27 January 2014
Woo I'm still in Nice!
I just want to start off by
telling that my companion Soeur Bailey is absolutely insane. That kid is crazy!
Never have I met anyone like her. First off she is from America so that
explains a lot.. secondly, she is from New Mexico so that explains it even
more. She even speaks New Mexican, which is english spoken in a spanish accent.
One of the members here actually thought that she was speaking in an other
language. I'm just going to tell a few things she's done so that you can
understand who I have to live with.. So this one time my companion couldn't
find her planner, we thought she's lost it for good. We were freaking out
because we had a lot of lessons planned and new numbers of potential
investigators in it. She was freaking out dramatically! She was depressed and went lying under the table, almost losing all
hope. I followed her under the table and there we were and didn't know what to
do with our lives. We said a prayer to find the planner. After her wanting to
sink into the deepest depression.. we found the planner on her table..
One time she was talking to an
Asian man and then they were waving their hands to say goodbye and then suddenly
she just high-fived the guy. Not awkward. Oh and she falls all the time! Like
no sense of gravity or balance in her head. One time she opened a peanutbutter
can with her bare hands and got some legit warrior wounds on her hands. One day
she bought a toy gun and surprise attacked Soeur Hodder by shooting at her.
Yhen she bought a whisel. I do not know why. She also has this funny blue
flowery grandma nightgown that she wears every night. So the fact is that she
is going to be a princess one day so that is why she sometimes practises her
performances to us.One night she sat on the floor in her nighty and sang the
little mermaid. I know, she was born to be a disney princess.
Just this last Sunday she gave
a talk in Sacrament Meeting and as she was walking up she stumbled on something
and almost fell flat on the ground in front of everyone. Talk about
princess-like elegancy! It was funny though. The newest thing is called the
PAWS! She makes me put my hands in hers and lock them together and look each other
in the eyes. That's how we build companionship unity! Oh and one time we
happened to be in the middle of locking paws when the bishop of our ward walked
pass and laughed wierdly at us. Definitely building confidence in us!
Everyday is and adventure with
Soeur Bailey and I love it! I've really been blessed to see her face every
single day for the past 7 weeks. She is an inspiration for me and her
enthusiasm is admirable. She touches people's lives and help to uplift their
faith. She is an one of a kind missionary!
One of the greatest
experiences we've had together was our investigator's baptism. He had a date
fixed for him but we were thinking about pushing it with a week. But when we
sat down with him in the beginning of the week, we all felt that we should keep
the original date.This meant we only had one week to prepare for the baptism.
After a lot of organising, we made it! The baptismal service was beautiful and
so full of the Spirit. I know that God prepared Nic (our investigator) to hear
about the gospel and to accept it. Nic made a lot of changes in his life and
they were not easy ones. I feel like mt life was blessed by having this
opportunity to see Nic change for the better and see how the gospel blessed his
life. Happiness shines from his face and his faith and hope for the future are
clear. Nice is a
city of miracles!
- Soeur N
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