRDQHZBxJJOUpJysY20l-sIER6AEuN585FokNHVp-g_-AsPAljgdQFYETyruiTU_DS2Q/s640/IMG_1164.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">To be honest, the work this week has been pretty rough. I feel like we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">are whitewashing this area. (Basically coming into the sector where </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">not much is happening and starting over from scratch). We only have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">one investigator and a couple less actives we are working with. But I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">am so determined to change that. I know that if Soeur Delmundo and I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">follow the spirit and work our very hardest, Heavenly Father will </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">guide us to find people who are ready to hear the gospel. I have been </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">trying so hard to talk to everyone wherever I go about the gospel. We </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">have actually found a few new potentials this week from those efforts.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">I don't want to just drag my feet through missionary work and mope </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">around saying, boohoo for me I don't have anyone to teach. As Elder </span><span style="font-size: large;">Anderson said, "If you don't have any investigators, don't feel bad for yourself</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">, go find new ones!"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN3_Un8ReXjmN19hN0U3sk1qm3uO8wmF869l3ciSXrIkc_QrtbdTE2kGX0NXfNYFRKliulFdayYqQr21dCiFcWnbYmujM-91qs_MiMsh4jxWrS5qR7T9bBQogSDfqqk3McCZ-ykdUcsJk/s1600/IMG_1167.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN3_Un8ReXjmN19hN0U3sk1qm3uO8wmF869l3ciSXrIkc_QrtbdTE2kGX0NXfNYFRKliulFdayYqQr21dCiFcWnbYmujM-91qs_MiMsh4jxWrS5qR7T9bBQogSDfqqk3McCZ-ykdUcsJk/s640/IMG_1167.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ruth Muller (My Grandparents, Max & Nancy know her!)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">It has been really fun meeting people who know and adore my Grandpa Max and Grandma Nancy.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;"> The Pelucchi family ran up to me after Conference yesterday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">and screamed we love your grandparents!!!! It is just so crazy for me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">to walk around the chapel and think of my grandparents walking around </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">the same halls a few years ago. People still remember and love you, Nancy & Max</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">. That makes me so happy to be with people who know </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">and love you guys like I do. They are SO LUCKY to have had you here.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">The Pelucchis told me, "Everyone LOVED them. They were the best." I am </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">so grateful to be a JONES.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilrrNK8lZUHgdycoEkpZRfznBR4nWSBsfisX2UM-S1z67XVLYNta2EU8m8yDVD5Y0CThJ_GNg9Qjo2LLDDyykSaKc2DdeH_TtfkM1Pws9sAkPzWclhWPaC4PHIkmDL168W_aQ66H783_M/s1600/IMG_1165.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilrrNK8lZUHgdycoEkpZRfznBR4nWSBsfisX2UM-S1z67XVLYNta2EU8m8yDVD5Y0CThJ_GNg9Qjo2LLDDyykSaKc2DdeH_TtfkM1Pws9sAkPzWclhWPaC4PHIkmDL168W_aQ66H783_M/s640/IMG_1165.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Pelucchi family. This was after general conference. They all ran up to me and hugged me and said "We love the Jones' "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Mom almost started crying while talking about my Grandparents. They said everyone loved them"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I am so very grateful for general conference this weekend. I feel like </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">my perspective was opened up and I was able to take a big breath of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">fresh air and say... ok, im doing okay. A question that I have had for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">a very long time was answered in Elder Hallstrom's talk about faith. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">realized that it takes faith to have miracles happen. But is ALSO </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">takes faith to trust in God's plan when things DON'T happen.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiaX_fMFR_nuQVOZCTngM9Fxq_27x3J2KM9d3IUyEXRKUdrTmkGIJTrtjAGbFnWa1gcB166TwTErAi1mInX4cocxM4iEeCdEIlqXGvNDXp7ciEkfwyxQ8IoJFYvlBle0SX5pzEN4b64hE/s1600/IMG_1159.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiaX_fMFR_nuQVOZCTngM9Fxq_27x3J2KM9d3IUyEXRKUdrTmkGIJTrtjAGbFnWa1gcB166TwTErAi1mInX4cocxM4iEeCdEIlqXGvNDXp7ciEkfwyxQ8IoJFYvlBle0SX5pzEN4b64hE/s640/IMG_1159.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The gospel of Jesus Christ is real. The Book of Mormon is precious to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">me. I have been changed and refined through Jesus Christ because he </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">atonement for me. There is nothing more precious to me than my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">testimony of my Savior Jesus Christ. He has been my loyal companion </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and friend every step of this mission and I love him with all my heart!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love, Abby</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found my picture with all the other missionaries!!</span><br />
<br />Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-52677915364200793432017-09-25T10:48:00.004-07:002017-09-25T11:41:07.344-07:00Week 60 "I'm Going to Geneva Switzerland" <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_1HxqKGlVC5_4urtyWFCGHCuBFkQG2tmVH-12ygk91fR8wwjVtKOoVWBIMPSLHl0-zk9r0PNqvrhg58we3AZnlijtyC4FtVzwkjx8Wqs6eYk46je4Me9OmkWOwv1T4YVn8lx2vfh4Hz8/s1600/IMG_1148.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_1HxqKGlVC5_4urtyWFCGHCuBFkQG2tmVH-12ygk91fR8wwjVtKOoVWBIMPSLHl0-zk9r0PNqvrhg58we3AZnlijtyC4FtVzwkjx8Wqs6eYk46je4Me9OmkWOwv1T4YVn8lx2vfh4Hz8/s640/IMG_1148.JPG" width="478" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMZVdx9cfzyrRu2_NIKN2ka9n-jRalMl5CxtHGCqLCX63R6D_Q4kflsoP47gfTnJuSRdHWA7NM02ye2gf0FgEkxv1cVmXLq_3yzRPwfgfURLcZ7PD7ah7u6Lj9I2qfMqZQ65ahHTQhOl4/s1600/IMG_1129.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMZVdx9cfzyrRu2_NIKN2ka9n-jRalMl5CxtHGCqLCX63R6D_Q4kflsoP47gfTnJuSRdHWA7NM02ye2gf0FgEkxv1cVmXLq_3yzRPwfgfURLcZ7PD7ah7u6Lj9I2qfMqZQ65ahHTQhOl4/s640/IMG_1129.JPG" width="640" /></a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look what the young woman wrote for me on the board at the top. " Sister Jones, we're going to miss you!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">When president called to tell me where I would be serving, I just had this feeling that I was going to Geneva. I have wanted to serve there my whole mission! My Grandpa Max and Grandma Nancy served there a few years ago and I have always wanted to see where they served and meet the people they love. Wowowowow! My new companion will be Soeur Delmundo. We were in the MTC together. She is from Canada. I also heard you eat dinner and lunch with members in Geneva. Soeur Schneider (who I am replacing) told me today.... you WILL get fat. Hahahahaha. So bring it on round cheeks and double chins! Also, Swiss is SUPER expensive and very clean. I think it will be quite different from France. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyhGU2k6sw19EKqsp-LhZqrrYC1mwPJggd7AMXFnXIw5R1SdrLlOZp1LxBZZ7b0wzwBrMvRI24Qxxe_Y6Vob60rRQi1lqSTg5pwiAa2mkXJAZC71HsxhiqEyitXPYhZXW_PfTSp-3z66w/s1600/IMG_1136.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyhGU2k6sw19EKqsp-LhZqrrYC1mwPJggd7AMXFnXIw5R1SdrLlOZp1LxBZZ7b0wzwBrMvRI24Qxxe_Y6Vob60rRQi1lqSTg5pwiAa2mkXJAZC71HsxhiqEyitXPYhZXW_PfTSp-3z66w/s640/IMG_1136.JPG" width="640" /></a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At parc de la tête d'or saying goodbye to our dear friends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Leaving a ville is always a bitter sweet moment. I have absolutely loved serving in Ecully, being so close to the Browns, watching new missionaries come in and sleepover at our apartment, being comps with Soeur CUSICK!!!!! Ahhhhhh I loveeeeee Soeur Cusick and am really going to miss that crazy nut head. I love how real she is. I think that is something Soeur Cusick taught me. Is to be myself no matter who I'm with. I am going to miss her and the people in Ecully a lot. Luckily I am coming back for MLC <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_810848591" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">in one week</span></span>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I said goodbye to many people I love this week. Yesterday we went to Parc de la tête d'or and sat on the grass with "E" and "G". I am sad I won't be here for "E's"</span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">baptism but am so proud of the progress and changes she has made in her life that don't mind too much not being there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am grateful to have met Amandine, Soeur Berger Perrin, "E", "G", the ZINNS. I absolutely adore the Zinn family. They treated me like one of their own kids and just took such good care of me. We went over there <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_810848592" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> night to eat dinner. Soeur Zinn asked me what I wanted for my last dinner and I said "brocoli chicken casserole, rolls, and banana cream pie." She is the BEST. I love her food too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So this last week we found a really cool new ami. Her name is "J" and I felt super impressed to talk to her on the bus last week. She is from Mexico and is about the same age as me. We were able to go over to her apartment and share a video about Christ with her. I promise you I love French people. But people from South America and America are a lot more open in general with the whole religion subject. I am grateful though to have served among French because it has made more patient and less judgmental. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 17pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I gave a talk <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_810848593" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> so that was terrifying but also good. I still have a fear of talking to large groups of people in French. Jamo you will totally be able to relate to this... but people judge your French really hard. French people and missionaries. I am pretty sure France is the only mission where people really care about and correct your speaking skills. Well it's okay, I am just glad with how much my French has progressed since day 1. For my talk, I talked about how we come to know the Savior as we serve others. I feel I have become so close to Christ on my mission because I have been able to serve so often. I talked about how the best service we can give others is our time. To really sincerely listen to someone will fill you with more compassion and love. You will be able to see people as Christ sees them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Goodbye Ecully! I love all of the people I have met!</span><br />
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Saying Goodbye to Melanie<br />
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Anne Mebodo<br />
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Breakfast with Kelly .....<br />
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Oh myyy breakfast in France is so different!<br />
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My desk with Jamison and Haylie's Wedding invitation.....They are getting married in 3 weeks!<br />
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Samedi Football<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am currently writing this as I ride on a train to Grenoble. We will be doing an exchange out there <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_787587650" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tomorrow</span></span> with Soeur Perry and Soeur Hayes. Normally the sisters come here, but we decided it would be a good idea to go out there and do an exchange. I neverrrr leave my little Ecully so it be fun to go to a different ville. I have never been to Grenoble before! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I really saw the hand of God this week. We had some amazing miracles. But it's not just like we prayed for miracles and they happened. I felt like my faith was extra strong and because of that, we were able to act on our faith and see miracles. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_787587651" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday</span></span> was especially full of miracles. We were walking out of our apartment at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_787587652" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8:30 am</span></span> and we see this one old potential ami we had met a few weeks ago. We called her name and talked with her. She started crying to us and told us her sister in law had just passed away. We listened to her express her feelings of sadness and testified to her of the reality of the plan of salvation. That death is not the end. </span></div>
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I love Soeur Baranco from Ecully. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then.... we were walking down to the church right after this experience, and I see this girl waiting at the bus stop outside our church. I had this feeling that we needed to go talk to her. But of course, excuses filled my mind. ("You have an appointment with Erika right now, you cant be late for that!" Or "she will be so weirded out with you talking to her." Or "the bus is about to come and it won't be worth it to start a conversation" or "your companion will think you are crazy!") </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I was putting the church key in the gate to open it I say to Soeur Cusick, "Okay, I feel like we should go talk to that girl but I don't know if it is the spirit or me being crazy..." And Soeur Cusick just yells out,"OH MY GOSH, I had the exact same feeling." So we both turn around and start walking towards the girl. We start some way awkward conversation about the weather being cold. The bus pulls up and Soeur Cusick and I both just look at each other and then we follow her onto the bus. We talked to her for a while and ended up taking the bus like 15 stops with her. We exchanged Facebook information and invited her to game night at the chapel. Her name is Manoe and is 20 years old. Soeur Cusick and I just got off the bus in the middle of nowhere and said.... "WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?" It was one of the craziest acts of faith I have ever done on my mission. We literally just let the spirit lead us along. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then that night we were taking the elevator down after visiting with a member. Some annoying 10 year old had pushed all the buttons on the elevator so we were both getting impatient. Then, we hit the top floor and this African man walks in... looks straight at our plaques... and says, "oh, you believe in Jesus Christ?" He told us he would love to talk about the "word of God" with us. We were so shocked we just tried to act as natural as possible even though inside it was just like, what is happening?! His name is Chris and we will be meeting with him this week. </span></div>
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Meeting via facebook ....<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_787587653" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span> we were walking to the bus stop when I get a text from a girl named "T" who we had talked to probably 3 months ago. She ran up to me and Soeur Margrin at the mall 3 months ago and said, "Missionaries!!!! I am from Utah, but I am not a member of the church!" She told us to text her to come to church and if she was available, she would come. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well we lost contact with her. Well, fast forward 3 months and she texted us and ASKED if she could come to church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_787587654" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> because she is back in France for her studies. Whattttttttttttttttt!!!! I freaked out. Sure enough, she came to church. Stayed all 3 hours. Knows way too much about Mormons because she grew up in Bountiful. She is so cute and it was so fun talking to her about Utah and chick-fil-a and Lagoon. Soeur Zinn invited her to dinner and she came to <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_787587655" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> dinner with all of the missionaries! We were all laughing so hard and had a good time. It was cool for her to see that Mormons aren't just happy in Utah. Mormons are happy people everywhere you go! We will hopefully teach her this week!</span></div>
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We met Paul Gouttin over a year ago when their family invited our family for dinner in Lille.<br />
Jamison knew the Gouttin family really well when he was serving in Northern France.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"E" our ami is doing amazing. She has been meeting with the missionaries for a year now and has only come to church a few times. But a couple weeks ago, something changed. She told us that NOW is the time she wants to change and progress. She has been so diligent at studying the gospel and keeping commitments we give her... for herself. Not to please us, or her daughter, or anyone else. But to please God. She has come to church these past 2 weeks. She texted us <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_787587656" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> morning and said, sorry, I am feeling sick this morning and won't be able to come. We were so bummed out. But then Soeur Cusick turns to me during church and whispers, "E" is HERE!" I turn around and sure enough, "E" was sitting in the back with her daughter Giuliana. I was sooooooo proud of her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday night I received a blessing from Brother Zinn. He is like a dad to me and I told him he reminded me of my dad. It is different getting a fathers blessing. And since I don't have my real daddy here with me, I asked Brother Zinn to give me one. Lately, I have been feeling like my efforts will never be good enough. And I just want to give the Lord my all on my mission and feel like my efforts are acceptable to him. But during the blessing, I had an overwhelming weight lifted off my shoulders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I had the feeling that my efforts are acceptable TODAY before the Lord, WITH all of my shortcomings included. That I don't need to be perfect as a missionary. That it is part of the process to have weaknesses because that is what makes me reliant upon Jesus Christ. During the blessing, I felt how proud the Lord was of me and really just an overwhelming feeling of His love. I am so grateful for the priesthood and know that Heavenly Father knows me personally. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There were a lot of hard moments this week. Moments of tears and stress. But in the end- it was just kind of swallowed up with the good moments. The simple miracles and tender mercies. Those good moments make the hard moments bearable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Love, Abby </span><br />
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Presidents pday....Just a chill day. We ate homade cinnamon rolls......HEAVENNN!!!</div>
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Live pic with Soeur Brown on Presidents Pday</div>
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Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-10584912595212463582017-09-11T10:16:00.001-07:002017-09-14T07:03:29.329-07:00Week 58 "Surprising Soeur Brown "<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDz4oUm0InzDZEOyQHr2gq61OOnG9n3nqZOYed1lNPgsSoilr0B-60MThV4kArHvFRY_kgUIpzbbavdoXa4N7wyTvhkrVt4G9YSkQdw0N55rcV7a60536uY112Sg7laKXeD9IkIvwMHg/s1600/IMG_1110.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpDz4oUm0InzDZEOyQHr2gq61OOnG9n3nqZOYed1lNPgsSoilr0B-60MThV4kArHvFRY_kgUIpzbbavdoXa4N7wyTvhkrVt4G9YSkQdw0N55rcV7a60536uY112Sg7laKXeD9IkIvwMHg/s640/IMG_1110.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">I am thoroughly convinced that being grateful and serving others is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">the cure to sadness. I am not always the best at it. But when I am </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">serving others and thinking about how I can help someone else... I am </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">so much happier. I know that Jesus Christ is the perfect example of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">service. I want to serve like he did.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7nKU-AMFgJSbWGfoCfW8Vnsbtq3uzhCORy4SkXoLTXuPqoFVN2ifeLznG9T1Vu7tNxR5Umhffgianslvn8s0-UVim7fgsn01wowca3GDolAfJ_79OrqCpIjvB7F5WbxwlL_e48jAQj50/s1600/IMG_1102.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7nKU-AMFgJSbWGfoCfW8Vnsbtq3uzhCORy4SkXoLTXuPqoFVN2ifeLznG9T1Vu7tNxR5Umhffgianslvn8s0-UVim7fgsn01wowca3GDolAfJ_79OrqCpIjvB7F5WbxwlL_e48jAQj50/s640/IMG_1102.JPG" width="480" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Exchange with Soeur Gruse</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week we had tri zone conference. Soeur Cusick and I did lunch for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">80 people. Some highlights of Zone Conference: We sang a musical number "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dear to the Heart of the Shepard." The harmonies were so simple </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">and beautiful!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"> We had an interview with President Brown and we were able to see tons of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">missionaries! Also, President invited us to do a challenge and contact </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">everyone! He challenged us to raise our expectations and raise the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">bar. I have been trying so hard to talk to people everyone I go. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Sometimes it is soooo scary. But I am a lot happier following the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">spirit and just trying to share the gospel. We have talked to so many </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">people these past few days and have seen amazing miracles from it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqvqlMohX6r2cnjEQRwUgr0FGbQs-lShtwtxayeMx6Dc8IC2OZ6RPK-raL11YGQq1jZm5DCV3QouT8d7WI9zPf3VLKECVkXBD9kw26L3wg8a5tucsRMRkj_FIf4uJtoXAetOumGdGVCy8/s1600/IMG_1108.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqvqlMohX6r2cnjEQRwUgr0FGbQs-lShtwtxayeMx6Dc8IC2OZ6RPK-raL11YGQq1jZm5DCV3QouT8d7WI9zPf3VLKECVkXBD9kw26L3wg8a5tucsRMRkj_FIf4uJtoXAetOumGdGVCy8/s640/IMG_1108.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Some funnies:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">-We went to samedi sportif football (soccer) and played with the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Elders, some members, and amis. Soeur Cusick and I pranced around the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">whole time and just kept screaming "ooops sorry!!" "Oops missed the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ball. Sorry next time" hahahaha seriously, we tired.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">-Soeur Cusick and I RAN into each other while playing soccer and we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">just fell to the grass on top of each other laughing so hard/ in a lot </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">of pain. I scraped off her tanning lotion she had put on that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">morning!!!! 😂</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfl0nYIvBa9L0pPbJKKsI_kSEydFKlQdMIaEzvww8EutVXWTrJLBXIOazVISLDkrAF9DEXtfGrbffwOXtF4RReWrhvuOdgbgih1ZJfyT7tBorPTpcJ7ajyv-AGmFvwtyI3HOr4dMiy2bQ/s1600/IMG_1107.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfl0nYIvBa9L0pPbJKKsI_kSEydFKlQdMIaEzvww8EutVXWTrJLBXIOazVISLDkrAF9DEXtfGrbffwOXtF4RReWrhvuOdgbgih1ZJfyT7tBorPTpcJ7ajyv-AGmFvwtyI3HOr4dMiy2bQ/s640/IMG_1107.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">-We went to Soeur Browns this morning to sing "Happy Birthday" to her. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">got in a garbage sack to yell surprise (cause I thought everyone else </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">was too). But turns out it was only me. So I just sat on the porch in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">a garbage sack and Soeur Brown opened the door and laughed so hard.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj368OLh3MvjU8BAVr_DveAtuVsADJLeukq1tCTgoqbZgumQRo9GyICzPVXBbyesNm0MukIgeL9Jd_t7qcAvVszORctvGb7XN1mW6AiNVJO_GVg65IDkGboXVbfP6EHe4LgVbie6WHLBac/s1600/IMG_1097.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj368OLh3MvjU8BAVr_DveAtuVsADJLeukq1tCTgoqbZgumQRo9GyICzPVXBbyesNm0MukIgeL9Jd_t7qcAvVszORctvGb7XN1mW6AiNVJO_GVg65IDkGboXVbfP6EHe4LgVbie6WHLBac/s640/IMG_1097.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Vieux Lyon... One of the prettiest places I have seen in France!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Update on some </span>amis<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> We went with "L"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, the recent convert who referred them to us, to teach them. The Dad </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">had just woken up from a nap and smoked the entire lesson. But we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">watched "he lives" and talked about the reality of repentance, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">forgiveness, and starting over. Lucie shared her sincere testimony </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">about how her baptism really was like a "new life." We have another</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">RDV with them this week so I hope that they will be interested in the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">gospel!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibRqsFqcUAzAQjS4tJ_g-V_C4gSbPGYZNb_06DFIKzDmX7Di00TYlDuYwXCyj_HPhoVBHafY2ekSicD3qgKh_3zLQRBAPKXF81V5SjCv9AxY3882I9VivblKv1m66NdTH7uuQzHkwDbXI/s1600/IMG_1096.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibRqsFqcUAzAQjS4tJ_g-V_C4gSbPGYZNb_06DFIKzDmX7Di00TYlDuYwXCyj_HPhoVBHafY2ekSicD3qgKh_3zLQRBAPKXF81V5SjCv9AxY3882I9VivblKv1m66NdTH7uuQzHkwDbXI/s640/IMG_1096.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I almost died my hair this color today. I tried Soeur Merrils hair on my head twice this week. But then I didn't. So ur welcome mom:)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The other week, I was on a bus and I had just talked to an old couple </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">who were nice, but not interested in the gospel. There was another man </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">over hearing our conversation. The old couple got off the bus and the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">spirit prompted me to talk with the man who had over heard the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">conversation. I kind of didn't want to but really felt that I needed </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to. So I did. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimEHjgKyPh_DrXPOOit_SjYDiCC1erxRIwaotONmFJBzOQOmFYrWImykh-hZG-2XwhT6Dp6dhPNV_XVSFnwqLnbRE2yDX8EctTJS72vj_p9R_ii3TYia0I1FetPp3OJi9_WPojvd-IXm0/s1600/IMG_1104.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimEHjgKyPh_DrXPOOit_SjYDiCC1erxRIwaotONmFJBzOQOmFYrWImykh-hZG-2XwhT6Dp6dhPNV_XVSFnwqLnbRE2yDX8EctTJS72vj_p9R_ii3TYia0I1FetPp3OJi9_WPojvd-IXm0/s640/IMG_1104.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Turns out, that man, "N" had talked to missionaries before but it</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> had been years since he last saw them. We ended up exchanging </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">numbers and he said we could come visit him. We felt it was better to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">have elders teach him so I gave his number to the assistants. Well, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">these past two weeks he has come to church and will be getting </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">baptized in October. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Like.... woah! I would never have imagined all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">this happening 1 month ago when we talked on the bus. It is a reminder </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to me that the spirit leads us to do things we don't always know why. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">But we do it and we trust. We exercise our faith. Following the spirit </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">requires faith.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwinJkVwvBGSs7608MJ9obaDDpjkye47zqotEdkQIylh0dnCuIXoI6KJHGWitZ2F3zT-XRUYRXP3syHiuAC33shG-cJ79tNzZjwW05SKw5hDxlcTwPGqLVSl60ckhiKAw60eVvKkeFThc/s1600/IMG_1106.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwinJkVwvBGSs7608MJ9obaDDpjkye47zqotEdkQIylh0dnCuIXoI6KJHGWitZ2F3zT-XRUYRXP3syHiuAC33shG-cJ79tNzZjwW05SKw5hDxlcTwPGqLVSl60ckhiKAw60eVvKkeFThc/s640/IMG_1106.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">About 2 1/2 months ago I contacted a young girl and her mom and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">younger sister on a bus. They are from Guadalupe. The young girl, "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">O" was going into nursing like me so we were so excited to talk to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">each other. I texted her after that but then we lost contact and I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">thought it just kind of died down. Well the other week I saw her mom </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and little sister again on the bus! We were finally able to go out </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">there to their house and we had a lesson with the mom this afternoon.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The message of the gospel really is a lesson of hope. I am grateful I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">get to spread such a good message with other people. I love telling </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">people about who Jesus Christ is and how much he means to me. The</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> mom, is progressing soooooo well. She has her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">baptismal date fixed for October. But even more than that, she has </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">come to church these past 2 weeks in a row! And she is so determined </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to progress and change. She reminds me a lot of my aunt Ginny and my</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">mom. She is seriously so sensitive to the spirit. She is selfless and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">always does everything for everyone. She is humble. I told her she </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">reminds me of my mom and she had tears in her eyes. I love watching </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">people make small changes in their life. I love watching people grow </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and progress.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Abigail</span><br />
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Juliette is moving and Atrid too.....soooo sad!!Astrid is the cutest baby!!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLAJON7Xaop36tSu_BCuAQIZHtLJMGPEYMdtTSmRvLXVYGTRIOE8t0wCVaD7fick4kdj2F2QLYwH0bseWtFDM2ynAXSzjBVbZOgKauQmQp43A72O54ZZoWistp20UTq5xLcUFLZ3jGcr8/s1600/IMG_1098.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLAJON7Xaop36tSu_BCuAQIZHtLJMGPEYMdtTSmRvLXVYGTRIOE8t0wCVaD7fick4kdj2F2QLYwH0bseWtFDM2ynAXSzjBVbZOgKauQmQp43A72O54ZZoWistp20UTq5xLcUFLZ3jGcr8/s640/IMG_1098.JPG" width="478" /></a>Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-44065255566403236372017-09-04T10:32:00.002-07:002017-09-04T11:02:00.900-07:00Week 57 "Fall is in the Air"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUxpJZNWC1woIo5zL7W1JFXy5geVykHEXmBTeFDId8Bsu6vw1f4JTwSUno4PKhseHuQXxxsP8EyLw_FH47oTNsrmGABXLNnuaXpKMixfacL5RDlvV7afhYCbpVfh0bj7moxGtECl-cl7s/s1600/IMG_1086.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUxpJZNWC1woIo5zL7W1JFXy5geVykHEXmBTeFDId8Bsu6vw1f4JTwSUno4PKhseHuQXxxsP8EyLw_FH47oTNsrmGABXLNnuaXpKMixfacL5RDlvV7afhYCbpVfh0bj7moxGtECl-cl7s/s640/IMG_1086.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Fall is in the air here in the south of France! The leaves are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">starting to turn yellow. It is getting colder in the morning and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">darker earlier in the evening. It rained this week. I even got to wear </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">tights one day. There is something so refreshing about change. I love </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">seasons. I think seasons are one of the biggest gifts God has given </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">me. It feels so good to have the weather cool down and not have it be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">sweaty hot at night. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiPeH_4gNttjeFMQARSMZt4pcuzMFl8_065mP3dJj0H0jRifQSGP0KnDo71mcjwXwNK_nbBK-O97MJBryAe0mkNdAnjE_zBar-Jp4Bt-lIl36cS_F8z71rmuq6WWicPkLtuN2-I_fJm48/s1600/IMG_1091.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiPeH_4gNttjeFMQARSMZt4pcuzMFl8_065mP3dJj0H0jRifQSGP0KnDo71mcjwXwNK_nbBK-O97MJBryAe0mkNdAnjE_zBar-Jp4Bt-lIl36cS_F8z71rmuq6WWicPkLtuN2-I_fJm48/s640/IMG_1091.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">With the weather getting colder and trees </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">changing color- I have been having crazy flashbacks of when I was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">serving in Nice. Pretty weird to think that about a year ago, I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">arrived in France and began this crazy, hard, life changing, beautiful</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">journey.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibOQAW_MSxUXIwrb0ivRyZqvWfnYkMVoWPKgEtCSRBxmJSvScYMF2Mbz5L8iK122LigG2emdVAY_OSXzLVhai_bYSDZm_-5m6kSjAbKisUIy_vbarqZEOrxXRl3IPpo24oy2ashHAqdiQ/s1600/IMG_1094.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibOQAW_MSxUXIwrb0ivRyZqvWfnYkMVoWPKgEtCSRBxmJSvScYMF2Mbz5L8iK122LigG2emdVAY_OSXzLVhai_bYSDZm_-5m6kSjAbKisUIy_vbarqZEOrxXRl3IPpo24oy2ashHAqdiQ/s640/IMG_1094.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This week was better than last week. Not for any particular reason. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">But I feel as if Heavenly Father has blessed me with a boost of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">support and love. I can feel prayers from people back home carrying me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">along. Angels too. I can't point out any crazy manifestations that God </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">showed his love for me this week. I just felt it. I had the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">opportunity to fast on Sunday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. I am grateful that we can fast. Before </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the meeting began, I felt tired and hungry and weak from a long week</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">of missionary work. But as people got up to bear their testimony, I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">literally felt full of spiritual strength. President Brown gave a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">powerful, simple testimony about the plan of happiness Heavenly Father </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">created for us and the reality of eternal families. I have a testimony </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">that we need to be spiritually fed. It is amazing how much better I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">felt after going to church.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0UQNJfKcIqTqE9n8VvwlgbWSPrcN1-xq2vVxZrvhLbqIhWzRlqTRZ_A3_aNd5ZrYyv5zsbsM3FHUd8IQ6SrRIwIuM4DojxeBnbehBp5w3wVjHquH_yU8slmK0EsBhg5JKyTVznxHGws/s1600/IMG_1088.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0UQNJfKcIqTqE9n8VvwlgbWSPrcN1-xq2vVxZrvhLbqIhWzRlqTRZ_A3_aNd5ZrYyv5zsbsM3FHUd8IQ6SrRIwIuM4DojxeBnbehBp5w3wVjHquH_yU8slmK0EsBhg5JKyTVznxHGws/s640/IMG_1088.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> As missionaries, we do spiritual things </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">all day. But even we need to go to church every week, take the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">sacrament, and be spiritually fed. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Sunday we had a really cool miracle! Sunday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">afternoon, Lucie, a recent </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">convert texted us and said she was coming to the chapel later that day </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and was going to bring 2 friends. (Recent converts are AWESOME at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">missionary work). She brought her family friends ( a dad and his son). </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> We gave them a chapel tour and then taught them </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">about the restored gospel. From the outside, I never would have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">guessed they would be so interested in the church.They were both very</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">open and had a lot of questions and I have to say it was because they </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">were humble. Humble people are the best to teach. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Coming on a mission </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">has helped me see a glimpse of why Heavenly Father asks us to be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">humble. We are so much more teachable when we are humble. We are more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">dependent on Christ and his strength rather than our own. Joseph asked </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">what he should wear to church. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> You know someone is serious </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">about coming to church when they ask what they should wear. I can't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">wait to keep teaching them!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I am so grateful for our living prophet, Thomas S. Monson and for the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">inspired leaders of our church. This week I was able to read some </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">talks from general conference and I felt so uplifted and inspired. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">know that modern revelation is real. I know that God loves us today </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">just as much as he loved his people in the past. Thomas S. Monson is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the true prophet who leads and guides this church through God. They</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">are not perfect people. And boy am I grateful for that. They make me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">feel like it is okay to be a human who isn't perfect. But I do know </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">that they do their best. And I do know they are called from God. That </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">they are humble men who love God and love us. I know the priesthood is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">real. Holding the priesthood is an opportunity to serve. I am grateful </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">for all the blessings I have received from my dad who worthily</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">exercises his priesthood as well as President Brown and many others.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">If you don't have a testimony of the leaders of our church, start with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">finding a testimony of God. Create that relationship with Heavenly </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Father again and you will realize that they are truly called of Him.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love love love, Abby</span></span>Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-8212237600829008322017-08-28T09:22:00.002-07:002017-08-28T09:38:24.024-07:00Week 56 "When you have a bad day... you buy yourself flowers"<div>
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Missionary Leadership Conference....these are all the people that came into the mission with me!</div>
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<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_216589051" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204 , 204 , 204); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I was so tired. It was muggy hot. We finally were able to get outside and then waited for our bus for 30 minutes and Soeur C</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">usick lay down behind the bus stop and we almost fell asleep. And then we went to our next RDV, but the person had forgotten we had a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">RDV </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">so we left. Went to our </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">RDV</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> with "S". We taught her about how much God loved her. It was a good lesson I thought. Then at the end, she dropped us. Told us it is complicated with her boyfriend right now as he is skeptical with religion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Then we were waiting for our bus. And Soeur Cusick looks at me and says, okay we are going out to eat and I'm paying for you. So I said, what a perfect way to end the worst day ever. And we literally started laughing. Because it was almost funny with how hard the day was that we just had to laugh. We walked past a flower shop and Soeur Cusick and I both look at each other and are like, why not. So we go inside and she buys herself a potted cactus and I bought myself a bouquet of flowers. Then we ate pizza by the Soane</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> river. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We got facebook finally! This will be an amazing tool to use as missionaries. We can now easily connect with our amis daily. We can also do video/ skype lessons. We can share videos and posts and spread the light of the gospel with thousands of people at the same time. It was also crazy though logging back onto my old facebook and seeing my old life and it was just a whirlwind of mixing my two worlds. We still do normal missionary work like before, this facebook is just a tool to help us with the work. Find amis, keep in contact with amis, share the gospel! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had an exchange with Soeur Driggs. She is so cute and so helpful and always ask me questions. I love that about her. She is really positive too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week I am going to focus on three things. Following the holy ghost, attitude and effort. There are a lot of things I cannot control. But I know I can control my attitude and effort. That is something you taught me, Dad. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It has never been more clear to me, than on my mission, that the center of God's plan of happiness is the family. The gospel doesn't make families perfect. It heals families. It builds families. I am so grateful that I know I will raise a family centered in the gospel. I don't know what challenges that will come to my future family. But I know that God has promised to everyone who stays faithful, that they can have an eternal family. The Browns son came and visited with his wife and 3 kids this last week. There are so many good examples to me out here and back home of couples and families that work at their marriage and family to be happy. The family is the greatest source of joy. Marriage is of God. Creating families is of God. The family is of God. I love my familyyyyy!!!!!!! Jason, Mimi, Jamison, Haylie, Eliza, and Madeline!!!!!! Best family ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></div>
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Giant gummy bear as our mascot for district meeting<br />
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Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-23237260714579874852017-08-21T09:06:00.002-07:002017-08-21T09:34:05.098-07:00Week 55 "Knocking on Doors and Laughing"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEUI3UF7Wvu92irP28MHeXuBMLA1ohcWCrlm5N292jJTQ-FKeJPWSXqrYs5SWsJRBCep-j9F29newdB-fqYU-mkZQzozc_KRZALAx0AKCCco6uhqsnXN_LzjTTbCoUa0pZM8KwrPkgZG4/s1600/IMG_1054+2.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEUI3UF7Wvu92irP28MHeXuBMLA1ohcWCrlm5N292jJTQ-FKeJPWSXqrYs5SWsJRBCep-j9F29newdB-fqYU-mkZQzozc_KRZALAx0AKCCco6uhqsnXN_LzjTTbCoUa0pZM8KwrPkgZG4/s640/IMG_1054+2.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Another week as a France Lyon missionary has come and gone. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ready... go!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">1. Being able to have time to study and soak in the scriptures</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">2. Watching people's life change little by little from the gospel</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">3. Talking with tons of other missionaries at zone conferences and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">district meeting</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">4. Having an excuse to testify and talk of Christ, wherever I go, whatever I do</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">5. French cheese- there are so many different kinds!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">6. Meeting new people and finding out how similar I am to people I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">never would have guessed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaXWIgIclIXi77AXfq8RPp08YKz-DysTUg-RpNn7igdnaLmUdYI-1ioaFuor2-bQqFa645RfYYUif4RsEugvIvLte3BPjWe_lAPOdqwqAtzJW6t_FWmQ7zwbdDwtE8OGGLNqyJ6CJHDpw/s1600/IMG_1041+2.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaXWIgIclIXi77AXfq8RPp08YKz-DysTUg-RpNn7igdnaLmUdYI-1ioaFuor2-bQqFa645RfYYUif4RsEugvIvLte3BPjWe_lAPOdqwqAtzJW6t_FWmQ7zwbdDwtE8OGGLNqyJ6CJHDpw/s640/IMG_1041+2.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">7. I have never slept better in my life. After I finish saying my</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">prayers at the end of the night, I literally just plop/ roll over onto </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the bed. Half my body still hanging off the bed.. because I am too </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">tired to move the other half. Then I fall asleep.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZUWVpfHSUmRudVwH0g146sSY2HLv5l3VuM8i9GSZL5fTFIQDrTuiFxrzNGs00B3iKWzN-uDdNDSD8jLgGEDu4Li_FcnMTgY39HnvuBPI46uBMjIABBn_pJrpY00LavVRMg1D4YLh4zac/s1600/IMG_1048.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZUWVpfHSUmRudVwH0g146sSY2HLv5l3VuM8i9GSZL5fTFIQDrTuiFxrzNGs00B3iKWzN-uDdNDSD8jLgGEDu4Li_FcnMTgY39HnvuBPI46uBMjIABBn_pJrpY00LavVRMg1D4YLh4zac/s640/IMG_1048.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">8. Serving. I forget so many of my personal problems because I have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">opportunities to serve every day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">9. Singing our mission hymn (les anges dans nos compagnes... angles we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">have heard on high) at every mission conference</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">10. Watching people experience the cleansing power of the atonement of J</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">esus Christ</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3vyWHVHCSNjVxktHv9tABsgibVNqeiChDd-eC75j8HjMbgo5uEUi6DpWrgLEFvja-EPceXwloNctqnLVmkDYAWcEQM5JQ7levuIH1yMkWPqFsnM1zRMqY1T5I_TbvMSJEEQpkXZlyEFg/s1600/IMG_1055+2.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3vyWHVHCSNjVxktHv9tABsgibVNqeiChDd-eC75j8HjMbgo5uEUi6DpWrgLEFvja-EPceXwloNctqnLVmkDYAWcEQM5JQ7levuIH1yMkWPqFsnM1zRMqY1T5I_TbvMSJEEQpkXZlyEFg/s640/IMG_1055+2.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">There are a lot of hard parts about being a missionary, and usually, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">people only hear about the highlights of the work. But I find I am a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">lot happier when I try to see the positive. So "viola."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOgES3QDkDAiiVNCHUfk-huSoTuDfY5ik1ULDR-mzvWPzw2t_QsV5jmHRu9GYJGZJTqX4lyfHOtPCN52XQvVkdjHgjX3jOgp0-Dndri8ZZ62z6VCr0N6bSa4kLQ-KmW44nqoaH5pIhITY/s1600/IMG_1045+2.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOgES3QDkDAiiVNCHUfk-huSoTuDfY5ik1ULDR-mzvWPzw2t_QsV5jmHRu9GYJGZJTqX4lyfHOtPCN52XQvVkdjHgjX3jOgp0-Dndri8ZZ62z6VCr0N6bSa4kLQ-KmW44nqoaH5pIhITY/s640/IMG_1045+2.JPG" width="480" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">This week we had the new baby bleues stay over at our apartment. They </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">were all very jet lagged, greasy haired, and tired from the long </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">travel to France. It makes me feel old in the mission when new </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">missionaries come in who don't even know their first companion yet. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">The next day we helped with the bleus conference. We made a salad and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">set up some fruit. We watched the bleus get their trainers and it was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">so awesome. The trainers were just fired up to find out who they were </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">going to train. And the bleus so nervous, some crying (happy tears), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">as they found out where their first assigned city would be.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO99bhu_fmRKcjdRHGIuqp9cQCOgJOaK5wFQNTV2RI3ENTinPupIXotEyd4nthcfl6Ox4P2gIHgM9R25zFRmopf48v0sZfjCpOLnbxvIQJISUKZzbic1uQyImmu7UmQHkmsRG6P8Bfhf4/s1600/IMG_1049.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO99bhu_fmRKcjdRHGIuqp9cQCOgJOaK5wFQNTV2RI3ENTinPupIXotEyd4nthcfl6Ox4P2gIHgM9R25zFRmopf48v0sZfjCpOLnbxvIQJISUKZzbic1uQyImmu7UmQHkmsRG6P8Bfhf4/s640/IMG_1049.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Baby bleues staying at our house for their first night in France</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We ported (knock on) some doors this week. I love Soeur Cusick as my companion </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">because she always makes kind of blaaa experiences really funny.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Before every door we knocked on she would start singing some weird </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">song or say, "hello mommmm" just before the person answered the door.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Normally when you port houses it is like, oh boy, here we go. But with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Soeur Cusick, I was just laughing so hard that when they opened the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">door we were both just smiling so big trying not to laugh. If you ever </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">need a big dose of humility, go knock on some random doors in France </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">and tell them you have a message about the restored gospel. It felt </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">really good to get rejected and be able to just walk away loving those </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">people still.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8A8WQuldqBU5fPIj93eDbz1RbMBF07u5dWLK8MNrHqa-YqNbJMtCyyt2jTm6-9_saI8z3XxZOj0jbkDCX7lIO1oRlQMT-9qt3F1QCAd8qLbX0b2Oq3XPi50VB4mgJdslvNISeutWFI9k/s1600/IMG_1056.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8A8WQuldqBU5fPIj93eDbz1RbMBF07u5dWLK8MNrHqa-YqNbJMtCyyt2jTm6-9_saI8z3XxZOj0jbkDCX7lIO1oRlQMT-9qt3F1QCAd8qLbX0b2Oq3XPi50VB4mgJdslvNISeutWFI9k/s640/IMG_1056.JPG" width="640" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sadly, we were not able to have a lesson with "S" this week because </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">she (along with many others) are still on vacation. But we are having </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">a lesson with her at Amandine's tonight. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We found out "S" lives in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">not in our sector. So we will actually be trying to pass her to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">missionaries she lives closer to. But, that is okay. I am just so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">happy she has been introduced to the gospel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbMfLQW7vp1WymZxHpAplqnBW_fWKnnEl-RB_Ps6MEIWlrFyI01nQaPfu7s_lDjOoV9oNShCXhFJ_gHI7Q2f7SeNqGBW2OHqwnCwQiSrh06iKL3TR6G1LFdaqU6ZgOVJ0dXTy0v-C9Wbg/s1600/IMG_1053.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbMfLQW7vp1WymZxHpAplqnBW_fWKnnEl-RB_Ps6MEIWlrFyI01nQaPfu7s_lDjOoV9oNShCXhFJ_gHI7Q2f7SeNqGBW2OHqwnCwQiSrh06iKL3TR6G1LFdaqU6ZgOVJ0dXTy0v-C9Wbg/s640/IMG_1053.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I love you 💕 Have a great week this week. You are all starting </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">school. Have fun getting in that fall season, putting on your </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">sweatshirts, going to Friday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> night football games, eating molasses </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">cookies, and watching the leaves change colors!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love Abby</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I received a package from my family!!! lucky</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> charms and costco uncooked tortillas, letters etc.. </span>Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-21787544433679982442017-08-14T08:47:00.004-07:002017-08-14T08:47:48.163-07:00Week 54 "Staying with Soeur Cusick"<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Transfer news update: I am staying in Ecully a 3rd transfer and staying with Soeur Cusick! I am really happy. We get along so well and she is just one of my best friends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So turns out everyone in France decides to take a 2 week vacation in August. Which means almost all the members are out of town and all our amis. Sighhh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do you remember when I told you about that girl named "S" who we met in the ice cream shop? Who is friends with Amandine, the recent convert? Okay well we saw her again this week and taught her in her cafe. She doesn't have a huge religious background but I know she feels the spirit when we teach her. And she wants it. We invited her to be baptized and she said yes. It was a really cool experience of faith for me. When we first just said, "Hello. Oh this is a cool cafe. Do you own it?" A few weeks ago, I would have never imagined that fast forward a couple weeks and we are inviting her to be baptized, in that same cafe! Sometimes the spirit will prompt us to do things and we don't know why. We can't see into the future. So we trust. We trust the holy ghost will lead us. We trust that Heavenly Father knows what he is doing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You know when you just have a hard day? Or something someone says to you just makes you feel stressed? Okay well that happened to me. Before my mission I thought, "why does everyone get all stressed out on their mission? I am not going to be that person. I am just going to choose not to be stressed." But then real life hits you and it gets hard. We happened to be right by the President's house yesterday when I was feeling down. So I called Soeur Brown and she told us to come in. She was just by herself cooking. She gave me a hug and we all talked and laughed and cried. Oh we also drank diet coke in lounge chairs out by her pool. Literally biggest tender mercy in the exact moment I needed it. I sat there thinking, Heavenly Father REALLY knows me. He knows exactly what I need. He knows what makes me stressed and sad and he knows how to help me. He gave me Soeur Brown on this mission so that I would be able to do it. Ahhhhhhhh I love Soeur Brown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have a testimony that God created us to be different. Think of this beautiful world he created. Is any tree or flower the exact same? No. We need diversity. We cannot all be the same. "Comparison is the thief of joy." The minute we start comparing our personality or our weaknesses to someone's strengths, we are unhappy. I believe we can be inspired by other people. They can motivate us to become better. But God gave each one of us different talents and strengths.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The times I have been happiest out here on the mission, is when I am not comparing myself and I'm just being myself and trying to do MY best. I also have a testimony that Heavenly Father wants us to be happy, and Satan wants us to be sad. The spirit brings peace, encouragement, and correction. While Satan brings fear, discouragement, and comparison. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jacob 2:8 says <i>"And it supposeth me that they have come up hither to hear the pleasing word of God, yea, the word which healeth the wounded soul." </i>I know that the scriptures and prayer are things that will heal us daily. We can't expect to go to church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1594154683" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> and then feel good the whole rest of the week. We need to do the daily things. We NEED to do the daily things. As in our spirits need it to be healed. To be healed from all the things the world and Satan attack us with. I always feel better after I read the scriptures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This mission is hard. But I am changing. I am growing. And I know it is where I am supposed to be. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Love Abby</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soeur Obretch sent this to me! My Grandma Nancy and Grandpa Max serving their mission in the Geneva Switzerland (2009)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Passport photo before the mission ....and right now. The mission makes you REALLY tired!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soeru Cusick with my hair</span></div>
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Me with Soeur Cusick's hair:)</div>
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Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-47263166860964073402017-08-07T09:30:00.000-07:002017-08-07T09:30:01.929-07:00Week 53 "Preaching the Gospel in Ice Cream Shops"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCXc2OPXdR5RgBaVMZpMcIEHsEqU37JeaUl69QJY6Tx90y4ZnPBZ1NvA6NS70cJgClYvS9hFO4l4_DDpNFgJbT9Cayo0BSd8s5LvITF-xofO1hmbRhdbAfQnO2nE2H1hcxjHJi91ftHm8/s1600/IMG_0993.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCXc2OPXdR5RgBaVMZpMcIEHsEqU37JeaUl69QJY6Tx90y4ZnPBZ1NvA6NS70cJgClYvS9hFO4l4_DDpNFgJbT9Cayo0BSd8s5LvITF-xofO1hmbRhdbAfQnO2nE2H1hcxjHJi91ftHm8/s640/IMG_0993.JPG" width="478" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This week Soeur Cusick and I had an opportunity to present at Ecully </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Zone Conference. We wore MATCHING outfits! Hahah. We are crazy. We </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">presented about online proselyting because we will be using </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">facebook soon. We talked about how habits we learn now as missionaries </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">with sharing the gospel on social media will bless us for the rest of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">our lives. It went better than I thought.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTiX16xc49sLnTZHqqlXsNx9u4ir4XAqi3g2kAlKExuj8j5vawjNVPeHlb83LnnbhzzPIo6fwfcY-cRA9YJ5bTbqZc6T3861Ih1NAASDAfA4EnARjATkwl5RYdpVZJsot3wn07_LRs_hg/s1600/IMG_0995.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTiX16xc49sLnTZHqqlXsNx9u4ir4XAqi3g2kAlKExuj8j5vawjNVPeHlb83LnnbhzzPIo6fwfcY-cRA9YJ5bTbqZc6T3861Ih1NAASDAfA4EnARjATkwl5RYdpVZJsot3wn07_LRs_hg/s640/IMG_0995.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This week was better than last week. I think I am just coming to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">accept the fact that I am always tired as a missionary. I also </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">received a blessing from the assistants which I was so grateful for. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">love the priesthood. I never want to live without the priesthood in my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">life. I felt a lot of strength and peace after the blessing. Just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">like, okay, you know what? It is going to be okay. You are doing just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">fine. Keep going.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbvt7GydIDEXkYqG7xfuGSwxqWMIZN7WR1a5kOWnTuwnA9zm6cPW4x0mrwGeVq9hUKA-zIwcibMrGbpEwTa7nBPS1dxCqtoA-dz00ZKok_HWWGQBjkVbyGSieLjznd1Cssxi96ZnCiZU4/s1600/IMG_0990.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbvt7GydIDEXkYqG7xfuGSwxqWMIZN7WR1a5kOWnTuwnA9zm6cPW4x0mrwGeVq9hUKA-zIwcibMrGbpEwTa7nBPS1dxCqtoA-dz00ZKok_HWWGQBjkVbyGSieLjznd1Cssxi96ZnCiZU4/s640/IMG_0990.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Timéo was baptized on Saturday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">! (Amandine son. The girl who got </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">baptized a month ago.) He was SO excited for the baptism. For the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">interview earlier that week, I saw him across the street just looking </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">so swag. With his fedora and cool glasses. I loved watching how happy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Amandine looked at the baptism. As we sat there, I looked at Timéo. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">saw so much potential in this cute boy. I saw him receiving the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">priesthood, preparing for a mission, and getting married in the temple</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">one day. What an amazing journey he has begun. It was very sweet </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">watching Timéo walk into the baptismal font. He tiptoed in and said, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"ahhh, it is really hot in here!" He was so hesitant about coming in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the water. He felt nervous. But what a sweet experience watching him </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">get baptized.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZTJCu6iP1rPZszaIIKDj709QqwiAnc54-EpCWDjyHJbnN6nxt7H6qYt8ZVf-Rbv-aLzjlAFau0tfAi5SgHGUdhN-owdKHULDcOx5RR2BQ1tNZNVvlx_OZy6KwF8Kugk5pPnREAYqMg4/s1600/IMG_1000.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZTJCu6iP1rPZszaIIKDj709QqwiAnc54-EpCWDjyHJbnN6nxt7H6qYt8ZVf-Rbv-aLzjlAFau0tfAi5SgHGUdhN-owdKHULDcOx5RR2BQ1tNZNVvlx_OZy6KwF8Kugk5pPnREAYqMg4/s640/IMG_1000.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The other week, a member took us to a cafe to get ice cream. There </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">wasn't anyone in the cafe except for us and the woman working there. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I felt like I should talk to her so I asked her if she owned the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">restaurant. She said yes. We talked a little bit longer. Then left. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Nothing too crazy. But a couple weeks later, Amandine said, "Hey I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">have to show you something!" She had posted this picture of us on her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">facebook from Lucie's baptism. And her friend commented on the photo </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and said, "Hey! I know those girls! They came into my ice cream shop </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the other day! They are so cute." So we decided to go get ice cream </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">again at her shop and visit her with Amandine since they were friends.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We ended up sharing a spiritual thought with her there at the ice </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">cream shop. Then this last week we had another lesson with her in the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ice cream shop! Amandine invited her to come to Timéo's confirmation </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">yesterday at church. And SHE CAME! It was a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">testimony to me that by small and simple things, big things happen. By </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">just saying hello to her at the ice cream shop, she recognized us on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">facebook, then we taught her, and then she came to church. Big </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">miracle.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvNQMfsF3MpHTHEwroIhHecfWPwEbihEuIX2ZqnMwequLNCzphMSuYZJcBlbACPRw0beeGepKm8aQjiGST-DpphO-qPOg3ZYd4JoVl98UPb3Wz_vDPqYIHUK5ejRhWJkiK6dtCa-LN5fE/s1600/IMG_1008.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvNQMfsF3MpHTHEwroIhHecfWPwEbihEuIX2ZqnMwequLNCzphMSuYZJcBlbACPRw0beeGepKm8aQjiGST-DpphO-qPOg3ZYd4JoVl98UPb3Wz_vDPqYIHUK5ejRhWJkiK6dtCa-LN5fE/s640/IMG_1008.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Today was President's pday. We spent time at the mission home with the President and Sister Brown. It was super fun and super wet. President also </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">taught me how to play volleyball better so that is awesome. Ahhhhhh I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">love my mission friends. I hope I hang out with them forever. I love </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">American bbq food. I love water fights. I love Soeur Brown</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Abby </span></span><br />
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One year. Celebrated with an ice cream and PostIt note<br />
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Soeur Kelly<br />
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Exchange with Soeur Brooksby<br />
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Soeur Houkin made a Tahitian flower crown<br />
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Me and my comp, Sour Cusick<br />
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THANK YOU AUNT ALY FOR THE GIANT GUMMY BEAR<br />
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<br />Abby Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11494775559468063426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748629413301773981.post-26711680915303854692017-07-31T09:54:00.001-07:002017-07-31T10:05:10.898-07:00Week 52 "One Year!"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In a couple days I hit my year mark. WHATTTTT. I have loved this year. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">But it has also been the most challenging year of my life. The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">craziest emotional rollercoaster. Starting in the Provo MTC and then </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to Nice, Montpellier, and now Ecully. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I love the people I have met. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The trials who have turned me into someone better. The best friends I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">have made here.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">So this week was hard. I don't even know why it was hard. I felt so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">tired. I felt that I had been on my mission for 10 years and that I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">will be here for another 6 years. I know I know. Everyone keeps </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">telling me, it will FLYYYY by. But this week I felt like I was walking </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">through silly putty.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> I am going to be honest because I am an honest </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">gal. Missions are amazing. But they are hard. I am grateful for the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">gospel of Jesus Christ who helps me continue through hard moments. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Sometimes I don't realized how much Jesus Christ is helping me, but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">when I look back, I realize I couldn't have done it without him.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzGexBsT-Mu7rTOz4ADSWDhn2D0akkxvcGTV9cd7PEPxpObY3_HylnYTQC9z7bwZpikt9BtECHC-CA2mQEIpIeTrzOpjt5tX82dRjd088HNiEk3G2W9DfDzlgqyl5TKTmjNe2EdINN5js/s1600/IMG_0984.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzGexBsT-Mu7rTOz4ADSWDhn2D0akkxvcGTV9cd7PEPxpObY3_HylnYTQC9z7bwZpikt9BtECHC-CA2mQEIpIeTrzOpjt5tX82dRjd088HNiEk3G2W9DfDzlgqyl5TKTmjNe2EdINN5js/s640/IMG_0984.JPG" width="480" /></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">One day this week, we had one lesson in the morning with a family in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the ward, and then everything after that got canceled. We made calls </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">for the week for an hour to fix rdvs for our exchange, and no one </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">answered. It was like 4:00</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and I felt like such a potato plop for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">sitting in the apartment all day making calls. I thought, well, at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">least we will have an awesome rdv with "E" (our ami) tonight </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">will have a fun dinner chez elle. But then 2 minutes before we were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">about to leave, she calls us and says, sorry girls, I am going to have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to cancel tonight</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, something came up. After we hung up, I just sat </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">there staring blank faced at Soeur Cusick. She looked and me and just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">starts dying laughing. Because we were too emotional drained to cry so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">it was easier to laugh. I just tumbled to the floor and lay there like </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">a splatted pancake. And let out a nice long scream.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7AtSvQj8jMiUelBwCE2zOJ57RkcusFsOPZJHNm-CFtgXiVTR3urfDrscj3t83SB8mQ5A9vdOBWUBQsUtysi0FCLfC8RSW6Ymdfd7Rv2Dsvguf2Rhi_P2J8NONz7oLWWWkxfYGKerbkgE/s1600/IMG_0978.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7AtSvQj8jMiUelBwCE2zOJ57RkcusFsOPZJHNm-CFtgXiVTR3urfDrscj3t83SB8mQ5A9vdOBWUBQsUtysi0FCLfC8RSW6Ymdfd7Rv2Dsvguf2Rhi_P2J8NONz7oLWWWkxfYGKerbkgE/s640/IMG_0978.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Then Soeur Cusick gets out her ipad and says, "I'm </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">doing it. I'm playing the song." And I thought, no I am really not in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the mood to play a song. But then she starts playing an EFY jam. And </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">we stand up and start doing cheer moves. Like full on cheerleading </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">routine "go big o, high v, pump it up." And we were going crazy and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">just laughing our heads off. After I felt so exhausted from laughing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">so hard. But it felt a lot better than crying. I am so grateful for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Soeur Cusick. Who is a positive person. Who makes me laugh in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">situations when the last thing you feel like doing is laughing. I am </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">grateful that she is expressive. That she likes talking out problems </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and thoughts. I love that she is honest and so real. That she admits </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to the difficulty of a mission, missing family, stress of contacting, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">just real mission stuff.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We had some cool miracle this week. Finally had a RDV with "T" </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">again. Then a member brought a friend to church and we taught she and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">her 2 kids. She is from Portugal and has read half way through the B</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ook of Mormon.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHLvy0on-IgYFSr9C0xU_AJyWrgu-3YxHo2sGiLJmTIMl318f3AvTyQ8DHHOl8tkdV6QGQ3KlXAgcHIpiWLk6btB9e42lnMAOC953IMdhCAPIjSsY9WxzoG35W2CEdPTyHAFs3IrRaly4/s1600/IMG_0986.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHLvy0on-IgYFSr9C0xU_AJyWrgu-3YxHo2sGiLJmTIMl318f3AvTyQ8DHHOl8tkdV6QGQ3KlXAgcHIpiWLk6btB9e42lnMAOC953IMdhCAPIjSsY9WxzoG35W2CEdPTyHAFs3IrRaly4/s640/IMG_0986.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">I love the Zinns. She made chicken broccoli casserole for Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> dinner </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">last night and I wanted to cry it was so good. Just some American </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">goodness. She made it because Elder Underwood requested it for his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">last meal at the Zinns. He is going home in a couple weeks. I love </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">how real the Zinns are. They are great examples to me of reaching out</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to people outside of the church and never judging anyone. I just love </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">how the gospel of Jesus Christ looks different on every person. It is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the same doctrine, the same gospel, but we are unique individuals. So </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the gospel will look a little different on everyone. Different hair </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">colors, sizes, shapes, different family traditions, etc. But the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">gospel of Jesus Christ is for everyone.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyliPpsxxFyZ3K_zqbSO44IYlpoctxHm0NJasE-FqGFIUR0e1RpaVjfP6ntlqJJAM6pS-CJFuDxcC7YF1a-NEO3fWbBOIeIxfoxXk_rOdTL-x_7zkZdx9wKibwH2qRiCihcy1b_b_52Fs/s1600/IMG_0975.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyliPpsxxFyZ3K_zqbSO44IYlpoctxHm0NJasE-FqGFIUR0e1RpaVjfP6ntlqJJAM6pS-CJFuDxcC7YF1a-NEO3fWbBOIeIxfoxXk_rOdTL-x_7zkZdx9wKibwH2qRiCihcy1b_b_52Fs/s640/IMG_0975.JPG" width="640" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3GJIhFQXXXzxvKLX0-5nqpRPfTBWCIimSqlD043vIDRuEK6Cel3iOn8X4AXZNnaB7srNd1CYNEMI3VfLb2e1EC-ANVp3a10hFyF9RKqDbGCUVxDX12WWm7omBlIHkk7mo5iHcyPVPKMM/s1600/IMG_0985.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3GJIhFQXXXzxvKLX0-5nqpRPfTBWCIimSqlD043vIDRuEK6Cel3iOn8X4AXZNnaB7srNd1CYNEMI3VfLb2e1EC-ANVp3a10hFyF9RKqDbGCUVxDX12WWm7omBlIHkk7mo5iHcyPVPKMM/s640/IMG_0985.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I know that Heavenly Father is watching over me and my family. Not </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">just because I am on a mission. But because he loves me. And I feel </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">his love. Last night there was a thunderstorm. I sat out on the porch </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and read the Book of Mormon and just cried. I was reading Nephi 17.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">About when he heals the people who were sick in ANY manner (probably </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">everyone) and then weeps with the children. I felt his love so strong.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1Zfjg0djCUbd3DBkTjt4SrKinc_Y5I0aOy8L7vw6yykYhOZPiuov2gkVanpNpOye6n2xmZ7uPjqdb6ew_6idvdVq5-WYdt0LFbAeN_uD6E2Enl4nbTyj2_INT_K9FYO1aYpl8xzEMQI/s1600/IMG_0983.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1Zfjg0djCUbd3DBkTjt4SrKinc_Y5I0aOy8L7vw6yykYhOZPiuov2gkVanpNpOye6n2xmZ7uPjqdb6ew_6idvdVq5-WYdt0LFbAeN_uD6E2Enl4nbTyj2_INT_K9FYO1aYpl8xzEMQI/s640/IMG_0983.JPG" width="478" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Sometimes you just want to be tough and power through and be the best </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and never be sad. But then you realize you are weak. And you NEED </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Jesus Christ. And even if you always choose the right and you read </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">your scriptures every night, you are still going to have trials. But </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">when we let Jesus Christ into our lives, and we let him just sit by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">our side and comfort us, our trials become bearable. I feel of Jesus </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Christ's love for me. Even if my trials aren't as big as some peoples.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I feel that Christ cares what I am going through. I am so grateful for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Jesus Christ. He truly gives me the strength, peace, and comfort I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">need every single day of this mission.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love,</span></span><br />
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