Jan. 26, 2009

hey family!
hows everyone doing?
well so i was in the middle of writing an email for like 30 minutes and it decided to be stupid and erase it so this isnt going to be very good, especially because it put me in a horrible mood really fast....
well thanks for all of you who remembered my birthday it was really good.... nothign special, and nothing like home but we had some cake and elder weight sang happy birthday to me so it was good. (happy birthday keshia! haha)
umm... then lets see last week we went to lyon and played (american) football. it was fun, then the next day we had zone conference where we talked about a new... plan to work with members and also alma 26:22 which is a great scriptue that i applicable to everyone! (those 2 things dont really have anything in common though.)
umm... lets see... also this last week we got the good news that Elder Bednar is coming to visit our mission so basically i guess i'm going to see an apostle! which is really cool! he might be changing mission boundaries because apparently someone somebodty knows got called to the geneva italian speaking mission so yeah we'll see what happens. oh and that will be the 13th of february.
umm.... also lets see. the other day when we were walking down this road we saw this building that was like smoking....(on fire) so we were like we should call someone... so we called the pompiers (firefighters) and while we were waiting elder weight was like "its kind of funny how theres no smoke coming out of the chimney." which was probably just more funny at the time... but yeah they came and got it all taken care of and we just went on with the rest of our day so ya... it was good.
umm what else... oh dad i lied to you.
the ch in french is mostly said sh... but when its words that arent based french like christ its said k... i looked in the dictionary and the words that go chr at the beginning are all said k, and some words with cho, but for the most part ch=sh so ya...
umm i think thats about it.... it probably wasnt but now i dont remember and i gotta go love ya!
ciao!
Elder Laws

Jan. 19, 2009

Hey Family how is it going?
so this week has been kinda fun i guess....?
umm we went and saw the lady who wants to get baptized and it looks pretty good, we dont think that she understands everything perfectly but we're of course going to work on it so it's all good! and if all goes according to plan then she'll probably be baptized in february sometime.
other than that we haven't had a whole lot going on. we went with the bishop this sunday to montelimar to visit a less-active that is too far away to come to church and it was good.
umm also the other day we were porting and this guy let us in and he was kind of crazy and i couldnt understand everything he said because he's from the north. and they have a weird accent up there its called ch'tis... or something like that haha! anyways he told us he wasnt really interested in religion but that he wasnt not going to be hospitable... so he let us in offered us a coffee then water and started to talk... he talked about all sorts of things like how he was a mercernary, he showed us his knife and other weapons, told us that this one time he was in africa and there were 150 blacks coming for us and it was me and 5 other guys and we won.... ummm... yeah so thats kind of interesting i guess.
also lets see.... we also had a couple of mangez-vous sunday... like so we're basically stuffed solid and sick today haha! but its okay because we're going to lyon today to play football with a bunch of other missionaries and then work up there tonight. and tomorrow is our zone conference so anything that has been sent probably before the last couple of weeks should be there and i'll get it. i also got the birthday package this.... friday i think.. so yeah thanks!!! i have some pictures i will probably send next week so yeah. umm lets see., oh zone conference i'm conducting aparently i found out yesterday night and its in french so we'll see how that goes haha. umm. well, thats about it for me have a great day love you all!
Elder laws

Jan. 12, 2009

Chateau Crussol:

Hey family how is it going!?
well, i've got a couple interesting cool things to tell you, i believe.
firstly i got my new companion Elder Weight on wednesday and he's a way nice guy. the work is going well here and yeah its cool. he's from kerns utah and has 3 sisters(he's the oldest) and his parents... ummm... likes tennis, sports... he's way chill. and almost finished with his mission!! haha he's got until april 1.... or maybe 2, who knows.
then first things first. i forgot to tell you, but a couple of weeks ago we went up to chateau Crussol. its an old ruined castle and its sweet. hopefully the pictures work so you can see too. but ya that was fun. a nice little hike.
umm what else... oh yeah so like we went and ate with this member last night and he made me try roquefort cheese.... it was kind of as bad as i thought it would be but not in the same way.... idk it tastes weird.
et puis sweet miracle that we've had. a member invited us to their house and when we got there he was like well i have a reference for you from the stake president in Nice and he said thats its a friend of his wifes (they've been talking about the church with her for like 20 years or something) who lives in our area etc. and she called them the other week or day or something and said "i want to be baptized" so he was like well its not that simple etc. you have to talk to the missionaries and etc etc etc... so she was like k send me the missionaries. so we got everything , called her she seems way interested and we're going to see her probably wednesday so cool stuff. let you know how it goes!
and yeah so love you guys! have a great week!
Elder laws

Jan. 05, 2009

hey family!
hows everyone doing?
well this week has been pretty mellow. (however we spell that in english) umm it was new years though and thats really weird because apparently last year was 2008 and not 2007... hmm. time is weird. (and is flying) this week makes another transfer (6 weeks) done. and i'm getting a new companion. and staying here. elder jensen is going up to yverdon and i'm getting elder.. weight, who's been in annemasse. which is just outside of france. thats about all i know of that so yeah.
umm yeah. so back to new years, the ward had a party that night (there was no alcohol either so yeah for parties haha!) we went and stayed til about 10ish. President Peterson tells us a reasonable hour for new years and stuff so yeah. its mostly because my companion doesnt really like the members here so its good that he's leaving i guess. it was weird though a bunch of old members playing what had to have been like 70s-80s french music... it was very silly. very silly. but yeah fun too and food and stuff so yay! (oh and i tried escargot and it tastes like dirt... at least the ones i tasted did, so not too bad.)
also just for your information i eat just about everything now. i guess i just stopped caring and deciding to be way picky and i eat like onions and peppers and stuff... its really depressing because it just means i'm getting old and my taste buds are dying...dieing...dead. (cant spell!)
umm... lets see. well thats about all for me!
hope you guys are doing good and have a great week!
Elder laws
ps.. bishop was sick this week so he wasnt at church... which means next week when me and my new companion come to church should be very interesting... :) LOVE YOU!