See you all in a WEEK!

So this week was a crazy week overall. we got a lot of things done so i was happy in the end. 

Tuesday i had an exchange with our district leader, Elder Nelson. He is a stud from tremonton haha. it's so nice talking about all the good old boys that i used to play baseball with and of course just laughing about the silly things that go on in tremonton. we rep the northern part of utah in the mission so hardly anyone understands what our lives are like but we understand each other perfectly. he was the first person i'd heard my whole mission use the word gripe. this reminded me of my mom because she's straight from tremonton herself. it was a fun exchange where we did a lot of walking and a lot of contacting with no success. we taught our ami francois and his son that same evening only to find out that they're going to africa for one month. bummer. too bad i don't have another 6 months here so i could see them a few more times. this guy is legit he has already read halfway through 2nd nephi. he is super interested and i think he's starting to actually believe in god. the book of mormon has that effect on people that's for sure. 

Wednesday was the second to last district meeting for me so i wasn't super sad. i told everyone i was saving that for this week when i'll have my last one. once that was finished we went off and found some less actives which led us to houses that didn't exist and all that good stuff. it wasn't really anything out of the ordinary. overall this week we found 4 less actives though. we were super pumped because that's the new vision of the mission. we are going for reactivating less actives and keeping the recent converts. it's a process bringing people back to church but it's worth it. 

we kind of glided to saturday with some contacting and scattered lessons to people in the road. saturday was a crazy day where we were able to see 4 people. we went less active hunting yet again and came up with 2. it was a nice haul and we got to walk along the river la somme the whole way with people fishing. i almost thought about asking them to try but it looked just as boring as it did before. sorry dad 2 years couldn't make me want to fish in any way. after we saw the less actives it was time to teach blessing once again. we went with fonja who is in the running for favorite member of all time. watch out buff frère caby. when we got to blessing's she was asleep because she though we weren't going to come because of the rain. haha africans are the very best. we taught her and she was just awesome even if she was half asleep.

sunday was a great day as well. i gave a talk about the word of wisdom and everyone seemed to love it. i don't think anyone has ever told anybody that their talked sucked so who really knows if it was good or not. blessing came to church and everything was peachy.

this is the last time i will be blogging as a missionary so i just wanted to thank everyone who has supported me and all that. the mission is the greatest thing ever and i've learned so much. i've grown more than i could have ever hoped and i'm so grateful that the lord has given me this opportunity. i'm going to miss france more than anything as well as all the amazing people. i think i may have to just come back and live here.  life is so good as a missionary and i hope it will be this good back in the real world. thanks mom and dad for being such a good example as well as president and sister poznanski who are now my second pair of parents. i figure it would be could to have some parents in europe just in case i do ever live here. i love you all and see you soon!

14 Days!!

woah woah woah 14 days till paris p-day with the boys. this can't even be true. where did the time go i feel like i need 6 more months here in france. looks like i'll have to come live here to get the full effect. maybe a french wife? that would be the dream of every single missionary in our mission haha! I'll have to give you a nice update from the week Tuesday was my birthday so i got some nice calls from some of my missionary bros. Other than that it was a super weird day. We had to go shopping because everything was closed and we couldn't do it on our p-day. these french people just look for every single opportunity to take work off. i like it. haha just kidding work is what makes the world go round. After our shopping we had the chance to help with an after funeral service at the church. You were right if you thought that there was nothing i'd rather do on my birthday than go to an after funeral get together. it was super awkward because we were told to just supervise and not to talk to anyone about the gospel. that left us all pretty much without anything to do. we are gospel preaching machines so we didn't know what to do. i was able to get in with the kids with some nice pop culture references and then we talked about rap music and i did some advertising for my american rappers préféré. it was a good time that's for sure. I slayed them all with my references to a french rapper named fouiny when i said quoi de neuf fouiny baby. i was the mission le plus stylée they'd ever seen. man i love french it's so funny. After the funeral we treated ourselves to some pizza because it was mardi fou. dominos has this thing where pizza on tuesdays in like 8 euros which is a horrible deal in the states but a really good one here in france. that's what we did on my birthday. we were able to teach some nice people this week. blessing is super hard to get a hold of so i think my chance to see a baptism before i leave has gone. we have a couple cool people that are fairly interested so weston will have a nice time after i leave. we were teaching our ami christain when a couple we ported into came and started talking to us. it was funny because it was the second time we'd just run into them. they are always super busy so we can't really fix anything with them but we seem to just be seeing them all over the place. basically we were just teaching the wife's atheist husband and he was giving us all the same questions and answers that every single person in france gives us so i just took a book or mormon marked alma 32 and told him to read and apply the things inside and all would be well. easy as that right? it was funny because he one of the few that admitted it was his pride that kept him from believing. you've got to admire his honesty. they were cool and that was a super cool night. i wish i could just have nice converstations like that more often it was just so soothing and nice to just talk about scriptures and testimonies and not try to convert anyone haha. it was a feel good night that's for sure Our week 2 district meeting was cool because it was the last big meeting i'd have on my mission. our zone conference is a week after i leave and i decided that staying the amiens and working will have a more lasting effect than going to paris for one day and going to a zone conference. i gave my dying testimony and it was the weirdest thing i've ever done. my thoughts were a little jumbled but i hope that people liked it haha. i also got to see elder bananier who had to leave to take care of his mother who lives in paris. it was nice to see him and i hope that his mother can do better before august because that's his deadline. he's such a great guy. this week was pretty normal but i'll try and write the blog entry to end all blog entries next week for the grand finale! So i was just sitting and i was very intent on my e mails and i noticed out of the corner of my eye that a little girl was looking at my screen so i turned to look at her and it turned out it was blessing's kid! Blessing hasn't been answering her phone and it's been so hard to get a hold of her so i was super surprised and i just said, Melissa? when she realized it was me she screamed and ran to find her mom. We looked up front and saw blessing and her son. Her son pointed at us and said, "hey look it's the missionaries!!" Blessing was super occupied with what she was doing so she didn't even notice her daughter and son pulling on her shirt saying it's the missionaries it's the missionaries. we just got finished talking to her and she said that she was in paris figuring things out for her legality and that she wanted to come to church on sunday but she tried to call and our phone didn't work. even if she doesn't get baptized while i'm here that's such a great thing to see and it just proves that the lord will continue to bless us. we will see her on saturday haha! how great!!