Easter Monday?
Ma chère famille, Dear family,
>
> Ay Bonjour! Sooo, sorry for the 24 hour delay, but here La Pâques c’était
> hier et tout était fermer. Easter was yesterday and everything was closed. Like EVERYTHING. We didn't even get to do our
> grocery shopping cause nothing was open. It was kind of a bizarre day, and
> it kinda makes me happy to know that I only have one Easter here, cause
> franchement, c'était nulle. frankly, it was dead. (as in there was nothing going on at all.) Je n'aime pas. I don't like it. But, Soeur Lamb and I just
> pretended Easter was on Sunday comme chez nous and we ate our weight in
> chocolate eggs and all that jazz Sunday. So it was good! Also, there was an
> Easter concert Sunday! Which was great!! Cause some little kid played "This
> is the Christ" on the violin and I almost lost it cause I haven't seen any
> string instruments since I've been here, so a violin was exciting. There are
> still no cellos on this island. But, it's still on my New Years Resolutions
> to find one. On verra... We'll see... Also, they sang my fave easter hymn! the emo one.
> and I can play it on the piano, "Ce matin la" en francais, j'ai oublie le
> nom en anglais. "That morning" in French; I forgot the name in English. (She's referring to "That Easter Morn", #198 in the English hymnbook...I think it's hilarious that she calls it "the emo one", because the hymn is in a minor key...except for the last chord of the last verse, in which there is a Picardy third, creating a major chord!) But yah, it was exciting. It's funny how excited I get when
> something with music happens. I'm like a kid in a candy shop. But I like
> that Pup's easter caroling at peoples doors to get in. Maybs Soeur Lamb and
> I should start that up.
>
> This last week was better than last week, as far as finding people to teach
> goes! We found a couple amis investigators and we now have 2 amis en progrès! investigators who are progressing Which is
> very exciting. One we found this week. Her name is Mary. And the timing was
> actually perfect. We had just been talking at the door with a potentiel ami
> de l’église potential investigator, and then we left her to walk down the stairs. We were supposed
> to have a lesson with her, but she couldn't that night, so we walked down
> the stairs and pulled out our planners to look at our backup plan when this
> lady is coming back from her walk and says, "Bonjour Les Soeurs!" Well, we
> started talking to her, cause she knew who we were from far away. And she's
> the mom of one of the members in Rivière Salée. She's been taking the
> lessons off and on for quite some time now and she has read most of the Book
> of Mormon and knows that it's true. She's blocked because of the Law of
> Chastity. She has a copain boyfriend that is actually trying to get a divorce (I'm assuming from his former spouse), but it
> takes quite awhile here, cause they want to get married and she wants to be
> baptized. So that is the problem. But we are teaching her every day now and
> she is fantastic!
>
> We also scheduled lots of lessons for this week and the next so, we're
> starting to get busy and it's sooo exciting!! I love teaching and that's
> what we're starting to do more and more, so it's great!!
>
> Also, something new, I get to teach English in French starting this week,
> tomorrow and Thursday, so that'll be fun. hah. Hopefully it'll go well. I've
> never tried teaching another language in not my native tongue before, but
> I'm excited, none the less.
>
> Anyways, I got one more story to tell before I run out of time, cause it's
> hilarious and also kinda scarring. But mostly just funny. So, Soeur Lamb and
> I were walking back from a lesson that fell through, looking for
> opportunities to serve. (I think this was last Wednesday.) And we saw this
> cute little family in the jardin yard/garden doing some jardinage yardwork. So, we stopped to ask
> if they needed some help. They said non merci no thank you, but we left them a pass along
> card with our number in case they need something later on. So we turn to
> walk away. Soeur Lamb was in front of me and I was just behind and we're
> walking down the sidewalk. I think we took like 5 steps when I walked onto a
> loose sewer lid (the round metal ones) And FELL INTO THE SEWER. It was
> gross. It was like the entire left half of my body. And Then the sewer
> started to like explode you know what out of it. I was laughing at the time
> and so was Soeur Lamb, but we were writing in our journals that night about
> it, and looking back, it's kind of distressing. But yes. That happened this
> week. Something that doesn't even happen in the movies happened to me.
>
> Anyways, that's about it for this week. I love you family! You are the best!
> Apparently phil's playing Rite of Spring right now for the end of year
> concert. (BYU Philharmonic- the orchestra she was playing in at BYU) Can't say I'm sad about missing Stravinsky though... They can get
> him and Hindemith outta the way while I'm gone. But yes. I love you family!
> Thanks for your love and support and prayers! I need every one of them! Know
> that you are in mine as well! Je vous aime!! I love you!
>
> L'evangile est vrai! The Church is true!
>
> Love, Soeur Santos
>
> Ay Bonjour! Sooo, sorry for the 24 hour delay, but here La Pâques c’était
> hier et tout était fermer. Easter was yesterday and everything was closed. Like EVERYTHING. We didn't even get to do our
> grocery shopping cause nothing was open. It was kind of a bizarre day, and
> it kinda makes me happy to know that I only have one Easter here, cause
> franchement, c'était nulle. frankly, it was dead. (as in there was nothing going on at all.) Je n'aime pas. I don't like it. But, Soeur Lamb and I just
> pretended Easter was on Sunday comme chez nous and we ate our weight in
> chocolate eggs and all that jazz Sunday. So it was good! Also, there was an
> Easter concert Sunday! Which was great!! Cause some little kid played "This
> is the Christ" on the violin and I almost lost it cause I haven't seen any
> string instruments since I've been here, so a violin was exciting. There are
> still no cellos on this island. But, it's still on my New Years Resolutions
> to find one. On verra... We'll see... Also, they sang my fave easter hymn! the emo one.
> and I can play it on the piano, "Ce matin la" en francais, j'ai oublie le
> nom en anglais. "That morning" in French; I forgot the name in English. (She's referring to "That Easter Morn", #198 in the English hymnbook...I think it's hilarious that she calls it "the emo one", because the hymn is in a minor key...except for the last chord of the last verse, in which there is a Picardy third, creating a major chord!) But yah, it was exciting. It's funny how excited I get when
> something with music happens. I'm like a kid in a candy shop. But I like
> that Pup's easter caroling at peoples doors to get in. Maybs Soeur Lamb and
> I should start that up.
>
> This last week was better than last week, as far as finding people to teach
> goes! We found a couple amis investigators and we now have 2 amis en progrès! investigators who are progressing Which is
> very exciting. One we found this week. Her name is Mary. And the timing was
> actually perfect. We had just been talking at the door with a potentiel ami
> de l’église potential investigator, and then we left her to walk down the stairs. We were supposed
> to have a lesson with her, but she couldn't that night, so we walked down
> the stairs and pulled out our planners to look at our backup plan when this
> lady is coming back from her walk and says, "Bonjour Les Soeurs!" Well, we
> started talking to her, cause she knew who we were from far away. And she's
> the mom of one of the members in Rivière Salée. She's been taking the
> lessons off and on for quite some time now and she has read most of the Book
> of Mormon and knows that it's true. She's blocked because of the Law of
> Chastity. She has a copain boyfriend that is actually trying to get a divorce (I'm assuming from his former spouse), but it
> takes quite awhile here, cause they want to get married and she wants to be
> baptized. So that is the problem. But we are teaching her every day now and
> she is fantastic!
>
> We also scheduled lots of lessons for this week and the next so, we're
> starting to get busy and it's sooo exciting!! I love teaching and that's
> what we're starting to do more and more, so it's great!!
>
> Also, something new, I get to teach English in French starting this week,
> tomorrow and Thursday, so that'll be fun. hah. Hopefully it'll go well. I've
> never tried teaching another language in not my native tongue before, but
> I'm excited, none the less.
>
> Anyways, I got one more story to tell before I run out of time, cause it's
> hilarious and also kinda scarring. But mostly just funny. So, Soeur Lamb and
> I were walking back from a lesson that fell through, looking for
> opportunities to serve. (I think this was last Wednesday.) And we saw this
> cute little family in the jardin yard/garden doing some jardinage yardwork. So, we stopped to ask
> if they needed some help. They said non merci no thank you, but we left them a pass along
> card with our number in case they need something later on. So we turn to
> walk away. Soeur Lamb was in front of me and I was just behind and we're
> walking down the sidewalk. I think we took like 5 steps when I walked onto a
> loose sewer lid (the round metal ones) And FELL INTO THE SEWER. It was
> gross. It was like the entire left half of my body. And Then the sewer
> started to like explode you know what out of it. I was laughing at the time
> and so was Soeur Lamb, but we were writing in our journals that night about
> it, and looking back, it's kind of distressing. But yes. That happened this
> week. Something that doesn't even happen in the movies happened to me.
>
> Anyways, that's about it for this week. I love you family! You are the best!
> Apparently phil's playing Rite of Spring right now for the end of year
> concert. (BYU Philharmonic- the orchestra she was playing in at BYU) Can't say I'm sad about missing Stravinsky though... They can get
> him and Hindemith outta the way while I'm gone. But yes. I love you family!
> Thanks for your love and support and prayers! I need every one of them! Know
> that you are in mine as well! Je vous aime!! I love you!
>
> L'evangile est vrai! The Church is true!
>
> Love, Soeur Santos
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