This is just the greatest place. I love it more and more the longer I'm here. Our Soirée Familiale this week was THE BEST. We played some fun games and everyone was just being super funny and I've never laughed harder on my mission than I did then. Then we were all cleaning up in the kitchen and for some reason all the missionaries just randomly started singing stuff like Swing Low, Swing Chariot, because that's what you do when you're doing dishes, right? And everyone wanted to join in, so some of our cute 70 year old amis started to sing French songs and it was HILARIOUS. They were getting all into it, eyes closed, arms outstretched, oh the passion! Hahah I wish I could have recorded it. We are having a ward talent show in a couple of weeks and so I can't wait to see what will happen! I heard someone is tap dancing...
Although Perpignan is the greatest place in the mission, it is starting to get hot. Really hot. Yesterday it reached 40 degrees C...I think that's somewhere around 100? And it's just the beginning of May! Everyone keeps saying, "Ah, vous allez voir, vous allez voir." Basically that this is nothing and the worst is yet to come. I'm scared! Maybe I'll be transferred away before then? But I don't want to leave the trio! We've all become best friends. We've decided to open up a boulangerie/patisserie when we get back. Les Trois Sœurs de Perpignan. Sœur Christensen has already even drawn a picture of it and framed it.
This week has been a hard one for me as far as patience. That's been something I've been trying to work on my whole life. You'd think I'd be a little better at it now, right? Sometimes it seems harder than it's ever been. But luckily we have the Savior's Atonement to help us change and be forgiven every time we forget to act with patience, or any Christlike attribute for that matter. Huguette, our amie with a baptismal date, still hasn't come to church. She officially can't be baptized in May. And she continues to not show up for our rdvs because she's running several hours late. It's something I can't grasp in my mind, like....why.... but I'm working on accepting it. I think we will actually have to drop her for the time being. :(
This week we had a zone training on iPads that we still don't have. Haha I actually don't even know if we'll get them this transfer. But I'm so excited to have them--I know we will be able to expand our work so much further than it has been before. Also, each time we talk about the iPads I am consistently surprised with how applicable the guidelines are to several other aspects of our lives. I feel so spiritually enlightened with every meeting about it and have taken so much from them even without the iPads at all. I love our mission!
So...Mother's Day? Hope it was a good one, mom! Sorry that carbon monoxide was infiltrating our apartment and ruined everything. We will skype another day this week. Maybe for Christmas we can do the 3-way with other Sister Hurd in France.
The carbon monoxide incident gave us an opportunity to befriend our elderly apartment neighbors! This is good and not so good...they found it to be an opportunity for some motherly advice. Apparently we are being too loud in the apartment at night. It's just so fun with three girls! We can't help but laugh and have fun as we are planning and getting ready for bed! But we will have to be more quiet. And apparently we wake up far too early in the morning. Well, that can't be changed. But it was a good moment to be humbled :) They kept saying, "We understand, you are young. But we are old!" They are some cute old ladies haha. We're planning on making them zucchini bread this week to thank them for their help (the French love it!).
I challenge everyone this week to go and read Ezra Taft Benson's talk "Beware of Pride." I reread it this week and took so much more out of it than before. So terrifyingly true! We could all do a little better in that area, myself especially.
Je vous aime beaucoup!
Soeur Melissa Hurd
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