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