Je sais que Dieu vie

Hello Again,

Have you missed me? Cause I am pretty sure that Mom, Susan Starr and Tayler Schohr were the only ones that missed me this week. Just to put things into perspective, yesterday there were 15 letters/ dearelders for my district and I did not receive a single one. Hm, interesting. Ca va.

Its a good thing I love my life here at the MTC or else I would probably cry everytime I didn't get a letter. Haha. Sorry for the sarcasm. I really am having a wonderful time here at the MTC. Week two is SOOOOO much better than week one. I have continued to learn a lot more and have become comfortable with the fact that this is my life for the next 17 and 1/2 months.

I don't really know what you all want to hear about so I am just going to write the things I scribbled this week that I thought someone would like to hear about.

First thing is something I forgot to tell you all about last week. Caroline asked me how it felt to wear my plaque. I LOVE IT! It is my most cherished accessorie. It really has become apart of me. When the volunteer first put it on me I felt the love of our Heavenly Father wash over me as my name and Jesus-Christ (sorry thats the french minus the accent) name were written on the same tag and attached to the top of my left collar. One day after gym we had lunch and I forgot my tag because I had changed my clothes. I FELT SO LOST and naked. I then realized even more so of how important my plaque is and why missionaries cry when they come to the end of their mission and have to take it off. It really is part of who I am. And no Mom, I no longer think that it is what makes the Sister's outfits look ugly. #totallyregretsayingthat.

Something else I forgot to tell you all last week is that Mom called me her dear (feminen) son, Ma Chere Fils, but corrected her self this week when she said Fille.

We found out our travel plans already. We are leaving January 2 from SLC to Dallas Ft. Worth and then after a five hour layover we fly overnight to London and then from London to Geneva. We will get to Geneva on January 3. So yes we do fly to the mission home. You are aloud to be in a country for three months without a visa, so there could be some missionaries that serve there for a transfer or two that do not have Swiss visas. My teacher told me however that I will probably serve in Switzerland for a year.

Here is a stat that I know Mom will love that we learned in our fireside from Sunday night. The church projects how many missionaries they will have at certain times of the year. They thought that there would be 52,000 in January 2012. The actual number of missionaires that there will be in January 2012 is 56,000. There is an increase in all categories, Elders, Sisters and Couples. The Lord is definitely calling more people to serve. It is awesome to be one of his Missionaries. Another thing that I know Mom would love to hear, sorry I am aiming a lot of this at her, what can I say, she is the only one that writes me :). Elder B is in my Zone, the one from Charlotte. You talked to his mom on Missionary Mom's. She is actually his step-mom and he is going to the Paris mission. He is very good looking. The end.

The other day in class we watched a video clip of The District, real life missionary stories. It was about one of their ami de L'eglise (friend of the Church, or investiagtor) Jackie. She was getting baptised and was talking about her baptism. The clip was of her actual baptism and confirmation and I couldn't help but cry. It was incredible. She had the biggest smile on her face the whole time. I was so happy for her and she is not even my investiagtor! I can't wait to have experiences like that.

This week I also had a stark realization. Our teacher Soeur C wanted to make sure that we were relying on the spirit to teach. After hearing her say that and taking about it with the class, I decided that if I was teaching in English I wouldn't be relying on the spirit as much because I feel like I know the gospel well enough. But with having to teach in French I am constantly humble and turning to the Lord for help. I CANNOT do this without Him. During Relief Society, all the Sister Missionarys in the MTC have it together, we had Sister Linda Burton from the general RS board speak to us. She told us five things to remember when we are feeling discouraged in the field and I wanted to share one with all of you that really stuck out to me.

She said that our mission call's are a gift from God, that have been carefully and specially picked out for us individually. I know this to be true. I know that My mission call to France is definitely a gift from God. He knew I wanted to learn French, and wanted to live in Europe. He knew I did not want to serve a mission and wanted to get married. So to keep me satisfied for the time being, he gave me this gift of living in Europe for 18 months and learning the French language because he could not yet bless me with marriage. I love my Savior, He knows me so well.

Well I am out of time. But write me if you didn't like this and you have questions that I didn't answer.

Friends, please send me a letter or leave your address in the comments below and I will write you.

I love you all, thank you for all your prayers and your love and support. I really feel the strength of your prayers and know that without them I would be nothing.

Shout out to Poopy Tay, its his birthday tomorrow, and Grandpa Welles, its his birthday soon, right?

Love,

Soeur Kimberly Addis