hi family how is everyone doing?
well so this week was way weird but at the same time really good i guess.
to start off, we, well, i guess instead of going day by day i'll go all at once haha Our amis Mme Damoizet is probably not going to be baptised for a while because, while she is way accepting of everything and understands about everything too, she cant get herself to church, BECAUSE, her parents are against, basically other religions and shes scared to tell them or ask them if she can go to church (opposed to spending sundays with them). she had a depression a while ago and so she lives in a hospital apartment but should get out and find her own apartment sometime in january, so maybe it will have to wait til then, but we're trying to just help her find strength in herself, but all and all shes doing very well.
on saturday we had a way bizarre day. we went to the church at 10 for samedi sportif and didn't leave until 4 in the afternoon because after samedi sportif we had a rendezvous with and amis who was there, then we ate with members and then helped a member with some stuff. it was crazy. samedi sportif (if you dont know what that means its just like our time during the week to go play sports) was sweet! one of the recent converts in the ward, frere cheng, brought a friend (both chinese) and we had us also and nicholas and we played ping pong, then basketball, then like 45 minutes straight of ping-pong with me Elder Lemich, frere cheng, and Shuyang (whos an amis)it was awesome haha soooo good! (im getting way good too). anyways next time we get to see him we will probably ask him to be baptised which should again be cool.
hmm, well today we're in clermont ferand with the rest of our district for p-day and we're going to have an exchange tonight and tomorrow. anyways so this morning we went to a castle! haha it was awesome. we didnt get to go inside but i did almost buy a knife! haha that looked like a sword (sting from lotrs) but i didnt.
this weekend we're going to be in lyon for General Conference, they have a room where they show it in english so i'll be able to understand yay!!! it should be cool.
well so far ive seen a lot of great miracles and just want to let you know that there are no hard missions, if you ever tell someone where i am and they say that tell them that just because we dont baptise 100 people a month we dont have a goal for 200 baptisms a month (which some places do) and a lot of people in france couldn't care less and we get a lot of persecution and so on and so on, tell them theyre crazy!!! haha, i've met some of the strongest members, the strongest member missionaries in the world!! the rest of europes baptisms are going down yearly but we are reversing the trend, and thats what matters, because one day, the work will explode here, we're just laying the groundwork :)
love you all!!
a la prochaine
Elder Laws
Monday, September 29, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sep. 22, 2008
Hey Family How Are You?
well this week was GREAT!!! yay!!!
it was an awesome time so i guess i'll start from the beginning which was monday!
last pday, well wasnt the greatest and we didnt really do much but that doesnt matter too much.
then tuesday we took a train to lyon and had our zone meeting there and we stayed in lyon for exchanges with our zone leaders. which was really good for a couple reasons, one, the elder i was with is from Paris, thus speaking french and another because its good to see how different people do things here and so ya, it helped a lot which is the point.
so then we got up and came back wednesday morning at which point we went porting, (which our finding this week was absolutely ineffective) then we had a rendezvous (appointment) with mme damoizet, in which we talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ. and the importance of repentance baptism faith gift of the holy ghost and enduring to the end, and in the end we invited her to be baptised and she was worried at first but we got her to understand the importance (the spirirt got her to understand) of doing these ordinances by the right authority and she accepted it was sweet!
then we had another rendezvous with this way nice, but also way crazy (i use the word crazy here lightly, because well theres a lot of crazy people here) and ya, it was a good night.
so then on thursday we had to go to lyon for a legality check for me, health check, and i'm kind of suprised i passed because one of the things they ask for is the immunization record and i dont know if i've told you yet but i didnt finish my immunizations in the MTC because i had to leave so early but anyways i passed and so on to the next step sometime! haha! then we came back and visited a crazy less active lady in our ward but shes nice and didnt take up 2 hours of our time like last time haha! then tried to find people which we weren't very successful at doing like i said earlier.
friday we had our planning session and set goals and stuff which was relatively painless as far as that goes, and tried to find people then we had a rendezvous with mme damoizet again but she wasnt there!!!! nooo!!! haha, not that funny though. bah, so then we went and saw mme nercessian ( the crazy lady ) and had a good chat with her. the end.
Saturday yay! first we had samedi sportif and our sweet recent convert chinese family came and brought a friend who we're now teaching! yay! and we had a good time there, then latter we went back to the church and had a member visit which was really good, then ya went and tried to find people/ see mme damoizet (wasnt there again!!) so ya we had an ok day.
SUNDAY!!!! we rocked sunday man amazing. we got up and went to church and had 3 amis there it was sweet! we taught 2 seperate lessons during sunday school because well the chinese guy speaks english but not french and the other amis were french. so i got to teach in english yay!!! haha! i was actually useful haha! so we had a good time at church then after church we went to a members house for lunch and then straight to the famille chengs apartment (recent convert chinese family) and taught them a lesson and then their friend came and we taught him a lesson then we had another rendezvous with mme nercessian then after we went to check if mme damoizet was home and she was yay!! and that got us home barely on time at 930 haha!
it was a sweet week and the savior blessed us sooo much. thanks for all your support and have a great week!
a la prochaine
well this week was GREAT!!! yay!!!
it was an awesome time so i guess i'll start from the beginning which was monday!
last pday, well wasnt the greatest and we didnt really do much but that doesnt matter too much.
then tuesday we took a train to lyon and had our zone meeting there and we stayed in lyon for exchanges with our zone leaders. which was really good for a couple reasons, one, the elder i was with is from Paris, thus speaking french and another because its good to see how different people do things here and so ya, it helped a lot which is the point.
so then we got up and came back wednesday morning at which point we went porting, (which our finding this week was absolutely ineffective) then we had a rendezvous (appointment) with mme damoizet, in which we talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ. and the importance of repentance baptism faith gift of the holy ghost and enduring to the end, and in the end we invited her to be baptised and she was worried at first but we got her to understand the importance (the spirirt got her to understand) of doing these ordinances by the right authority and she accepted it was sweet!
then we had another rendezvous with this way nice, but also way crazy (i use the word crazy here lightly, because well theres a lot of crazy people here) and ya, it was a good night.
so then on thursday we had to go to lyon for a legality check for me, health check, and i'm kind of suprised i passed because one of the things they ask for is the immunization record and i dont know if i've told you yet but i didnt finish my immunizations in the MTC because i had to leave so early but anyways i passed and so on to the next step sometime! haha! then we came back and visited a crazy less active lady in our ward but shes nice and didnt take up 2 hours of our time like last time haha! then tried to find people which we weren't very successful at doing like i said earlier.
friday we had our planning session and set goals and stuff which was relatively painless as far as that goes, and tried to find people then we had a rendezvous with mme damoizet again but she wasnt there!!!! nooo!!! haha, not that funny though. bah, so then we went and saw mme nercessian ( the crazy lady ) and had a good chat with her. the end.
Saturday yay! first we had samedi sportif and our sweet recent convert chinese family came and brought a friend who we're now teaching! yay! and we had a good time there, then latter we went back to the church and had a member visit which was really good, then ya went and tried to find people/ see mme damoizet (wasnt there again!!) so ya we had an ok day.
SUNDAY!!!! we rocked sunday man amazing. we got up and went to church and had 3 amis there it was sweet! we taught 2 seperate lessons during sunday school because well the chinese guy speaks english but not french and the other amis were french. so i got to teach in english yay!!! haha! i was actually useful haha! so we had a good time at church then after church we went to a members house for lunch and then straight to the famille chengs apartment (recent convert chinese family) and taught them a lesson and then their friend came and we taught him a lesson then we had another rendezvous with mme nercessian then after we went to check if mme damoizet was home and she was yay!! and that got us home barely on time at 930 haha!
it was a sweet week and the savior blessed us sooo much. thanks for all your support and have a great week!
a la prochaine
Monday, September 15, 2008
Sep. 15, 2008
hello all!
hows everyone doing?
well first off i guess, the weather has been way weird here... its been kinda cold actually haha! well what can you do i guess? we had some weird fog rain stuff going on the other day, way bizarre. haha.
umm so my Companion is from Rawlings Wyoming he is a big guy, not tall but big and we get along really well, and so far we are doing some pretty good work. i told you about that lady we found and now we've taught her 2 times and soon to be 3, and this next rendezvous we are planning on asking her to be baptised, and ya it should be good.
umm mom i have got your emails the last couple of weeks and i'll be alright so stop worrying, we got all sorts of food, and when i need it i'll get some rain clothes. haha!
umm, so the french is coming along really well, and by that i mean i can understand most of whats being said haha, but its getting better and it should be cool when i can actually speak!
umm ya... thats about it for now, we had a great week just nothing that stands out sorry. idk if you know where the mission blog spot is but if you find out there should be slideshows from the mission, theyre pretty cool haha. well have a great week!
Elder Laws
hows everyone doing?
well first off i guess, the weather has been way weird here... its been kinda cold actually haha! well what can you do i guess? we had some weird fog rain stuff going on the other day, way bizarre. haha.
umm so my Companion is from Rawlings Wyoming he is a big guy, not tall but big and we get along really well, and so far we are doing some pretty good work. i told you about that lady we found and now we've taught her 2 times and soon to be 3, and this next rendezvous we are planning on asking her to be baptised, and ya it should be good.
umm mom i have got your emails the last couple of weeks and i'll be alright so stop worrying, we got all sorts of food, and when i need it i'll get some rain clothes. haha!
umm, so the french is coming along really well, and by that i mean i can understand most of whats being said haha, but its getting better and it should be cool when i can actually speak!
umm ya... thats about it for now, we had a great week just nothing that stands out sorry. idk if you know where the mission blog spot is but if you find out there should be slideshows from the mission, theyre pretty cool haha. well have a great week!
Elder Laws
Monday, September 8, 2008
Sep. 08, 2008
Hey Family!!!
hows everyone doing? some of you are slacking whats going on!?!?!? haha jk
well this week has been kind of crazy, first we found out that i was getting a new companion so Elder Eaton was outta there, we went and stayed with our Zone Leaders Tuesday night and hung out with some of the other missionaries in Lyon until my new companion came in.
His name is Elder Lemich and he's from Wyoming, although his family lives in Cedar City now (sounds kind of familiar to me hmm..) umm and so far we're doing some good work, which we'll tell you about later. anywayz so we got back to St. Etienne, wednesday and got unpacked and then went and visited a Less active, etc, just doing work, thursday was work, until thursday night when we had to go to lyon because we had a bus from there at 6 in the morning to Geneva for our mission conference in which Elder Malm an area authority or something cool like that came and spoke to us. so we got to lyon at like 7:30 that night and we had to walk from the gare (Train station) to the Gerland (a part of lyon) elders apartment, which took us like 1 hour ugh... haha. then we woke up the next morning and got on our bus and drove to geneva where we had the conference (i got the package mom THANKS!!) then took a train at 6 at night to lyon and then a train to st. etienne! yay home! haha.
then on saturday we basically ported like ALL day. ugh, but it was actually not that bad, and we had a great experience, the first door we knocked on was this lady who we have a rendez-vous with tonight. cool stuff. so then yesterday we had church and stuff and then we visited the famille cheng who is a recent convert family from china who don't speak a word of french... cool huh? then we got done there and we had about 2 hours before we were supposed to be in and we still needed 4 finding lessons for goal (a finding lesson is where you contact somebody, you teach, testify and invite [either to repentance, or like another meeting time etc]) and so we started to port and we got 1, then we knocked on this ladies door who was like from France but lived in Florida for 3 years and spoke english and stuff and her husband was american, a lot of cool stuff like that and we taught her the first lesson, then we went and got the other 3 finding lessons that we needed and went home, it was way cool that we were able to do that i think... this is going to be a great transfer and we're going to see a lot of miracles so stay tuned haha!
i love you guys so much! thanks for supporting me in everything!
Elder Laws
hows everyone doing? some of you are slacking whats going on!?!?!? haha jk
well this week has been kind of crazy, first we found out that i was getting a new companion so Elder Eaton was outta there, we went and stayed with our Zone Leaders Tuesday night and hung out with some of the other missionaries in Lyon until my new companion came in.
His name is Elder Lemich and he's from Wyoming, although his family lives in Cedar City now (sounds kind of familiar to me hmm..) umm and so far we're doing some good work, which we'll tell you about later. anywayz so we got back to St. Etienne, wednesday and got unpacked and then went and visited a Less active, etc, just doing work, thursday was work, until thursday night when we had to go to lyon because we had a bus from there at 6 in the morning to Geneva for our mission conference in which Elder Malm an area authority or something cool like that came and spoke to us. so we got to lyon at like 7:30 that night and we had to walk from the gare (Train station) to the Gerland (a part of lyon) elders apartment, which took us like 1 hour ugh... haha. then we woke up the next morning and got on our bus and drove to geneva where we had the conference (i got the package mom THANKS!!) then took a train at 6 at night to lyon and then a train to st. etienne! yay home! haha.
then on saturday we basically ported like ALL day. ugh, but it was actually not that bad, and we had a great experience, the first door we knocked on was this lady who we have a rendez-vous with tonight. cool stuff. so then yesterday we had church and stuff and then we visited the famille cheng who is a recent convert family from china who don't speak a word of french... cool huh? then we got done there and we had about 2 hours before we were supposed to be in and we still needed 4 finding lessons for goal (a finding lesson is where you contact somebody, you teach, testify and invite [either to repentance, or like another meeting time etc]) and so we started to port and we got 1, then we knocked on this ladies door who was like from France but lived in Florida for 3 years and spoke english and stuff and her husband was american, a lot of cool stuff like that and we taught her the first lesson, then we went and got the other 3 finding lessons that we needed and went home, it was way cool that we were able to do that i think... this is going to be a great transfer and we're going to see a lot of miracles so stay tuned haha!
i love you guys so much! thanks for supporting me in everything!
Elder Laws
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Sept. 1, 2008
hello family!
hows everyone doing?
ummm haha, well we got transfer calls today and my companion, as of wednesday is no longer my companion and he's going to be in the office! i'm still going to be in st. etienne, but with an elder lemich or something like that so ya, we'll update you next week on that. umm. ya nothing crazy special to tell you this week sorry. but that this week is going to be crazy. its... yeah thats all... umm ya if you have any questions shoot away and i'll try to answer them k? i love you guys and thanks for being such a great example to me!
Elder Laws
hows everyone doing?
ummm haha, well we got transfer calls today and my companion, as of wednesday is no longer my companion and he's going to be in the office! i'm still going to be in st. etienne, but with an elder lemich or something like that so ya, we'll update you next week on that. umm. ya nothing crazy special to tell you this week sorry. but that this week is going to be crazy. its... yeah thats all... umm ya if you have any questions shoot away and i'll try to answer them k? i love you guys and thanks for being such a great example to me!
Elder Laws
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