Westward Ho! Bumps and all.
Pics at bottom. Our week —overall great; but we definitely had some bumps along the way. We welcomed our new missionary, Elder Templeton, who is 4 months away from completing his mission. He just arrived from Switzerland, which he loved but he also said he was eager to come back to France one last time. We normally have our new Missionary over for dinner; but because this week was “Pioneer Day” preparations (sewing pioneer bonnets, aprons and neckerchiefs and constructing a model Conestoga Wagon), so we invited the Elders over to our Indian Restaurant, literally next door to us. Preparing a multi-course meal as is customary in France was feeling like a tall order this week—a model Conestoga Wagon was sitting on top of our coffee table waiting for its last stitches and our dining room table was very hard to find as it was now a sewing workshop table strewn with threads, pieces of soon-to-be pioneer bonnets and neckerchiefs to be hemmed. Anne was over twice this week