Week 15 Word of the Week: déja vue

 Some may say: Sister Call, silly goose, that's not how you spell that phrase.

To them I would reply: Indeed, it is due to the fact that Sister Giraud-Carrier is in my sister squad (meaning we all live together) and she's from France. Therefore, that is the correct spelling as she just informed me :) tell your friends, tell your families.

Déja vue moments!! Short disclaimer. I've grown up in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Both of my parents served missions, countless friends and relatives have served and I've heard many similar stories across the board, all my life and I'm just now internalizing.

1) There we were! Sister Kim and Sister Call and we had an appointment. Last minute, the lady canceled. Ouch. There we were hoping and praying that a friend we met would come to the Temple grounds so we could share a message of hope. He didn't come. That was really sad. So Here I am and all our appointments are falling through and no one seems to want these cookies we baked to meet more people and I think to myself, "oh my gosh, this must mean I'm a real missionary." And then I felt so grateful for everyone who has gone before me and has kept trying even on the hardest days. I felt so grateful for so many things in that moment. There's always moments of joy to be found :) 

2) there they were. Sister Kim and Sister Call and this time it was at the Visitors center and we met a little family. Veronica, Edwing, and Daniel. And they were amazing. They were so curious about everything in the Visitors center and asked questions and listened to what we had to say. They asked about The Book of Mormon and ACCEPTED a copy each and were so sincere and sweet and wonderful. I was amazed. So many missionaries have told me little stories about people who are so prepared. So ready to make Christ a bigger part of their life and honestly, I didn't know if I would have the privilege of that happening to me. And there we were, able to play a small part in their journey through life. I can't wait to talk with them again :)

I loved a talk this week called Faith to Act and Become from this last general conference. It reminded me that believing in God is intentional actions I make each day.

Miracles happen every day, I believe that more and more every second every hour that I'm a missionary. God is so good my friends :)

I hope you find moments of joy every day!

Love, love, love, Sister Call

My hair was getting combed by Sister Escalona and a pic was taken.

Beautiful little rainbow.

Sister Kim is very amused by Halloween toys hehe.

We gave Sister GC (no one can pronounce Giraud Carrier so that's her name to us) a carriage in celebration of 9 months on her mission....not actually :)

dinner as a district!! (From left to right! Sister Fisher, Sister Kim, Sister GC, yours truly, Sister Dewaal, Sister Escalona, Sister Kaufusi),

Sister Kim taught me how to use chopsticks!!!