Nonportoquoi

Family and Friends,
We finally have Amis/ invetisgators. The Elders in St Etienne passed one to us
and she is very interested in what we have to say. And then a wife of a member who reads the Book of Mormon on a regular basis but is planning on getting baptised soon because she is from a very Italian Catholic Family. (She is also sicilan, but she didnt recgonize Micah's name sadly) She is spectacular. She made us some yummy pizza.
So this week, somebody finally fed us frog legs. Ive been waiting for that to happen for the past two months. It doesnt really taste like anything. But I got to eat Frog legs! Not everybody gets to do that on their mission.
In St Etienne, we are constantly busy. There is so much to do and we are barely able to fit a part of it in everyday. Its kinda funny, we will work so hard, that in the mornings Ill wake up still exhausted and I usually end up spend a few minutes trying to remeber what to do next in the mornings. Its usually not until my stomach starts growling that Im like, Oh, right, breakfast is in the mornings. And then I spend a few minutes trying to remember what I usually have for breakfast. But it is so cool to see what is going on in St Etienne. The Ward is still excited out of their minds that we are here and Soeur Moderstzki and I have grown so much. She is so sweet and she looks like a model so we are always getting random guys stopping us and asking her for a date. Ive never had to give the stink eye to so many people before, Im not used to doing it and I didnt expect to be doing at as a missionary. Im getting pretty good at it though. :) Expect me to be proficent by the time I come back.
We had a mangez-vous the other night at a members house. They were such a beautiful and wholesome family and they had the best dog ever. Apparently, they were looking for a dog for the family and after looking at hundreds of puppies, the father picked their current dog. It is one of the ugliest dogs Ive ever seen. She is an extremely chubby english bulldog, who always has her tongue stinking out, not panting, just sticking out. She likes run around the apartment, but she is so chubby, that when she tries to stop, her momentum carries her forward still so she ends up rolling. she also seems like she has mild narcolepsy so she woould randomly fall asleep at the wierdest times and places. And she likes licking leather.
So during our spiritual thought, she was scrambling and rolling and sleeping and licking peoples shoes all within a 3 minute period of time. Everyone just laughed and laughed. The father of the family is extremely proud of her and picked her up to show off every ugly part of her. He kept saying over and over, very proudly, "Elle est pas belle." (she is ugly) As we were leaving, the father decided he was going to take her on a walk. She doesnt like walks, so it just means he drags her everywhere. He was really proud of that too.
He almost makes me want to get an english bulldog. :)
I love you all!
God is really there and loves all his children!
Je vous aime!
Soeur Russell