Bonjour à tous,
This week was pretty productive if I do say so myself. The funniest story is we had set aside some time to try and find the miracle lady that we met a couple of weeks ago. And we also wanted to try to meet with another lady who we met while porting. So first we tried the porting lady. She lives in an apartment. And the problem with apartments is you can't really get in unless someone rings you in. So we tried going to the sonner (the doorbell/phone) and started ringing her. But she wouldn't answer. We didn't give up. We tried ringing other people, but no one let us in. Then as we were walking away, we noticed a car was starting to pull out of the closed parking space under the apartment. So we snuck in (not trespassing) and got in before the door could close. Then the challenge was navigating this apartment building. So we tried the first door we found and it led us to what I like to call "the depths of Tarturus" because it looked like a dungeon. It was really just storage space. We ended up finding the door to the inside of the apartment building and found her room. We could hear people being pretty loud on the inside as if someone was on the phone. So we waited for a couple of minutes before ringing and a man came out and I found out that she was not home but that this was her husband. I asked him to tell her that we stopped by and then we moved on.
The interesting part was looking for miracle lady. With some clever deducting over the past few weeks, we found where she lived (it's not creepy). And took the elevator to her floor. As the elevator doors opened we met the Sudanese guy that we talked to the same day we found miracle lady! We was just leaving his house, but he saw us and without saying a word he motioned us to come in. So we went into his house where he had to 2 other (very confused) friends. He explained to us that he had to leave but that he would be back.
So we sat down with these guys we had never met before and started up conversation, they were all college age, Sudanese guys that spoke broken French. And as we were meeting our new friends. 3 more guys came! We said hi and ended up being there for like 2 hours just talking with these guys! At one point the man I was mainly talking to mentioned that he cooks Sudanese food. So we agreed that we should have a meal all together some time and exchanged Facebook profiles. Long story short, we met 5 college age, Sudanese refugees in the space of 2 hours, set up a rendez-vous, and made 5 new friends. It was awesome!
And later that week we tried going through our area book and looking at old amis and we ended up talking with 2 people who said we should call them and set something up after the holidays.
So all in all, this week has been super good! Slow at times, but good. And we are beginning to see the fruits of our labors here in Épinal.
Well I wish all of you a happy New Year! I love hearing about everyone's holiday season, so feel free to email me!
Love you all
Sincerely
Elder Payne
France, Paris Mission
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