What a crazy week. i feel like it was about 2 months long. Let me walk you through what happened. So, Tuesday
night I went to my dear family's house. The Rousseaux's. To say
goodbye; Talk about ripping your heart out!! It was almost as hard as
saying goodbye to you. They have become my family out here. And I will
miss them so much. Lots of goodbyes. had to say goodbye to my dear Soeur
Williams, and some of my dear friends who left the field this week.
Man. Not a huge fan of those! But I also got a lot of hellos. And that
was fun too.
I absolutely LOVE Torcy! I love it I love it I love
it. Let me tell you why. I have done 4 exchanges here since the
beginning of my mission and have always felt close to it. My companion
Soeur Linton is one of the greatest human beings to walk this planet!!
We are already best friends and are having a blast. I absolutely love
here. I am serving with Elder Tanner Stucki from good ol' American Fork!
We went to High School together, entered the MTC together, were in the
same MTC district together, and now he's my zone leader and i'm the STL
in the same ville. He's awesome and it's fun having a little bit of home
with me! We're having a blast. We also got a new equipe of elders who
speak chinese! One is from Quebec loge!! His name is Elder Columbe. We
also started off with a bang by going to a stake RS activity. It was
kinda like a super saturday.
We ended up doing ZEN exercises, learning how to cook french food, and
finger painting. living the life! We hung out with old women all day and
I have never felt happier. We had so much fun.
When I got here we dropped off my luggage and went
out to WORK. It was so much fun. We talked with everyone. We got on the
bus to go to a rendez-vous and started talking with a lady and her son.
She was super interested and we set a rendez-vous with her because she
wanted all of her children to come and listen too. Family! Then we
visited a woman and girl they'd found a few days earlier. We had an
incredible lesson and they were amazing! They became new amis and gave
us a referral. Then we left, found another woman and got her number, and
visited less actives. It was an incredible 4 hours and totally set the
tone for our transfer!
So we went to mission council with all the other
leaders of the mission. It was bittersweet because it was the
Poznanski's last one. I will really miss them; but we prepared for the
Babins who'll be coming this month. It's so crazy. I get to do exchanges
with all of the sister's in my sister area. I am over 6 equipes so i'll
be travelling all over for the next couple of weeks! going to be
insane. I'm really excited.
So this week in my things as i un packed I
found this from Soeur williams. Throughout the transfer I asked her what
kind of animal she'd be, and she asked me what kind of animal i'd be. I
didn't know! So she wrote me a letter and told me she'd thought about
it, and she wrote this poem for me.
The Spark
Scraggly, scrawny sparrow fallen from high above
wings dragging, shivering, wandering years to fly back toward the sun
but doesn't know how
A
voice coming from above--powerful, gentle, reaches the trembling bird
on the cold rocky ground. "That's not where you belong, wandering in
darkness so far from the sky
come up here, come to me" But how? wondered the lost sparrow.
How, without sight, without flight?
The voice agine, "look inside and you'll see"
Searching reluctantly inside expecting only to find darkness and confusion,
the sparrow was surprised to see a spark of light
crackling, dancing, shimmering bright.
A realization dawned, the spark grew brighter.
Not a sparrow but a pheonix!
With this new understanding, the spark exploded into flame
travelling through the bird's being.
warming, filling, transforming the sparrow into a pheonix glorious and bright
Now in the air, burning, shining, soaring above the darkness above the despair
Rising toward the furthest reaches of the Great Tree.
When the branches strethced towards the sun, the pheonix looked down
at the place it had come and saw countless sparrows wandering lost and alone
"now that you know what you are, how that your spark has grown,
help those below find that spark in themselves
help them know they're not alone
Can you say incredible? I cried like a baby. I know that we are all
called to become pheonixs like she says in her poem. And once we know
who we are, we can share it with the world. I'm so grateful for the
opportunity we have as members of the church to be His disciples. I know
its real.
Sure do love you all so much. Have so much fun with Sam tonight. Tell him i miss him.
I
know this gospel is true. And everything on my mission has led me up to
this moment. We are working so hard and i know we're going to find
incredible things waiting for us! Here we go!
Love
Soeur Cameron
100% No regrets I've promised to give MORE
saying goodbye to the rousseaux's, jacqueline bought me a tarte, mommy
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