Sep. 29, 2008

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