Sœur McKenna Soffe: Miracles in Magland Week 22

Bonjour a tous!
   I hope you have all had a wonderful week, it has been a wonderful week here in Annemasse and Genève!
   On monday we had our zone conference with President and Soeur Brown! It was awesome and we got a preview of the church's initiative for Christmas and everybody get so so excited!! I am so stoked for the Christmas season and to bring people the LIGHT of the gospel (that is my hint:) ) After a wonderful conference followed by a fantastic dinner from one of the older couples Soeur Austen, I started my exchange with Soeur Filbrandt! She is actually from germany, but speaks perfect English and is a really fantastic missionary. It was so much fun on exchange with her and it was awesome to learn from her. We had some good contacts and lessons on Monday, and some very interesting contacts on Tuesday. We started talking to a man, who ended up speaking to us in English because he was from Ukraine, and he told us it would be better for us to join a sports team then be in a religion. Ha he was very interesting; but we also had some really incredible miracle lessons and talk with some really great people. One of my favorites was a man who was actually muslim but after we explained what we do as missionaries he thanked us for being missionaries! Tuesday ended back in Annemasse and a really great lesson with Francois and then cours d'Anglais.
   Wednesday we had fun service helping Soeur Morel wrap presents, and then we took our p-day:) Thursday we had a lunch with Jocelyne and the elders and then headed out and contacted around the lac in machilly.
   Friday we had an amazing miracle! We went out to see Jo and her nanny from Taiwan actually came this week! What is so cool about her nanny is that she is actually a recent convert and the one who introduced Jo to the church. Her name is Faye and she is super cute! So we had a really great lesson with Jo and at the end I invited her to be baptized and she told us she wasn't ready YET! At the end of our rendez-vous she told me she hopes she is ready before I leave. It's so incredible to see how her faith is grown, and even though she has a lot of hard things right now, she is leaning on her heavenly father
(and she wants to be baptized!) She is really so incredible, and we have become so close I love her so much!
        Sunday was a great but kind of crazy day. So Faye the nanny for Jo came on the train to Annemasse to go to church. She is so cute, she speaks okay English but not really any french, but she was trying so hard with the members and it was awesome! I ended up translating all of church for her, and though I didn't do a very good job, I was surprised by how much I could actually do! At the end of church, even though Faye couldn't really understand a lot she told us how much she loved it and how she felt like she had come home again! Because of train schedule's she was gone all day, just to come to church (her faith is really incredible!) So my frenchie challenge for you this week is to think about how lucky we are to have church so close to us, and how often do we take it for granted! We have a few members that
have to travel 2 hours one way to get to church! It made me so thankful that we get to renew our covenants with our ward families every week, and all grow so much together!
        Well that's all for this week, love you and I'm so thankful for all of you!
Je t'aime!
Soeur Soffe

Picture that Sœur Hayes took of us on exchange