playing catch-up.

so for any of you (that is not my mom 🙂 ) that read this, i apologize for being so bad about keeping up with what i’m doing! all of the sudden my life got busy and my mission call has also been a bit of a distraction… so here is what’s been happening the past 4 days!

thursday. 

on thursday, whitney and i met up with linda and rachel to go do our site visits for the history class. they were all in the marais, my favorite part of paris! after our site visits we walked around and had amazing falafels in the jewish quarter, i relived some old memories from paris 2010: hansen family edition, and ended with DELICIOUS amorinos. it was a good day 🙂

friday.

friday i didn’t do a lot because i wasn’t feeling very good (curse you acid reflux!) but i did go to the sacre coeur with whitney shelly and krista before i went home and took a nap and then later that night introduced whitney to one of my favorite movies, moulin rouge! so that she knew why krista and i kept singing elephant love medley. 

 

saturday. 

on saturday, whitney and i went and did the flea market walk! it was so cool. definitely different from the rest of paris, but i loved seeing all the antiques and going off the beaten path a little bit! after that, we went to the champs-elysees to meet up with linda and rachel to see the one direction movie! haha i never thought i would be doing that, but it was so good and actually made me a little homesick! first time since i’ve been here. after that, whitney and i went home and gathered up our stuff and went to rachel and linda’s to.. HAVE A SLEEPOVER. it was so fun haha we watched america’s next top model, talked, and all fell asleep on the couch. it was like a little bit of america, except we could see the eiffel tower sparkling out the window. 

sunday.

sunday morning was the huge stake conference with dallin h. oaks! we all woke up at 8 when we wanted to leave at 7:45, but we all hurried and left to go anyways. we got there and ran into a bunch of other people heading to stake conference! no one knew exactly where we were headed, and we were all running late and were a little stressed, but it was so much fun. i honestly felt like we were pioneers the whole time because we walked a ton before finally making it to stake conference! it was amazing though, i loved hearing from elder oaks. after stake conference, we explored the town, which was beautiful! the streets were adorable, there was an amazing chateau, and the gardens were breathtaking. we all want to go back sometime! after exploring and eating, whitney and i went home and changed and then went to the hodson’s to watch alyssa open her mission call! cuernavaca mexico! another spanish speaking hermana, i am so excited for her. 🙂

 

monday & tuesday. 

these past couple days haven’t been nearly as exciting, but i’m in paris so they’ve still been awesome. yesterday i stayed at the church building after religion to do my history reading (we took a break to get macaroons 🙂 ) and then went to fhe! fhe is possibly my favorite time of the week, it’s always so good and i love talking to all of the people there. and i can understand about 90% of what everyone’s saying, so the language barrier isn’t so bad! (until it comes time for me to speak..) then today i headed home after history to get stuff done, like posting this right now! the cool thing though is that before history we got to see the new missionaries all arrive! alyssa and i were practically jumping up and down, it was so exciting to see them all get here and think about what it’ll be like when we’re in their position!

anyways, hopefully from now on i’ll actually keep up with all of this. i love being here, and i can’t believe that i’m almost halfway through my 3rd week out of 11 already! this is going by way too fast, slow down a little bit please!

 

song of the day: come what may – moulin rouge!