pizza by the sea, little islands and flamingoes

Dear family and friends,
This week, we had a great lesson with a guy named Tony, made cookies for the ward lunch (french people will endlessly thank you and love you if you make american cookies for them), went to pass less actives on a little island where the locals knew the names and houses and spouses and careers and maiden names of the people we were looking for, but not the name of the major street that they lived on, (which was the street that we were standing on when we asked them), got a marriage proposal from a old muslim guy missing a leg who zooms around in an automatic wheelchair (he was very disapointed when I told him that Ohio is not next to California, but still asked to marry me comme-meme), did a lot of contacting, went to a double tumbollo ( I think that is how it is spelt) for p-day, ate pizza by the sea, walked around an island for a few hours, had an awesome zone conference, ran into the muslim guy in his wheelchair again, he said he was catholic this time though, who proposed again (he is very persuasive, told me if that we got married, we could have children who were the children of children of God. He seemed pretty certain that this thinking would win me over), ate some good cheese, ate some not so good cheese. So, a pretty good week
Never forget that God loves us all and will empower us to complete His commands. He sees us as what we will become and will help us reach that point.
Love you all!!!!! God is always there for us!!!
Je vous aime!
Soeur Russell