What a great week. Soeur Kupfer is about the hardest worker I have ever met. She has almost a fear of bus stops because she might not be productive while we wait for the bus. She is so sweet and constantly trying to become a better missionary. She is going to be a great companion and Toulon is so lucky to have her. This week has been a lot of riding buses and contacting and looking for houses and calling people. One really cool thing this week was that we found an awesome new ami. Her name is Madame Volpi. She is an older woman, who talks a lot but Is so fun to listen to. She has a huge amount of faith, but wasn't able to practice it when she was little and doesn't now how to start practicing it. Her son doesn't really want to see her, which is heart wrenching because you can tell that she loves him and his children more than anything else. She later started listing off people that could use a visit and love of God in their lives. We gave her a book of mormon and she thanked us serveral times for bringing her such an important book and she was looking for a new book to read as well. The ward here is awesome. they haven't had sisters here in about 20 years and some the members have never even seen a sister missionary before. So we are so spolied here. The just shower us with attention and help and, as we are discovering, refferals. Toulon is very pretty. Hot. But pretty. I can't imagine what it must be like to serve here in the summer. We've gotten to see the water a few times and apparently, our sector in the mission is the only sector where the missionaries are allowed to go on a boat because it is apparently faster to go by boat to some areas rather than by bus. So I get to go on a boat. :)
Every week, the mission sends out a news letter of the investigators that got engaged to baptism and really cool miracles. And it always makes me really excited to see Carcassonne and St Etienne on there really often. Right before I came Carcassonne, there were almost no investigators and not many people had any expectations of the sector. But now it is just overflowing with miracles. And St Etienne is booming as well. Its so cool to have been a part of that.
Some not so fun news is that our moving into our apartment, may have caused a leak in all of the other apartments in our building. (I dont know how that works, but thats what our neighbors say) It started in the apartment below us and then went to the one below that and recently started in the next. Now we need to make calls to a bunch of people in french and in english and try and figure out how to fix it.
So Zach is learning how to drive manuel? Yikes. I never fully learned how to drive a stick. Tell him congrats on his new car.
Well, gotta go!
I love you all!
God loves you!
Je vous aime
Soeur Russel
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