August 6
Short weekly this week, sorry!!
Fun stuff of the week: A member fed us "Head Cheese" which is not cheese and I never thought I'd eat that, but she was pretty happy we did and said we were "Good brave eaters" and would grow up strong and healthy and all that, and M and B are on date for baptism, with a few more people we're starting to teach. We got drafted to teach the youth class again yesterday which was combined for a whole lot of youth, and since we're sister missionaries and the surprise topic was marriage and families, we taught about family history and the temple. They seemed to like it, I hope? And honestly, it was cool working with them.
See the Eiffel tower out the window of the train? Just an "everyday" ride.
I really loved a song I heard this week. I think it was called Oceans, covered by Elenyi. Ward members like to play american Christian music during service projects or when they're driving places so we hear some interesting stuff, but this was REALLY good. It's from he perspective of Peter with the walking on water thing.
So, this email will be a little Peter-heavy, but I've liked all these things a lot. The Bible video of Peter and Christ walking on water is here: https://www.lds.org/bible-
I love the stories of Peter, especially since reading "Jesus the Christ," because I can relate to him. He didn't get everything right. He was rebuked repeatedly, sometimes harshly, and publicly, but he responded with humility and meekness. He got things wrong, he got scared, he was arrested and persecuted could have thrown in the towel and said "I'm not good enough" and left following Christ to somebody else. But, he didn't. When he saw Christ walking on water, he asked to come to Him, and he did. Nobody else ever tried walking on water, but as soon as he saw his Lord walking on water he wanted to go to him, even if it was a storm.
And he fell in the water, but he walked on it first, and even when he was scared he reached for Christ. That's something I love in this specific bible video, is the smile the actor for Christ gives when he pulls Peter out of the water. He looks really, really happy that his friend tried!
So, basically, I want to be more like Peter. I want to take any kind of little failure and correction and change I need to make, and make it. I know I'm going to mess up, and some things are big and scary and overwhelming, and so are oceans. Christ walked on water, and when Peter made it a few steps and tried his best, Christ caught him and got him where he needed to be. We've got our big scary things we've been called to do or want to do, and when we take a few big scary steps, He'll get us where we need to be if we reach out too.
One of those things is reaching out to people around us. There are a lot of refugees in our mission, and worldwide right now. Another video this week (we have tech for a reason, right?) Is here: https://www.lds.org/media-
We've got an ocean of people, and we're one person, but that can still do something.
Senegalese millet lach
Missionary invitation this week: get on iwasastranger.lds.org and see if there's something you can do. I was surprised to see all the things that were needed, from supplies to somebody to teach them how grocery stores work sometimes. We might feel like we're trying to walk on water when we share with other people, whether we're sharing the gospel or our knowledge of public transportation, but if we're called to be a light and we try our best we can always reach out for help.
Say your prayers and read your scriptures, you're all awesome, I love you all trip, and be awesome!
Paper crane on the sidewalk
-Soeur Alyssa Amott
Also my blog is "Grace is Sufficient" on Blogspot if anyone has internet access, mom posts these on there, I think. Bye! <3
August 14
We had exchanges this week (again, but for me this time and not my companion!) and we went to a little city called Chateaufort and it was AMAZING. Like, first time in my mission that everyone in a city has been cool with seeing us! It's been a long, long time since missionaries of any religion made it down there (took us a little while by car, too) but we found 2 new people who want to learn, and a few potential.
When I looked at our map on area book that morning I saw a city I swear I've never noticed before, that's on the very border of our sector and our zone and has no direct bus routes anywhere near, and we felt like we needed to go to it.
3 specific amazing things happened. The first was, we went to go knock on doors and this one woman was sitting on the floor assembling a clock, and her door was open. So, we just said hi, and told her we had a message about Jesus Christ to share and asked if we could come back sometime since she was busy... She said "Can you come in now? That's much more important than what I'm doing!" And so we got to teach the whole restoration lesson and long story short, we're going back Saturday!
The second was right after that. I'd already given away the French Book of Mormon I'd brought, Sr Sorena had more but I held a Spanish one just so I'd be holding one. I've gotten into that habit since a lot of people I meet seem to speak Spanish, but I'm not usually carrying it. So, the very next door we knock on opens... He's from Mexico and just got back from vacation. We stood there for a minute and I gave him the spanish Book of Mormon and said "This is for you, then," and he took it, but I got to tell him that I'd felt I needed to bring this Spanish book of Mormon to the middle of a little French Village, in France, and he was why. His little daughter was hiding behind him and looked very impressed.
Roman aquaduct
The third was, we were headed to our car and this little old lady hollered to us and we chatted for a minute. She didn't want the restoration pamphlet but thought "Temples and Families" looked interesting, so... We have a lesson Saturday with her, too.
"Paris-Brest" so rich it will make you sick but awesome for the first two bites.
We also saw a lot of wonderful, fluffy dogs, including this little derpy pug that faceplanted into my knees while I was asking if I could pet him. His tongue couldn't fit into his mouth, it was great. French people think it's really funny if we say "Can I say hello to your dog" instead of "Can I pet him?" and that works for us... we can talk to the owners more, too!
We found a mote!
M is home with her family in a different mission and will be getting baptised soon, we're psyched for her! And B is getting ready to be baptised soon, too. A is going to do baptisms at the temple this week with us. it's busy, but awesome! I'm using that word a lot, but, I'm forgetting other adjectives in English that work as well. C'est trop bien, ça!
Today we celebrated Soeur Ackroyd's birthday by going to a bagel sandwich store and it was amazing, I didn't realize how much I missed american bagels until then. Probably wasn't super healthy, but it had peppers, at least! We've gotten really good at killing hornets, too. Soeur Sedrick killed one with her fork in the middle of a lunch with a member and nobody else noticed, which was impressive.
VIDEO FOR THE WEEK: https://www.
Song of the week: Come thou fount // If you could hie to Kolob by Elenyi. Some Visitors' Center sisters covered it in French and it was awesome, but we lost our temple Pianist. (Soeur Seely, we miss you!)
Okay, that's all the time I've got for this week but I love you all, read your scriptures, be good, and have fun!
hotel de invalids
Visitor Center at the Paris temple
"The Indestructibles"
toilet
flight school
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