It's pretty crazy how fast this week has flown by, Christmas is coming soon and I am so excited:)
So monday night we definitely got into the Holiday spirit, with what sr. Gaud called the first soirée of noel! (evening of Christmas!) Sr. Gaud is one of our awesome members and had a super fun fancy dinner soirée (evening) with a lot of her friends who aren't members! It was awesome to be and just talk with them:)
Tuesday we had a miracle lesson with our less active Sr. Mouzo, which was awesome! And then a fun night teaching Francois and english class!
Wednesday we went out to Phonon and got to teach Mathis! He is the grandson of one of our members and one of my favorite amis (investigators), he is 9 and awesome! We had a good lesson with him and then headed out to Evian to contact.
Thursday we spent most of the day getting ready for our relief society Christmas party, which was that night. We helped our relief society president set everything up and then had a really fun night! We also had a great lesson with Frere secchi before the soirée (evening) started, I am so excited to keep helping him prepare for baptism! We had some very traditional french dishes. So because I am in the Haute Savoie (Haute-Savoie is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France), we have a lot of cheese (and its so good). So i thought I knew traditional french food, but this week because it's the holidays I have had a lot of new things:) I have had œufs de caille (quille eggs), paupeuts (some kind of meat ball thing), purée de marrons (a purée of chestnuts which was amazing), and finally Foie gras (which is duck liver, and guess what its actually way good!) Ha it's been a lot of fun:) What I really loved about the soirée (evening) was just getting to be with all the members, they are so cute and love the missionaries! That is what is most important about the holidays is getting to be with people and share the love of Christ. So my frenchie challenge this week is still to éclairez le monde (light up the World) and share the love that you receive from christ and the gospel with the people around you:)
Thursday we spent most of the day getting ready for our relief society Christmas party, which was that night. We helped our relief society president set everything up and then had a really fun night! We also had a great lesson with Frere secchi before the soirée (evening) started, I am so excited to keep helping him prepare for baptism! We had some very traditional french dishes. So because I am in the Haute Savoie (Haute-Savoie is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France), we have a lot of cheese (and its so good). So i thought I knew traditional french food, but this week because it's the holidays I have had a lot of new things:) I have had œufs de caille (quille eggs), paupeuts (some kind of meat ball thing), purée de marrons (a purée of chestnuts which was amazing), and finally Foie gras (which is duck liver, and guess what its actually way good!) Ha it's been a lot of fun:) What I really loved about the soirée (evening) was just getting to be with all the members, they are so cute and love the missionaries! That is what is most important about the holidays is getting to be with people and share the love of Christ. So my frenchie challenge this week is still to éclairez le monde (light up the World) and share the love that you receive from christ and the gospel with the people around you:)
Friday we got to see Jo and Faye! I love her and its amazing to see how well she is progressing in the gospel and how it is changing her life:) Then we went over and helped out Sœur morel with getting her groceries.
Saturday comme dab (as usual) we went to Cluses, and we had a pretty good lesson with Nina. We had an adventure getting home though! We were with the elders and accidentally got on the wrong train! We only went one stop to far, but it took us into the annecy sector. It was a saturday so the train times were all different, so we ended up having 2 hours! Haha, some long strolls through the country side, and then we finally made it home to hurry over to soeur (sister) Morel's for some cake to celebrate Elder Hekkings birthday!
Sunday was awesome as usual! The other fun thing that has been happening is that right outside our apartment their is a Christmas marche (market) and they have started doing little parades during the day and have all these people dressed in costumes! Ha Annemasse gets a little excited for Noel (Christmas) :)
I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!
Je t'aime
Soeur Soffe
Saturday comme dab (as usual) we went to Cluses, and we had a pretty good lesson with Nina. We had an adventure getting home though! We were with the elders and accidentally got on the wrong train! We only went one stop to far, but it took us into the annecy sector. It was a saturday so the train times were all different, so we ended up having 2 hours! Haha, some long strolls through the country side, and then we finally made it home to hurry over to soeur (sister) Morel's for some cake to celebrate Elder Hekkings birthday!
Sunday was awesome as usual! The other fun thing that has been happening is that right outside our apartment their is a Christmas marche (market) and they have started doing little parades during the day and have all these people dressed in costumes! Ha Annemasse gets a little excited for Noel (Christmas) :)
I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!
Je t'aime
Soeur Soffe
Première soirée de Noël (First Christmas Party)
Me and Mathis
Decorating for the relief society party
Town of Annemasse goes all out
I love Christmas!! The Market is just outside our apartment.
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