Week three in Chambéry!! It was kinda a lame week compared
to last weeks monster week... but ça va. It was amazing anyway. We have weekly
FHE with members and amis at the church every Lundi soir, and it is seriously
the highlight of the week. Let me tell you one thing, Frenchies are cheaters
when it comes to playing cards. They are really fun to play UNO with though...
they may let out a few gros mots though, haha. Makes for a fun evening anyway.
Mardi we had 4 tombez vouss, but we did have one incredible
lesson with Josiane, our "dry member". She has been coming to church
for about 5 years. She is completely a part of the ward, with a calling and
visiting teachers and a visiting teaching partner. She is incredible!! She
hasn't let missionaries come over for 6 months because we all just try to
baptize her, but she let us over for some reason... we had a great RDV. We did
talk about baptism, of course, but we got to know her. She has seen sooo many
personal miracles in her life. The only thing holding her back is that her
boyfriend William doesn't want to be a part of the church, and she's not willing
to marry him because she has been married twice and "doesn't want to do
that to herself again" haha. She really likes us though, probably because
we are crazy and fun. She invited us over for dinner. #Unheardof. There will be
success. We are implementing plans. Pray for us to know how we can help her
progress towards baptism. 
Mercredi we went to Swiss again!! Good news I heard this
day: Soeur Barbara Fairchild is engaged... the sister I lived with in
Carcassonne first transfer, haha... with all the crazy, funny, not realistic
stories... yeah she's engaged. SO HAPPY FOR HER!! But zone conference was great.
Its always a joy to see President. We had interviews too, and he gave some
great enlightened insight. We feel so prepared to teach our amis now. We are
done with amis who dont progress!! We have a month until Christmas, and we have
some baptisms to prepare for Jesus... so we aren't gonna waste our time. We
ended up dropping Ricky James and Amaury this week because they aren't
progressing and they just want to hang out. Yucky. NOBODY GOT TIME FO DAT! We
got more chocolate in Swiss though... its a sin. A delicious, chocolatey sin
that we just cant resist.
Jeudi was a great, busy day. We were able to go see an
inactive who hasn't seen missionaries in MONTHS! What is it with us and getting
into homes that missionaries are banned from? The Lord has been working some
mighty miracles for us lately. Small, but mighty. So Soeur Tabka is an older
woman. She loves the gospel, but is soo busy. She just doesn't have time because
she is caring for her handicapped father and autistic son and working two jobs
to pay for everything. She just needs love and service. Pray that we will find
ways to serve her and bring the spirit into her life. We also saw a great
member, Soeur Gonon. She met her husband when she was 16 and then waited for
him while he served his mission in NYC. She showed us some adorable letters and
stuff he sent her while he was gone... and I about died. French Members are
adorable in that sense. There aren't a lot of choices for marriage, so you cling
to the one you find, no matter how long it takes. We taught Mory a couple of
times this week... we are worried he isn't understanding a lot. We worry that he
is only meeting with us to get out of the cold because he is homeless... but he
is so funny!! He is really getting to know us, and he jokes that either he has
to marry one of us, or we have to find him a wife. Funny African man. He is
making progress in his testimony of the savior. We hope that he will be ready
for baptism the first weekend of December. PRAY FOR HIM!! We also went to see
the Romanian family again. They are soo funny. They just love Jesus, that's all
I can really say about that. The mom hasn't been reading the LdeM because she
left her glasses in Romania last vacation and she is waiting to get them back,
but she says she will read. We brought up baptism because we are weeding out
who is going to progress and who just likes our presence. They were a little
jostled, but they invited us back to tell them more about baptism. Pray that
they will come to church. I feel like that will help them a lot.
Vendredi was INCREDIBLE! We went on a hike with Frere Munn,
our sweet Scottish DMP. He drove us up into the alps and we had a great time.
We walked around an entire mini mountain so that we could have a 360 view. We
felt like Lizzy in Pride and Prejudious. SO GORGEOUS! We saw all I can say. Soeur Richardson also got shcoked lectric fence around a cow pasture, haha. That was a pretty memorable experience for sure. It was also my 6 months, so we celebrated with crepes!! And we went to a sweet fromagerie and bought the tomme d'os, or the chambéry bear cheese. AMAZING!
Samedi soir we visited a member in the hospital and I have never
been filled with so much love for a person in my life. Soeur Charrut is trying
to learn how to walk again. Pray for her. She is so strong spiritually, but her
frail body cant hold her up any more.
Dimanche was a sweet Stake Conference in Geneve. Elder
Patrick Kearon of the 70 was there. We went up and thanked him for his
incredible, inspiring words! He said exactly what we need for our little branch
here... he took a picture of us and sent it home. I love General Authorities.
We also got a new ami last night, her name is Benedetta. She is 21 and from
Italy. No one we are teaching is actually French! Haha, pray for her to
continue to progress and to read the LdeM.
Love you all! Have a great week :)
Avec tout mon amour,
Soeur Beeny
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