Renewed Interest from Old Contacts

Bonjour à tous,

Well this past week was pretty great. Today we went to Tours for Elder Nilsson's Birthday. We played laser tag and it was an awesome time. One of the sisters was hilarious because she has a reputation of being clumsy. Well she blew us all out of the water by crushing us at laser tag. She was a total underdog! I got 3rd place. But it was so much fun and I think I lost weight just by sweating so much! Hahaha

This last week we had some fun stuff happen. A woman we met a while ago has started to become more interested in hearing more about the church. It's gonna be an adventure because she has some habits she needs to overcome, but at the same time, she is learning. So we will see how that goes. She came to church and loved it!

We got stopped on the street a couple of days ago by a homeless woman and told us that the Sister missionaries that used to serve here years ago came to her home (at the time) but she rejected them. They prayed with her before they left and a week later, she won 20,000 euros. And she has been looking for the missionaries since then. Now she says that she has begun to believe in God and her kids believe in God and that's why she wants to meet with us. She wants to make her kids happy. I'm not sure how teaching her will go. But it's a start.

I found that Elders have no idea about interior design. I rearranged our apartment to create more space, and it looks so much better now. There is so much more space than before. I did the same thing in Épinal and Amiens. Missionary apartments are pretty horribly done sometimes.

Well right now we are stuck on a train trying to go home. There was an accident in the Blois train station. And now all the trains in the area are backed up. So we are in a train waiting for things to start back up. Not a huge problem, it's only 6, I have at least 3 hours to get home. Sometimes you gotta be patient.

Well I love you!

Sincerely
Elder Payne 
France, Paris Mission