I think this letter will be a bit shorter than usual because of the letters from siblings chastising me for not writing to them individual letters. Also in light of Christopher now dating an 18 year old...I think some big sister questioning/counseling is in order ;)
Last week for P-day we went to an island called St. Honorat (I think) and had a picnic. It's an island where monks still live and work on the vineyard and it is BEAUTIFUL. Sometimes I forget how lucky I am to be in the south of France. We skipped rocks and stuck our feet in the Mediterranean and then toured a large tower at the edge of the island. It was very old and interesting and we even had a short lesson at the top with our tour guide who was interested in the church.
This week in Cannes we've done a lot of less active finding (again) and have yet to be let in by one. We've also done a lot of contacting about the temple. We have gotten prettyyy good tans. All the elders in the ward actually have amis to teach so unfortunately their tans aren't as good. After several weeks of not scheduling any lessons with anyone, we finally fixed two RDVs for this next week! One of the people speaks English too so I'm super excited for Soeur Holmgren to have a first real sit down lesson and be able to fully participate. We're looking forward to it!
This past week we had a really great district meeting talking about the temple again and the miracles we've started to see in our work as we've done it. At this point in the week we hadn't actually had much success at all with integrating the temple and so I was feeling really discouraged. As we watched a short video at the end showing temples around the world and the rooms inside, I just longed to be there! That's definitely something I miss. I think most of all I just miss the peaceful feeling that comes from the temple and how it is just a rest from the woes of the world. How lucky some missionaries are to have temples in their mission boundaries and even some, to work at the visitors centers.
This week we have a big multi-zone conference in Aix-en-Provence and I'm super excited! I'll get to see quite a few people from my MTC group so that will be fun. I expect we'll be talking more about the temple and how we can improve our work integrating it. So excited!
Did I mention my baby bleu plays violin? She didn't bring hers with her one the mission but fortunately for her Mama Hurd brought hers :) So we brought it out the other day and she starting playing a bunch of songs! She started with the Bach Double and I got excited. I wish we had another violin so we could play both parts together! Unfortunately I don't have any music with me here so she just played what she could from memory. A few days later we went to the Freunds' and we brought the violin and the elders brought the ukulele and so we all just played and had a ton of fun singing and everything. It's been one of my favorite things about the past couple transfers to have very musical missionaries in the area.
Show out to my beautiful and lovely friend Caroline who is getting married this Friday!!
Je vous aime beaucoup!
Soeur Melissa Hurd
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