Week 66 - It's raining MIRACLES, Hallelujah!!

BONJOUR everyone and welcome to September!! I can't believe school is starting up again and for the second time around now, I'm not goin'!! Haha I feel a little rebellious not going to school just because it's so engrained as what I do in September but serving a mission is kind of like school but in a different way :)

Anyways, we had a really wonderful week! We sent Soeur Morrell off back to her birthplace of Guyane super early on Friday morning, so now we're down to Soeur Herrera and I! Things are slowly starting to feel like normal again.

Highlights of the week:

-Had a super fun FHE with a less-active family where we read Alma 24 and talked about "burying our swords," or things we can do to repent and come closer to Christ. 

-District councils are all in French now because our district leader is Tahitian! 

-Met with a really cool older man named Bruno. He opened up to us a lot about some hard things, like his wife passing away. He wanted to know if he'd be able to see her again after this life, or if she was just gone. Being able to share our knowledge of the Plan of Salvation and eternal families strengthened him a lot and I could see that it brought him a lot of peace knowing it's possible for them to be together again. I love how family-centered the Gospel is-- haha I've told some of my companions that I think Heavenly Father must be a romantic, as he allows husband and wife to be together for all eternity :)

-Did "to to to" at this woman's house, turns out she's best frien
ds with a member (she does her hair) and has talked to her before about the church! She told us she wanted a Book of Mormon but her friend hadn't gotten it to her yet, and it was an answer to her prayer that we showed up at her door! We're SO excited to keep working with her!

-We were searching for one of our friend's houses in our maze of an area, and happened to drive right past her on the street! She flagged us down and we were then able to help clean up the house, as she's getting ready to move into it! She has some super cute little girls that helped us clean too haha :)

Sorry this email is a little shorter, we're getting kicked out of the email place haha! (we didn't do anything bad, they're just closing, don't worry) :)

Lots of love to you all! Have a great week back to school <3 <3

Bisous,
Soeur Gardner

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