In the field #8

 Bonjour!!! Well life is good here in Arras! Its worlds different than Bruxelles! haha its the frenchiest little french town and i love it! barely anyone speaks english. we also have all the little country towns surrounding Arras too. Just picture the most beautiful french countryside that everyone dreams about...yeah thats where I am serving. Its beautiful and everyone is really nice! The work is a little slow here so please send up some prayers for the people in Arras!  And also the ward here is incredible! they are so unified and excited to work with us! I know we will see miracles here.

   My new companion is Sister Covington! I was actually in the MTC with her. Of course the whole "language" aspect was a bit of a worry but its working out. Last week when we were on the train some french guy was talking to us about the train tickets and everything and i am so use to just letting soeur thibault just answer....but she wasn't there. and soeur covington's trainer wasn't there either. so i looked at her and she looked at me and thats when i realized...i HAVE to know what people are saying to me. So we stumbled our way through that conversation and we decided that we will only speak in french with each other. Soeur covington and i have not spoken english together. its a great blessing to have a companion who truly wants to be here and who has the same goals as me. I have seen my french even just this past week improve like crazy! Its surprised other people and it has even surprised me! I know that it is the gift of tongues and because of the Lord that i have been blessed with this.

   We haven't taught a whole lot of lessons this week. But one cool experience we had together! It was about 830 at night and i knew that we couldn't return to the house but we had literally done everything else we had planned and back up planned. we stood in the empty street for a moment and thought about what we could do...we decided that we should just go and try to find people. so miraculously this asian woman comes walking down the street! so we ran up to her and started talking. Turns out she speaks english and not french...only time that has happened haha. Soeur covington was shocked because she hadn't heard anyone speak enlgish here for the 3 months she's been here. but anyways! we started talking and she was on vacation and she lives in finland at the moment. She grew up not believing in God but she was open. She said she had tried praying a couple times and that she always felt good when she did that. We then explained the Holy Ghost, the nature of God and Jesus Christ. We taught the restoration and first vision and about the book of mormon all there on the street! we found out that she has three friends that are mormon and she has a book of mormon in chinese. We committed her to ponder about what we have said and to pray to God that night and ask if he's there. We then prayed with her on the road. It was truly incredible! IT was a 40 minute lesson too. legit. And when we left it was because we had to go, not her. she actually didn't want us to leave. Sadly she was going to Paris for the next two days but we gave her info to go to the church there. There are truly miracles everyday!

   Doris is getting bapised this friday! I am very excited for her! Sadly I will not be able to go since i am too far. She has been prepared and she is ready to be baptised thats for sure!

   Well I love you all! Do work!

Love Soeur Finneran