Whoa that’s a lot of questions mother. I’ll try my hardest to answer all of them but
no promises. Yeah I’m still pretty
decent on the ping pong table. We play
once in a while here at church with our amis. We have some amis that are pretty dang good too.
The Africans know how to ping it up. On p days we sometimes do things with other
missionaries but not too often. We are
not allowed to go in groups bigger then 4. I hope to be able to see the beaches of Normandy
but I’m not sure if I will be able to. It depends if we can find a member to take us
or we can pay a lot but I don’t want to do that. There
are a ton of other historic things a lot closer, maybe we will be able to visit
some stuff here soon. And yes we are
celebrating Thanksgiving this year again. On Thursday we have from 10 am to 6 pm to
celebrate with our districts. Luckily in
my district we have an American couple who will be doing a lot of the cooking. Thank goodness! I was given the task of making potatoes
(easy) and pie. No idea how to make pie. Do you have any good recipes for me? I
could use them. Thanks. This year we will not be playing football
though. They have always done that in
the past but to many missionaries have gotten hurt so Prez decided to cut that.
I guess we are not even supposed to be celebrating
Thanksgiving according to the mission headquarters but Prez wants us to haha. We don’t argue with him. So I have yet to do my legality in Paris. I will be traveling there tonight and in the
morning very early I will make my way to the Préfecture to do my legality. Hopefully that all works out, haha. It
would be nice if they could give me that dang card already. Only time will tell. I think that answers most of your questions. If not,
you just go ahead and pose them next week. Désolé.
Sounds like you guys will have a quiet little Thanksgiving. That will be fun. Gotta do one of those every once in a while.
Is grandpa going to be there? Good to
hear that he is getting better. I’ll be
waiting for that package. I got so many
pics I would like to take but I can’t haha! That will be nice to have a little camera
gain. That’s a bummer that theGeenwave
lost in the championship football game, but that’s okay. Sounds like they had a solid season. That’s SOO good to hear that Sister Hubbard
is recovering well. Miracles happen. Prayer works.
This last week wasn’t an easy one but that okay. Life goes on. We had 3 baptisms in the
planning but ALL three are not doing so hot.
Sad, not cool but we were able to see some good stuff anyways. Sunday we had a couple come to church that we
have been teaching! And right after we
went to the Bishops house and had an awesome meal (potatoes and meat) and discussion. They asked a gazillion questions so it was
nice to have the Bishop, who is French and can communicate a little better than
us silly Americans, answer a lot of them for us. Not sure if i have told you yet but the Bishop
here is amazzzing. He is really pushing
hard on missionary work. In the ward there are about 80 members (on a good Sunday)
and he wants to double the size of the ward in 2 years. And he isn’t kidding. He means business! We had an awesome ward meeting last week. So pretty much anytime we have a lesson he
wants us to teach with members. And the members are completely ready to teach
with us. The work here in Caen is gonna
start poppin pretty soon. This transfer
has been a little rough but things are starting to turn around. Baptisms are COMING, I can feel it. Work
hard, harvest hard. Sounds like fun to
me.
And also this week we started teaching a family! They are super legit. So when we showed up last time all of the kids
were there in the lesson. We had a
circle of 7 in the living room! The
spirit was strong as we testified of Joseph Smith and shared the message of the
restoration. Just a little side note. So the
mother has been struggling with her 13 year old son who has been getting
himself into trouble and doesn’t seem to care about what his mother says to
him. The first time we came he shook our hands and barely even said hi before
running back to his room. (I don’t blame
him though, for reals, American strangers
professing weird things would send me to my room too haha) Right now he is at the "I’m to cool
stage" in life. Best time ever. So
this last time he was completely different.
After a little chat I got him to join the lesson! And he was loving it! He was participating and everything. His mother was verrrrrrrry surprsied! Simply
put, it was cool to see what the spirit can do to others. The
spirit really does soften hearts... whether it be an 80 year old man who says
he's set in his ways or a 13 year old boy who is too cool for school. All is possible. Just pray. Ask for the spirit. Be worthy of it. Go out of your comfort zone. Be bold. Say what you feel. Then give thanks! That’s the little recipe I’ve learned on my
mission. If it seems too work, Try it!
Have a good Thanksgiving. Sorry this letter had nothing to do with
giving thanks but that okay, church is
true! Party hard. Eat a lot. Think of me. Bisoussss! LUVZ!
Elder Adams
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