Ruins, Bars and the World Cup

Dear Family and friends,
Time to write about two weeks worth of crazy mission life. So, two mondays ago, Soeur Röse and I went with the elders to castle Crussol, these ruins on the top of a hill next to Valence. They were huge and really fun. One of the elders went on forever about how much fun it would be to paintball in the castle. I have to admit, I have never been paintballing, but it would be really cool to have a paintball battle in this castle. Then we had an exchange in Lyon with the sister training leaders. I was with Soeur Richardson, who came in at the same time as me and it was interesting looking back on our missions together. I have a lot more to do and learn, but I have already done and learned so much. My testimony has really grown and I know more that God wants us to be happy. It is up to us to choose to be happy and if we put of being happy until we are in the best shape or we have the perfect job or until we are rich or until we are the perfect missionary or until we have thousands of friends, we will never be happy. What is the point of working towards being perfect if we don't allow ourselves to be happy along the way?
The rest of last week, we ate a lot of food ( comme habitude) and went to grenoble for a music night and taught a whole bunch of african men ( and one indian man) and taught one of these african men on chairs in front of the Black City Afro Ethnik bar ( an african bar, our ami de l'eglise works there) ( we got some wierd looks as people walked past and heard us teaching the first vision(most of them were probably wondering why nuns were talking to an african guy in front of a african bar)). We even helped recycle two days worth of beer bottles from the bar ( when I volunteered, I didn't know they were beer bottles). We also taught Alexandre and Sylvia and Estelle. Alexandre and Sylvia are halfway through Alma and We just taught the law of tithing ( that one was a little hard for them), but they love the Book of Mormon. Estelle is fabulous. She lives so far away so we can only see her once a week, but we taught the plan of Salvation last week and Word of Wisdom this week. Both times she said that these came from God and she knows it is true. She will have a hard time quitting smoking, but she is already making plans to do it. She is so intelligent and loving and so open to the spirit.
This last Monday, We had lunch with members and played games and threw rocks by a river. During last week, we got a marriage prep class by one of the members, (she always does that) and, with permission of our mission president, watched the Germany vs America World Cup game at a less actives place. Soeur Röse was very glad that Germany won, but I wasn't too excited about the game, it takes so long for anything to happen. And we also had a barbeque with a tongan rugby player family. ( it was awesome, but they made enough food to feed all of corsica ( exaggeration, but it was a lot, and there are not to many people in Corsica)
Ok, on doit y aller. Mais Sachez que Dieu vous aime et Je vous aime.
Soeur Russell