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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