Follow the Stomach

I love being a missionary. This was one of those weeks that made me feel like I could do this for the rest of forever.

Heavenly Father knows so well how imperfect we are. He knows there will be times when we know we didn't even do our best. And yet He will still magnify the efforts we do put forth to bless us and those around us, according to our hearts and our desires and our love for Him and others.

I got to go on exchanges with Sister Hilaire this week! Which was wonderful :) I missed my daughter, but she's an awesome missionary, I'm super proud of her. I don't remember if I said that she got transferred up to the Quebec ward? So we're in the same district now and I'm her STL (Sister Training Leader) so yeah, we got to go on exchanges :)

Quick miracle, we were going for a lesson with Mariana and while we were walking up the stairs in her apartment building Sister Martin was like "I smell Haitian food" and she was right, it smelled super good. I pointed to the door from which the smell wafted as we passed it. Apartment number 5. Mariana wasn't there so we left, went back down the stairs, and had gotten halfway down the street before my beautiful and intelligent companion suggested that we go back and try to contact that Haitian family. In her words "Maybe they'll feed us!" Well, I couldn't argue with that, so we turned right around, we re-entered the apartment building now saturated with the smell of salmon and Haitian rice, and knocked on apartment number 5. The smell was almost overpowering as the door opened and the mother of the large Haitian family recognized our tags immediately and told us that they had studied with the missionaries for years and weren't actually completely sure why they had stopped. Long story slightly less long, she gave us their number and said we call to see when they're available for us to come back. Disclaimer, they didn't feed us dinner. But we did go directly to the nearest Chocolat Favoris right after, so not all was lost. And that's my "Follow the Stomach" moment for this week.

Also there are people we're actually working with, we had another lesson in Portuguese this week and my comprehension has gone way up with the new knowledge of Spanish, we made a bunch of new friends, prayers are real and God answers them.

I love you all very much!
Souvenez-vous qui vous êtes ♥