Bonjour!

Ahhhhhhh this week has been so good! I will not do it justice in this
email, but I'll try anyways. Anyways, it's the last week we had to
find 10 new amis per companionship and Soeur McClellan and I
succeeded! I think we had 2 at the beginning of the week and we worked
hard to get new ones everyday. So we ended up getting 8 more! We had a
miracle couple call us--a lady we contacted forever ago but I only
vaguely remember her face, and she said she'd be at the chapel in
thirty minutes and could we teach her. Bah, ouaiii! They were a
Catholic couple but still open and haven't really been super keen on
it anyways, and wanted to discover more about the Mormons.

Among other new amis we have a few young adults named Kanto, JC,
Tristan, and Adrian, an older guy named Naceur who is so sparked every
time we call him, and an American woman named Jodi. They seem pretty
legit and so I'm excited to keep working with them. Add them to your
prayer list!

It is with lots of sadness that I report no news on our amie Deborah.
We haven't had contact for two weeks, and we just don't know what
happened. We keep praying for her and we hope one day she'll be ready
to come back to church.

On the positive side, our other amis are actually progressing! Nicolas
is still doing wonderfully. A month ago he started reading the Book of
Mormon and I think he might be done at this point because as of
Saturday he was already starting Mormon. He's really changing little
by little and it's cool to see how little acts of faith, like
consistent prayer and scripture study, can open up someone's heart and
create a burning testimony. Unfortunately we've had to move back his
baptismal date because for the moment he can't come to church, but
it's still his desire to be baptized and we're still working towards
that. He's awesome! Our other ami Sadin is also progressing little by
little. He knows that God is there and he really enjoyed learning
about the restoration of the church. He always asks the best questions
and the difference between our first lesson and now is black and
white. Each time he seems more humble and thirsty for answers.

Saturday night we had a movie night at the chapel for "Meet the
Mormons." We invited tons of people and it worked out quite well for a
last minute activity! Amis from us and the elders came, as well as
members, and everyone really liked the film. I love that movie! Makes
me love being a missionary ❤️❤️❤️

Today we had sisters conference and OH MY GOSH BEST DAY EVER. It was
seriously so fun. It was SO FUN to be reunited with all the sisters
and see ones I thought I'd never see again. There are also so many new
sisters that I got to meet! So many young ones that I had never
met...it's weird. Don't remember when I got so old in the mission. All
the STLs were assigned beforehand to bring a pair of their shoes and
talk a little about a lesson they learned in those shoes. The ones I
brought were the ones Allison left when she went home, so I talked a
little about my experience learning from my younger sister and being
able to call her my hero. Everything the other STLs shared was so
good, so inspired, and very touching. Along with President's and Soeur
Brown's comments. It was just what the sisters needed to hear. Soeur
McClellan and I did a musical number too that was kinda fun, but some
other sisters performed and it was SO GOOOD. I need to get the videos
airdropped to me to show you.

Also did I mention that out of all the 46 sisters in the mission,
Soeur McClellan and I were 2 of 8 that got to stay in the mission home
the night before?? Ahhhh!! Among those others were Soeurs Holmgren,
Grant, and Christensen who are all my former companions still in the
mission! I have no idea how those companionships were selected but I
was not complaining, best thing ever! We all stayed up so late
chatting with Soeur Brown. Soeur Grant and I were reminiscing on our
week we spent in the mission home around christmastime....just too
good. It's weird to think I'll be back there in a week for the event
which must not be named.

Our train back to Aix was cancelled so right now we're still in Lyon
finishing up emails. (Strikes here are SO BAD. It has never been this
bad my whole mission. They don't know if they'll ever stop, neither
the government nor workers are giving in. Also with the euro2016
football stuff going on all over France, security and stuff is CRAZY.
People are CRAZYYY!!) Anyways so yeah we're going home tomorrow
morning. Pray that our train will actually run! We heard a rumor that
June 14 is walk off day? Like everyone in France is supposed to walk
out of their job? I don't know. I'm just glad this kind of thing
doesn't happen as often chez nous.

This mission is so great! I have so many heroes! I wish I could stay
here forever.

Je vous aime !
Soeur Hurd