Fete pour TOUTES

This week we celebrate Jim's anniversaire and if you are good at math(, He thinks he is 44, cause he was born in 44. ) We had a Soiree on Friday with YSA celebrating different cultures with food and a bal (dance). We had two baptismes on Saturday (both Spanish). As we sat in the church I was humbled as I noticed two friends. Monique is with cancer and has lost her very long,very beautiful hair and continues to guide her blind husband as he honors his priesthood by confereming the Holy Ghost on one of the new members. Then I noticed a mother struggling to put her child in a stroller ( the child was flaccid and I could tell there were multiple problems.). After the meeting and with various interpreters I had a delightful visit with the mother. I should have just talked to the daughter as she had a large vocabulary centered around Disney characters and music!! . The mother spoke french,... she was Latin and knew Portuguese and Spanish and we needed many medical terms to discuss the problems with her delightful daughter. I am reminded of the miracle of each childbirth and the blessings that each child brings into a family. Sometimes it takes a while to understand why we are given different challenges in our life.

TOUR de FRANCE plus

Mission transfers happened at the beginning of the week and we are lucky to have some more native french speakers, This should help increase our vocabulary, I needed new french words when I went to the Maxille- facille specialist who wants to take a CAT scan tomorrow to make sure I didn't fracture the occipitel bone under my eye ball (UGH!) Then, yesterday we got up at 4:45 to drive to Grenoble to have a fabulous day, the next to the last day of Le Tour de France ,where they do timed mountain climb and we were on the uphill part.. It started with a of advertisement and fun...someone even filmed me as they were going to start a wave a 14h (2:00pm), We loved getting to know the Johnsons better with singing and stories and rating our favorite biker ( by color coordinated outfits, mais oui!) ) We arrived back home just in time to get ready for bed. Today is Pioneer Day, July 24 and I am speaking on with information about Pioneers from Africa, Philippians, Mongolia, and Europe,.. to honor our Pioneers here and now and then I end with a little Rachel Emma Woolley Simmons, one of my favorite relatives. Again I am reminded of how blessed we are to serve here and get to know Pioneers throughout the world

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FUN day for all

 Love  ,MIM and PAT

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Elder Chatterley <ElderChatterley@cfs2010.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Subject: Tour de France >> Part 3 of 3
To: Pat Chatterley <PattyChatterley@gmail.com>

Pat,

                Here is the last of the photos !!

 

 

Jim

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here is just a little bit, more to come!   love  MOMMA MIA

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Elder Chatterley <ElderChatterley@cfs2010.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Subject: Tour de France >> Part 2 of 3
To: Pat Chatterley <PattyChatterley@gmail.com>

Pat

                Here is the second package !!

 

Jim

the comings and going of Friends

Tomorrow will be a big transfer day, the first for the newly formed Lyon mission which we are now in.. So, we dont know what will happen, but Pres Murdock is adding some 70 more missionaries to his fold. And we will have many new ones to work with. The announcement of the Paris land selected for the temple is a happy day for all of our friends here. Also some dear friends, The Aseys, Meredith, and Allie went back to the states this week, so most of this week was helping them, We traveled to Romainmotier, Switzerland to teach le yoga at Girls camp. Fun time for all! We both, ended up going to the hospital for our continued problem with my face and Jim's other parts. What an experience! First finding it. We thought we received good directions the night before from several of our friends in the stake. So Saturday morning bright a early (7:00 AM) we drive to Meyrin ,Switzerland, the next big ville between us and Geneva looking for Le Tour, we found it and as Jim tripped over the broken tile and the front entry way to the hours of the clinic, we both, knew from previous experiences with hospitals that this couldn't be it. So, we started walking ,walking, and after 45 minutes we found it, filled out the forms and Jim walked back to get the car while I held our place line. It ended up that out of the 3 Dr's I 've seen, he did the most, but still NO Xray. All the Doctors, look at me and say,, Yep, It's broken!. So the search of the perfect face continues, ( more photos on our blog jlandpat.blogspot.com), Bisous a toutes mes Amies

Get back on the horse

This week was about refilling our bucket. The sunflowers are blooming all over the land. We retraced our steps back to the end of the hike (descendre a Couzet ) and then later were confirmed by an ENT specialist that the nose is broken. Our Mission Pres wife suggested waiting until returning to the States for an operation to have a better idea of the Doctors experience and to be able to communicate just how cute and little my nose was before all the HAPPENED! So, one day we picked berries, all wearing red! We saw a white rabbit that looked like a stuffed fake one!, We always look at construction ( while doing missionary work) We have a new Au pair named Andrea, who came from Germany, but born in Paraguay, she is a great example of what we are experiencing everyday( SP, German, Fr, English, young and single and very fun and cute!!!), We went to Lausanne and saw the Archives, fascinating work with history and books. Looks like a good way to serve a mission!. Today I donned my hiking boots ( the ones we bought last winter that are one size too large) to and try some hiking, hopefully without slipping. We continue to feel blessed, and this week remembering America and the freedoms which allowed for the Gospel to grow.

day two re cooperation

I think these monkeys accent my face very nicely, purple and green!. Yes, it hurts, my eye waters all the time, but I can see, It is a miracle! My big Jackie O sun glasses saved my eye!

when chickens have teeth

We left our Apt at 7:30am yesterday ready for a great, fun , 5 hour hike. We met at the church, with 4 sisters and three kids. Then we drove about 1/2 an hour up the Jura and parked The first part was wet, lush, and green, all up hill, because were hiking the ridge and it was even further up. Everyone had on hiking boots, but me, one sister had extra canes which look like ski polls. We got to the ridge and saw many different sights, cows, many wild flowers, MT Blanc way in the distance, a few small coverings like huts to protect the animals, We could see Divonne les Bains where Colette Javier is from, Gex below,,,, and as we walked and talked (kind of like the Pioneers) ,( but mostly in French,) I learned that here in France but It is great to learn many different idiomatic expressions. ! We saw the Lac Leman (lake Geneva) and soon we saw the airport and could guess where we lived. Our guides were Sarah and Sis Caner. we knew we had to get the the Ski area because Sis Caner left her car there, so we kept, walking and talking,, one more ridge, one more valley, no , one more hill,, more? Finally, we saw the ski lifts and then it was a long, long ,long way down, There are a few extra good photos of me this time to remember the fun time.! Long story short I slipped all the way down and fell a few times and ended up jabbing my eye with the cane, Today, a royal black eye but the good news, only a little on my eye sight is blocked by the swelling, My large sun glasses saved my eye and little angles caught me as I slipped down the mountain with my hips still in tact. We returned home by 5:50 making it a 10 hour hike. And I asked ,so where are we hiking next week? not afraid to get back on the horse, only this time with hiking boots!

when chickens have teeth

me, all red, white, and green,

yes, there is no makeup here

only, hiking tatoos remain