Hi everyone, I actually have a question for you first maman, What is face reading?
Now answers:
Still beeing a good dog with the guitar, I've learned silent night a cool classical version (we really just took the hymn book version and learned how to play it on guitar) Getting ready for Christmas carnivale fun!
For the sink, Nothing has been done at the moment… I understand the office is really busy and it is hard to find a good place to live even if you had the time to look at it. It is still being held up by cardboard, our bathroom floor is breaking and warped, ,and the mold I think is gaining a mind of its own ha ha. It really isn’t terrible though, although, the cockroaches are back, and that is where I draw the line.
Yes they have halloween here. It used to be a lot different from how we celebrated it in the states, but it has been well americanized now. I think there are more just costume parties than trick-or-treating.
One new ami ! His name is Stéphan, he is a practicing catholic, and he is really quite a miracle. Elder Arrington and I went out praying to find someone interested in the restoration. We went to Villeneuve and walked for quite a long time. Then we felt good about this one road, and the third door we knocked on was him. We were able to teach a quick restoration lesson and give him a book of mormon. We were not able to fix another rdv, but he did say Au plaisir, which leaves room to come back and say hi and all that. Hopefully things go well with him. Really nice guy.
I am thin, I am looking good, but last week I didn’t really eat well. We went to McDonald’s for lunch today (i know mother I am sorry !) It was way good though. The MacDo (as they call it here) is really classy… and really expensive. It comes out to around 8-9 dollars for a large bigmac meal (that is the cheapest thing on the menu) . I don’t think I’ll have anything like that for a while, there is much better food to eat here anyway.
Lessons in the presence are a lesson with an ami de l’église with a member there to testify. It is generally wanted that you have a member at all the rdvs you can so that they know the amis when they come to church, to welcome the amis, to show the amis that not all the members are weird like the missionaries, etc… It is hard here though, because there are two active families in Avignon, and they both work during the day. So that is what president said he doesn’t really care
about. We no longer do « discussions » that’s what they called lessons back in the day of memorized stuff (which I find funny because the word discussion seems to imply a dialogue… oh well)
That’s cool Bryce is home, Tell him I say hello ! Where did he serve his mission ? Texas ? No… I have no idea.
Oh, and yes dad, you did a great job of translating my french.
Cet-à-dire que je devrais ecrire les chose plus difficiles !
I also heard from the Aix elders (Elder Tulley and Kunsler) that the Duffins dropped by. It would have been fun to have seen them, but I am glad to hear that the Other elders are saying good things about me ha h… Not that there would be any reason for them not to… (there really is no reason, I am just joking =)
On Tuesday we went to Sorgue again to see the Delplanches. They are a fun couple that got baptised about six months ago… more like seven or eight now. English class went well. We started talking about the D&C’s with Quansah and got him all nice and confused. I think he understood things by the end, but may be it is a sign to stick with the first principles and ordonnances for a little longer. He is still doing amazing, he has such a strong faith. I love seeing him after English class to hear what his miracle was for the week. The Spirit like has conversations with this guy, (not really, but he does have
lots of promptings like change the radio station randomly to hear something about the church on a station he never listens to) He is great. I want to send you guys a picture of him and of avignon, but I couldn’t find an adaptor to put my SD card into the USB port, So… package ?
Also my camera has gotten into the bad habit of draining my batteries (the last pair of batteries lasted about four days…) So I wonder what’s up with that. Yeah…
Then we had district meeting on Thursday which was fun, nothing crazy or new this time.
Sunday we had a lunch n’ lesson with the Guillon family. The lunch was CRAZY good, best thing I have had on my mission (I have the recepie, so I’ll make it for you guys some day) Like a fruit salad with shrimp, apples, mango, peach, red onion, ginger, and some other stuff. Really simple to make too.
Also something fun, A journalist in Bolène wants to do an article about us. The church publicity people have been calling us all week telling us what we can say and what we shouldn’t ha ha. We will be interviewed this Friday, so I am basically going to be famous in a local paper that goes around all of Provence… not too shabby ha ha.
It is cool, everyone suddenly seems to know that we are mormon, before they would guess Jehova’s witness or Seventh day evangelists before mormon, but recently they have been getting it on the first guess.
Well I think I will close things here for now. Thank you so much for your emails, I really enjoy getting them. J’ai eu un rêve que nous étions (papa, maman, JJ, et moi) à Euro Disney. Pour n’importe quel raison, j’avais du mal à comprendre les gens. Je ne pouvais non plus m’exprimer, alors que papa était complètement courrant en français.
J’admets, j’étais un peu jalou, mais bon. Je vous aime en touts cas, même si papa est plus fort que moi dans le français après mes deuxans. Au revoir !
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
10-1-12 Avignon 14
Lame, ok, I am doing a copy paste word document because the internet here is really shoddy
Do you know the Mcknight’s? They came to our branch yesterday, apparently they were in the 13th ward with us.
Also are the Cole’s new to the ward? They wrote me a letter recently.
Answers: The women’s conf will be shown here this Saturday
Yes I have my coat and robe My hippie bag looks alright still, the missionary life is wearing it down though. I sewed the little desk French flag on the front of it.
I think the French get a kick out of it. It is kinda strange, the
only places you see French flags here are outside of government buildings; There isn’t a lot of country pride.
I am a good dog with the guitar, I am learning the Christmas songs now for caroling this Christmas!
The new appartement situation is progressing slowly, they are still looking though.
General conf will be this Sunday; We watch the Pristhood meeting Sunday morning, then Saturday day session, followed by the Sunday morning session. We have to wait for the printed version to see the Sunday afternoon one. Or we could watch it online on P-day. Maybe Elder Arrington and I will be able to see it in English in the office of the church building. If not, it looks like we’ll just have to watch it in French, which I can understand, but I just like it better
in English, and that would be better for E; Arrington as well.
Money Monday, After emails, we practiced guitar, cleaned the
appartement, and then saw Prince, he was really cool, though he was sick so we didn’t really teach him too much, but got into to the Plan du salut, er the … what is it in English? Plan of salvation that’s it.
Taco Tuesday:Went to Montfavet, nothing much going on there. Then had a ward mission council meeting thing that I don’t know the name of in English with Sylvain. It was really cool, he wants to do some big things as DMB… ward mission leader (dirigeant de mission de branch).
Then we ran away from some muslim kids who were yelling at us. Nothing serious, and we didn’t really have to run away, they were just being rude. We also made scrumptious tacos for dinner!
Windy Wednesday: Saw Dawn and helped her put a cone thing on one of her cats. That was fun. She is going to England this week, that will be good for here to get away and actually be able to sleep at night and not fret about her cats. Then we taught English class, then Quansah afterwards; He is still awesome just so you know.
Thonner thursday: Had a raté-vous, and then two more raté vous, and did lots of porte a porte.
Wunderbar Vendredi: Weekly planning! Then we made a huge list of old amis that we though had some potential, and started contacting them, no luck so far; Went to Les angles for a change of scenery. Talked to lots of nice people, but no one really interested.
Super Saturday: Had an amazing Lunch at Frère lascols’s house. Tomato salad, some cheese and nut salad, green salad, quiche, potatoes, and chicken. Also a raspberry cake to finish it off and a plate of various cheeses to remind us that we are in France. I loved it! Then we worked in Centre ville, and talked to Prince again, he didn’t have a lot of time, so it was very brief, but I do love those African people, they are so chill.
Sabbath Sunday: had church. We did fast Sunday for general conference next week. I had to be a translator for the McKnights, that was fun. Sister McKnight actually got up to bear her testimony, so I went with her to translate it for the branch. It was a lot of fun, I doubt I would like to be a real translater though, that stuff hurts your brain doing it for multiple hours ha ha. Then we went out looking for miracles and didn’t find anything… until I called someone that me and Elder Call talked to who said she would like to meet us
sometime at the end of the week, score!
Ok, love y’all guys. This one isn’t as long as the last one, but the internet freaked out and deleted it about a quarter of the way through… sigh, I have learned my lesson though, and only use Microsoft word for writing.
Oh, we saw our JW friend again this morning. He was really nice, and we had a great discussion on the plan of Salvation. He gave us the jevhova witness point of view, but he let us talk and explain, and it went really well. I think he is trying to convert us, which is a little interesting. It is fun though. He really knows his bible, luckily the lord reminds me of stuff I have studied to share with him to support our point of view.
En tout cas, je vous aime tous! Je sais que nous avons raison, etc’est vraiment notre église qui est dirigé par Jésus-Christ. J’aime ma mission et tous les gens que j’avais rencontré ici. You forgot to tell me if you translate what i say in French. Love you all verymuch; Have a good week.
Bonne semaine!
Do you know the Mcknight’s? They came to our branch yesterday, apparently they were in the 13th ward with us.
Also are the Cole’s new to the ward? They wrote me a letter recently.
Answers: The women’s conf will be shown here this Saturday
Yes I have my coat and robe My hippie bag looks alright still, the missionary life is wearing it down though. I sewed the little desk French flag on the front of it.
I think the French get a kick out of it. It is kinda strange, the
only places you see French flags here are outside of government buildings; There isn’t a lot of country pride.
I am a good dog with the guitar, I am learning the Christmas songs now for caroling this Christmas!
The new appartement situation is progressing slowly, they are still looking though.
General conf will be this Sunday; We watch the Pristhood meeting Sunday morning, then Saturday day session, followed by the Sunday morning session. We have to wait for the printed version to see the Sunday afternoon one. Or we could watch it online on P-day. Maybe Elder Arrington and I will be able to see it in English in the office of the church building. If not, it looks like we’ll just have to watch it in French, which I can understand, but I just like it better
in English, and that would be better for E; Arrington as well.
Money Monday, After emails, we practiced guitar, cleaned the
appartement, and then saw Prince, he was really cool, though he was sick so we didn’t really teach him too much, but got into to the Plan du salut, er the … what is it in English? Plan of salvation that’s it.
Taco Tuesday:Went to Montfavet, nothing much going on there. Then had a ward mission council meeting thing that I don’t know the name of in English with Sylvain. It was really cool, he wants to do some big things as DMB… ward mission leader (dirigeant de mission de branch).
Then we ran away from some muslim kids who were yelling at us. Nothing serious, and we didn’t really have to run away, they were just being rude. We also made scrumptious tacos for dinner!
Windy Wednesday: Saw Dawn and helped her put a cone thing on one of her cats. That was fun. She is going to England this week, that will be good for here to get away and actually be able to sleep at night and not fret about her cats. Then we taught English class, then Quansah afterwards; He is still awesome just so you know.
Thonner thursday: Had a raté-vous, and then two more raté vous, and did lots of porte a porte.
Wunderbar Vendredi: Weekly planning! Then we made a huge list of old amis that we though had some potential, and started contacting them, no luck so far; Went to Les angles for a change of scenery. Talked to lots of nice people, but no one really interested.
Super Saturday: Had an amazing Lunch at Frère lascols’s house. Tomato salad, some cheese and nut salad, green salad, quiche, potatoes, and chicken. Also a raspberry cake to finish it off and a plate of various cheeses to remind us that we are in France. I loved it! Then we worked in Centre ville, and talked to Prince again, he didn’t have a lot of time, so it was very brief, but I do love those African people, they are so chill.
Sabbath Sunday: had church. We did fast Sunday for general conference next week. I had to be a translator for the McKnights, that was fun. Sister McKnight actually got up to bear her testimony, so I went with her to translate it for the branch. It was a lot of fun, I doubt I would like to be a real translater though, that stuff hurts your brain doing it for multiple hours ha ha. Then we went out looking for miracles and didn’t find anything… until I called someone that me and Elder Call talked to who said she would like to meet us
sometime at the end of the week, score!
Ok, love y’all guys. This one isn’t as long as the last one, but the internet freaked out and deleted it about a quarter of the way through… sigh, I have learned my lesson though, and only use Microsoft word for writing.
Oh, we saw our JW friend again this morning. He was really nice, and we had a great discussion on the plan of Salvation. He gave us the jevhova witness point of view, but he let us talk and explain, and it went really well. I think he is trying to convert us, which is a little interesting. It is fun though. He really knows his bible, luckily the lord reminds me of stuff I have studied to share with him to support our point of view.
En tout cas, je vous aime tous! Je sais que nous avons raison, etc’est vraiment notre église qui est dirigé par Jésus-Christ. J’aime ma mission et tous les gens que j’avais rencontré ici. You forgot to tell me if you translate what i say in French. Love you all verymuch; Have a good week.
Bonne semaine!
September 17th Avignon 12
Hello all, great week. questions:
Since I didn't start training Elder Arrington, I wouldn't say that he is my son... it is more like I am the fun uncle he goes to live with or something.
I had a pastèque (watermelon) last week that wasn't all that good. The melons are looking like it is the end of the season, but I have had almost all incredibly good melons!
It has rained a couple times, but not a lot. The temperature has really lowered this week. It is more around 28 ish during the hottest part of the day (that is in celsius, you can do the conversion). Fall is coming, and i am welcoming it, it was so hot during the summer ha ha. I bet I will be transfered to switzerland this winter so I'll pass the summer in one of the hottest places in the mission, and winter in the coldest place.
We do live by lots of cats. We actually have an ami who has six cats. In fact, this morning right before we did emails, we helped her put a collar on one of her cats to keep him from licking a sore on his side. Fun stuff.
We call greenies blues because in France the army uniform is blue (their dress uniform) so in the french army the new guys are called bleus.
I don't think reading in French will make it hard to remember in English. I guess I know what the scripture is in French, but I still know the reference or the place in the book of mormon, so I'll be able to find it in english.
Day-to-day
Monday: Went to Montpellier to drop-off Elder Call and pick up Elder Arrington. Montpellier is in a place where lots of missionaries were passing through, so I got to see a bunch of missionaries I knew like Elder Hamilton who got transfered to Toulouse, and Elder Smedley who was going home, and Elder Tromeur who knows Will West because Will served in his ward in Milan Italy. Could you tell Will that Elder Tromeur is doing well, and says bonjourno? That was really it.
Tuesday: Taught Dawn (the woman with six cats) she is an old ami that we picked up again. THen we helped her clean her apartement which is really small and disorganized. Then we saw Olivier a less active member, and Sylvain an active member (who is now our new branch mission leader)
Wednesday: We got somebody's address in a tiny ville called Saze (right of the river by avignon if you want to mark it, but I don't know if it will be there because it is tiny tiny tiiny) There is only one bus during the day that goes there and none that come back. We figured we could take the bus there and walk to a close city that does have buses to take us back. However, there are only two roads exiting
Saze, and they are highways with no room on the side to walk. We got stuck there for about four hours before a member was able to come pick us up ha ha. The guy wasn't there either, it looked like he was gone on vacation, so we'll pass again in a few days. Then we taught english class and Quansah who is still doing amazing!
Thursday: Went to Vedène to pass another address we got. IT was also out in the middle of nowhere, but we got a member from the start to take us there and back. Once again the people were not at home... too bad. Then we went to villeneuve and knocked on some rich people's houses until one of them got mad at us and said they would call the
cops even though we weren't breaking any laws.
Friday: Went to Lyon for Bleus conference! It was pretty much the same as the last one, but more smooth and fine tuned I feel. It was great to see a bunch of familiar faces, and I think it really motivated Elder Arrington even more, so now we are rockin avignon!
Saturday: Saw Dawn again, had a lesson, and helped her clean more (I think she mostly just wants us there to clean her apartement ha ha)
Then we worked in the Pontet, not a lot of sucess, so we came back to Avignon and started looking for this old ami who lived in Centre ville. We didn't find him, but the person living at his address is an awesome black guy from Ghana named Prince. He let us in and we had a great lesson. He doesn't speak French, and his english is not great, so it is a little difficult to teach him, but he is so nice and just so ready for the gospel!
Sunday: Good day at church, Did studies and went to see Prince again. He had made us some tastey african rice and stew, and we had a good lesson about the restoration. Because of the language barrier, we have to go slowly but he is understanding well. He also doesn't know how to read, so we are going to teach him. He is really really cool!
That is really all. I like to hear about what is happening back home. I love your emails. BY the way, I think I forgot to tell you this. Our fridge broke... two weeks ago. So we have been living off of canned and dry food the past two weeks. Our new fridge should be coming tomorrow though, so there is nothing to fear. I thought we killed all the cockroaches in our apartement, but I saw one today. I poisoned the crap out of it, and it ran behind the counter where I can't get him, so I hope he dies and infects all of his friends too.
I hate roaches.
We are Making Big plays here in Avignon! All we need to do is change the way France thinks about itself and then we'll be in the money. Does that make any sense? Not really, but I have to go now.
Je vous aime! JJ, va sortir avec une petite fille! Il faut que tu aies une copine avant que je rente! J'ai hâte de me marrer avec mes potes. Un an est presque déjà passé, je ne peux le comprendre! D'accord, bin, à la semaine prochain alors! ciao!
Since I didn't start training Elder Arrington, I wouldn't say that he is my son... it is more like I am the fun uncle he goes to live with or something.
I had a pastèque (watermelon) last week that wasn't all that good. The melons are looking like it is the end of the season, but I have had almost all incredibly good melons!
It has rained a couple times, but not a lot. The temperature has really lowered this week. It is more around 28 ish during the hottest part of the day (that is in celsius, you can do the conversion). Fall is coming, and i am welcoming it, it was so hot during the summer ha ha. I bet I will be transfered to switzerland this winter so I'll pass the summer in one of the hottest places in the mission, and winter in the coldest place.
We do live by lots of cats. We actually have an ami who has six cats. In fact, this morning right before we did emails, we helped her put a collar on one of her cats to keep him from licking a sore on his side. Fun stuff.
We call greenies blues because in France the army uniform is blue (their dress uniform) so in the french army the new guys are called bleus.
I don't think reading in French will make it hard to remember in English. I guess I know what the scripture is in French, but I still know the reference or the place in the book of mormon, so I'll be able to find it in english.
Day-to-day
Monday: Went to Montpellier to drop-off Elder Call and pick up Elder Arrington. Montpellier is in a place where lots of missionaries were passing through, so I got to see a bunch of missionaries I knew like Elder Hamilton who got transfered to Toulouse, and Elder Smedley who was going home, and Elder Tromeur who knows Will West because Will served in his ward in Milan Italy. Could you tell Will that Elder Tromeur is doing well, and says bonjourno? That was really it.
Tuesday: Taught Dawn (the woman with six cats) she is an old ami that we picked up again. THen we helped her clean her apartement which is really small and disorganized. Then we saw Olivier a less active member, and Sylvain an active member (who is now our new branch mission leader)
Wednesday: We got somebody's address in a tiny ville called Saze (right of the river by avignon if you want to mark it, but I don't know if it will be there because it is tiny tiny tiiny) There is only one bus during the day that goes there and none that come back. We figured we could take the bus there and walk to a close city that does have buses to take us back. However, there are only two roads exiting
Saze, and they are highways with no room on the side to walk. We got stuck there for about four hours before a member was able to come pick us up ha ha. The guy wasn't there either, it looked like he was gone on vacation, so we'll pass again in a few days. Then we taught english class and Quansah who is still doing amazing!
Thursday: Went to Vedène to pass another address we got. IT was also out in the middle of nowhere, but we got a member from the start to take us there and back. Once again the people were not at home... too bad. Then we went to villeneuve and knocked on some rich people's houses until one of them got mad at us and said they would call the
cops even though we weren't breaking any laws.
Friday: Went to Lyon for Bleus conference! It was pretty much the same as the last one, but more smooth and fine tuned I feel. It was great to see a bunch of familiar faces, and I think it really motivated Elder Arrington even more, so now we are rockin avignon!
Saturday: Saw Dawn again, had a lesson, and helped her clean more (I think she mostly just wants us there to clean her apartement ha ha)
Then we worked in the Pontet, not a lot of sucess, so we came back to Avignon and started looking for this old ami who lived in Centre ville. We didn't find him, but the person living at his address is an awesome black guy from Ghana named Prince. He let us in and we had a great lesson. He doesn't speak French, and his english is not great, so it is a little difficult to teach him, but he is so nice and just so ready for the gospel!
Sunday: Good day at church, Did studies and went to see Prince again. He had made us some tastey african rice and stew, and we had a good lesson about the restoration. Because of the language barrier, we have to go slowly but he is understanding well. He also doesn't know how to read, so we are going to teach him. He is really really cool!
That is really all. I like to hear about what is happening back home. I love your emails. BY the way, I think I forgot to tell you this. Our fridge broke... two weeks ago. So we have been living off of canned and dry food the past two weeks. Our new fridge should be coming tomorrow though, so there is nothing to fear. I thought we killed all the cockroaches in our apartement, but I saw one today. I poisoned the crap out of it, and it ran behind the counter where I can't get him, so I hope he dies and infects all of his friends too.
I hate roaches.
We are Making Big plays here in Avignon! All we need to do is change the way France thinks about itself and then we'll be in the money. Does that make any sense? Not really, but I have to go now.
Je vous aime! JJ, va sortir avec une petite fille! Il faut que tu aies une copine avant que je rente! J'ai hâte de me marrer avec mes potes. Un an est presque déjà passé, je ne peux le comprendre! D'accord, bin, à la semaine prochain alors! ciao!
Monday, September 10, 2012
Avignon 11
Hello everyone! questions;
Palais des papes wasn't bad. If you guys come to Avignon, you have to do it... kinda a lot of big empty rooms, but still really cool.
The Melons are still deliceouse, the weird one tasted kinda like a honeydew, but a little worse. It think I'll just stick with the cantaloupes.
The weather is hot again this week. Less though. I forgot to mention, the first day of september was freezing, I had to wear a sweater. I also got sick after such a big temperature change, and i am just now getting better. It was just a little cold, nothing to worry about, and like I said, I am about 100% now. But like I said, it is still pretty hot here, but only from about 1 to 7, before and after it is cool and quite nice!
We have some extra mattresses the other elders slept on.
Yes I take pictures
Yes I study the book of mormon, quite a lot. I have already read it through in French, and I am about halfway through my second tour, but I also study by topics, and I have read the pearl of great price, the gospels in the new testament, and up to section 50 in DC all in French. We have lots of time to study, especially with the extra study time new missionaries get.
It has been known for missionaries to go back to a ville they have already served in. I know a couple people who have done it, but it isn't really common. The office Elders still do about four hours of normal missionary work a day. I hear that it is still really fulfilling and lots of miracles, just in different ways. The office elders actually got like Three baptisms recently.
So for transfers. Well I am still in Avignon. Elder call though
moved to Montpellier... his third transfer, third ville, third
companion ha ha. He was great though, he is and is going to be a great missionary! My new collegue is Elder Arrington. He is also new, so I will be training him, I guess I didn't totally fail with Elder Call. He is from Des Moines Iowa. He already speaks and understands French pretty well. It is impressive. He seems like a cool guy. He also is a guitarist!
Another thing that is cool, is because he is blue, we will get to go to Lyon again for his blues conference!
OK, I do not have a lot of time left sorry, so I don't think I am
going to be able to do a day by day thing. This week was pretty slow anyway... well we didn't have a lot of rdvs, but it went by super super fast! It really feels like I was just with Elder Call for a long exchange.
I love France! I love this mission, I am skinny now! Total loss of 95 pounds so far! Just another 10 and I'll be really REALLY good looking! Que la paix soit avec vous tous! Je vous aime beacoup
beaucoup. Do you translate the things I say in French?
Je prie pour vous tous les jours. Je sais que la mission est la
meilleur décision que j'ai jamais faite! Allez au temple et à
l'église. Ne vous abandonnez jamais! See y'all next week
Palais des papes wasn't bad. If you guys come to Avignon, you have to do it... kinda a lot of big empty rooms, but still really cool.
The Melons are still deliceouse, the weird one tasted kinda like a honeydew, but a little worse. It think I'll just stick with the cantaloupes.
The weather is hot again this week. Less though. I forgot to mention, the first day of september was freezing, I had to wear a sweater. I also got sick after such a big temperature change, and i am just now getting better. It was just a little cold, nothing to worry about, and like I said, I am about 100% now. But like I said, it is still pretty hot here, but only from about 1 to 7, before and after it is cool and quite nice!
We have some extra mattresses the other elders slept on.
Yes I take pictures
Yes I study the book of mormon, quite a lot. I have already read it through in French, and I am about halfway through my second tour, but I also study by topics, and I have read the pearl of great price, the gospels in the new testament, and up to section 50 in DC all in French. We have lots of time to study, especially with the extra study time new missionaries get.
It has been known for missionaries to go back to a ville they have already served in. I know a couple people who have done it, but it isn't really common. The office Elders still do about four hours of normal missionary work a day. I hear that it is still really fulfilling and lots of miracles, just in different ways. The office elders actually got like Three baptisms recently.
So for transfers. Well I am still in Avignon. Elder call though
moved to Montpellier... his third transfer, third ville, third
companion ha ha. He was great though, he is and is going to be a great missionary! My new collegue is Elder Arrington. He is also new, so I will be training him, I guess I didn't totally fail with Elder Call. He is from Des Moines Iowa. He already speaks and understands French pretty well. It is impressive. He seems like a cool guy. He also is a guitarist!
Another thing that is cool, is because he is blue, we will get to go to Lyon again for his blues conference!
OK, I do not have a lot of time left sorry, so I don't think I am
going to be able to do a day by day thing. This week was pretty slow anyway... well we didn't have a lot of rdvs, but it went by super super fast! It really feels like I was just with Elder Call for a long exchange.
I love France! I love this mission, I am skinny now! Total loss of 95 pounds so far! Just another 10 and I'll be really REALLY good looking! Que la paix soit avec vous tous! Je vous aime beacoup
beaucoup. Do you translate the things I say in French?
Je prie pour vous tous les jours. Je sais que la mission est la
meilleur décision que j'ai jamais faite! Allez au temple et à
l'église. Ne vous abandonnez jamais! See y'all next week
Avignon 10
Hey, let me try out this word thing. I am writing in Microsoft word instead of the lame internet thing. Yes you can save your email as a draft, but it doesn’t auto save, and I have gotten used to the email saving every minute or so.
Questions:
Really the only place to go for air-conditioning is the buses.
Yes they do have diet soda here (diet coke is called Coca light here, and it really tastes awful, much different then back home). I have not had any soda last week, and we didn’t buy anymore this week, so I think I am just stopping cold turkey.
Did you mean credit cards? We only get one card with money on it (besides personal ones of course). If you have a car though, you get a second card to buy gas and stuff for the car.
Yes we are having fun. The temperature has gone down since Thursday so it has been pretty bearable.
I do not think I need anything, but thank you for the cards you sent… was that what you were talking about earlier? They are fun to get! In our mission, you can email anyone that is not in or around your mission boundaries, though they recommend you limit conversation with everyone but your family. I usually send a shortened version of this
email to Travis and Jordan, then I email Kevin and Peter occasionally, that is really everyone I talk to.
I wanted to tell you a couple things, first, I met Kevin Mitchel’s son out here… I think it is Kevin, anyway, it is someone who you worked with Dad, he is really nice. Small world huh?
Second, Cavaillon (a town not far from Avignon, in our sector) is known as the capitol of Melon, so the best melons here come from Cavaillon. I have had a few, and they are simply amazing! Every single one I have had has been way sweet and just perfect. I have had several caneloups and a water melon. Today we bought a strange looking melon that I have never seen before, so we’ll see if it is any good.
Corn on the cob sounds good. They don’t really sell corn here outside of canned corn. I did see my first ear of corn at the store today. €1.25 for one ear! Really really pricy.
Monday: Saw Olivier, and Cyprien Ughetto. It was Cyprien’s birthday so we gave him cookies and one of the light pens you gave me. He seemed to really like it. Then we pretty much napped all day ha ha.*
Tuesday: Worked in Les Angles, got rated by frère Jeunehomme, and saw Sylvain.
Wednesday: Passed some passbacks (not interested), Got rated by Jeunehomme again, taught English class and Quansah.
Thursday: Met Rémy and taught him, he was fine… a little awkward like he normally is. Worked in Sorgues, had dinner, and passed a guy we met in Les Angles (wasn’t there)
Friday: Weekly planning and studies, got rated by laticia, Called some people and went to les angles again to pass that guy again (not there again)
Saturday: Went to Rémy’s house to teach him again. Saw him naked in his house, and wouldn’t answer the door… remy… Worked in the pontet and made a carnet for the members, a little paper for them to put info
on, so we can know who is who in the branch, and everyone’s callings and so forth. Went to Frère Jeunehomme’s house without an appointment, and he let us in and we were able to talk for a while and share a message. I really like Frere Jeunehomme, and his cats.
Sunday: Good day at church, a good amount of people there (40) passed the veyriey family and talked to them (they are members). Oh, and we taught this new ami Jenveeve. We found her yesterday going to frère jeunehomme’s house. She would have been an absolutely golden contact, only she seemed a little crazy. She told us she would come
to church, and she did for all three hours. She said it was great, and she is going to stop smoking and stop drinking beer and coffee, and start praying and reading and she is going to come to church every week. It almost sounds too good to be true! The only thing is that she is in a mental hospital, she is very nice, and seems pretty much there, because she has quite a bit of freedom. The big problem is
that she is sous totale. That means that the government takes care of virtually every aspect of her life. It is very very very difficult to even teach those people let alone have them be baptized. We’ll see what happens. She is such a lovely woman.
Well that is about it for this week. We did not have many rdvs, but VACANCE IS FINALLY FREAKIN OVER!!! Then everyone will be home, and there are at least three people who have some good potential that will finally be back home this next week. The mission is great! I love it. It is still the most difficult thing I have ever done, but also the most rewarding thing I have ever done. Keep it groovy everyone.
I hope that this letter is a little bit better and longer than the
last one.
-enjoy having large cheap stuff, because over here everything is small and expensive.
Je sais qu’il vie mon rédempteur ! Je vous aime, vous me manquez, et je pris pour vous tout le temps ! Dite à Monte et Max que je les aime aussi, et que je n’ai pas encore oublié le bœuf-tec que je les dois. Restez fidèle, bisous ciao ! à le lundi prochaine !
Questions:
Really the only place to go for air-conditioning is the buses.
Yes they do have diet soda here (diet coke is called Coca light here, and it really tastes awful, much different then back home). I have not had any soda last week, and we didn’t buy anymore this week, so I think I am just stopping cold turkey.
Did you mean credit cards? We only get one card with money on it (besides personal ones of course). If you have a car though, you get a second card to buy gas and stuff for the car.
Yes we are having fun. The temperature has gone down since Thursday so it has been pretty bearable.
I do not think I need anything, but thank you for the cards you sent… was that what you were talking about earlier? They are fun to get! In our mission, you can email anyone that is not in or around your mission boundaries, though they recommend you limit conversation with everyone but your family. I usually send a shortened version of this
email to Travis and Jordan, then I email Kevin and Peter occasionally, that is really everyone I talk to.
I wanted to tell you a couple things, first, I met Kevin Mitchel’s son out here… I think it is Kevin, anyway, it is someone who you worked with Dad, he is really nice. Small world huh?
Second, Cavaillon (a town not far from Avignon, in our sector) is known as the capitol of Melon, so the best melons here come from Cavaillon. I have had a few, and they are simply amazing! Every single one I have had has been way sweet and just perfect. I have had several caneloups and a water melon. Today we bought a strange looking melon that I have never seen before, so we’ll see if it is any good.
Corn on the cob sounds good. They don’t really sell corn here outside of canned corn. I did see my first ear of corn at the store today. €1.25 for one ear! Really really pricy.
Monday: Saw Olivier, and Cyprien Ughetto. It was Cyprien’s birthday so we gave him cookies and one of the light pens you gave me. He seemed to really like it. Then we pretty much napped all day ha ha.*
Tuesday: Worked in Les Angles, got rated by frère Jeunehomme, and saw Sylvain.
Wednesday: Passed some passbacks (not interested), Got rated by Jeunehomme again, taught English class and Quansah.
Thursday: Met Rémy and taught him, he was fine… a little awkward like he normally is. Worked in Sorgues, had dinner, and passed a guy we met in Les Angles (wasn’t there)
Friday: Weekly planning and studies, got rated by laticia, Called some people and went to les angles again to pass that guy again (not there again)
Saturday: Went to Rémy’s house to teach him again. Saw him naked in his house, and wouldn’t answer the door… remy… Worked in the pontet and made a carnet for the members, a little paper for them to put info
on, so we can know who is who in the branch, and everyone’s callings and so forth. Went to Frère Jeunehomme’s house without an appointment, and he let us in and we were able to talk for a while and share a message. I really like Frere Jeunehomme, and his cats.
Sunday: Good day at church, a good amount of people there (40) passed the veyriey family and talked to them (they are members). Oh, and we taught this new ami Jenveeve. We found her yesterday going to frère jeunehomme’s house. She would have been an absolutely golden contact, only she seemed a little crazy. She told us she would come
to church, and she did for all three hours. She said it was great, and she is going to stop smoking and stop drinking beer and coffee, and start praying and reading and she is going to come to church every week. It almost sounds too good to be true! The only thing is that she is in a mental hospital, she is very nice, and seems pretty much there, because she has quite a bit of freedom. The big problem is
that she is sous totale. That means that the government takes care of virtually every aspect of her life. It is very very very difficult to even teach those people let alone have them be baptized. We’ll see what happens. She is such a lovely woman.
Well that is about it for this week. We did not have many rdvs, but VACANCE IS FINALLY FREAKIN OVER!!! Then everyone will be home, and there are at least three people who have some good potential that will finally be back home this next week. The mission is great! I love it. It is still the most difficult thing I have ever done, but also the most rewarding thing I have ever done. Keep it groovy everyone.
I hope that this letter is a little bit better and longer than the
last one.
-enjoy having large cheap stuff, because over here everything is small and expensive.
Je sais qu’il vie mon rédempteur ! Je vous aime, vous me manquez, et je pris pour vous tout le temps ! Dite à Monte et Max que je les aime aussi, et que je n’ai pas encore oublié le bœuf-tec que je les dois. Restez fidèle, bisous ciao ! à le lundi prochaine !
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