tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26659091661845392312024-03-06T00:48:59.380-08:00Jakes Journey to FranceELDER JAKE STEADMAN -
FRANCE LYON MISSION
J. Steadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02268567525482962074noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665909166184539231.post-50402568586342346302016-11-28T18:20:00.002-08:002016-11-28T18:20:25.379-08:00<h2 style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #454545; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Ok so this will be my last week on my mission, and probably my second to last time emailing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Last Monday wasn't super eventful; we just went shopping and played some ping pong. Patrick and Rosaline (our amis) came over to our apartment to take a look at some stuff because they have they're own company where they do plumbing, electricity, and practically everything! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Tuesday we had an exchange with the Aix elders, Elder McKee and Elder Kahn. We visited sister Martinez as all four of us; she did some tailoring on my trousers so we went to give her that and so she could do the measurements. We also stayed and visited with her for a bit and it was really good. She's been a member for more than 50 years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">After that, Elder McKee and I went to teach Xavier who's a recent convert. Xavier then went and dropped us off at Steak N Shake so we could go meet up with the other six elders (the zone leaders had an exchange as well). Afterwards we went and visited Gabriel and Ananias.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Wednesday I did a lot of preparing for district meeting as well as apartment stuff. In the evening we went to eat at the family Mongas' home. The Mongas is a super cool family! Frère Mongas served a mission and so he was telling me what it was like going home and stuff. For dinner we also had a vegetarian meal... it was really good! I didn't even realize until I got home that it was vegetarian but I loved it. Sister Mongas also helped us find an apartment because she works for an agency. Sister Mongas also said she knows or is acquainted with Isabelle Horrocks from the ward! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Thursday was district meeting. And Thanksgiving. So of course my district meeting had a big football theme to it. We talked about a lot of good stuff with a lot of football analogies. It was interesting though because there were like 4 people that have no idea how to play American football. For lunch, we had the southern crew (Elder strong from Kentucky and Elder Pistole from Texas) make us some southern food. They made fried chicken with biscuits and gravy. They did a great job and it was very American! <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Our thanksgiving dinner was spent just at our apartment; I marinated some steaks and grilled them up, as well as we had some stuffing that my mother sent me (merci mom!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Friday we made some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies to take to an American family that hasn't been to church in a little while.. the father of the family is a rugby player for the team here. We dropped by without notice and no one was home except Mike. I've talked about Mike before in my emails from this last summer. Mike is an absolute homie! He's such a cool dude. I wasn't expecting to see him cause I thought he already peaced back out to the states, but apparently he was leaving on Sunday. It was really cool to see him again because we got to talk about how he's been since the last time we saw each other; the last time we talked, he somewhat poured out his whole life to us and how he doesn't know what to do. We invited him to fast with us on July 3rd. We didn't ever see him after that... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">But 5 months later, we were able to see him again and follow up. He said he fasted for the first time in his life on that day. He said ever since he fasted, he's had a clearer sense of what he needs to do. He said that he's also had less desire to do stuff against the commandements. He said he's willing to take consequences of past mistakes so that he can become a better person and turn his life around. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">I was so grateful that I got to see him again. It wasn't coincidence that it was just Mike that was home; he was supposed to be only one home. This quick meeting we had with him made me feel so good because I saw some of the fruits starting to grow about 5 months later. I'm super proud of him and I hope to be able to see him again back in the states. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Friday evening we went and ate with Elder Tehahe's sister and brother-in-law That just got back from being on the sea for 4 months (cause he's a marine). We had some super good steaks and it was a chill evening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">It's funny though, because they invited us back over for lunch on Saturday! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">We had lunch with them again on Saturday, where we had poisson cru and poisson cru salade. Poisson cru is raw fish. I Really liked the fish! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">For the evening we just went to Gabriel's and taught him, and we also picked up my pants from sister Martinez.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Sunday was pretty normal. Gabriel came to church and he enjoyed it! He came because one of our members called him and asked him to come so he did. It's cool that the member was such a good help to us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">In the afternoon, our ward mission leader invited us to come over for some cake because he had a lot left over from the night before. He had millefeuille, Tropezien, Opera, and a bunch of other super good cakes! I'm really gonna miss the pastries and stuff here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">Well here it is for my last week. We've got some good plans and it'll be a good time. I'll probably write an email for next week, but I don't plan to respond to a lot of personal ones next week because I won't have enough time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".SFUIText";">I love you all and I'll see you soon :)</span></div>
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<br />Also here is my invitation for when I will be speaking in sacrament meeting at home! Please come!<div>
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J. Steadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02268567525482962074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665909166184539231.post-50716847414751657322016-11-22T21:53:00.001-08:002016-11-22T22:33:42.785-08:00<h2 style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #454545; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Bonjour tout le monde!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Okay sometimes I can be a little trunky.. I mean come on, I get to see my family! Haha </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Last Monday we went and had some pastries in the morning (some giant pastries and hot chocolate). The rest of the day we just chilled and went to the chapel. Not really many things happened, nothing too eventful. Except for some shredded paper fight.. but there's no use going into detail on that :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Tuesday we went to IKEA (my favorite store) to buy some stuff for apartment. After we did an exchange with the other équipe in my apartment because both our comps were sick. I went with elder Laney. We went and had a rdv with one of their amis named Azam. Azam is from India, but he comes from a French speaking part of India. Haha apparently France had some colonies in India and there are parts of it that speak french! So that's pretty cool. We also had missionary coordination meeting with our ward mission leader. During that day I probably looked at some apartments (its become everyday now.. we're trying to get this done)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Wednesday I legit can't remember what happened.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Thursday not much happened other than some appointment with a plumber. (He was late and so we were waiting for him forever) He came and fixed one of the many problems in our apartment. Let's just say that the shower wasn't able to used for a good part of the week.. haha no more comments on that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";"> For the evening we went to the Patous' for dinner. They got us some pizza and we had a good evening with them! If you don't remember them, these are the investigators that have a baptismal date for next year because they have a really complicated situation. But they're super cool! They talked to us about their testimony of keeping the sabbath day. Ever since they had a certain experience, they've stopped working on Sunday and they always come to church. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Friday we had an exchange with the elders in Gap. I took elder pistole and we quickly took a look at some apartment stuff, and I FOUND THE PERFECT APARTMENT! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">For me it was a straight miracle because it met all of my criteria perfectly and it's what we need. So I talked to the woman on the phone and we'll hopefully have it by next week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">We also had interviews with president brown that same night. They got to Toulon around 7 and we had our interviews in the middle of the missionary movie night. It was an interesting interview because it was like a preparatory interview for my last one, we just talked about the last two years and how much of a journey it has been. I also talked to him about the apartment situation because I've been a little bugged by how much of our time it's eating up, but he reassured me that it's okay because the Lord will his part. I'm very grateful for President Brown, as well as Sister Brown. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Saturday was the conference, and it was a zone conference not like any other on my mission.. we had like the actually conference for about an hour, then Elder Loosle, Elder Richmond, and I all gave our departing testimonies. At the conference there was also Elder Kahn and à Elder Thangaraj, two of my former companions that I trained! It was special but it also seemed kind of weird. A lot of missionaries get up there for the departing testimony and talk about how they never thought this day would come. I felt the same way but I didn't say that of course because that's way too cliché and I tried to keep mine original :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">We had a super good holiday lunch, a white elephant game, and a small ping pong tournament haha. It was a pretty good conference, especially being my last one! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Sunday we had church. Between the two companionship's, we had 10 investigators at church! President brown, sister brown, and the assistants all stayed for church and that was cool. President and Sister Brown were asked to speak during sacrament meeting, and I know the ward really liked what they said! President brings just such a powerful spirit to everyone. The ward swarms them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "sfuitext";">This week is thanksgiving, and next week is my last week on the mission. Pray </span>for the people that need to hear our message :)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These weeks seem like they're taking quite a while, but then I realize I only have three weeks left... I don't even really realize that I'll be home so soon. It doesn't seem real to me at all. Haha but the work is still going! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last Monday we just went into ville and looked in random stores. I also bought a few things for after the mission. In the evening we went to Elder Tehahe's sister's home for family home evening. This time it was just us two and four Tahitian women. We had a really good spiritual thought that was shared between us and elder Tehahe's sister. And plus the food was great as always and I ate a lot! (I've probably gained weight this transfer just because of all the Tahitian eating)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tuesday was just a bunch of apartment finding stuff.. I'm kind of getting annoyed by it now just because people aren't super reliable following up, so I always have to be the one following them up (talking specifically about people in the apartment agencies). My parents would be proud of me though; I've never had to get an apartment on my own in the states, but here I am doing it in a different language and in a different country! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wednesday we saw Amerga who is a less active. He's doing well and we hope he'll come to church one of these weeks.. he wasn't there yesterday but maybe this week. We also saw our friend Jacques.. he took us to a bird park near his apartment and we talked a bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thursday was zone training. It was my last zone training of the mission! This next week we have zone conference, which will also be my last interview with president before the going home interview. For lunch we had kebabs (another thing that I'll really miss). After zone training, we had a big exchange with Vitrolles Elders And Marseille Elders. They're not in our district, but they stayed in Toulon for the evening, because if they went back to Marseilles they would've been there after their curfew of 6:00PM. My comp and I went in a trio with Elder Loosle (my roommate in the spring!) and went to do some work. First we visited a single woman named Helene and gave her a blessing. After we visited a member named Sylvain. We then went and visited our Brazilian homie Gabriel and his parents. We shared our lesson with them and then we brought Gabriel with us to eat at Burger King with the other 5 Elders. Elder Thangaraj was also there so it was chill chilling with my homie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friday we did some more apartment stuff.. but afterward we went to pass a member to see how she's doing and it turn out that she's not doing super well.. so we called the other équipe of elders to come over for us to give her a blessing. It was s very spiritual moment for us and this member. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday we went and had lunch with one our amis named Henri.. he invited to come eat with him.. now my parents and family aren't going to believe this one.. but for lunch we went to a seafood place. It was a first for me for a lot of things and i actually enjoyed it. I ate mussels, salmon, stuffed octopus, and swordfish! I wouldn't say that in the future I would choose that over a steak, but I actually liked it! I'm glad I got to do it because while being in a Mediterranean Sea city, it's somewhat obligatory to do that. So we finally did :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After that we went to Henri's home for a lesson... it lasted a lot longer than I wish it would have, but he just had so many questions. We gave him a Book of Mormon to read and he said he would do it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That same night we were walking home with the other elders and we saw a couch and arm chair on the side of the road.. and so we sat down on it. It was right by a stoplight and so people at the stoplight were smiling and laughing when they saw us just sitting there... so we ended up sitting there for a half hour during our dinner hour just waving to people. Haha it was really random and dumb but people liked it! We got some funny reactions and some photos taken of us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday was a pretty normal Sunday, other than the fact we had 11 investigators at church between our équipe and the other elders équipe! It was incredible. It's probably the most I've seen my whole mission in one single ward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My comp also somewhat passed out in the late afternoon.. he was in the kitchen and he blacked out and fell and hit his head on the cabinet door on the ground. He busted it open a bit. We didn't even hear him fall but Elder Laney found him laying on the ground with his eyes open but he wasn't responding. He came back to his senses and says he doesn't remember falling. He said he started to blackout but he has no recollection of falling. We called the mission nurse and she suggested resting and drinking water. It really scared us for a moment but he's doing fine now :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well that's about all. I love you all! Have a great week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love three-weeks-left Elder Steadman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(As you can see I'm taking advantage of all the food I can) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">This week was interesting but pretty sweet.. I'm down to less than a month left now, and I'm kind of stressed out about that. Elder Richmond (who's going home with me) and I were talking about and thinking about our homes. It felt superrrr weird to think about our actual house! Like thinking about my room is weird... hahah anyways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Last Monday we just spent the day shopping cause it was Elder Tehahe's birthday.. but that evening we went to a Tahitian sisters house (his sister haha) for his birthday. We ate really well and we got to meet some people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Tuesday we had an interesting rdv with a guy who's a practicing Jew but accepts Jesus as his savior and redeemer... I don't even understand how you can be both.. He's a nice guy and he wants to see us, but he doesn't really let us teach anything. So we'll see if we continue with him. He has a neighbor who's Tahitian, so we'll probably go knock his door :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Wednesday we had an exchange! I actually got to go with Elder Kahn, who is my bleu. So that was pretty chill being with him again! We just contacted for a bit and taught some people and got their phone numbers. After we made two trios, and I went with Elder Kahn and Elder McKee to go teach a lesson to a woman. It turns out that the woman's husband was super interested too. So we somewhat taught about the restoration with an emphasis as God the eternal father, and we got a return appointment with them! So we're super stoked and we hope to be able to make some good progress with them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Thursday we just had district meeting and stuff. We have three people in the district that are native French speakers and don't speak fluent English, so we did the meeting completely in French. That was a first for me doing the district meeting in French but it went well. We ate supreme nachos for lunch. Afterwards I was feeling pretty sick, so we took some time at the chapel to look for apartment stuff (I've kind of taken charge of the whole apartment search) and we went in for the night to do area book stuff... I'm not sure if I mentioned last week, but we finally got the area book and planner app! After a year and a half of having an iPad, we now have the app. Honestly it's pretty tedious trying to transition everything over to it, and it's also hard to be motivated to work on it cause I won't even use it for long.. hahah</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Friday we took a bus to a place called the Rivest to meet one of our friends named Henri. Henri is a philosopher. Henri thinks a lot about everything. Henri has a lot of questions. Henri talks a lot. Henri is also a really nice guy. He lives in Toulon but wanted to have our rdv in the rivest because he lived there for fifteen years. It's a beautiful little village in the mountains behind Toulon. I wasn't able to grab any photos but maybe the next time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">That evening we went with a member to visit a member woman. She doesn't really have the capability to come to church in Toulon, but she still has a lot of faith and is doing a lot to grow it. I actually met this woman back in Bordeaux because she came to church with her daughter, who lives in Bordeaux with her husband.. so I met that woman over there and I see her again here! She made us some chocolate chip cookies and wow! those made me so trunky. Hahah </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">So as you know, my comp is Tahitian, and so naturally if we see Tahitians on the street we easily start talking to him. We've been invited by multiple tahitian families to activities with their friends. So we've been meeting lots of really cool tahitian people that are open to the gospel. Elder Tehahe's sister has been a lot of help as well. Specifically there's this one couple that we've been thinking about. The subject line comes from this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">For Saturday afternoon, we had about two hours open. In my mind i was just like "okay we'll go contact" but my comp was like "No let's not do that. Let's go find miracles." So I was like okay, that's a better Idea! So we started to find some miracles.. we found one in the first five minutes. We taught a guy sitting on a bench; he was interested and we got his number. Later on, we were walking around, finding miracles, but at the same time looking for an apartment.. so we see these three huge towers, and decided to go take a look at it, to see if there's anything there that we could check out for an apartment. We're walking in between two of the towers in a small park, and I hear something from one of the towers.. I look at my comp and I said "do you hear that? That's a Tahitian ukulele!" Now Tahitian ukuleles aren't just normal ukuleles. They have 8 strings, </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">they sound higher than a normal ukulele, and they have a different body shape. So I was just thinking that there are for sure Tahitians in the area. We walk to the other side of the building, and the doors are wide open. So we just go in and start looking at the mailboxes. We find three names that are potentially Tahitian families. We started to make our way through this maze of a building and get to the sixth floor. We go to a door and we hear a lot of people talking... so we're just like, dang it's a party and we wouldn't want to interrupt them. But I was also thinking "dang it's a party let's go join them." So we decided to knock the door..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">A Tahitian guy opens up, and his wife is behind him and she's like "hey come in and eat!" We met the wife last Monday at a family home evening! </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">and there was that couple that we've been thinking and praying about, plus a few other people we know, and like 15 Tahitians we don't know! Literally it was insane that we found ourselves there! They invited us in to come eat with them because it was their babies birthday. I found myself again surrounded by Tahitians and being the only American haha. We ate well and got to talk to a lot of people!</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">That same night we went to our Brazilian friends' home, and they fed us pizza (Side note: yes we had second dinner because both of them were unplanned. It's a miracle that we've had these random dinners because our stove top in the apartment broke and so all we have is an oven and a microwave, and it's kind of difficult to make stuff without the stove top.. so the fact that we're just getting food randomly has been great!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Sunday was pretty normal. Last week there were a lot of members that were gone on vacation, so I got to see some more members again so that was nice. My comp and I got to give a blessing to a woman in our ward with our bishop and one of his counselor.. she's going to get surgery this week and it's running a lot of risks because it could mess with her nerves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";"><i>Note from Mom and Dad: We got talk on the phone this last week with Jake on Wednesday. His Grandma Lois (Karls mother) passed away on Wednesday and we had contacted the mission secretary by email to let them know we were emailing him to tell him the news. Before we even got the chance to tell him, President Brown called him and shared the news with him and had him call home to talk to us. He is doing really well and said he is so busy he doesn't have time to get trunky. (34 days left today but who is counting???) He said he only occasionally thinks about how much he is going to miss France. ( I don't think he wants to come home haha) But it was great that we could talk to him, hear his voice and know what a wonderful mission president (s) he has had.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545;">Monday was a pretty crazy day.. I left Bordeaux in the morning and had a direct train to Marseilles. It stopped in Toulouse for five minutes so we got off and said hi to the missionaries there. It's the last time I'll see a lot of them so it was nice to see them! I arrived in Marseilles and had about 30 minutes til my next train. There were quite a few of my mission homies! Elder Thangaraj, Elder Engel, and Elder Moss were there. It was fun seeing Engel cause I didn't think I'd ever see him before I go home, but we ate dinner with him at night before he got the ferry to Corsica! Elder Moss is headed out to Pau, so it was probably the last time I see that homie. Elder Thangy, the homie that I served with in valence is in this zone! As well as my trainee elder Kahn! As well as my future college roommate elder Loosle! It'll be cool to see those guys again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">So a little more about my comp.. His name is Elder Tehahe,he's from Tahiti, he's like 6'7 and he's super chill. Today (Halloween) is actually his birthday! This morning elder Richmond and I ran to a boulangerie and bought him some pastries. He's in his fourth transfer but I can tell already that he's a baller missionary. It's super interesting though because he has a sister who's a member here and Toulon, and he knows a couple other Tahitians.. he talked to president and the assistants and apparently they are aware of it and they dont have any problem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Wednesday we did some more organizing stuff for the apartment (we're four in an apartment that isn't super big). Elder Tehahe and I went and did some finding in the afternoon. We dropped by a members home really fast to say hello, and then we went and visited some old people I taught. In the evening we went and visited Ananias and Gabriel, the Brazilians! It was super nice to see them again. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "sfuitext";">On Thursday, Elder Tehahe's sister took us to lunch with three of her nonmember friends. We went to a Chinese buffet and it was super good! One of the friends might be interested to learn more, so we hope to see them again. That day we contacted for a really long time with not much success.. then around 7pm we were waiting for the other elders in ville to go to a dinner appointment. We had like five minutes so we decided to talk to some people and we started talking to a woman who was super cool! She's from Reunion Island and she was down to talk about God. So we got her info and all so that will be cool. We had dinner with Ananias and Gabriel, our Brazilian homies. They made these things that are like homemade Brazilian hot pockets, and they were really good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Friday we met with Amerga, who was a less active member that I met when I was here. It's nice because every missionary has there own personal, mental area Book, and it's nice that we don't have to start with no knowledge. Amerga is from Ethiopia and he'd like to come back to church, but he has a lot to do. He has a pregnant wife who isn't a member and we're going to try to teach her soon. We went to try to pass one our old investigators, but her name wasn't on the mailbox.. so we tried talking to some people and do some contacting and the first person we found a woman that would be interested! It's crazy how the Lord will put us in places and things might now work out, but in the end there's another reason that we're supposed to be there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Saturday we contacted for a really long time in the afternoon. We weren't having much success until our last conversation with some old guy that just got off his bike. In our conversation, one random dude just walked up and asked the old guy about his bike, and the random guy was pulled into our conversation. We ended up taking his number and we will see him soon! It's cool because not many people approach us like that. In the evening we went and played some sports with our Brazilian Ami Gabriel and some other random Africans. Gabriel is really into skating and so he was showing us some cool stuff at the skatepark! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Sunday we had church and it was so great to see members again! They all remembered and it was a warm re-welcoming to the ward, as well as the two others. They're pretty stoked about have four missionaries so they're ready to work with us. After church we did our one hour of feu de joie.. i dont think I've ever explained this, but president brown has given us one hour every Sunday to work on our spiritual and temporal autonomy, as well as genealogy. So we have a lot of different things we can do; for example we can do indexing or family history work. We can also work on things such as applying for universities, learning a new skill such as sewing, and et cetera. So lately, I've actually been teaching myself to play piano and practicing! It's coming.. slowly, haha but it's nice that president gives us that one hour so we can try to develop ourselves in many different ways. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">So first of all, I'm being transferred again. Honestly it was probably the biggest curve ball yet in my whole mission. But I'll be returning back to Toulon for the last six weeks of my mission! Except this time I'm opening a new equipe... so the companionship that is already there will have all the amis and less actives, and I can't necessarily show up and just take them back. So we're just gonna go hard for six weeks and see how much we can do. I'll be with a Tahitian missionary named Elder Tehahe, and I guess he's like 6'7. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Monday we went to entrecote and then just walked around in ville after and didn't do too much. In the evening we saw our friend Jimmy. It's been about a month since we've seen him but he's doing okay. He hasn't read the Book of Mormon at all but he said he'll read some of it.. so we'll see! After wards we went contacting and met three Chinese people! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Tuesday we planned a little bit for English class so that we can have more of an organized class.. haha then we went to see one of Chinese friends we met from last week, named Ling! He asked if he could bring a friend so he did. We went to the institute and just played some ping pong and pool to kind of warm up to them. With our Chinese friends, we don't go straight into God and the gospel because they don't know much about it yet, so we just create a solid friendship and slowly introduce them to it. It was really fun! We went to a boulangerie afterward and one of our Chinese homies (Yue) bought us some drinks. It was nice talking to them; we talked about God and they were like "yeah maybe he does exist.. I'm not sure" so it's perfect for us to testify to them! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">After that one we had another rdv with another Chinese friend! We went to the chapel and played ping pong and started warming up to him. He's a super nice guy! His name is Junjie. He doesn't have many beliefs but he was asking us some really questions! He's a very sincere guy and he was just like "I just want to be a good person and so good things" haha so we had a lot of fun with him as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Wednesday we went out to Angouleme to do a baptismal interview for the elders out there. (One of the elders being elder Sorensen from draper!) Their Ami is a French woman and she is super prepared. Apparently she had a dream where she got baptized and ever since she had a huge desire to do it! I let elder Hall do the baptismal interview because he hasn't done one yet. It went well and she got baptized over the weekend! Unfortunately we weren't able to go because it's quite a bit away.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Thursday we went and visited the Geney family. It's an older couple in the ward at has a bunch of children that are all active and some are married and have a few kids. We had lunch with them and it was great. Their son benjamin took us home (it was like 30 minutes outside of Bordeaux). Benjamin is about 28 years old and he's pretty. He served a mission in geneva and so we connected well on a lot of mission stuff. He took us to a store before going home and bought us Reese's! Hahah we had no idea that there were Reese's there. So that was nice of him! We also had English class that evening and that went well. There was about 10 people there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "sfuitext";">Friday we received our calls in the morning.. honestly I wasn't super stoked to be leaving again. But it's not my will, and in the end I'm sure I'll be grateful for it. But we had a nice lunch with some members in our ward and the sisters! They took us to a nice bistro and told us to get whatever we want.. so of course we took something with meat. Elder hall and I shared an </span>Entrecote<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "sfuitext";"> (steak) for two people. Dang it was good!! These members were a,so way chill. One is named Adam who served in Provo </span>utah<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "sfuitext";"> mission a couple years ago, the other was his girlfriend who served in the states George mission, and the other is </span>Yohann<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "sfuitext";"> who is just a super chill </span>gendarmerie<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "sfuitext";"> (kind of like national guard).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Later that evening, one of the sisters Chinese amis invited all of us over for Chinese food at her home. So we went and it was super fun and good! Some of the best Chinese food I've had.. and it was even home made!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Saturday we played sports in the morning. In the afternoon we went to a baptism for the elders in the Lormont ward. It went well. All eight missionaries that were there sang a song.. so that was my first time ever singing in front of people.. I just didn't sing loudly hahah. That evening we went to an American diner as kind of a last meal thing before transfers. It was pretty good! We also saw Jordan that night and said goodbye cause he couldn't come on Sunday </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Sunday was church with lots of goodbyes. I have a lot of people in this ward that are super chill and I'm good friends with, so it was rough saying goodbye. But I know I'll see them again in the future! We had to run around a bit because some missionaries were getting moved on Sunday. So we just had to go help them out at the gare and stuff. Again, it was more goodbyes. These ones are getting more difficult just cause I'm near the end of my mission and I probably won't see them before I go home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Anyways, I'm on my train right now writing this email and I'll be in Toulon tonight. I'm excited to pick up where I left off and go hard for my last six weeks. I'm excited to do my best to be a fourth floor last door missionary that continues until the end. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Today is my 22 month mark.. so that's why I put that hahah </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Ok so last Monday we went to a place called Arcachon. We took a ton of pictures and videos but I don't have the patience to send all of them by email. It was super cool though! Because it's after October 1st, we're allowed to go to the beaches and stuff. And not too far from Arcachon is this huge sand dune up against the Atlantic Ocean. I don't think very many missionaries in our mission get to see both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean! But here's a few...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Tuesday we had zone conference with president brown, our zone, and the Toulouse zone. It was a super cool conference and something really cool happened. Zone conference as pretty different for me... because I am now somehow the oldest of the six ZLs that were there, I was asked to conduct the meeting. So that was weird sitting on the stand during the presentations. But it was cool because I could watch the facial expressions of people. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">President said that he was having a hard time on deciding what to talk about at the conference. So he was just like "what do you want to talk about? What questions do you have?" He actually talked a lot about what going on in the mission right now. Not very many missionaries know what's going on. I don't want to go into too deep of details to make anyone worry (Bordeaux is really safe.. not much to worry about). But currently we have the zone leaders from Aix-en-Provence (like 4 or 5 hours away by train) serving here in Bordeaux because there was terrorist threats and suspicions. There was suspicions on terrorist activity that would be targeted to the church. So president played it safe and took both the zone leaders and STLs out of Aix En Provence. Church was also cancelled, which is once in a million for church being cancelled due to terrorist suspicion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">So basically president was getting our inputs on whether or not these missionaries should go back to this ville. After talking about it, we all thought that it would be fine to put them back in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">We then were taught by the APs, had lunch, and then us, the Toulouse zone leaders, and the Aix zone leaders presented. During the Aix zone leaders presentation, they were talking about samuel the lamanite. They were sharing the story of how he was forced out of his city and he almost didn't return to it because of the danger there. But he decided to return anyway because he felt like there were people that needed him. And so he turned back and went and prophesied unto the people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Right when president Brown heard this, he immediately stood up and interrupted them. He said "Samuel the lamanite was forced out of his city... but he returned." He then looked to these zone leaders that were forced out of there city and said "Are you ready to return?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">It was super cool! He pretty much received the revelation right there. He said he was going to confirm his feelings later, but it was really cool how president received that right there during the conference. Everyone in the room was mind-blown. It was so cool! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">I'm super grateful for President and sister Brown. They are the perfect people to lead this mission right now! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">That evening, we went to a members home named Oihab so we could go home teach someone. On our way, we met a Chinese guy named Junjie. We became his friend really fast and got his number! We'll hopefully see him this week. The members czar actually broke down so we didn't end up going. But we stayed and visited him for a little bit. Oihab is a professor at a private business school here in Bordeaux, so it was cool talking to him about business stuff. Afterward, we got on the bus and we started talking to another Chinese guy. His name is Ling and we also connected with him really fast! We're going to see him as well this week. It turns out that the sisters found two Chinese friends as well, so we're going to do some sort of Chinese game night this week or next week. It's super fun working with international people!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Wednesday we had a long rdv with Emmanuel, a recent convert of about a year because he's have some struggles. We hope we were able to help him!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Thursday we had an exchange where we went with all four of us and painted inside a members home. It took quite a while but it was good. We had English class that evening and there were 9 people that showed up! There were four nonmembers and 5 members, so that was pretty cool. Especially for it being the second time, it was a really good turnout. We even got a phone call to the church this week with some random guy asking if he can come. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Friday we helped some members clean the chapel in the morning.. and then we did a bunch of random tasks. That evening we went porting (door knocking) for about two hours. We met this German professor (who speaks English). He kept asking questions to try to stump us or find a fault with our doctrine (it wasn't aggressive, he was very nice), but all the questions were fairly easy to answer just by testifying about the doctrine we know.. for example, he asked "are children born with sin?" And so that was pretty easy to explain. He like our response a lot especially because he was a father. He has two young kids. He wasn't interested to take another rdv because he's a pretty busy guy, but we gave him a restoration brochure and our card. He seemed open and humble enough to read it and pray about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Saturday we had ward council in the morning and it was one of the most effective ward councils in my mission! We talked a lot about the talk from President Uchtdorf called "Learn from Alma and Amulek." We are going to start focusing on finding our Amuleks in the ward. It was perfect because there is a recent convert that is kind of struggling because he doesn't have many friends in the ward or a calling, but the ward council talked about helping him and giving him a calling. It was exactly what we wanted! <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">After we went to samedi sport and had some fun playing soccer. I've really started to enjoy soccer again. I say again because I played when I was like five years old... Hahah in the evening, we had a family home evening about the temple. Our ward mission leader did a presentation on the temple and it was really nice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Sunday we had church and our homie Jordan came. We were able to fix a lot of rdvs with members for the week so that will be really cool! After we had lunch with Frere Defranchi, and we had dinner with the Moutalamaya family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Love you all. Have a great week :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 16pt;">Wednesday we had an exchange with Angoulême. I was with elder Duffy for the day and we had a day full of rdvs! (We actually had nothing planned... so we planned to teach lessons on the street haha it was a pretty cool day. Elder Sorenson (who is from draper) was with my comp elder hall. Between the four of us, we were able to teach 14 lessons in one day! It was really cool and we had a great day. We met a lot of people that seem pretty interested. So it was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 16pt;">Thursday we went to Limoges early in the morning for district meeting... it was soooooo cold! Haha it took three hours to get there.. and another three to get back. District meeting was great! And one of the elders, Elder maiava, went all out on lunch and it all looked really nice. We came back from Limoges and went straight to our first English class! There were 5 people that came so that was pretty cool. They were people we all know pretty well so it was a very chill English class, but it was fun!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 16pt;">Friday we got our IKEA delivery (our apartment needed a bunch of stuff) so we spent all morning setting stuff up. After we went to visit Bruno but that didn't work out, so we went contacting for a little bit. We didn't have much success. In the evening we met up with a potential investigator to learn more about him but we won't be able to teach him because of certain circumstances.. he's a really nice guy but he's not in a good position to receive the gospel and be able to follow everything. That evening we went out to dinner with the sisters and Yuwei, who is one of their amis. She's Chinese! A few weeks ago I asked her if she knows any good chinese hot pot places in Bordeaux.. which led us to setting a day and time for all of us to go get Chinese hot pot! I had Chinese hot pot for my first time in Toulouse last year and it was super good, but this time was even better! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 16pt;">On the table is a small burner for a pot. You choose the kind of soupe you want (I chose a spicy one with chili peppers and stuff) and then you put the pot on your burner and let it heat up. After that you can order all sorts of stuff à volonté (I dont know what the correct way to say it is but you can have as much as you want.. for example there's beef, pork, ham, vegetables such at carrots, noodles, rice cakes, shrimp, etc) and then you place the food in the pot, let it heat up and then you pull it out and put it in the little bowl of sauce that you've made, and then eat it. It's SO GOOD! Like absolutely amazing. And apparently I really like shrimp now, so that's new. (My family just knows how much I didn't like seafood before the mish)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 16pt;">Saturday we played sports in the morning and we played soccer. We met some cool people and there were some members there. After we came home and ate, then we went back to the church for a rdv that didn't actually happen cause the girl didn't come.. but we taught the member that came and that was nice! Afterwards there was a baptism for a girl in our ward and we stayed for that. There were quite a few nonmembers and we were able to talk to them. We had our missionary meeting with our ward mission leader and then came home!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 16pt;">Sunday we had church.. our Ami Jordan came so that's good! He's hesitant to accept a baptismal date, but he's super integrated and loves the church and the ward and the doctrine. So we'll see what happens with him.. after church we contacted and then went to Frere (brother) Defranchi's for a little spiritual meeting with some young adults and Jordan. It was really good. Frere Defranchi Is an opera singer in Bordeaux; he has an "Im a Mormon" video if you want to try to find him! He's super nice and loves helping us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 16pt;">Afterwards we contacted to try to get our 20th lesson of the week and we taught the first person we met! She wasn't super interested but it was still good. But we were happy to get our twenty lessons! We were able to meet some really cool people that we hope to see this next week. The whole push of twenty lessons comes from Elder Neil L Andersen's promise of "if you teach twenty lessons a week, you will baptize once a month." So we're striving to get that! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So last Monday like I mentioned, we went to dinner at l'entrecôte with Jeff and Paul, the two Americans. Jeff is a member and Paul isn't. Because we translated for them on Sunday they offered to take us out to dinner on Monday. I didn't really know what l'entrecote was (it means like meat from the rib, which I already knew, but I had no idea what I was getting myself into). The restaurant opened up at 7:15PM, and at 6:45 there was already a line. Fortunately on a Monday night there isn't too many people, but apparently on Saturday, there are easily 50 people waiting in line 30 minutes before it opens up. It's a nice restaurant with multiple levels and tables, and it fills up quick. There's only one thing on the menu: steak. The only thing that the waitress asked us was how we want our steak cooked. They start you off with a salad (which was simple yet good) and then they bring out a plate with lots of fries and your initial steak. I can honestly testify that those fries are the best fries in the world! Never before have I tasted fries so good.. it had the perfect combination of crunchy and soft, and the taste was impeccable. The fries are also bottomless, so you can always get more. They put the initial slices of steak on your plate, and then your second steak on a platter in the middle of the table with the buttery sauce that you can pour over your steak and fries... not to mention, we were in line pretty early so we got some good seats on the third level with a nice view of the middle area of Bordeaux. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And plus it was such a great evening spent with Jeff and Paul! They're two business men that are here teaching and a private business school, so I really enjoyed talking with them. Paul, who is unfamiliar with a mission, was super impressed at what we do! Haha he was saying that at 20 years old he still was just messing around and not doing much with his life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On Tuesday we went with Frere Cadeau to do some work in his garden. We went with him and our Ami Jordan. It was pretty fun! It was great being there with Jordan. I feel like our relationship with him is really good because we do a lot of other good things with him rather than just only sitting down and teaching him. He's getting involved in service in the ward, and this week we might even go get kebabs together haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I forgot to mention something in my email from two weeks ago.. when President Brown was talking to us at MLC, he shared a story from his mission. He had written "I can baptize" on a piece of paper and posted it to his wall. His trainer, who was a wise man, came over and crossed out the "can" on the piece of paper and instead wrote "will." President explained to us that this is faith that we need to have in our mission... instead of the "I can" faith we need to have the "I will" faith. I though it was pretty cool! It made me think of young missionaries that have seemingly unrealistic faith, but really it's the young (bleu) missionaries that work so many miracles in our mission because of the great faith that they have! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On Wednesday we went into ville in the morning to do what we call a "Mount Thou" experience. I think I mentioned it in my email a few weeks ago, but basically we go to a high spot where we can see our sector and we pray. We pray to be able to have the faith necessary so that we can find a family. President brown promised every area in the mission that we will be able to find a family that will be ready to hear the gospel. So now we're trying our hardest to find that family! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Later that evening we taught a new guy named Florent. Florent is a really intelligent guy but he's pretty open. And he's also French! He was very respected and he seemed pretty happy that we would give him a little tour of the chapel. He said that he accepted the Book of Mormon the first time because we gave it with a heartfelt offer. He said he will read it and pray about it. A member named Stephane was there with us and I haven't mentioned much about him.. but Stephane is a really nice member that helps us out so much! He's about 30 and he served a mission. He's been a member for about 6 years. The missionary that found him was one of my MTC teachers so that was cool to see that connection. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thursday was district meeting and it was pretty fun. Especially with the nachos for lunch haha. After that we met with Emmanuel to work on some genealogy stuff, then we went out to Lyon on the plane. Lately I've started disliking airports.. I think I take them for granted but I just hate waiting in the lines for what seems like ages haha but the one hour plane ride is not bad. It's better than an 8 hour train ride. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Random story: when we were getting off plane and headed into ville, Elder Hall was like "what do you want to eat?" So I was like "Mexican!" Haha mostly as a joke because Mexican food in France is rare because these frenchies can't handle any spicy food.. so instead we went to Burger King in the huge Lyon mall, and it turns out that they are putting a real Mexican taco burrito place right next to Burger King! I don't want to be disrespectful or sacrilegious, but I took that as a nice tender mercy from our Heavenly Father! Haha that Mexican place will be frequented often by missionaries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Friday we had our exchange. Originally we were going to help a family move some stuff like an hour or two, but then we realized the task would take a lot longer. Long story short, my days of being a moving elder were once relived, but instead of moving apartments, we moved a house of a non member family from Ireland, and it took us from 9:30AM to about 9:00PM. It was long and tiring and I'm still sore from the lifting, but it was so much fun! I went on exchange with elder Landry, who is one of the only three missionaries in the mission that are is older than me Haha. I feel so ancient. But it was super fun to do that. By the end of the day, it was elder hall and I, the assistants, the secretary, and the two ZLs in Lyon, plus an American member. So we got the job done and the family was super grateful! The family knows the missionaries and isn't super interested in the gospel.. but service can go a long way! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Saturday we returned home to Bordeaux, and by the time we finally got back from the airport we went straight to the chapel to go watch general conference! I love general conference. Sunday we spent all at the chapel as well with some members watching conference. We were able to watch all the sessions in English :) no offense to the French, I just naturally prefer it in English because of the tone of the voices!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of my favorite talks was President Nelsons on joy.. I thought it was so great! It made me reflect on my life and my mission a bit and to think about the joy that I have in this life. The joy I get from living this gospel is great! I was studying more on joy this morning, and I came across the scripture in Luke where he angel announces "good tidings of great joy." This joy is literally Jesus Christ! It can still be a joy in our lives if we just put our faith to the test and try it :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don't remember too much of this week.. I was sick for most of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last Monday we had a short Pday and then went out to Lyon for mission leadership conference. We had master tacos that night so that's always wonderful. We had MLC on Tuesday and that was pretty good. Last time was kind of a chastisement, this one wasn't that much of one hahah it was very spiritual and really good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wednesday we had a bunch of preparation and errands to do for zone training on Thursday. In the evening we were able to go to institute with Jordan. Institute went really well and it was super interesting! Our Ami Jordan enjoyed it as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The next day was zone training and we had a lot of fun and learned good stuff. I kind of prefer presenting to a larger group of people rather than a few people because there's more participation and ideas. We did IKEA meatballs for lunch and that went really well.. because who doesn't love ikea meatballs? After zone training finished we cleaned and stuff. I wasn't feeling super good, so I laid down on the floor in the library of the church and took a small nap... haha I woke up feeling somewhat better. But that evening we met with Jordan and Frere Cadeau and we continued talking about temples. We asked Jordan if he would like to go to the temple some day and he said of course! So we're trying to work to get him to accept a baptismal date so that he can do that and go to the temple afterwards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Friday we had a crepe night and that was fun with amis and members (and the crêpes of course)! Jordan came and enjoyed it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Saturday we had samedi sportif and weekly planning. I didn't bash heads with anyone this time ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sunday was church and these two American guys came. They're teaching at the university for the week. The one is a member and the other isn't. We translated for them and stuff for all three hours of church. The nonmember isn't super interested but he still enjoyed church and all. Afterwards they were like "hey can we take you out to l'entrecote sometime this week?" (L'entrecote is a French steak restaurant chain.. I've never been but apparently it's really good.) so they're takin us to dinner tonight.. I'm pretty stoked! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We also had two pretty cool miracles on Sunday... we had nothing planned in the afternoon so we planned two lessons. One at 3:00 pm and one at 5:30pm. Exactly at 3:00 pm we taught two guys from Africa and fixed another rdv, and exactly at 5:30pm we met a girl on the street, taught her and we're going to try to see her this week! Miracles happen if you just try God. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Hello everyone! This week was pretty long.. We had missionaries sleep</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">in our apartment from Sunday night to Friday and it was a pretty crazy</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">week. I won't go into to many details, but I'm fine :) also Elder Hall</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">is great and we get along well!</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Last Monday was just filled up with running around ville doing stuff</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">and making sure people getting transferred got on trains and stuff.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">There were multiple moments where we were pressed on time and we had</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">to run after a few buses for about a kilometer trying to catch it but</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">not catching it.. Also done in missionary shoes, which lead to some</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">shin splints for the week haha. I got my new comp Elder Hall. Like I</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">said, he was the office elder and I saw him start his mission so I</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">already know him pretty well.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Tuesday was an interesting day. We had a normal day planned and then</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">we had to go help out some other elders in Bordeaux. I ended up going</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">on exchange with Elder Utia who is from Tahiti.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Wednesday we had a few rdvs. Frere Defranchi invited us over to eat</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">and teach his friends. We knew the one guy and met and taught the</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">girl. Frere Defranchi actually has an "I'm a Mormon" video. He's a</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">opera singer for the Bordeaux opera. He's also a really good member</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">missionary! He has a few of his daughters in the states. But it was a</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">really good meeting. Later that day we also saw one of our new Amis</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">named Safiella. She's from French New Guinea and she's really cool!</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">She's studying chemistry here. She enjoyed seeing the chapel and</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">talking with us. She really wants to come to church!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Thursday We saw Jordan and that went really well. Jordan is really</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">progressing and understanding everything. We also saw one of our</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">friends Jimmy in the evening. It was our first time meeting him but</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">he's super cool! He's from Haiti, but he's a medical student here that</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">loves God. He was so interested and picking things up so fast! He said</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">he'll read the Book of Mormon.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Friday was a bunch of contacting but we didn't really get much out of</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">it.. I don't remember what else happened.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Saturday we went to play sports in the morning with some people and we</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">were playing soccer. It's this small, turf field right next to</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Bordeaux river in a big sports park. It's a really fun spot and</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">there's a lot of other sports you can do. But at some point in the</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">match there was a high flying ball, and so I went up to do a header,</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">but I went up at the same time as a sister missionary (soeur</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">filbrandt) and my forehead hit her and somehow her teeth caught me...</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">I felt super bad cause I had wrecked her jaw! So i was seeing if she</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">was okay then she was like "Elder Steadman you're bleeding!" Haha at</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">that moment I knew exactly what was happening.. I had a gash in my</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">head, I couldn't feel the pain because of the adrenaline, it was</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">bleeding a lot, which mean that I need stitches. It wasn't a first for</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">me. So we stepped off the field and one of the members had a little</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">first aid kit by hazard and he used steristrips and taped it to close</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">it and put a bandaid on. So then we went to the hospital. This</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">hospital in Bordeaux is a student hospital and kinda sketchy. First</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">off a lot of the lights were burnt out which is never good for a</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">hospital situation. And it was funny because as they were bringing me</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">into the room they were like "oh we need to clean up." So they're just</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">cleaning up the blood of the other person while I'm just laying on the</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">bed haha. Literally everyone in there was fascinated at the fact that</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">I'm American and speak French haha. It seemed like four different</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">people took a look at me, but they concluded that I didn't need</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">stitches because it wasn't deep enough.. Yay! So there's my experience</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">at the French hospital.. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Sunday we went to church. Jordan came to church but none of our other</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Amis did.. But it went well! We taught a lesson in the second hour</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">(which is the second week in a row where someone asks us the morning</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">of to teach if) and it went well. No one in the class was over the age</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">of 29, so it made it a little more comfortable on my part.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">This week was a little more difficult because of a lot of different</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">factors.. Hospital trips, shin splints, being sick, dealing with</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">difficulties from other missionaries, and loss of a loved one at home,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">but I </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">know that it's all worth it and this is the work of the Lord. He loves</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">us and here there for us in this life and especially in the life to</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">come. </span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">I love you all, have great week!</span><br style="color: #333333;" /></span>J. Steadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02268567525482962074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665909166184539231.post-90550586619014744372016-09-13T15:46:00.001-07:002016-09-13T15:46:17.858-07:00<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Hey everyone!</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">We got transfer calls and I'm getting Elder Hall. I know him pretty</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">well already and I'm excited to be with him.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Last Monday We Spent Pday in Bordeaux. We went to eat at a brasserie</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">and it was pretty good. After we just went shopping for a little bit</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">in Bordeaux and ate some ice cream. We just chilled and walked around</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Bordeaux. That evening we went to family home evening with our ami</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Jordan. It was a super fun night! There was a spiritual thought, a</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">game and some food. There were two American dudes from California. One</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">of them is a member and the other was his friend. They're college</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">students from Santa Barbra. Haha they're super chill dudes and it was</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">fun talking to them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">On Tuesday We played ping pong and taught Jordan in the morning with</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Frere Cadeau. The lesson was going pretty long, so we stopped and ate</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">lunch while Jordan and Frere Cadeau kept talking. They talked about a</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">lot of stuff and it seems to have been pretty cool. After that we went</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">out and contacted for a while and taught a few lessons. We also</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">visited Emmanuel and that went well. We passed the Picard family and</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">talked to them briefly!</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">On Wednesday We met again with Jordan in the morning. We invited him</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">to be baptized but he said not for the moment. Afterwards we went to</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Arcachon to do some work. It was all tourists and we didn't really</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">have much happen. We ported and nothing happened, but it was still a</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">really cool ville to go to. Probably one of the prettiest Villes I've</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">seen so far. After that we came home and went to institute with Jordan</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">and that went really well.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">On Thursday We contacted for a little bit until we realized that</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Barben didn't have his badge. We went and bought some Champomy</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">(martinelli's in France) and took it to Frere and soeur Cadeau for</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">their wedding anniversary. They were pretty stoked about it about it.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">After we went home, got his badge, and then went to the Dorat. We</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">passed some people including this guy named Stephane. It was an</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">interesting lesson but it went well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">On Friday We saw Jordan in the morning and then had an exchange with</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">the Lormont elders. I was with elder Duncan. He's a pretty tranquille</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">dude and we had a good exchange. We went to go pass a member and got</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">lost in some woods, but we still made it to the members home. We went</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">to visit the family Coppens, but we had no idea who they were. Only</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Frere Coppens was home but he's super cool. He let us come in for a</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">little bit and their house is way nice. There is a castle across the</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">street from them. He gave us some juice and we just talked for about</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">an hour. It was a really good moment with him! He then showed us some</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">new houses that aren't too far from him and said that we could go port</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">them. We didn't have anything special happen, but it was still nice to</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">see him help us.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Saturday We had samedi sport in the morning. Our ami Jordan came and</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">we shot some hoops and played a little game. Afterwards we went and</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">got tacos with Emmanuel, Benjamin, the sisters, and Arnaud. We went</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">home and Elder Barben packed. We went and contacted for a little bit</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">after, and then that evening we went and had dinner with Michel,</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Helena and the Eysines Elders. It was a pretty good dinner even though</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">there were some seafood stuff.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Sunday we had church and then we sent off elder Barben to go to</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Montpellier for the night! I spent the rest of my night with two other</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">elders that had their companions going home. They had to leave on</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Sunday because it takes like 9 hours by train to get to Lyon..<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Well that's all for this week. It's crazy that I'm in my final</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">12'weeks of the mission! I hope to make them the best!</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Love you all!</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /></span>J. Steadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02268567525482962074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665909166184539231.post-79369260041125085912016-09-05T12:53:00.002-07:002016-09-05T12:53:09.514-07:00<h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Monday we went and chilled in Bordeaux the day time. We just went to</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">different shops and stuff. In the evening, we went out and contacted a</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">little bit in the evening.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">So school goes back in this week in France, and so people are finally</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">coming back from vacation. It's been super awesome because so many more</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">people are in ville, and because we're right by a university we meet a</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">ton of college kids. They're usually pretty chill people and open to</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">talk. They're not quite stuck in their little prideful realm that most</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">French people tend to yet, so it's a good</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Tuesday we tried passing some less actives but didn't have much</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">success in coming in contact. We saw Emmanuel, a recent convert, and</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">he explained to us how he wants to go on a mission. He said it</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">wouldn't be possible because his grandma is against is and the rest of</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">his family likewise (they're not members). But we told him that if</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">he's received an answer from God to go on a mission, then it's</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">necessary that he "goes and does what the lord commands."</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Later that day we had a few rdvs fall through but that gave us some</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">time to go contact. We had some decent success contacting that day,</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">including a Brazilian woman. She was super cool, but unfortunately she</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">lives in the other sector in Bordeaux.. We've literally had to pass 8</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">people over 11 - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">stand against the wiles of the devil.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Wednesday we had district meeting in Bordeaux. We went with a member</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">and the sisters to go give a blessing to a sister in the ward named</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sister Petit. Afterwards we just went to go contact in the park and we</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">were able to teach three lessons and find a new person to teach. It's</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">a girl from French New Guinea and she super interested to come to</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">church.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">It's been well over a year and a half since I've eaten a</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">bagel! But the funny thing is that I decided to get a cheeseburger</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">when I got there because they looked good... Haha so I still haven't</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">had one. But I miss my Einsteins! That evening we got home and</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">contacted around the park.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Friday we had a few rdvs set up, but two of them feel through. We had</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">one in the morning with a guy named Jordan from Guadalupe. He's 19 and</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">He's so cool!! We had a lesson with him and our ward mission leader.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Jordan knew the missionaries from before. But he just loves God and</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Jesus Christ and he loves being around all of us! Our ward mission</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">leader who's about 65 has just taken him under his wing and helped him</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">so much already. There were some members cleaning the chapel when we</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">had finished, and Jordan offered to help out and did some stuff! Hahah</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">in my mind I was joking "yo you're not baptized, you don't have to do</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">that!" Hahah I didn't say it, but it just shows how cool of a guy he</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">is.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">We also had a rdv with Bruno, a recent convert. He had disappeared for</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">a few weeks and we were getting worried, but it turns out he just went</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">on a little two week vacation to un-stress a little bit. But he's</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">alive and doing well, so we just visited with him for a bit.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">We had another rdv fall through on Friday evening, so we contacted</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">more... Literally we've been contacting harder and more this week than</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">ever in my mission. Elder Barben and I have been getting really good</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">at turning most conversations into a lesson. Our mission has a goal of</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">getting twenty lessons (to Amis) a week.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Saturday we had ward council, and then we did service for the</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Catherine family. We had to move a bunch of heavy stuff from a</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">delivery into their apartment. They're building a home, and so they</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">received a lot of supplies and stuff. They got a lot of boxes of tile</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">and a bunch of grout.. I recognized all of the stuff they got, but too</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">bad I didn't work with my dad enough on tile to know how to do it</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">all.. Haha</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">After we contacted for a bit (are you seeing a nice pattern of France</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">missionary work? I usually don't mention contacting in my emails). It</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">included multiple rejections but also two nice lessons with some young</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">college students. College students this week have been my favorite</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">because they're so open to talk to you, easy to relate with, and super</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">chill! And plus, who wouldn't want to talk to some Americans? Haha</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">being a foreigner is great.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">There was a family home evening activity at the chapel that evening</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">where we played games, had a spiritual thought and had some food. It</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">was fun and we had one ami come hang out for a bit.</span></span><br />
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He was participating and everything and he seemed to like it.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">We're going to a FHE thing with him Monday evening to go with the</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">young adults and have some fun.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">After church we went out to try to get two more lessons to reach our</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">goal of twenty lessons, and the first to people we talked to were</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">super open and they listened to us. We weren't able to get any follow</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">up info on them, but the guy took a Book of Mormon and the girl (who</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">said she's atheist) said she would try praying to God.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">We also had dinner with some members that evening. It's a family where</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">the mother is from Madagascar and the dad is from Guadalupe. It was a</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">really good dinner appointment!</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">For contacting, we've been trying to talk to more families and it's</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">been going well.. we are still waiting to find a family that wants to</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">meet with us again, but the other families have been at least touched!</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">With this goal of twenty lessons a week, it might seem like all we</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">care about is numbers, but I can feel the power that all the</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">missionaries have and I can see the work improving. In our zone, we</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">had 5 of the 10 equipes achieve this goal. The past few weeks, only 1</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">of the 10 has been getting it. Just this week we were able to find 5</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">new investigators. For those of you that served in South America, it</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">might not seem like a lot... But the lord is working miracles in this</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">land in preparation for the temple in Paris!!</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Love you All!!</span></span>J. Steadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02268567525482962074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665909166184539231.post-84232760749819963232016-08-29T21:33:00.000-07:002016-08-29T21:33:15.948-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">the shops a bit. We were hanging out with a guy named Naj. Naj is from</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">the Philippines and he's learning from the missionaries in the other</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">ward. He's super cool and we hung out with him. We were with the other</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">six missionaries in Bordeaux. Pdays in these larger Villes are more</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">fun just cause we get to hang out with other missionaries!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">We were in a sporting goods store for a couple minutes, and I found</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">some skates... So I asked the dude if I could put them on.. Haha I put</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">them on and I was the happiest person ever! I'll send the video so you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">can all watch. #ILoveDiscoSkating 😄</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">We had zone conference on Tuesday. It was all about put on the armor</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">and I got to present along with the sister training leaders. We talked</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">It was my first time presenting at zone conference with President</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">nervous at first. But we feel like we did a really good job. At one</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">cool! We also had President and Sister Brown share with us. We felt</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">really good about the whole conference; President Brown made some very</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">the other presentations in the mission are half as good as this one, I</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">would be very pleased." Talk about morale booster 😄 President talked</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">a lot about owning our sector and making sure that we take good care</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">President and Sister Brown are so great for our mission. I'm very</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">After conference we started an exchange with the Brive Elders. I was</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">with Elder Carlson. I met Elder Carlson in his very first transfer and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I was in my 4th, and so he and I know each other pretty well. He served</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">in the office moving equipe just after me, so we reminisced a lot</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">about the fun memories we had in that. We had a rdv that fell through</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">in the evening, so we just shared a spiritual thought with our DMP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Wednesday we had Rcm in the morning, went to HFC for lunch, and then</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Elder Carlson and I went porting in the afternoon! We didn't have much</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">success finding people, but we were able to have some good</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">conversations between each other haha. That evening we exchanged back,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">contacted, found some cool people, taught one of our Amis Christianne,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">and went home. Christianne is a really nice woman, but she's difficult</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">to teach because she gets off topic pretty often.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Thursday we went with the Eysines elders to teach one of their Amis,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">because Elder Barben was the one that found him. And since elder</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Barben left and the Eysines whitewashed, we went to help our friend</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Michel transition to the new elders. We passed some members in the</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">evening, and it was so nice! We literally haven't been able to visit</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">members these last four weeks because neither of us know members...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">And it was so nice to be in a members home!! They even invited us to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">come eat on Saturday, so we'll have our first dinner appointment of</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">the transfer! We also saw a recent convert named Emmanuel in the</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">evening. Emmanuel is a single, 22-year old guy and he's super nice and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">loves the church!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Friday we went to Lormont to do a baptismal interview for an 11-year</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">old girl. Elder Barben did and she passed so that's sweet. Then we</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">came home and went to visit Christianne again. It was again a</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">difficult lesson because she doesn't really focus super well. We went</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">to the church after and had yet another appointment fall through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Saturday we played some sports in the morning and that was fun. We did</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">weekly planning in the afternoon, and then we had a DINNER APPOINTMENT</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">that evening! Haha it was the first one in our four weeks of this</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">transfer. It was so great! Haha because we whitewashed in, we haven't</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">had many appointments with members because it's the month of vacations</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">and we don't know very members yet.. But it was great!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Sunday we had church. Not too much happened. We were supposed to have</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">a rdv at 6:00 Pm that night with a family, but they cancelled on us at</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">last minute.. So we had about 2 hours to go contacting, we went to a</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">park near the church and ended up teaching three lessons. It was super</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">cool! We found some new potentials so that was cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">This next week should be really good. We're trying to get twenty</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">lessons, which is a big goal in the mission right now. It should be a</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">good one!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Our Pday got really busy, and my week was really busy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> and so I have absolutely no time to write because</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">of interviews with President and preparing for Zone Conference</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">My week included contacting, porting, service in Frere Cadeau's</span></div>
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J. Steadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02268567525482962074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665909166184539231.post-35330981698107924742016-08-16T06:30:00.001-07:002016-08-16T06:30:34.955-07:00<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Talence Chillin</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">We had mission leadership counsel the next day. It was very spiritual</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">and powerful. President talked a lot about loyalty and obedience. We</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">went on a little field trip to Mont Thou above Lyon and we talked up</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">there and had some time to figure out what we need for our zone.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Wednesday we had a grind day and we got to do some pretty cool stuff,</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">the night before we had planned to get a miracle at exactly five</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">o'clock. Long story short we found a new investigator at exactly five</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">o'clock. It's a Portuguese woman named Ana and she's interested.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Unfortunately she'll be on vacation for a couple weeks but we're going</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">to visit her and her family soon!</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Thursday we had our zone training and that went really well! Our zone</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">took everything well and participated a lot.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sunday I gave a talk at church that they asked me to do on Saturday</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">night.. Haha it went well.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sorry I don't have a lot of time this week. I love you all! Have a great week!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Hello everyone!</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">I don't have a lot of time this week because our Pday is getting cut</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">pretty short as we have to take a flight into Lyon for missionary</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">leadership counsel. I'm going to be pretty brief for the email this</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">week. We had a really good week though!</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Monday was transfer day where I left Toulon at 7am and got to Bordeaux</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">around 9:30 after many connections and delays. We got to the apartment</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">at about 10:30. The apartment was an absolute disaster and it smelt</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">really bad.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I'm really enjoying my new area! It's very different from other areas I've been in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bordeaux is </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">split into three different wards,and my ward is practically like the suburbs </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">of Bordeaux. So we </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">don't have a lot of people on the street compared to my other areas, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">and we knock a lot of doors.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">It's going pretty well so far and I'm enjoying it. The ward is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">really cool and the chapel is really nice. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">My new comp is Elder Barben. He's from Layton</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">We're actually whitewashing into our sector, so that's been</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">interesting.. Elder Barben was in another ward in a different part of</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Bordeaux, so we're both trying to figure this new one out. Our sector</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">consists of mostly homes and not very many commercial areas for</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">contact. So we have a lot of door knocking to do! Fortunately I kind</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">of enjoy door knocking.. It can be pretty fun!</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Wednesday we met with Bruno, a recent convert of one week and he</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">somewhat told us his life story. He's doing well and a member and he</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">seems really sincere and engaged in the gospel. We also made a new</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">friend named Miller. He's from Africa and he love the bible and he's</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">interested to learn more about our church. He also wants to learn</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">English.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Elder Barben and I already have some good inside jokes. It's great!</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">(Shout out to elder Barben: topehopivopa)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Thursday we did some more porting and passes. We were able to find</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">another person interested! We were able to get three new people three</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">days in a row. It was great! We also picked up the Eysine elders at</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">the gare because the senior comp, elder Osborn, is whitewash training.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">We slept at their apartment because we had to show them where it is</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">and we got back late.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Friday we have Miller a chapel tour, and we met with Emmanuel for a little bit.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Saturday we had samedi sportif and that was super fun! We played</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">soccer and volleyball, and there were some members and Amis. Elder</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Barben and I did a little wrestling game in the sand because there was</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">some big wrestling thing going on for kids, so they asked if we wanted</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">to try haha. Elder Barben is 6'5" and weighs 30 pounds more than me..</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">He won 2-1 haha I'm proud of myself for the one time I got him down ;)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sunday we went to church and met some members! It's a super power ward</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">and I'm stoked to work with them. I got to bear my testimony to</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">introduce myself. There was an American family that was visiting from</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Mapleton, Utah, so elder Barben and translated for them. The dad had</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">me come up with him to the stand so he could bear his testimony and I</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">could translate it for him. It was pretty cool! A lot of the people</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">talked about temples and also about all the events happening in the</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">world these days but the peace we can feel of we search for it by the</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">hand of God.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">We also had a good rdv with a woman named Lucette later that day.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">I'm writing this email very fast with not much commentary because I</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">don't have very much time, but this week has been incredible and im</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">stoked for the next five weeks I have here. I imagine I'll stay here</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">until the end of my mission and I'm grateful for that. Bordeaux is</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">really cool!</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">I love you all, have a great week!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Monday we shopped and then had FHE at Frere Sassi's</span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Tuesday we visited these two Africans from Nigeria.. One is a woman </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">named Efoma and she's been taught for a really long time. But her </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">brother was there for the first time so we got to meet him and teach </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">him. He accepted a Book of Mormon and he seems fairly interested in </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">the church. We then had our missionary reunion with our ward mission </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">leader </span><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">Wednesday we went with Xavier to the chapel to do some geneaology work </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">with him and a member who is a specialist in it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love you alll!<br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtI9HAe5XXOU1R9xyiVzSXUrCj4ng7k0OjdTk2EEC9NWY2fobkiFp-Qo5SeiqsFhkLgCbWqUXW-oC0JaMvXEG134JjDChI2TYmF6DhWIpHyGlCrynS38wFkwkoJfOWMz-KM0mCK8g9_SE/s1600/image4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtI9HAe5XXOU1R9xyiVzSXUrCj4ng7k0OjdTk2EEC9NWY2fobkiFp-Qo5SeiqsFhkLgCbWqUXW-oC0JaMvXEG134JjDChI2TYmF6DhWIpHyGlCrynS38wFkwkoJfOWMz-KM0mCK8g9_SE/s320/image4.JPG" width="320" /></a><br style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;">The Nonu family (Ma'a is the rugby player)</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></span></span></span>J. Steadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02268567525482962074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665909166184539231.post-78095198693198573632016-07-26T11:50:00.001-07:002016-07-26T11:57:13.629-07:00<h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">This week was rather crazy... We had missionaries sleeping in our</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">apartment about 4 nights this week haha.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">L'ANGLAIS ARRIVE</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Last Tuesday the Bastia elders (Bastia is on Corsica) had to come to</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">France a day early for Zone conference because there were no more</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">ferries the next day. So they came in and all three of them came and</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">worked with us in our sector. We split into a team of two and a team</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">of three. I took Elder Wilkey, whom I know very well because he was in</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">my apartment in Valence for a month and we went and did some work!</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">It was a very interesting afternoon.. We started out by knocking on</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">some doors, five to be exact. The first one answered, he said he is</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">interested but occupied and that we should come back later in the</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">week. The second door didn't answer; the third said he's also occupied</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">but he wants us to come back later that week. Fourth door didn't</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">answer; fifth door this guy answers and is like "I'm very believing</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">and you won't convert me." But so then we get talking to him and he</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">was like "it's pretty hot, do you want to come in and have a drink?"</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">So of course we go in. We meet his wife and they turn out to be a very</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">cool, believing couple. They weren't super interested in the church</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">but they enjoyed talking to us. I believe we might go back this week</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">just to visit them.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">But it was a good hour of knocking doors because we had no rejections :)</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">So then we went to our friends houses in the neighborhood, Pierre and</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Didier. We show up and Pierre, Didier, and their neighbor Danny are</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">outside doing a little barbecue. elder Wilkey went and sat by Pierre</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">and I say by Didier. I talked to Didier about the Book of Mormon and</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">followed up on him. I got talking to Danny their neighbor about the</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">plan of salvation, and then we followed up on Pierre with his reading</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">and stuff. They're not super into it and they have a little slower</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">understanding, but they are nice guys anyway. They made barbecued</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">sardines and they weren't too bad.... I somewhat liked them. And</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">that's saying something especially from someone who doesn't like</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">seafood.. The mission does miracles people!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Afterwards Elder Wilkey and I just went to a meeting with the ward</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">mission leader, and then all five of us missionaries went and got</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Mexican food!</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">LA CONFERENCE</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">The next day we had a zone conference in Aix En Provence. Aix is a</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">really nice ville with a lot of University people! We had a good</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">conference; I was able to see a lot of old mission buddies. I saw my</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">bleu Elder Kahn; he's doing well other than the fact that he's had</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">kidney stones the last few weeks... But he's doing better haha!</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">#Shoutout</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">The conference was really good though. President Brown talked a lot</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">about the opposition in our mission right now. He gave the full story</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">from his perspective of the Nice attack and how he was trying to reach</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">us all night long. It was interesting to hear his side of things and</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">how much faith and prayer he has. President Brown is such a spiritual</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">power house!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Friday we had an exchange with the Antibes Elders. Elder Arne and I</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">did some door knocking where we were able to get into the home of this</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">couple that went to salt lake some years ago.. They weren't interested</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">but they offered us a drink and were very kind to us! We played some</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">basketball with some friends that evening and the ended the night with</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">some Mexican food and getting called "Les garçons" hahah that's an</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">inside joke just so I can remember.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Saturday we visited the family Michel! It's a couple that has been in</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">the church for a little over twenty years and they're doing lots of</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">missionary work. They had some friends of theirs come to Church a</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">couple weeks ago, and they were interested but they live near</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">carcasonne. Long story short, we sent the elders their information and</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">now they will be getting baptized in carcasonne ward in september!</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Member missionary work really works. :)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">that i didn't know and come from different areas in France. There was</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">also a family from Germany. But on a good note we had a random guy</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">come to church! His name is Abraham and he's from Nigeria. He's coming</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">back next week and we're going to try to teach him.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Du coup I don't have a lot of time left, but have a great week</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">everyone! Love you all!</span></span>J. Steadmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02268567525482962074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665909166184539231.post-87865027094810083902016-07-18T15:32:00.001-07:002016-07-18T15:32:33.928-07:00<h2 style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We were instructed to stay in the apartment for the rest of the day until further notice. We got to call our parents for a few minutes to let them know we are okay. We tried our best to occupy our time productively. I'm grateful for the members of Nice; there were two member families that brought us food to eat. There was six of us in the apartment and not a lot left to eat, so they brought us some food. Very grateful for them! President gave us the okay to leave around 8pm the day after. So four of us decided to just go walk around to get out of the apartment. We didn't go near promenade des anglais for obvious reasons. And plus it was blocked off to the public. We were able to catch a train the next day after a while... There were some problems at the gare and so they had to evacuate it, so we missed our train and avoided that area. We finally caught a train and got back to Toulon around 3pm. It was a relief to be in Toulon; everyone in nice was upset and the spirits there were really low.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It bothers me that some people take religion as the scapegoat for attacks like this. We had a man confront us saying that it's because of religion that the attack happened (for the record: the terrorist was said to be "little practicing" in the Muslim faith, but he was severely depressed and his motives were unknown and not relatively linked to religion). Satan is trying to tear the people's faith down. But that's where our role as missionaries comes in so that we can build up their faith to stand strong in the rough trials. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The next day was rather interesting... We went and met up with a guy named Pierre (original french name) and we had three members there with us... Which was way too much because Pierre wants to speak, the members want to speak, and we want to teach a lesson... So it wasn't a very solid lesson, but we did answer some questions and spark his interest. Pierre told us that his neighbor is also very believing, and so our DMP (ward mission leader) was like okay can we go knock on his door? And Pierre was like yeah go for it! So next thing we know, Pierre gets up to go do something in his house (we were sitting at a table in front of it) and our DMP grabs us and we walk over to the neighbors house. He knocks the door and was like "Pierre told us we could come visit you, can we come in?" And the dude was like "yeah for sure" so now we're in this dudes house teaching him the restoration in a manner of three minutes with opening and closing prayer and a new appointment fixed.. Loveland and I were baffled at what had just happened. Hardly anyone in France let's us come in, say a few words, fix an appointment and come back another day. Especially after meeting eachother for three minutes! This new guys name is Didier and he's really receptive and humble. Our friend Pierre is somewhat receptive but he's quite a talker because "il est corse" (he is Corsican.. It's understandable if you know the difference between a Corsican and a frenchie).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We were so confused... But the miracles are happening! The work is alive and progressing! We originally had fixed a rdv for Saturday, but we were kind of trapped in nice, so our DMP and another member went and taught both Pierre and Didier! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After that, we went to nice on Thursday. I had a good exchange with Elder Sauro who is from Montreal. We had a some rdvs throughout the day and then went back home in the evening, with the story that followed from above. After some hours of running around in nice doing random tasks and trying to catch a new train after the gare was evacuated for a security reason, we finally got home Saturday. We then went and played some basketball with one of our friends and went home. Sunday had church and we went to Saint Raphael on Sunday evening. We had to do some things their, but I profited of the time and was able to go contacting with my homie elder Loosle. We met this cool group of students from Strasbourg, and one of their American friends that was with them! We only stayed until Monday morning in st Raph and then we got back home then continued our day. </span></div>
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Dear France Lyon Missionaries and families of the France Lyon Missionaries. This is President Brown. All our Nice Missionaries are safe and accounted for (and well rested). They will be staying in place in their apartment until authorities have signaled a return to activity. Our Toulon Companionship is with our Nice Elders - and all are safe.</div>
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We express our love and gratitude for your faith, prayers, and constant support. We invite your continued faith and prayers for the victim's of this past evening's terrorist act, and their families. Please be assured we will keep you advised pending further developments.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Hola!</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">This last week was chill. And there was no Battlestar Galactica</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">involved, I just heard Dwights voice from the Office in my head so I</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">thought "why not."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">Things are going really well and the working is moving. We engaged two new people to baptism last week so that was really cool. We have a total of five people engaged for baptism (2 of them are engaged but they won't be baptized for a long time because they have to get divorced from former spouses and then married) but it's the most I've ever had on my mission at one point. Five people! That kind of gives you an idea of our mission. In our zone of 8 companionships, there's only six people engaged for baptism and we have 5.. So things are actually going really well for our equipe in Toulon!</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"> </span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Last Monday I already talked about where we just spent the day in</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Nice. That was pretty fun. Met some cool people.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Ok enough of the Worldly stuff.. Let's talk about miracles.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">On Wednesday morning, we got a call from the sisters in</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Aix-En-Provence. They're like "hey we got a call from a guy this</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">morning, he was taught by missionaries about three years ago... He</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">said that he felt a bit too pushed by the missionaries and that things</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">were moving too fast. Now he lives in your sector and wants to meet</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">with missionaries again. He said that after all this time he has</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">decided that he wants to baptized!!!" Haha so that was a</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">miracle that we had. He lives in a place called Brignoles, and we have</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">to take a bus for about an hour and a half to get out there.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">On Thursday evening, our ward mission leader, Frere Sassi threw us a</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">little birthday celebration with a few members. There were about 9 of</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">us at the table. Frere Sassi asked us in advance what we would want..</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">I had no idea... So he was like "aimez-vous les grillades?" (Do you</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">like grilled meats?) hahah what a question... Of course! We started</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">off with a couscous salad with tomatoes. And Then he grilled us a</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">bunch of meats and we ate that. There were a few kinds of sausage, one</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">including Merguese which was my favorite one. There was also some lamb</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">ribs that were super good. To top it all off, he got us a birthday</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">cake from a bakery that was made à la fraise! (Strawberry). It was one</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">of the best French meals I've had on my mission. I hope one day that</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">my family can come and enjoy the food here.. Hahah</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Friday we had district meeting in Cannes. That went well I guess.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Saturday was a nice day.. We took an hour and a half bus ride to this</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">ville called Brignoles. Its a pretty small place but it was a Saturday</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">and it seemed as if everyone had left their homes! There was a huge</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">marché (market) and the Ville was lively. We met with our new miracle</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">friend, Frederic. He's super cool and willing. Our first rdv with him</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">we gave him a baptismal date for about three weeks out. It was all</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">super smooth and went well. His only problem is that he doesn't have a</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">car and can't get to church by himself.. Turns out that this ville has</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">two members living there, and one of them is literally a three minute</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">walk from his home! He just has to come to church then he can get</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">baptized. Unfortunately he wasn't able to make it on Sunday; we're not</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">sure why but we have a rdv set with him for Tuesday so we'll get him</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">there soon enough.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">After that rdv, we just waited for the bus in Brignoles and it was</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">burning hot. We got talking to two business students from the north!</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">They're going to sell wine hahah classic French people.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Saturday evening we visited our Brazilian friends Ananias and Gabriel</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">and talked about the five principals and ordinances of the gospel.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">Gabriel told us that it's always been his dream to be baptized and</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">that he would like to do it the same day of his father. Gabriel hasn't</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">come to church yet, but he said he would love to come! (It's been nice</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333;">getting a little taste of a Brazilian mission hahah)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">this last week was great! It'll be a little shorter email..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Last Monday we went to Antibes for the day with the Elders and did a</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">hike with them and some members! It was right on the coast of the Cap</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">The next day I took Elder Berget who's in his fourth transfer back to</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Toulon with me and we had an exchange. It was a very hot exchange but</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">it was good. We talked to some people, visited the Patous couple (the</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Amis that are super nice), and we turned an almost aggression into a</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">decent conversation. Some guys from northwestern African decent came</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">running up to us and they were pestering us a bit. I felt calm when</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">talking to them so we just talked about who the Mormons are and what</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">television (the classic polygamy, live in communities, Amish, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">haha) and they turned out to be somewhat nice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">couple guys. One dude was from Paris but he'll be in Toulon for a few</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">months on vacation, so we got his number and we're hoping to play some</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">went and chilled in St Raphael for the day with one of my best mission</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">homies, Elder Loosle! (His comp was also doing legality so he went</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">had on my mission. I've known Loosle since the MTC and we just had a</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">good time! We met some cool people such as law students.. But the next</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">day was zone training, and to go there we ended up on a train that was</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">coming from Paris, so it was a night train... Long story short, we</span></div>
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called as ward missionary! He's been baptized for about 6 weeks and</div>
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Thursday we had a rdv in the morning with a woman that stopped us on</div>
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the street a couple weeks ago. She's a French woman that lives in</div>
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Avignon but is moving to Toulon soon. Probably in July or August We</div>
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interested! We probably won't see her for a while because she doesn't</div>
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live here yet... But hopefully soon enough! It was cool because we</div>
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gave her the Book of Mormon, and she asked me if I would write</div>
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something in the front of it.. Haha I've never had someone ask me to</div>
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do that so that was pretty cool!</div>
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now. But she's a super cool member! She's grateful for all the stuff</div>
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she has despite her difficulties.</div>
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That evening we went and played pétanque with Xavier and got some</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week we saw the worlds biggest (I'll tell you what it is in the email)!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last Monday we took the cable car up to the top of the mountain, which led to a two hour journey in a direction away from the cable car. When we were going to go back down, the cable cars had closed off because of the strong winds. So we ended up walking back down from the mountain. These aren't mountains like Utah, but they're still quite large. It took us quite a while, but we succeeded in taking some pretty cool photos!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had family home evening at Frere Sassi's home. He's our ward mission Leader and has us over every Monday night. We are somewhat teaching his mother, who is almost 96 years old. Some other members were there as well and we all had a meal together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wednesday we had district meeting in Cannes. We got started pretty late because there was a bunch of strikes going on for the trains and the buses, so it took a while for us to get to the chapel. But we had a great district meeting and then went to steak and shake for lunch! Always a win at steak and shake. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That same day we stayed in Antibes (the ville right next to Cannes) and did a blitz with the elders. I went with elder hurst to a dinner appointment with this family with a French mother and Tahitian father. They asked us for a spiritual thought that could push them a bit to hold stronger to the iron rod. We talked about prayer and how everything we do must start with a prayer and we must keep the Lord in mind. It was a great rdv plus the meal was delicious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whilst in Antibes, we saw the worlds biggest yacht :) hahah she was massive. I'll send photos. Apparently she costs about $600 million. Her name is Dilbar. Check her out online. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thursday we returned with the Antibes elders to Toulon to do another blitz. We spent all day helping out the Tahitians in our ward set up for a "soirée tahitienne" (Tahitian evening). We just helped decorate the chapel and such. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friday we got transfer calls and elder Loveland and I will be staying for another six weeks in Toulon. In the mission there's about 85 companionships. All of them changed except for 8... There was a lot of crazy stuff happening! Hahah</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We went to the soirée tahitienne where they had a Tahitian meal and some Tahitian dances. It was pretty sweet! One of the plates they had is called Poisson Cru. It's a fish base plate. (Mom you probably won't believe I ate this) They took raw, red tuna and mixed with with coconut milk, lots of lemon juice (the lemon juice somewhat makes it not raw) with cucumbers and carrots. It was super good! They made some other plates that were super good but I don't remember what they were.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We went and played some ball with Mike. So Mike is a member from California that's here in France living with aunt and uncle and trying to play some rugby with his uncle, who plays for Toulon (one of the best teams in Europe). Mike graduated in 2014 and he just got to France about a month ago. He's a straight up bro! He's way cool. We played some ball with him and some other French people and had a good time. We started talking to Mike afterwards and he just opened up to us and kinda told us a lot about his life. There's some info I won't disclose, but he talked about how he hasn't really ever read the Book of Mormon and how he kind of feels like sometimes God wouldn't want to listen to his prayers. He grew up in the church and all, but he said that he hasn't read cover to cover and he doesn't really <i>know</i> the Book of Mormon. He said he stumbled on some verse that he likes in 3 Nephi.. We told him that 3rd Nephi is one of the best books in the Book of Mormon. He was like "whys that?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We said "Because that's when <b>Christ </b>visited<b> </b>the people in the Americas. That's what makes the Book of Mormon Another Testament of Christ." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He said that he definitely feels like that came from the spirit and that God hasn't forgotten him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also talked about fasting and he mentioned how he has never done it and doesn't really know how to.. So we talked about it, and we told him that we will fast with him on July 3rd for the same purpose of helping him figure out what he needs to do. He loved the idea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our boy Mike has the faith necessary to get the help he needs. I'm super stoked for him. Please pray for our homie Mike. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After that, we went and had a rdv with Ananias, our Brazilian ami, Gabriel, his son, and Gabriel, the member from the states that speaks Portuguese. We didn't get a chance to teach anything because we didn't have a lot of time, but we had a great rdv just with Gabriel speaking Portuguese with them and creating a friendship. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday, our recent convert here got his first calling as ward missionary. He's super excited and we know he'll do a great job. He's on fire and it's only been like 6 weeks since he's been baptized. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After church we went with Ananias and both Gabriel's to the Durand's house for lunch. The Durand family is one of those families that have super strong roots in the church. The grandfather has been a mission president, stake president, etc. and the father is the current bishop of the ward. One of the other sons is in the stake presidency at the moment. It was the grandfather and grandmother that invited us over with Ananias, his son, and Gabriel. We had a lunch outside with some beautiful weather in their home in the mountains. It was a super great lunch. Ananias had prepared some Brazilian stuff for them. They were like chicken nuggets but a lot better haha. At the table we had two missionaries, Ananias and his son, Gabriel, the Durand mother and father, two of their kids and their spouses, and two grandchildren. Unfortunately I didn't get any photos with everyone.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had a really funny experience and an SDF (homeless guy) this week but that's one of those experiences I'll share after the mission.. Don't worry, it's nothing bad or anything to worry about :) I'm just writing it down so I can remember it when I read over old emails again..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Passes une bonne semaine! Je vous aime tous :)</span></div>
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