First week of the new transfer is completed! And it started off with a miracle!
Last Monday we were helping with Soirée familiale (family home evening) and we get a call from Pr.... I have never met Pr... before, but I heard that the soeurs before had worked with him and he suddenly disappeared off the face of the earth. And here he was calling us. I grabbed the phone and Sœur Vandroux and ran right out of the room. I of course gave the phone to Sœur Vandroux since my French is still iffy. So she is just talking to him and giving me these looks of wow, woah, and I just can't control my excitement! I had to know what Pr... was saying! Turns out he stopped listening to the missionaries because he started to listen to his friends. But that Monday he was watching TV and something came on about the Book of Mormon and he said he really felt the spirit, so he called us. How cool! On the phone he pretty much said he wanted to be baptized. So we had a lesson with him and he was just soaking in everything that we were telling him. He is so cool and our next lesson we will be inviting him to be baptized sometime in June! Even though we had a miracle with him, our faith was tested. Suddenly Pr... totally stopped answering us, we tried to pass by and he wasn't there. We started to think it was all too good to be true. Then just a few minutes again ago we tried to call him again and he answered! He wants to see us again! I have learned a lot on my mission how important it is to trust our Heavenly Father. This is His work and He will do it in His timing. I just have to trust him and have hope and faith. Love you all and hope you have a good week! -Sœur Glazier
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Sœur Vandroux My second transfer is over and it ended with the Paris Temple being dedicated! I don't know if I could ask for a better way for it to end, but I think this was the longest week ever! We were just waiting for transfer calls and for the temple dedication. So Friday we received our calls and I'm staying in Grenoble for another transfer! But sadly Sœur Calderwood left me and is now serving in Genève. My new comp is Sœur Vandroux and she is from Paris! Even in the few hours we have been together we have already been having adventures. To start off, we were leaving to Grenoble and got on the train and we were relaxing then the announcer says, "here we go to Dijon." And that's when we realized we were on the wrong train. We got off just in time before the train left, but because of it we missed our train to Grenoble. So we ended up being in Lyon for a bit. After that adventure we finally made it back to the apartment, and then we decided to find our cave, which is like our little section of the basement. Just so you know it is terrifying down there! There are spiders and spider webs everywhere! Everything is cement but the doors are made of super thin cheap wood. And there is no light down there so we are just walking around this scary labyrinth with flashlights trying to find which door is ours. There was rat poop everywhere and these box's to catch rats in. I think it's the scariest thing I have done on my mission. Soeur Vandroux even said it was the scariest thing she has ever done on her mission and she has almost been out for 18 months! Eventually we found it, but I don't want to ever go back down there. Saturday night we watched the cultural celebration and it was so good! We were able to see a lot of the youth from Grenoble which was super exciting. It was also cool how they depicted the translation of the Book of Mormon into French because my 4th great grandfather helped with it. We were able to get a lot of people to come see it, so that was good. Sunday we had the dedication! We got to go to all three sessions so it was a lot of French. Fortunately Elder Eyring spoke in English which was super nice. That's all I have time for today! Love you all! -Sœur Glazier Zone Conference from the week before.
The highlight of this week was definitely skyping home. An hour is just too short! We started this week off with zone conference so we got to go down to Lyon. Our focus was on the temple and eternal marriage since the Paris temple is getting dedicated next Sunday!!! It was a great conference. I loved talking about family history and how important it is to help others find names to take to the temple. After that we were off on exchange! I was blessed to spend the day with Sœur Filbrandt! She is an amazing missionary. At the end of our first day we were so thirsty, so we went to find a drink at this sketchy place. I grabbed my sweety drink and we go to pay, and the cashier starts speaking English saying, "your my sister?" he said it over and over again and we kept responding, "yes, and you're our brother". Haha, I think that was the only sentence he knew in English. Sœur Calderwood and I had a miracle this week! We went to stop by a less active and we rang the doorbell and said, "hi it's the sister missionaries!" and she responsed, "uh no". We were a little upset, and we left talking about why she always says no to us when the first time we went she was so nice. As we are walking we see a lady in a wheelchair just enjoying the day. We said hi and the next thing I know we are having a conversation with her and then she brings us in her house. We come in and there are all these ladies. It was kind of overwhelming at first. But they were all so nice and were asking all these questions about missionaries. It was so cool. We left thinking, what just happened? It was a wonderful tender mercy. We had another lesson this week with P...'s friend J..-C... and it was really good. He wants to know if the church is true, and he said he believes the Book of Mormon is true. But he is expecting to receive a big sign from the Holy Ghost. It was really cool to have P... there. He bore his testimony of the Book of Mormon and how he received an answer that it was true through the Holy Ghost and he shared his experience. It was so cool to hear that from him after he has been investigating the church for a couple of months. I love seeing people change and coming to know the Lord! Today for P-day we went to a castle (Château de Vizille) where they started the French Revolutionary war. Inside the castle is a museum of the war which is really cool. And outside the castle are these beautiful gardens and all these trees. It is huge! And they have swans wondering around which is super cool. I love outer villes! Well, this is the last week of my second transfer which seems crazy! I have almost been on the mission for 4 months! It is going by faster than I thought. I'm doing my best to live every moment before it goes away. I love being on the mission and I love how much I have been growing. I have learned so much here and I can't wait to learn more! Have a wonderful week! -Sœur Glazier Castle in Vizille Castle Museum of the French Revolution Inside the Castle It felt like I was in Edenbrooke! View from the Castle
What a week full of miracles! So many answers to prayers and I am so grateful! It has also been a week full of rain. Everyday it has rained but one. I think I have used an umbrella more on the mission than I ever have had in my life. Haha, I'm also grateful for rain boots!
Our ami Patrick is amazing! Last Sunday he told us that he wanted us to meet his friend and teach him. So in a lesson we had with him we gave him a talk by President Monson from the last general conference, and apparently he gave it to his friend, and he liked it. Patrick was really excited for us to meet him. He started to prepare the lesson for us. He was like "we need to talk with him about the Book of Mormon, and he needs to read it and he needs to come to church." The whole time we just nodded like, yes Patrick you tell'em. So we met his friend and the lesson actually went well. We went through the retab and gave him a Book of Mormon and said he would read it. We will be having another lesson with him soon! Another cool miracle happened. This week we had a lesson with the girl we met in the elevator. I just have to say, she is so cool! We just live a couple of floors down so our apartments look pretty much the same, but hers looks so good. Anyways, we talked with her about temples and she really liked it and we will be having another lesson with her as well. She said she wants to have us over for dinner and she said she would make us a real French meal, so we're excited :) We also got a referral from a ward member this week! We went to visit him, but he wasn't there. But she also referred us to her sister in law. We went to visit her and she was so nice. Haha she glued Sœur Calderwoods shoes back together! The mission has been amazing! Since the middle of my first transfer, Sœur Calderwood and I had been praying and praying to be able to find new amis. Then in my 4th week of the second transfer we get 4 new amis! I know that Heavenly Father answers prayers! He is aware of our needs, we just have to be patient. As we continue to do the things that the Lord has asked us to do, He will bless us. I know that is true, and I have been experiencing it. I know our Savior is aware of all of us. I'm am so grateful for that knowledge and I am grateful that I am able to share it with others. I hope you all have another great week! -Sœur Glazier This has got to be the craziest week of my mission so far. Nothing seemed to be going right, but in the end we saw the blessings. On Wednesday we had a lesson with our ami C... at the church. We got to plan her baptism and and talk about what happens when she is baptized and receives the gift of the WHoly Ghost. After the lesson we decided that we should quickly put her baptismal program together so we wouldn't have to worry about it later. So we had to wheel our computer out of a room and plug it in. But the extension cord was gone. It wasn't a big deal since they could still reach. So I grab the cords and go down to plug it in and everything is going great. I get it plugged in and then CRASH. I freeze and I just hear Sœur Calderwood like oh no. I turn around to see the computer broken on the ground. I'm pretty sure my face looked calm but inside I was going crazy. I broke a church computer. How could I do that! We tried to put it back together, but nothing is working. So we frantically call the elders and we're like, "hi are you by the church, cause we broke a computer". So the elders come and they're like yeah you broke it. And we are like, "yeah... What do we do?" As we talked to them about it we found out we didn't break the computer, it was just the monitor, and it was old. So we were like, we can totally find one that looks just like this without anyone knowing it. So Sœur Calderwood and I had a rendez-vous and the elders went to look for a monitor. Luckily they found one and it is working great! As far as we know no one knows, so that's good. Then Thursday came. It was just a normal day when we get this text from a less active saying that there was an explosion in McDonald's and that we shouldn't go in that direction. We were so confused so we called and we are like "what's going on?" And she is like, "someone tried to blow up McDonald's, it was in the toilet, the bomb squad is there right now." Sœur Calderwood and I just laughed because this less active usually exaggerates. Then a couple minutes later we get a call from President Brown and my heart just drops. We knew he was calling about this explosion. So we answer and he is like, "where are you?" and we said we were at our apartment getting ready to leave. Then he was like, "stay there. I just heard there was an explosion in Grenoble. We don't know what it is or who did it but you need to stay in your apartment until I tell you you can leave." So we spent a day in our apartment and had to cancel some rendez-vous. We were nervous because we didn't know what was going on, but during all of it I felt so at peace and I knew everything was going to be OK. A couple hours later we got the ok from our president and went back out to work. But it was crazy. We received a call from Maddy at 5:45 a.m. Thursday morning telling us about the explosion and that she was safe. According to the news it was most likely a large firecracker in the toilet at the McDonald's. Because of the election going on in France and the terrorist threats associated with the election these events are taken pretty seriously. Fortunately there were no injuries and it didn't appear to be caused by terrorists. Grateful for members and mission presidents who are watching out for our missionaries! The rest of the week continued to be crazy with things not working, but after it all we had a baptism. It was so good. Once the baptism started everything went smoothly. Then on Sunday we were going to our apartment to have lunch, and we got in our tiny elevator with two others. Right when we got in the girl read my name tag out loud and then BAM we gave a quick elevator lesson and got a rendez-vous. We were so excited. We got in our apartment and just went crazy! I love those moments. Even when everything seems to be going wrong Heavenly Father is blessing us. And through all of it, I felt so at peace and I knew everything would work out. I am so thankful for the gift of the Holy Ghost and that he is able to bring me peace. On the mission I have come to see that it's hard, but the hardest times are worth the small happy moments. Love you all! -Sœur Glazier Only ones on the tram! Helped our recent convert find a name for the temple. It's freezing!!! Pâtisseries I was working on Dad's line on Family Search and one line just kept going and going until I got to Adam and Eve. Not sure how accurate it is. :)
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