Soeur Rogers

Hellooo Paris France Mission fans!!

Soeur Bowman and I just had the most amazing week. It was one of those weeks where you just fall into bed dead tired (or else fall asleep on your knees before you even get to your bed, cough cough The Bowmaster). But it was a good kind of tired, the kind of tired where you worked hard all day and everything just feels so satisfying because you gave your all. We had that feeling the strongest after our finding day in Belfort on Saturday. They've been having a hard time finding new amis recently, so we went HAM and worked super hard all day, and saw a lot of success.

This week we got to go to Paris again for Soeur Bowman's second year legality. It's her missionary birthday!! All the people in her MTC group got together for the anniversary of the day they started their missions... and then spent the day waiting around in an office. But she's legal, folks! All the companions left and went on contacting adventures in Paris. We started at Chatelet, so naturally we wandered around a bit and ultimately contacted people by the Centre Pompidou, Republique, and Notre Dame... whoops ;) It was an awesome afternoon with Soeur Spencer, my old STL.

Paris was the day before Soeur Bowman's actual anniversary, so we got to really celebrate in style... with a day of cancelled rendez-vous and 5 hours to go contacting. Wahoo!! This is normally not something to get excited about, but it was a blessing in disguise. We hadn't had time to go finding in such a long time that it was actually really liberating. It was a beautiful spring day outside, and we had nothing in our way. We started out with some porting, then switched to trajet contacting and finished with finding by the basin. We had 7 lessons and 4 new amis!!! And then just when it started getting dark out, we headed over to the church for a Valentine's Day Ball. It was a little awkward for us missionaries (we're not allowed to dance...) but it was a good time anyway. The members in Mulhouse are so funny and welcoming, that I really feel at home with them. I am loving my time here in Mulhouse, and I'm so happy that I get to stay another 6 weeks.

Church yesterday was just the magnificent cherry on top of this ice cream sundae of a week. We had four amis at church!! Thierry came and he was so happy to be there. The last couple times he came he wore street clothes, but yesterday he wore a suit! We also saw our amis Jean and Marie Monnin, as well as our ami Calista, who we've only seen one time and who showed up out of the blue!! She had such a good time and bonded with all the members at the ward repas after church. And our less active member Natalie came!!! All of our amis felt the Spirit so strongly and want to come back next week :)

So basically, life is great here in the wonderful city of Mulhouse. The missionaries are happy, the members are happy, and the amis are happy. Also, it's basically springtime!! It's been super sunny and comparatively warm this week, so it was actually pleasant to be outside. Thanks all you guys for your love and support. Have a great week!!

Bisous,

Soeur Rogers

Accidentally went to Republique...