Bonjour! Only a few more weeks until the Paris temple is dedicated and we are getting ready! We have been showing our ami's and recent converts a video of the temple and all I can say is wow. It is so beautiful! Our main focus right now is finding names to take to the temple. We are also trying to help ward members get ready by finding names that they can take to the temple. I am happy to say that I have found about 10 names that I will be able to take! With the dedication coming up, our ward is doing a trip to the open house next weekend. It's super cool, but that means the only people that will be at church will be the six missionaries, our recent converts and maybe a few families. Haha we will see how Sunday day goes. Today for our p day we hiked a huge mountain. Unfortunately I don't know what it's called, but it is so beautiful. We had to take a bus up to this little outer ville and then hike. It was so hard! It was pretty much all up hill. My calves were on fire! Haha, we didn't even go all the way up since we had to make it in time for the bus. But the half way mark had a great view. The hike reminded me of Utah. This is an old ski jump from the 1968 Olympics. This week Sœur Calderwood and I made a little trip to an outer ville called Voiron to visit a member and a less active. It is beautiful there! After visiting we went and contacted around there and got to see everything! Voiron This week we had a little miracle with our ami P.... P... is really progressing and he has a baptismal date, the only problem is his girlfriend. She is really against the church, but he continues to talk with her about it. Her heart has really been softening. This week we met with him and we talked with him about it. And apparently she is ready to meet with us! We could not believe it! And on Sunday Sœur Calderwood talked with her on the phone! We are so happy! Not only is P... helping his girlfriend, but he is bringing his friend to a lesson this week. P... is so cool and such an awesome missionary.
This week we have another baptism with our ami C...! We are so excited for her. She is so ready and has been crossing off the days until her baptism. So we will be busy this week planning her baptism. I love planning baptisms! And I love it when people get baptized. So we are so excited for her! We have a great week ahead of us. Love you all! -Sœur Glazier
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Wahoo! What a week! Actually... I don't really remember what happened this week. All the days run together, but I know it's been good. With the beginning of the transfer we got some new missionaries here! And one of them is new, a bleu, like me :) . So we got two newbies here tacking Grenoble. Well the big highlight of the week was Le Pâque! (Easter) Which meant sharing le Prince de la Paix (Prince of Peace) video with everyone we saw, and walking past all the chocolate in the grocery store :(. But we got a lot of people at church which is awesome! To start off the holiday we got up early and picked up an Ami, A..., and his friend. Then we picked up another recent convert, Sœur E.... She is funny and I don't know how else to describe it. But she does scare me a little, haha. I just get nervous about her bisous, (kisses) she really plants one on ya. Anyways, she ended up inviting us to have lunch with her. She was so excited to have us over. She got all her nice dishes out and her fancy forks and knives. Then she shows us this chicken. It looks harmless, but she didn't really cook it. She put it in a pot and cooked it on the stove until it was warm. Sœur Calderwood and I just looked at each other like, "oh no". So she starts to cut this raw chicken in front of us, and she is trying to cut the bone of the chicken. But it's a bone, so she can't. So she just ended up ripping it for us. Haha Sœur Calderwood and I did our best to eat it. Haha, but I promise it was nice. She is so nice, I just can't understand her french sadly. So we did a lot of companion tacking with the Easter video. It actually went really well. There was this one girl that we decided to share it with, and after watching it she just told us how much she needed that message. She told us how she believes in Jesus Christ and all this amazing stuff, but she didn't want to take the lessons. Even though she didn't I am so glad that we were able to share it with her. Not everyone will except our message, but we want people to be better than they were before we talked to them. As missionaries we are representatives of Jesus Christ, we need to represent Him in everything we do. It can be hard to always think of it in the big picture, but I can't forget it! France has been great! It's starting to get greener here which is awesome!! And sadly, no one is in Grenoble. There is this big holiday so all the trams come like every 40 minutes and all the stores are closed. Hopefully we will be able to find people to talk to this week! -Sœur Glazier M...-L...'s baptism last week. I promise, I am wearing my name badge! Park by our house.
Exchanges from two weeks ago in Ecully. Wi-fi wasn't working so well, so no pictures from this week. This picture happened to show up in Soeur Glazier's drive a few days after I posted about this particular week. What a week! I finished my first transfer and I'm staying in Grenoble with Sœur Calderwood! Wahoo! We got to celebrate the end of the transfer with a baptism! It was so good! Our ami M...-L... got baptized. We were so excited for her because she was so ready. But we were also said because her daughter J... wasn't able to get baptized with her because her dad says no. But we are continuing to pray for her! Another cool thing about the baptism was that they invited a friend, and he is actually interested. If he comes on Sunday we are going to try and fix a rendez-vous with him. So with the baptism I got to lead the music. While Marie-Laure was changing we sang J...'s favorite primary song, Follow the Prophet. We sang all 50 verses, but I didn't have the words to it. So I was up there leading the music and mouthing random French words. I thought I did good hiding it, until one of our recent converts came up to me and was like, why weren't you singing, haha. You will not believe what little Sœur Glazier did today. Sœur Calderwood and I went to a university and gave a presentation on the church, then had an hour and a half of Q&A. Boy was I nervous. I knew they were going to ask questions that I didn't know the answers to, and the professor even told us he was not going to be easy on us. He said he was going to be the devils advocate. Yikes. So we go and give a presentation to an American religion class and we just gave them the retab. (not sure what "retab" is, maybe a typo???) Then we got the questions. And it wasn't actually so bad. The students just asked genuine questions. They weren't trying to stump us, they just wanted to understand. That doesn't mean that their questions were easy to answer and the professor didn't make it easy either. I'll admit I didn't know the answers to a lot of questions, but that never made me question my testimony. I knew what I knew and I couldn't deny it. Yes I don't know everything, but I do know that the book of Mormon is true. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that he restored Jesus Christ's true church in the earth. I know that Thomas S. Monson is a living prophet. And even though there are only 16 million of us compared to 7 billion on the earth, I know that it is true. My testimony was really strengthened from it. I know that this is the true church. There is no question that anyone can ask me that will make me question my testimony. -Sœur Glazier Another week has flown by and soon my first transfer! I have been in France for over a month! That is so crazy! Haha, but at random times it will suddenly hit me that I'm in France and I'm left speechless. Soeur Glazier's mom here....I received this picture this week from the American student, along with a sweet letter about Maddy and her companion. It made my day! Tuesday was a crazy day. We went to eat with our American friend M.... to say goodbye because she was going back to America, :( but we had a great time. We went to a coffee shop and got hot chocolate (hehe) and croissants (mmm). We got to talk with her about the restoration and boy did she have good questions. It was definitely different doing it in English, but it was good. So we said our goodbyes and headed back to the apartment to finish our studies. We get to the tram stop and this crazy thing happens....we don't know what tram to take. The crazy thing about it is that we always go to the tram stop and we always know how to get home. But for some reason we had no idea. So we stood there thinking, which wasn't doing anything. So we decided to walk to the next tram stop. But as we were walking we remembered how to get back. So we turn and I see the tram at the stop, and it was at this moment that everything turned into slow motion as we ran to the tram. Right when we got there it left.....and we are just standing there breathing heavy and regretting everything we just did. We were so frustrated. How could we have missed that tram? As we're standing there this guy starts talking to us, so naturally we start talking about the church. We didn't get very far before his tram came. Milliseconds after he left we get a tap on the shoulder, turn around, and this girl is like tell me more about your church. We were like, "uh, yeah, yeah, of course". So we start telling her and she was like I want to learn more. So overall we got a new ami! This is the Lord's work! He is leading us to those who are ready to hear the gospel. And sometimes to do it, He has us forget something so simple like what tram to get on. So we had a rendez-vous with her this week. Anyways, during the lesson she was like, "aren't you guys nuns?". I quickly looked to Sœur Calderwood like, "do I really look like a nun?" Haha, Sœur Calderwood quickly was like "here is a picture of my family. See we are totally normal. And when we go back home, we are getting married." Since then I always look in the mirror to make sure I don't look like a nun. But I don't know if she knows what nuns look like because I was wearing a blue skirt with a t shirt. Anyways, I have been self conscious this week, but it's all good. We had another district meeting this week which was so good. After district meeting we always play werewolf. I'll just say it gets pretty intense, haha. We also had a lesson with our ami P... who is so awesome. He has been taking the lessons for a while, but he always says he's not ready for a baptismal date yet. But Sœur Calderwood and I felt like this was the time to ask him again. So we had this lesson about having faith and hope and how we need to act in faith before the miracle happens. I shared how I was reading in the scriptures about how we need to open our mouth, and then the spirit will bring words to our mind. I shared with him how I have to act in faith and I need to open my mouth first then I will be guided to what I need to say. It's hard because I have to say things in French. I told him I always wait for the spirit and then open my mouth. But from the scripture I learned that that is not how it works. I have learned to have faith and open my mouth and have hope that the spirit will help me and guide me. After I shared that he was like "I am able to understand what you say because of the Holy Ghost." That made me so happy! The spirit was so strong, and then we invited him to be baptized... And He Said Yes! My first invitation to baptism! It was so cool! It's not until July, but I am so excited that he is acting in faith and working towards July. Ahhh so good. We are also planning for our ami M..-L... baptism this Saturday. We are so excited! But it's sad because her daughter J...... wants to get baptized with her, but her father says she can't. We are still praying though that he will eventually soften his heart and let her. We also got to eat at the bishops house which was so fun. They live in an outer ville up the mountain which is so pretty. When you go out their front door there is this gorgeous view. We ate lasgana which I haven't had forever, mmm! We also watched conference which was super good, and I got to watch most of it in English which made me happy! So yeah it was a good week. And I bet this week will be good too! Love and miss you all! -Sœur Glazier Celebrating General Conference with potato pizza Lunch at the Bishop's home. Pretty view from the Bishop's house.
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