Weird Statues

Cher Famille et amis
This week, Isaac chose a baptism date!!!!!! I wasn't there for it, I was on exchange. But it is so exciting. He just took to the gospel like a duck does to water. Like butter to toast. Like a teenage girl to chocolate. He is just awesome. During church, in class, one of the eternal amis here in carcassonne went off about how we need to be skeptical of everything, even the word of God. As soon as he was done, Isaac and said, God is is perfect, duh. Like I said the gospel and him are like Minnie and Micky mouse. Wang is leaving for China this week. She will be back in a few months, but S FC will be done by then and I probably wont be here. But we will make she gets contacted as soon as she gets back. Last week we did the entire Plan of Salvation with her and she kept saying, its clear, it makes sense. Her and Isaac take every gospel  and soak it in, its so cool. She prayed for the first time in our lesson last week. How would feel to have never prayed before and finally to communicate with your heavenly father for the first time? Afterwards she said she felt a great peace. I hope I get to see her again before the end of my mission.
Last week we started teaching 4 new amis! One is a man named Eric and the other three are a young family. Eric is interested and he believes in a universal power, but he is hung up on the idea that God has a physical body. We are having another lesson with him this week. The family is from Brazil and they have a little nine year-old boy. They are so kind and speak french very well. One cool thing is that, last lesson we had with them, we taught with our ward mission leader, Sensei. The family was looking for a place for karate lessons and sensei happens to be a championship karate instructor. Too cool.
Carcassonne has been booming, SFC and I went from having 0 progressing amis at the begining of the transfer to having six. There hasn't been six amis for at least 4 transfers, if not more. And this week we contacted 352 people, which is huge for Carcassonne. That also hasn't happened for a while. S Luthi and S Hulme though contacted 700 people this week. That is unheard of for Carcassonne. So Carcassonne is exploding with gospel awsomeness.
We had two mangez-vous this week. The first one was with an older couple who the husband isnt a memeber but the wife is. their grandson is even currently serving in this mission. We are hoping that will touch the grandfathers heart a little. they are bothe very nice ane they fed us a lot of food and sent us home with sausage, babybell cheese, and two giant jars of nutella. Yum. We had lunch yesterday with two members of the ward. They are both mildmannered and getting married this month. The both go to a mental clinic as well. So, yes. I did have lunch with two offically insane people. But they are very mild and lunch turned out well. It was just a little awkward.
In answer to Zach's question, the coolest building I have seen in france has got to be the Chateau. It is really just huge and makes for a pretty veiw out of our window. We are planning on going back there today. Fun! But I have also seen some weird artwork here too. The other day, by the bridge, we saw the top half of a giant man  resting on the ground woven out of sticks. and there were two giant hands next too it. It kinda looked like a man made of sticks was drowning in the grass. Lately they have put the arms onto the man and made him bigger and put a heart woven out of red sticks inside of him. We will be passing by the statue today when we head to the castle, so I'll get to see what they have done next.
A pigeon ran into my head today. It was one the strangest sensations I have ever had and I would rather not experience it again. I think the bird was fine but I found a feather in my hair later. I don't recommend it. Just in case you wanted to try to have a bird fly into your cheek.
I can't beleive this transfer is almost over. I'm feeling a little nervous about next transfer because, I will almost certainly be put with someone who has as much experience as me with the language and so on, because anyone with more experince will be training. I can't even contact without S FC's help and I will need to be able to teach lessons and make phone calls in French. I'm hoping for gift of tongues big time for the upcoming weeks. My French has been getting a lot better, but I still have a long ways to go. But the Lord wouldn't send me to do this if I wasn't able to.
This week we will be having a huge conference for the missionaries this week because an area seventy will be coming to speak to us. So I'm looking forward to a great week.
I love you all!
God loves you!!
Thank for your letters!
Don't let birds run into your head!
Je vous aime!!!!
Soeur Russell