large amounts of food

Dear Family and friends,
 This week, I ate chicken salad and croissants and cream soda and root beer and dr pepper and pizza and cheesecake and bannana splits and pizza and lasagna and panna cotta and a wierd pea meat thing and salad covered in dijon mustard (not a pleasant experience), apple pie, pasta, chips,and hot chocolate. We ate all of this at members houses this week. This place feeds us like crazy! I feel like they are trying to make fois gros soeur russell style. The members here love their missionaries like crazy. Soeur Rose loves the members here so much that she would jump in front of a train for them. As soon as she starts talking about a member, this visible aura of love shines around her. She is really sweet and she plays the recorder and likes to run ( she does 50 laps around the round about next to our apartment everyday). Valence is spectacular and gorgeous. and thankfully it is not snowing here like it is in Ohio.
 I love you all!!!
Dieu vous aime plus!!!
Soeur Russell