Hey Family!
how's everything going for you?
i'm here in france... weird huh? haha
so... lets see. this week was interesting. we had an Exchange with the Elders from clermont, (exchange is where we switch companions for a 24 hour period..) we were in our ville so nothing much changed but it was a fun time. we basically did our normal thing this week but yesterday we went to Lyon to a baptism. It was an investigator from one of elder eatons old villes. he plays basketball for the team there and was like twice the size of him... funny stuff. it was way good though.
St. Etienne is actually not one of the most beautiful places in the world... haha... but its alright.
on p-day we don't really do much except for emails, shop, and chill around, every once in a while we go play ping pong but ya... we're not really allowed to take pictures of... much at all sorry.. religious things government places, etc. and thats what all the cool buildings and stuff are so ya....
oh yeah... the other day we went to a french cemetary, if you want to see weird....then ya... its just abnormal idk...cemetaries are weird...., but french ones are even more weird.... uhhh lets see...
not much else to say....um... oh yeah.. we had kind of a cool miracle yesterday on the train.
we were sitting next to a member who was going somewhere... i don't remember but ya... and my comp and the member were talking and i was sitting across the aisle...but then ya.. the member fell asleep and this lady was like... this in english... you're from america, and speak english...ya... you don't mind if i speak english with you? no... so they had a nice conversation and talked a lot about the church, and so she's probably going to come to our english class on tuesday, idk it should be cool... but ya... i think thats it.
so Je Vous aime
- Elder Laws
Monday, August 25, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
August 18, 2008
i hate to inform any of you who have already sent me a letter but if you're planning on doing it or like a package ( haha :) ) its probably important to put les missionaires on it...
thus address would look comme ca
Elder Michael Laws
Les Missionaires
14 rue de terrenoire
St. Etienne, F-42000
France
or however it really is haha....but ya sorry if you sent letters already you might get some back yup.
Elder Laws
hmmm... HEY FAMILY!! haha
how is everyone doing? sorry for the address thing if that messes anybody up...i just thought about it and our mailbox doesn't say elder laws...it says les missionaires... anywayz ya.. sorry.
Well since a couple of you have asked me to tell you what it's like here i will.
The weather here is really weird... in fact, way weird. haha. one day its hot the next raining like crazy but all in all its good, and starting to cool down.
The Members of the ward are way great, i've made 2 pretty good friends in the ward, Nicolas(he's from martinique) and Guilloume, and basically if we have an activity, like FHE or samedi sportif they're mostly there so its been fun.
right now a lot of our ami's are out of town but we have got to teach a couple of people more consistently and have found some pretty good potential ami's (amis are investigators) the city i think has 200,000 people...buses everywhere, and a couple trams. it's not necessarily a clean city but not way dirty, it's kind of an inbetween area.... like theres poor spots and rich spots, a lot of stores, and idk it's hard to describe. quite a few of the restaurants are eat out side style....like the serving areas across the street sort of thing. ummm... there's a lot of Arabic people here and i guess it's like the arab capital of the mission or something...idk just a lot of them.
the last couple of weeks we've ate pretty well, mostly the same things but it's been good, pasta, rice, hamburgers, pizza's, cheese, bread, sandwhichs... (idk how to spell sandwhichhse now haha) another thing that apparently i can do is cook a little...i've made some good tasting hamburgers haha. and other good stuff. so ya, who knew?
we live in quite a big apartment, like there could be 4 elders in it... we have a good sized kitchen, a bathroom, a room for the toilette, 2 big closets, 3 rooms, 1 an office, the biggest our bedroom, and the other....for whatever... its like way big for 2 people it's nice.
everymorning we wake up and i exercise in the kitchen and we have a balcony, so every sunrise i get to see and there's some wayyy good ones, its awesome... so after i exercise i shower and then eat breakfast sometimes out on the balcony, its nice...i like it a lot.
outside off the balcony is a pretty nice view but also a little ways a way they've been taking down this HUGE apartment building little by little and i've been taking pictures of the results after every day or so... which is really fun.
me and my comp elder eaton get along fairly well.
uhh i think thats all i can really think of for area...if you have more specific questions that would work a lot better for me... (i'm suprised you ahven't figured taht out yet) haha.
soo let's see...
yesterday was a great day.
we got to church and a member had brought one of her friends so we taught him..., it turns out that he's from another ville in our mission but thats okay because he seems way interested. i almost had to talk in church haha... then, let's see, elder eaton got a phone call that said that one of his former investigators in another ville was going to get baptised (he's from idaho) and he wants him to do it so we're going to lyon next sunday i think. then the other missionaries in our district set a baptismal date for in a couple weeks but.... its with a guy that just randomly showed up at church, about 2 weeks ago or something cool stuff. now we're with them because it's p-day today, and then tomorrow we're doing an exchange which should be fun...but ya... uhhh i can't think of anything else, but there's miracles everywhere.
ummm ya... have a great week. and ya. Love ya -Elder Laws
thus address would look comme ca
Elder Michael Laws
Les Missionaires
14 rue de terrenoire
St. Etienne, F-42000
France
or however it really is haha....but ya sorry if you sent letters already you might get some back yup.
Elder Laws
hmmm... HEY FAMILY!! haha
how is everyone doing? sorry for the address thing if that messes anybody up...i just thought about it and our mailbox doesn't say elder laws...it says les missionaires... anywayz ya.. sorry.
Well since a couple of you have asked me to tell you what it's like here i will.
The weather here is really weird... in fact, way weird. haha. one day its hot the next raining like crazy but all in all its good, and starting to cool down.
The Members of the ward are way great, i've made 2 pretty good friends in the ward, Nicolas(he's from martinique) and Guilloume, and basically if we have an activity, like FHE or samedi sportif they're mostly there so its been fun.
right now a lot of our ami's are out of town but we have got to teach a couple of people more consistently and have found some pretty good potential ami's (amis are investigators) the city i think has 200,000 people...buses everywhere, and a couple trams. it's not necessarily a clean city but not way dirty, it's kind of an inbetween area.... like theres poor spots and rich spots, a lot of stores, and idk it's hard to describe. quite a few of the restaurants are eat out side style....like the serving areas across the street sort of thing. ummm... there's a lot of Arabic people here and i guess it's like the arab capital of the mission or something...idk just a lot of them.
the last couple of weeks we've ate pretty well, mostly the same things but it's been good, pasta, rice, hamburgers, pizza's, cheese, bread, sandwhichs... (idk how to spell sandwhichhse now haha) another thing that apparently i can do is cook a little...i've made some good tasting hamburgers haha. and other good stuff. so ya, who knew?
we live in quite a big apartment, like there could be 4 elders in it... we have a good sized kitchen, a bathroom, a room for the toilette, 2 big closets, 3 rooms, 1 an office, the biggest our bedroom, and the other....for whatever... its like way big for 2 people it's nice.
everymorning we wake up and i exercise in the kitchen and we have a balcony, so every sunrise i get to see and there's some wayyy good ones, its awesome... so after i exercise i shower and then eat breakfast sometimes out on the balcony, its nice...i like it a lot.
outside off the balcony is a pretty nice view but also a little ways a way they've been taking down this HUGE apartment building little by little and i've been taking pictures of the results after every day or so... which is really fun.
me and my comp elder eaton get along fairly well.
uhh i think thats all i can really think of for area...if you have more specific questions that would work a lot better for me... (i'm suprised you ahven't figured taht out yet) haha.
soo let's see...
yesterday was a great day.
we got to church and a member had brought one of her friends so we taught him..., it turns out that he's from another ville in our mission but thats okay because he seems way interested. i almost had to talk in church haha... then, let's see, elder eaton got a phone call that said that one of his former investigators in another ville was going to get baptised (he's from idaho) and he wants him to do it so we're going to lyon next sunday i think. then the other missionaries in our district set a baptismal date for in a couple weeks but.... its with a guy that just randomly showed up at church, about 2 weeks ago or something cool stuff. now we're with them because it's p-day today, and then tomorrow we're doing an exchange which should be fun...but ya... uhhh i can't think of anything else, but there's miracles everywhere.
ummm ya... have a great week. and ya. Love ya -Elder Laws
Friday, August 15, 2008
August 11, 2008
Hey fam!
not much to update..
we work a lot, and don't have to many ami's around, because apparently in france in august you get like 3 weeks of vacation, but we teach maybe 3-4 lessons to non-members so ya cool stuff. we don't knock doors much its less effective i guess but we contact whenever we don't have rendezvous going on. i guess ya... idk i'll maybe send a letter home with my memory card this week or maybe next, i haven't taken too many pics but that can change.
anywayz thats about all for now. have a great week love you guys!
so i thought of something else that i could talk about. one of our investigators (ami's) is a basketball player for the team here in St. Etienne. he's from sudan and a pretty cool guy, i guess that i'm going to have to try to get a game in with some big shots just to see where i really stand eh? haha well i think thats about it..all i can think of at least have a good one Elder Laws
not much to update..
we work a lot, and don't have to many ami's around, because apparently in france in august you get like 3 weeks of vacation, but we teach maybe 3-4 lessons to non-members so ya cool stuff. we don't knock doors much its less effective i guess but we contact whenever we don't have rendezvous going on. i guess ya... idk i'll maybe send a letter home with my memory card this week or maybe next, i haven't taken too many pics but that can change.
anywayz thats about all for now. have a great week love you guys!
so i thought of something else that i could talk about. one of our investigators (ami's) is a basketball player for the team here in St. Etienne. he's from sudan and a pretty cool guy, i guess that i'm going to have to try to get a game in with some big shots just to see where i really stand eh? haha well i think thats about it..all i can think of at least have a good one Elder Laws
Thursday, August 7, 2008
August 4, 2008
Hey Family how are you doing?!
Thanks for writing i love you guys! The work just keeps going on here. We don't have many investigators and we both kind of have a hard time in opening up but thats going to change and we'll get people. We've been working a lot with less-active members and people that had a baptismal date but for some reason didn't get baptised and i think that what we have planned should work out pretty well. plus there's always finding new people.
Being with the same person so much could be a lot worse, luckily My companion is an ok guy. although he's not really someone i'd ever hang out with other than on a mission... but we're getting along nicely and i know that we can get someone to have a baptismal date soon... (even though no ones very close)
The ward here is really awesome. everyone has way strong testimonies and is always way open to help the missionaries if they can. there's probably only about 50 people here weekly at church but, right now is vacation time in france apparently haha (everyone here gets like 2 months of vacation time, something that america should really think about doing :) )
There's a couple of guys around our age that always come to soiree familial, something like that, (FHE) and samedi sportif and stuff like that and i'm building pretty good relationships with them. Guilloume is 19 and about to turn in his mission papers, way exciting. and Nicolas.. is a little crazy, He's from martinique and is hilarious.
The language is coming along i can understand most of what people say, but just can't say all of what i want to. i taught FHE last monday by myself about the Plan de Salut. i was able to say all that i wanted to so i'm ok. anywayz i think thats all for now.
thanks for everything, love you
-Elder Laws-
Thanks for writing i love you guys! The work just keeps going on here. We don't have many investigators and we both kind of have a hard time in opening up but thats going to change and we'll get people. We've been working a lot with less-active members and people that had a baptismal date but for some reason didn't get baptised and i think that what we have planned should work out pretty well. plus there's always finding new people.
Being with the same person so much could be a lot worse, luckily My companion is an ok guy. although he's not really someone i'd ever hang out with other than on a mission... but we're getting along nicely and i know that we can get someone to have a baptismal date soon... (even though no ones very close)
The ward here is really awesome. everyone has way strong testimonies and is always way open to help the missionaries if they can. there's probably only about 50 people here weekly at church but, right now is vacation time in france apparently haha (everyone here gets like 2 months of vacation time, something that america should really think about doing :) )
There's a couple of guys around our age that always come to soiree familial, something like that, (FHE) and samedi sportif and stuff like that and i'm building pretty good relationships with them. Guilloume is 19 and about to turn in his mission papers, way exciting. and Nicolas.. is a little crazy, He's from martinique and is hilarious.
The language is coming along i can understand most of what people say, but just can't say all of what i want to. i taught FHE last monday by myself about the Plan de Salut. i was able to say all that i wanted to so i'm ok. anywayz i think thats all for now.
thanks for everything, love you
-Elder Laws-
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