Family,
So first off I have interviews with President next week!
Next Friday to be exact. I will be sure to talk to him about my release date
and all that nonsense haha. Not a problem. Make sure to remind me next week
though! It’s about time I got around to all that. Désolé. I bet y’all are
having a good time with Bruce and Jeff and Scott. Those are some cool catz.
Miss those guys. Tell Jeff thanks for the little note. Kid is a stud. Tell him
good luck with his little wedding thing next week. Pretty crazy how everyone in
the family has gotten married this year. Last year there was like no one. Has Garrett
come up with a date yet? They should probably get married soon eh ?
So Caen is super legit! I love it here already. Except for the fact that it rains. AND it
rains. AND IT RAINS. It hasn’t stopped since I have gotten here. So much rain.
But that’s okay. If it keeps at it we will be able to baptize people right in
the road. That would be neat. This week we were able to find a super cool guy
from Africa! He’s so legit. So right when we got off the train Wednesday
we took our bags home and then went right to work. It was so legit! After a couple of hours of discovering the
ville and talking to lots of people we were on our way home when we came across
this super nice African dude that was just about to get on the Tram. Right
before he got on I stopped him and told him I had something to share with him.
He kindly agreed haha. We sat down on this bench and talked. He is muslim but
open to speak with us. Since Wednesday
we have been able to see him three times! Yesterday we gave him a tour of the church. He
was loving it! And just a side note he
is a professional soccer player here in France. He is so dang good. He pulled
up his teams website and everything. He is everywhere in Nike photos and stuff.
He just got player of the month in the French League. The guy is pretty famous
here in Caen. He said he likes coming to the church because it helps him get
away from the world (mostly from all the crazy soccer fans haha). And yesterday we went out and played a little
in the back parking lot. Dude has got
some serious game. And he is hooking me
up with a 200 dollar jersey with his name on it. And he is going to get us tickets to his next
game (not sure if we can go but that would be legit... we will have to see
about that one). PRETTTTY COOL. So in exchange for all that... he gets the
gospel. The best gift of all! Lucky dog.
This last week we also had mission council (all the ZL's). It went way well. I seriously have the most legit Mission President
in the world. The man is genius. It’s
not by chance that France is starting to explode. Obviously its because of the
Lord and his timing but the Lord made sure that he called the right man for the
job, that’s for dang sure. The mission
has made so much progress since I have been on my mission. It’s been so fun to
be a part of it. I really do have the
best job in the world. Being a
missionary is neat. Wouldn’t trade it
for anything... except for maybe a twinkie. (i am lookin pretty FAT these days ;) So the new theme for this transfer is getting
amis (investigators) to church! We have
made the goal to baptize a family before Christmas (which we have made a lot of progress on) but
none of these baptisms are gonna start happening until we get people to church.
Simple enough eh? Learn the gospel, come to church, get baptized,
repeat. Simple as that. Gotta love the
gospel. Tomorrow we will have the entire zone together to pass along the new
theme. Should be a good time.
Also last week I was
able to say bye bye to all of my homies in Paris. It was kinda hard saying bye
to E and C who I was able to help baptize... along with all of the ward members
and lots of other recent converts that I had been teaching. Such a good place
Paris, I wouldn’t mind being able to go back before I finish my mission.
Chances are low but ya never know.
Oh and next week I will try to send you some pictures of
Caen and the new apartment. Our new apartment is friggggin ridiculous. It’s
like a friggin mansion. I feel like royalty. Its seriously reminds me of staying at the
Ridge up in Tahoe. It looks just like
it. Everything inside is brand new, all
from IKEA. Super nice kitchen. Super nice bedroom. We have 2 showers and two toilets,
and a big living room. If it was any nicer it would be hard not to just stay
inside all day. But let’s be real... sharing the gospel is better.
That’s about all from this side of the world. Hope all is
going well for y’all! Gross bisous.
Thanks for your prayers. Have fun with that new time change! Don’t sleep through school and work.
BYE BYE
