Salut  Mes Amis! The weather has been beautiful the past few days in Arras! I'll go into that later, but I've added some pictures to show you! Glad to hear that everyone survived the tornado! To most people, American or not, the idea of tornados is crazy. They don't understand when I say that I loved tornados when I was a kids because we always got out of school. But that all changed when the April 2011 tornado came. I'm always so happy when I hear about the people I know going on missions! I feel like I say that every week, but it's so true! There are several young men in the ward here in Arras working on their papers and I love talking to them about the process.  Mom, reading about you teaching with the sister missionaries made me incredibly happy!!!!!! I felt like I was right there with you because I've been living it for the past 9 months. The worries of the man being taught, the fact that you didn’t know what you should say exactly, but the Spirit was still there. That's my life! And then I was even prouder when you offered to teach him at our house the next time! That's the goal! When members are involved the investigator is 10X more likely to get baptized. I agree that you should read the pamphlets before the next lessons and Preach My Gospel. Something we're working on is simplifying our lessons so that even a child can understand. Last District Meeting we practiced highlighting just 2-4 sentences under each main point in the pamphlets. I'll be praying that everything will be going well for the next lesson! Sr. Covington is doing really great!!! She loves practicing French and is constantly pushing herself to talk to the members without needing me to translate. We even started noticing yesterday that she's able to understand more, too. She's not afraid to teach during the lessons, even though she knows her French isn't perfect. Most bleus are terrified of that stuff. Sometimes I don't even feel like I'm with a bleu. Honestly, even her accent isn't as horrendous as most. Although,we had an interesting conversation with some members about our accents. It's shocking to both sides (French people and Americans) that we think the other accent is beautiful. Sr. Covington and I think our accents when speaking French sound like bears and the French think their accents speaking English sound plain. We had a fun time laughing about it. This week was slow for the most part. Cècile dropped us because her sisters told her bad things about the church. She was so nice about it though and we can tell that she feels really bad. We still haven't heard from Antoinette which worries us. However, our hope is that she's still on vacation. We were mostly doing “porting” everyday which was frustrating. The sky was beautiful several of these nights, even though we still needed a jacket, but we were still sad that we weren't having success. We did a special fast though on Thursday and on Friday our luck began to change (but, as you know, not really luck, just enormous blessings). We decided to randomly call a former ami named Maxime to see if he wanted to come to church on Sunday. He said yes and he was there! He spoke English really well, so we taught in both languages because the member who taught with us didn't know English (constantly switching was a little hard on my brain). He had a list of questions that we answered. Maxime's problems were tithing and being perfect. We testified of the Atonement and I told him about the talk by Elder Cardon last week at Conference. Elder Cardon said that we shouldn't be surprised when new converts are still working on overcoming their weaknesses. I think it helped. It was also great because all of the Ward remembered him from before and welcomed him with open arms (and kisses….. it's France). It was a beautiful start to a beautiful day. It was sunny and warm, 70 degrees! We tried passing by a few amis with a member and in the processes we ran into Elodie and Wesley! I gave her a big hug and told her how we had been praying for her for two weeks. Turns out Dominique said she could stay. Bad situation, but at least we can start teaching her again. We'll be doing FHE again tonight with them. Yesterday was one of those perfect days that you thank Heavenly Father for! After a hard week he rewarded us with so many blessings in one day. Just shows the importance of being faithful to the end. Have wonderful week! Bethany