Hello world,
Today is March 6th. My mission call came two years ago today! I remember riding my homemade skateboard down to the mail room at BYUH and my heart skipping a beat when I found it stuffed into my mailbox. As exciting as that was, the next day was even crazier when I actually opened my call...
But I can't get too reminiscent now, I still have some time ahead of me! This week has been pretty good, including one of the craziest "coincidences" of my mission. More on that later.
On Tuesday we did some things... I don't remember honestly. Maybe that was the day we passed one of our amis randomly to check up on him working on Word of Wisdom and getting him to church, he didn't end up coming but we still have hope! Also we went to a tea shop to talk to the Chinese woman inside, she was so cool! When she found out we were learning Chinese, she immediately went into teacher mode and starting writing vocab on sticky notes and teaching us good grammar and stuff, it was awesome. She even took a Book of Mormon! :D
Okay here's the crazy experience of the week:
Wednesday we were invited to go to lunch with a less-active member we've been working on, he took us to this nice Italian restaurant and the food was super good (I got chicken with olive oil and lemon juice, pretty simple but so yummy). That afternoon we had decided to business contact an American/Canadian/English store we accidentally found one time, but we couldn't remember where it was. We wandered around in the rain forever combing the streets of downtown Grenoble, but finally had to give up. Back at the church we looked on Google maps and found it, deciding that we'd go at 10h the next morning. Now here's the weird part...
The next morning around 9h, we got a text from the same less active we'd eaten with the day before. He asked if we would come to a particular address at 10h, the exact same address as the store we'd already planned to go to at 10h! We told him yes of course, but didn't explain the "coincidence" (read: miracle) until we met him in person. He wanted us to come to the store so he could buy us some classic American/Canadian goodies, but the fact that we had planned to come to that exact store on that exact day at that exact time, having never told him that we were planning on it? Man, it was crazy. When we explained it to him, he mentioned that he's noticed God's hand in his life like that a lot lately. Super cool experience :) and that, my dear friends, is how we ended up with cans of maple syrup flavored baked beans in the apartment.
On Friday we taught our old ami, the almost 80 year old one. The lesson was kind of intense as usual, but still good. That night we had a ward party! I was never certain what the point of the party was, but it ended up being a good way to meet some new friends! Our awesome Chinese ami brought a friend whom we hope to start teaching this week and we met another cool guy from La Réunion. There was the option to wear costumes for the party as well for some reason, so naturally 鏖长老 and I donned our 帅est kung fu shirts and hats. The members loved it, people were taking pictures of us all night 😎🇨🇳🍜
Saturday was fun too, we weekly planned and had game night with one member and one ami (no one else showed up, too bad so sad. More chips for us).
Something fun about serving in France is that you can't always tell that someone's not native just by looking at them. For example: there were a ton of visitors at church on Sunday, so I went up to an older dude after sacrament meeting and (in French) asked his name. He replied with a very American name in a very American accent. Confused, I asked (in English this time) where he was from. San Diego. Turns out he had served a mission in France like 40 years ago and comes back to Grenoble for a week every year to go skiing. I didn't realize, but everyone in the ward knows him and he knows them. Still speaks amazing French, it was a funny happenstance :)
Remember all: God's in charge! There are no coincidences; everything happens for a reason! If you look for that reason, you'll find it. James 1:5 and Matthew 7:7 :)
Je vous aime!
江长老
Today is March 6th. My mission call came two years ago today! I remember riding my homemade skateboard down to the mail room at BYUH and my heart skipping a beat when I found it stuffed into my mailbox. As exciting as that was, the next day was even crazier when I actually opened my call...
But I can't get too reminiscent now, I still have some time ahead of me! This week has been pretty good, including one of the craziest "coincidences" of my mission. More on that later.
On Tuesday we did some things... I don't remember honestly. Maybe that was the day we passed one of our amis randomly to check up on him working on Word of Wisdom and getting him to church, he didn't end up coming but we still have hope! Also we went to a tea shop to talk to the Chinese woman inside, she was so cool! When she found out we were learning Chinese, she immediately went into teacher mode and starting writing vocab on sticky notes and teaching us good grammar and stuff, it was awesome. She even took a Book of Mormon! :D
Okay here's the crazy experience of the week:
Wednesday we were invited to go to lunch with a less-active member we've been working on, he took us to this nice Italian restaurant and the food was super good (I got chicken with olive oil and lemon juice, pretty simple but so yummy). That afternoon we had decided to business contact an American/Canadian/English store we accidentally found one time, but we couldn't remember where it was. We wandered around in the rain forever combing the streets of downtown Grenoble, but finally had to give up. Back at the church we looked on Google maps and found it, deciding that we'd go at 10h the next morning. Now here's the weird part...
The next morning around 9h, we got a text from the same less active we'd eaten with the day before. He asked if we would come to a particular address at 10h, the exact same address as the store we'd already planned to go to at 10h! We told him yes of course, but didn't explain the "coincidence" (read: miracle) until we met him in person. He wanted us to come to the store so he could buy us some classic American/Canadian goodies, but the fact that we had planned to come to that exact store on that exact day at that exact time, having never told him that we were planning on it? Man, it was crazy. When we explained it to him, he mentioned that he's noticed God's hand in his life like that a lot lately. Super cool experience :) and that, my dear friends, is how we ended up with cans of maple syrup flavored baked beans in the apartment.
On Friday we taught our old ami, the almost 80 year old one. The lesson was kind of intense as usual, but still good. That night we had a ward party! I was never certain what the point of the party was, but it ended up being a good way to meet some new friends! Our awesome Chinese ami brought a friend whom we hope to start teaching this week and we met another cool guy from La Réunion. There was the option to wear costumes for the party as well for some reason, so naturally 鏖长老 and I donned our 帅est kung fu shirts and hats. The members loved it, people were taking pictures of us all night 😎🇨🇳🍜
Saturday was fun too, we weekly planned and had game night with one member and one ami (no one else showed up, too bad so sad. More chips for us).
Something fun about serving in France is that you can't always tell that someone's not native just by looking at them. For example: there were a ton of visitors at church on Sunday, so I went up to an older dude after sacrament meeting and (in French) asked his name. He replied with a very American name in a very American accent. Confused, I asked (in English this time) where he was from. San Diego. Turns out he had served a mission in France like 40 years ago and comes back to Grenoble for a week every year to go skiing. I didn't realize, but everyone in the ward knows him and he knows them. Still speaks amazing French, it was a funny happenstance :)
Remember all: God's in charge! There are no coincidences; everything happens for a reason! If you look for that reason, you'll find it. James 1:5 and Matthew 7:7 :)
Je vous aime!
江长老
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