Soeur Alyssa Trotter: Bonjour! (Week 4 MTC)

Date: December 15, 2015
Area: Provo MTC
Companion: Sister Kinder

Bonjour Tout le Monde,

Things are grand here in the MTC. As grand as they can be for a Sister Missionary who is super antsy to get to France and start teaching people about this amazing gospel. It goes by super slow here but at the same time I cannot believe I have been here for a month. They say that the key to missionary work is work. And that when a missionary works, there really is no time to miss home.

I still miss people, and I think about you all all the time, but it is so true. We are so busy, and the busier we get, the harder it is to worry about silly things back home that we have no control over. Like when I first had to leave, I was so worried about what would happen to my baby (my car). and I just remembered that I had car haha. Being here has reminded me without fail of the things that are really important. Especially around this Christmas Holiday.

Here we have Christmas decorations and we sings songs, but we all are so focused on Christ.

This week a district of missionaries from my Zone had a really hard experience, but it taught us all a really important lesson.

They went on the computer to check something, and half of their their missions had changed from Vanuatu, a French Island to where they had been called, to Mesa, AR. Which I am sure is an amazing mission, but it is not nearly as tropical, and they won'y be speaking French there.

It turns out that their Visas didn't come and they were moved for the next couple of months. We have all become super close so it was sad to see them be split up. And for a few days they were so upset. But we had a realization that as great as France is, and as amazing as the island of Vanuatu is, the gospel needs to go forth EVERYWHERE. And there is a reason those missionaries need to be in Mesa. They are going to change lives. And even if it is just one, then so be it. Because so great is the worth of one soul in the sight of God.

It was a good reminder to me of why I am a missionary.

I got so lucky with my companion. We have our problems, but we are becoming amazing friends. And we refer to ourselves as "L'Équipe du Rève!" Which translates to Dream Team. So true. we have so much fun getting to know each other and planning our lessons. I just wish we were in France together! When we get there we get to teach together the first day.

But I am thinking about you all often. I love you. and i am so grateful for the gospel and for what i am learned from all of you that I will be able to use in my mission. There are no words for how grateful I am for my Savior, who humbles me and strengthens me and comforts me every day. Everyone should have a best friend like that and that is why I am here. He really is my Best Friend.

Beaucoup d'Amour,

Soeur Trotter

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13