Long boring email (aka for the parents)
We went to teach the Posadas, the Colombian mom and daughter (members), and it was so freaking funny. They don't speak French, we don't speak Spanish. But this time there was another thing thrown in, some dude was there. We were like okay cool. He only spoke French tho cus he was Martiniquais. The whole lesson was SO WACK it was so funny. I was speaking French so the guy, Francis, could understand, while Google translate was translating what i said into Spanish. Sr Hepburn took Spanish for like 4 years so she spoke some Spanish, and sr Williams tried to too, and then at one point sr Williams was speaking Portuguese????!!! (French Guiana moment) then I was like okay ill try too, maybe God will give me some Spanish knowledge and it'll be cool idk, but then ALL that would come out was creole?!?!?!?? So I quickly gave up on the Spanish thing, clearly not my strong suit... If I was a computer I would've been making really loud noises that make you go "
you okay computer?" SO THEN Tatiana was like just say it in English and I was like "what are...do you.." MY BRAIN WAS MESSED UP!!! THE LANGUAGES BROKE ME! I COULDN'T SAY IT IN ENGLISH! We all just laughed it off and it was fine. NOW FOR THE PLOT TWIST! At the end, we asked random guy Francis who sat in a whole lesson about the prophet's talk (weird, I would've left if I were him) if there's anything we could help him with. He was like "oh yes many things... my life is like a book... If I told you all of it you would cry... Well, one thing... I know that SHE loves me, but not her..." and then he puts his hand on the mom Plosada's hand on her thigh!!!!! WE WERE LIKE WHAAAAAAAT!!!!!! YOU GUYS CAN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER YOU HAD TO HAVE US TRANSLATE AND YOU'RE A THING?!?? WHAT A FREAKING PLOT TWIST! IT WAS SO WEIRD honestly I understand why Tatiana the daughter might not be sunshine and butterflies about this Dude . She started nervous dancing at that point in the "convo"
you okay computer?" SO THEN Tatiana was like just say it in English and I was like "what are...do you.." MY BRAIN WAS MESSED UP!!! THE LANGUAGES BROKE ME! I COULDN'T SAY IT IN ENGLISH! We all just laughed it off and it was fine. NOW FOR THE PLOT TWIST! At the end, we asked random guy Francis who sat in a whole lesson about the prophet's talk (weird, I would've left if I were him) if there's anything we could help him with. He was like "oh yes many things... my life is like a book... If I told you all of it you would cry... Well, one thing... I know that SHE loves me, but not her..." and then he puts his hand on the mom Plosada's hand on her thigh!!!!! WE WERE LIKE WHAAAAAAAT!!!!!! YOU GUYS CAN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER YOU HAD TO HAVE US TRANSLATE AND YOU'RE A THING?!?? WHAT A FREAKING PLOT TWIST! IT WAS SO WEIRD honestly I understand why Tatiana the daughter might not be sunshine and butterflies about this Dude . She started nervous dancing at that point in the "convo"Sunday was ONE OF THE GREATEST DAYS!!!!!!! It was wack we spent like the whole day with the fort-de-France elders. So we went to church, Ricardo came that was great. After church sr Doumbia invited the whole zone to come over and eat Raclettes so all 8 of us went and it was a good time. I went through her stuff and she has a Pic with president eyring from a temple dedication?!? She like laid down one of the stones or something. Cool. Yeah there was like this whole machine for Raclettes, they're potatoes cheese meat etc. Basic. Ungood.
Then WOW miracle. Last week I got talking to an older member ("member", she's never been baptized I guess) and she was like I'm gonna visit my 102 year old neighbor. I was like CAN WE COME!!!! So this week after Raclettes at sr Doumbias house, we went!! We sang to the 102 yr old lady Suzette and talked to her and shared a tiny scripture, it was SOOOOOO COOL!!!! Strong spirit! Top 10 mission moments
Then after that we met back up with the FDF elders to visit some old lady member who can't come to the church so they could give her the sacrament-REALLY POWERUFL! I was really grateful for those elders because they are just so reverent. I thought of that song "reverence is more than just quietly sitting..." cus it's true!!! Yes, the other elders are great and can be quiet and all that, but these 2 specific elders honestly were TRULY reverent and it was super super powerful and holy. Our little sacrament meeting was great!!!! We all sang with Sœur Seguin-Cadish and all that. She was so kind. Then we thought we parted way with the FDF elders! But it was not so! We drove over to sr penny's for a lesson, one of the inactive Haitians members we teach (aka I freaking love this woman). Then we were like yo wait the FDF Elder have been trying to get in contact with her since 7 months ago... Let's invite them over! This is their area. So they drove over and all 5 of us met with sr penny !! IT WAS SO AWESOME!!! My creole efforts have earned me the nickname of "Ma ti kreyòl" which is the most fulfilling thing ever.
POINT IS from our day with the FDF elders, I noticed how much reverence they brought and it was REALLY really cool. Satan does everything he can to make us less reverent, the world is so loud and artificial. Fulfillment will always be found in the little reverent things
Ayo!! 3 MCHS 2021 alumnis in one mission zoom call screenshot?!
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