hey the family
how is everyone doing???
well so this week was somewhat kind of crazy. haha. we were in Lyon for Monday and Tuesday, including our superbowl, porting and a zone meeting. so that was good.
Then we are teaching a young girl who is a members daughter. She is Nine years old now and so we get to teach her. we fixed a baptismal date with her for the 26th April. so that should be cool for her. its a little difficult to figure out whether she understands things but i think her mom tries to explain things better for her after the fact so thats good. they live a ways away so that takes care of wednesday. then tuesday we just worked and i dont remember what all we did haha!
then friday we worked and then went to Grenoble because Elder Weight needed to do a Baptismal Interview for our Zone Leaders. it went really well and they called us Saturday night after the baptism and told us that it went really well and he got up and said hi my name is erwen, and i'm a member of the church of jesus christ. so thats really cool. its the guy that, idk if you remember but a while ago i went on an exchange with elder murragara and we went to there house and had an AMAZING rendezvous so yeah.. really cool!
So then on saturday we worked it went ok... i guess, it rained and stuff so it was a little hard but yeah. then on Sunday we went to church and Agnes was there, shes doing really well still. umm and church was good. then there is um.... after church we went to the Ardeche because one of the People we normally visit was in the hospital. (shes like 90 years old) so we went and visited her, gave her the Sacrament, and gave her a blessing. She's a really nice lady and she always knits little coats for the like children in the ward etc... its really cool to see that even when she cant really come to church she is sooo strongly tied to her lord and savior. its great!
Well so today is Preparation day and well also transfer calls day so president called us and told elder weight he's going home and i am going to Geneva..... not at all expected.... so thats pretty crazy.... so i'll be in geneva for General Conference... its so crazy, nobody even thought that would ever happen but i'm excited to serve in geneva, but i really kind of wanted to stay.... oh well, the lord knows whats best... so sorry if you guys sent stuff to my address there because i said it would be better, umm i think from now on it will just be easier to send everything to the mission home... oh well.
well thats about all the exciting news hope you have a great week! let me know how you are doing!
Love You!
Elder laws
Monday, March 30, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Mar. 23, 2009
Hey family
how is everybody doing?
well this week has been really good. the highlight being the Baptism of Agnès. So basically this week comprised of a few rendezvous, a lot of preparation and it was really good! We had the baptism this past friday at about 5 oclock. well thats when it was scheduled at least. it became like 5 30, 6ish. because Agnès was late because of traffic.
we had to do it in Lyon because Valence doesnt have a baptismal font. so basically thats that... we just had to start a little late no big deal! so i guess because mom asked for "details" that means i have to give them. we started out singing o j'ai besoin de toi, i had to play the piano.... so yeah. then elder Weight gave the opening prayer. after which we had a little musical thing, just a song that agnes wanted played during it. it was "ces mains" or these hands. idk if yoyu know that song but someone did it in French so yeah. it was really good. then Sr. Bevilacqua gave a talk (sr bevilacqua is the ex-sister-in-law to agnes and her husband is the Stake President of Nice.) then we had the Service of the Baptism. Fr. Bevilacqua baptized agnes and me and elder Weight were Witnesses.... then while they changed clothes Elder Weight and I (to get my english grammar correct) gave a little teaching until they came back. then Agnes bore her testimony, and then a member who had helped us with the Rendezvous bore his. and that was that. it was good!
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ummm lets see what else....
apart from that nothing way too exciting going on.
we are in lyon today for SUPER BOWL II haha... we played football against the other zone today, it was a lot of fun! and now i'm dead...
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ummm lets see idk if i have anything else for you...
well our teaching (during the baptism) was on Alma 32. and how Faith is like a Seed and you have to try it, to grow the tree, to see if the fruit is good. so you have to follow the commandments to get a testimony of it for yourself. we also compared that to how, this is kind of what i've thought of since then, this tree that we grow is like the Tree in the Vision of the Tree of life. and so like the actual tree is the Love of god, so in growing our faith, we grow closer to god. and the fruit is Eternal life, so, these things we do, grow this tree which will produce the fruit that will give us eternal life... we also talked about how Christ said there will be many prophets after me (true and false), so you can judge them by their fruits. their actions. so, we know what Christ's fruit is because we can use it every day(the atonement), and thus we can know that he was the Son of God. we also talked about how 'The Book of Mormon' is Joseph Smiths "Fruits". and how we can know if the church is true and that he's a prophet by fulfilling the Promise at the end of the Book. (moroni 10:4-5) so yeah... that was cool.
and yeah well i hope you guys have a great week! i Love you!
Elder laws
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how is everybody doing?
well this week has been really good. the highlight being the Baptism of Agnès. So basically this week comprised of a few rendezvous, a lot of preparation and it was really good! We had the baptism this past friday at about 5 oclock. well thats when it was scheduled at least. it became like 5 30, 6ish. because Agnès was late because of traffic.
we had to do it in Lyon because Valence doesnt have a baptismal font. so basically thats that... we just had to start a little late no big deal! so i guess because mom asked for "details" that means i have to give them. we started out singing o j'ai besoin de toi, i had to play the piano.... so yeah. then elder Weight gave the opening prayer. after which we had a little musical thing, just a song that agnes wanted played during it. it was "ces mains" or these hands. idk if yoyu know that song but someone did it in French so yeah. it was really good. then Sr. Bevilacqua gave a talk (sr bevilacqua is the ex-sister-in-law to agnes and her husband is the Stake President of Nice.) then we had the Service of the Baptism. Fr. Bevilacqua baptized agnes and me and elder Weight were Witnesses.... then while they changed clothes Elder Weight and I (to get my english grammar correct) gave a little teaching until they came back. then Agnes bore her testimony, and then a member who had helped us with the Rendezvous bore his. and that was that. it was good!
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ummm lets see what else....
apart from that nothing way too exciting going on.
we are in lyon today for SUPER BOWL II haha... we played football against the other zone today, it was a lot of fun! and now i'm dead...
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ummm lets see idk if i have anything else for you...
well our teaching (during the baptism) was on Alma 32. and how Faith is like a Seed and you have to try it, to grow the tree, to see if the fruit is good. so you have to follow the commandments to get a testimony of it for yourself. we also compared that to how, this is kind of what i've thought of since then, this tree that we grow is like the Tree in the Vision of the Tree of life. and so like the actual tree is the Love of god, so in growing our faith, we grow closer to god. and the fruit is Eternal life, so, these things we do, grow this tree which will produce the fruit that will give us eternal life... we also talked about how Christ said there will be many prophets after me (true and false), so you can judge them by their fruits. their actions. so, we know what Christ's fruit is because we can use it every day(the atonement), and thus we can know that he was the Son of God. we also talked about how 'The Book of Mormon' is Joseph Smiths "Fruits". and how we can know if the church is true and that he's a prophet by fulfilling the Promise at the end of the Book. (moroni 10:4-5) so yeah... that was cool.
and yeah well i hope you guys have a great week! i Love you!
Elder laws
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Mar. 16, 2009
Hey Family how are you?
well this week was another interesting one too! last week of course we were in Grenoble for Preperation day and we got to play basketball and football which was extremely fun (suprised them all in basketball). and then we had Interviews with President Peterson the next day. it was a lot of fun and i Love the Petersons! (i'm sad that they are leaving this summer) its also good to get some 1 on 1 time with president peterson. They are great people! after that this week has been full of finding people. which actually went alright. we didnt have any way Grand experiences but we talked with some nice people. and we have some new potential amis.
Agnés is doing really well and her baptism is this friday. we'll see her wednesday, thursday is the interview, and DUN DUN DUN! friday is the baptism! yay! hopefully nothing goes wrong...
also lets see..... this sunday we had ward conference here and it was really good. The Stake Presidency is top notch and we filled up our little building. the first talk was given by the primary president Sr. Meloen and she was talking about how important it was to teach the gospel to the youth and how primary helped that and yeah. i wrote down a quote from hers that i really liked. she said "if you wait until they are old enough to understand everything, they'll understand nothing." i'm glad that i was born 'in the church" and had the oppurtunity to be taught in my youth. (like nephi, moroni, 2000 stripling warriors, etc.). Elder Bednar when he came told us to make sure that we did it too, he said that a 4 year old kid could have questions about the gospel. idk i really liked that is all.
i really appreciate all of you and all of your support. (and letters and packages, which can be sent to valence still.. i probably wont be leaving for a while, my companion is going home then i'll have at least another transfer so that makes about 8 weeks...)(amelia i got your package a week ago friday i believe i just forgot to let you know so yeah.)
umm i love you!
Elder Laws
well this week was another interesting one too! last week of course we were in Grenoble for Preperation day and we got to play basketball and football which was extremely fun (suprised them all in basketball). and then we had Interviews with President Peterson the next day. it was a lot of fun and i Love the Petersons! (i'm sad that they are leaving this summer) its also good to get some 1 on 1 time with president peterson. They are great people! after that this week has been full of finding people. which actually went alright. we didnt have any way Grand experiences but we talked with some nice people. and we have some new potential amis.
Agnés is doing really well and her baptism is this friday. we'll see her wednesday, thursday is the interview, and DUN DUN DUN! friday is the baptism! yay! hopefully nothing goes wrong...
also lets see..... this sunday we had ward conference here and it was really good. The Stake Presidency is top notch and we filled up our little building. the first talk was given by the primary president Sr. Meloen and she was talking about how important it was to teach the gospel to the youth and how primary helped that and yeah. i wrote down a quote from hers that i really liked. she said "if you wait until they are old enough to understand everything, they'll understand nothing." i'm glad that i was born 'in the church" and had the oppurtunity to be taught in my youth. (like nephi, moroni, 2000 stripling warriors, etc.). Elder Bednar when he came told us to make sure that we did it too, he said that a 4 year old kid could have questions about the gospel. idk i really liked that is all.
i really appreciate all of you and all of your support. (and letters and packages, which can be sent to valence still.. i probably wont be leaving for a while, my companion is going home then i'll have at least another transfer so that makes about 8 weeks...)(amelia i got your package a week ago friday i believe i just forgot to let you know so yeah.)
umm i love you!
Elder Laws
Monday, March 9, 2009
Mar. 09, 2009
hey my family!
How are you guys doing?
well this week has been a little crazy.. and i'll explain why.
Starting out with monday and tuesday me and my companion were ill. meaning that well we were either sleeping our sitting around for basically 2 days. although we did get better yay!
Then on wednesday we did some work in the morning and afternoon, but then at 3 o clock we got on a train and headed for geneva for a Zone Conference. that night we stayed with the elders of Annemasse (my trainer elder Eaton haha), which is not too far from geneva, in fact its basically almost the same place. just different countries i would guess. anyways so the reason that we went to Geneva for Zone Conference is because Elder Paya.... if thats how its spelled, of the area presidency (quorum of the seventy i think) came for a mission tour. it was good but it was wayyyyyyy hard because we didnt get a whole lot of sleep that night. but it was good, it went late so we missed our train back to valence so instead we went and stayed with the elders in Lyon. oh yeah at Zone Conferences they have the missionaries who are going home at the end of the transfer give their dieing testimonies (dieing just means going home, when we get to the field we're born, our trainers our dad, etc...), so my companion and a few others gave there testimonies and its was really good. so wise and experienced! haha.
so then we got home friday and actually started to work... kind of, fridays are pretty packed here in valence. starting with studies in the morning until 10, then we do weekly planning from 10-12, then we do lunch and french study, then this week we went and saw Agnes (elle va bien) and so that took up basically our afternoon, then at 6 we have an english class we do, and then we have meeting and so basically we had like 1 hour to actually try and find people... it was kind of nice haha!
so then we had a lot of work to do saturday which we didnt really get to do because we had this rendezvous with an african man who just so happened to have been kicked out of the apartment he was staying in, seemed drunk, (said he wasnt), but its kind of cold so like we had the rendezvous scheduled for 3, he's african so he was late by an hour, (every time we called him he said j'arrive, i'm coming), then we had the rendezvous. then we had another rendezvous and right at the end he called us again and was like je vais mourrir de la froid (i'm going to die from the cold), can we go to your church so i can warm up. so we did that, i feel really bad for him but like.... theres really nothing that we can do... i wish there was but there isnt.
then sunday was good, church was good, then we went and ate at the Family Meloens house, and they are such a cool family i dont know if i've said anything about them yet i think so but they are so cool! and they made us like an american meal with chicken, fries, green beans, ice cream. it was great!! haha! and then we went and worked, did some contacting, and then we went and packed. we went to Grenoble last night, so we are there right now, we're going to go play basketball and football. it should be fun!
today i studied about Revelation and the Light of Christ. in alma 17:3 it talks about the importance of prayer, and fasting in order to obtain the spirit of prophecy and revelation, in order to be able to Preach with Power and Authority. i thought it was a great scripture. then about the Light of Christ it talks about how we all have the light of christ in us, everyone in the world, it helps us know between good and evil, kind of like a conscience.(idk if thats how you spell it) and the further our knowledge of the gospel grows, the more succeptable we are to the promptings of the Light of Christ, or the Holy Ghost through the Light of Christ, because before we are given the Gift of the Holy Ghost, he touches us through the Light of Christ. anyways just a cool insight. and whats cool is that for us, showing the example will help others fill the light of christ and bring them closer to christ. its great!
Well i love you all and hope you have a great week!
Elder Laws
ps
i've noticed on some letters that i got the your guys put
2 rue de chabeuil...
i guess i told you wrong because its
2 Ave. de Chabeuil
so i hope that you guys havent gotten anything back because of that... love ya!
How are you guys doing?
well this week has been a little crazy.. and i'll explain why.
Starting out with monday and tuesday me and my companion were ill. meaning that well we were either sleeping our sitting around for basically 2 days. although we did get better yay!
Then on wednesday we did some work in the morning and afternoon, but then at 3 o clock we got on a train and headed for geneva for a Zone Conference. that night we stayed with the elders of Annemasse (my trainer elder Eaton haha), which is not too far from geneva, in fact its basically almost the same place. just different countries i would guess. anyways so the reason that we went to Geneva for Zone Conference is because Elder Paya.... if thats how its spelled, of the area presidency (quorum of the seventy i think) came for a mission tour. it was good but it was wayyyyyyy hard because we didnt get a whole lot of sleep that night. but it was good, it went late so we missed our train back to valence so instead we went and stayed with the elders in Lyon. oh yeah at Zone Conferences they have the missionaries who are going home at the end of the transfer give their dieing testimonies (dieing just means going home, when we get to the field we're born, our trainers our dad, etc...), so my companion and a few others gave there testimonies and its was really good. so wise and experienced! haha.
so then we got home friday and actually started to work... kind of, fridays are pretty packed here in valence. starting with studies in the morning until 10, then we do weekly planning from 10-12, then we do lunch and french study, then this week we went and saw Agnes (elle va bien) and so that took up basically our afternoon, then at 6 we have an english class we do, and then we have meeting and so basically we had like 1 hour to actually try and find people... it was kind of nice haha!
so then we had a lot of work to do saturday which we didnt really get to do because we had this rendezvous with an african man who just so happened to have been kicked out of the apartment he was staying in, seemed drunk, (said he wasnt), but its kind of cold so like we had the rendezvous scheduled for 3, he's african so he was late by an hour, (every time we called him he said j'arrive, i'm coming), then we had the rendezvous. then we had another rendezvous and right at the end he called us again and was like je vais mourrir de la froid (i'm going to die from the cold), can we go to your church so i can warm up. so we did that, i feel really bad for him but like.... theres really nothing that we can do... i wish there was but there isnt.
then sunday was good, church was good, then we went and ate at the Family Meloens house, and they are such a cool family i dont know if i've said anything about them yet i think so but they are so cool! and they made us like an american meal with chicken, fries, green beans, ice cream. it was great!! haha! and then we went and worked, did some contacting, and then we went and packed. we went to Grenoble last night, so we are there right now, we're going to go play basketball and football. it should be fun!
today i studied about Revelation and the Light of Christ. in alma 17:3 it talks about the importance of prayer, and fasting in order to obtain the spirit of prophecy and revelation, in order to be able to Preach with Power and Authority. i thought it was a great scripture. then about the Light of Christ it talks about how we all have the light of christ in us, everyone in the world, it helps us know between good and evil, kind of like a conscience.(idk if thats how you spell it) and the further our knowledge of the gospel grows, the more succeptable we are to the promptings of the Light of Christ, or the Holy Ghost through the Light of Christ, because before we are given the Gift of the Holy Ghost, he touches us through the Light of Christ. anyways just a cool insight. and whats cool is that for us, showing the example will help others fill the light of christ and bring them closer to christ. its great!
Well i love you all and hope you have a great week!
Elder Laws
ps
i've noticed on some letters that i got the your guys put
2 rue de chabeuil...
i guess i told you wrong because its
2 Ave. de Chabeuil
so i hope that you guys havent gotten anything back because of that... love ya!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Mar. 02, 2009
well i'm going to start with an answer to a pretty common question that was had.. the numbers in the picture from last week are the Transfers that we are on. so that was taken when i was on my 5th transfer or like 2 weeks ago. we have 16 transfers on the mission so yeah. this is my 6th. its actually really weird to me because when i served with Elder Lemich he was on his 6th-7th transfers... and so now i'm there and its really crazy weird! it seems like just yesterday ahh!!!!
Anyways how was everyones weeks? it was a pretty good week for us. starting out with Teaching our newest amis on Monday night. his name is Carlos and he's from Portugal. It was cool how we found him because just before we had tried to pass by a potential amis but he wasnt there so we prayed and walked a little bit and elder weight was like hey come here and we knocked on carlos' door and voila. he's a cool guy. and i lied it was wednesday Night haha! anyways he said he would read and pray so its looking good eh? thats the key.
we also saw Agnes a couple of times this week. she's doing really well and has Stopped smoking as of Friday. and she got sick so she couldnt go to church sunday but its really cool to see the changes someone who knows its true is willing to make.
On Thursday we went to Grenoble for a Zone Meeting and also for an exchange with the Zone Leaders. which went really well. i was with Elder Murragara. we started off by trying to pass by this guy that wasnt there but we decided to port his building and we talked with a lot of really nice and open people. fixed a rendezvous for them for the next day and yeah it was good. then we went to pass a man to try to invite him to a baptism they were having in grenoble the Next day and he wasnt there so we ported his builidng and when we were on the last door we had this pretty too long conversation and then here comes the guy walking behind us. cool stuff so we ended our conversation with the lady we were talking to, it was going no where, and ran upstairs(because we were going to be late for our next rendezvous which we were...) and invited the guy, he said he'd come and yeah tender mercies.... then we ran got on the bus... the wrong bus... and ended up somewhere then we walked and finally got to where we were going. then i had one of the most Spiritual Rendez-vous, if not the most spiritual rendezvous of my mission... it was just so cool! it was with an amis whose wife is a member and he's been meeting with the missionaries for a couple of years. he wants to be baptized this year but he wants to be ready... it was an amazing experience... everyone was crying and wow... it was awesome.
this sunday we were with the members a lot... we went (after church) to eat at a members house. they live in Roman-sur-Isere which is like a 20 minute drive from Valence. and they are italien... so we got to eat Lasagna... LE VRAI!! haha it was sooo good! then we probably spent to much time there but we played with them and the older couple that was there Chinese Checkers which was funny just because it was a couple of old married couples who have just So much love for each other. then after that we went and visited a less active, which we were late for and also after there wasnt any buses for us.(and we had a rendez-vous in 3 minutes and were a 45 minute walk away!) so we called a member and he came and picked us up. he's the coolest guy in the world haha! you'd have to meet him to understand but ya! he's just so goofy and nice, and its awesome! (he also served his mission in England, and he LOVES the missionaries) him and his wife have 4 kids and the littlest is the cutest little girl in the world. she's like 2 years old i think and she Loves us (the missionaries in general) and she just runs around FOREVER!!! haha!
sweet family!
anyways so then we went to our rendezvous 20 minutes late, and he wasnt expecting us (carlos) so we rescheduled for today and then we went and ate at another members house... and now i feel fat, and something we ate made me a little sick... and i have gross burps... umm and that was about all the exciting things this week. hope you have a great week and love you all!
Elder laws
Anyways how was everyones weeks? it was a pretty good week for us. starting out with Teaching our newest amis on Monday night. his name is Carlos and he's from Portugal. It was cool how we found him because just before we had tried to pass by a potential amis but he wasnt there so we prayed and walked a little bit and elder weight was like hey come here and we knocked on carlos' door and voila. he's a cool guy. and i lied it was wednesday Night haha! anyways he said he would read and pray so its looking good eh? thats the key.
we also saw Agnes a couple of times this week. she's doing really well and has Stopped smoking as of Friday. and she got sick so she couldnt go to church sunday but its really cool to see the changes someone who knows its true is willing to make.
On Thursday we went to Grenoble for a Zone Meeting and also for an exchange with the Zone Leaders. which went really well. i was with Elder Murragara. we started off by trying to pass by this guy that wasnt there but we decided to port his building and we talked with a lot of really nice and open people. fixed a rendezvous for them for the next day and yeah it was good. then we went to pass a man to try to invite him to a baptism they were having in grenoble the Next day and he wasnt there so we ported his builidng and when we were on the last door we had this pretty too long conversation and then here comes the guy walking behind us. cool stuff so we ended our conversation with the lady we were talking to, it was going no where, and ran upstairs(because we were going to be late for our next rendezvous which we were...) and invited the guy, he said he'd come and yeah tender mercies.... then we ran got on the bus... the wrong bus... and ended up somewhere then we walked and finally got to where we were going. then i had one of the most Spiritual Rendez-vous, if not the most spiritual rendezvous of my mission... it was just so cool! it was with an amis whose wife is a member and he's been meeting with the missionaries for a couple of years. he wants to be baptized this year but he wants to be ready... it was an amazing experience... everyone was crying and wow... it was awesome.
this sunday we were with the members a lot... we went (after church) to eat at a members house. they live in Roman-sur-Isere which is like a 20 minute drive from Valence. and they are italien... so we got to eat Lasagna... LE VRAI!! haha it was sooo good! then we probably spent to much time there but we played with them and the older couple that was there Chinese Checkers which was funny just because it was a couple of old married couples who have just So much love for each other. then after that we went and visited a less active, which we were late for and also after there wasnt any buses for us.(and we had a rendez-vous in 3 minutes and were a 45 minute walk away!) so we called a member and he came and picked us up. he's the coolest guy in the world haha! you'd have to meet him to understand but ya! he's just so goofy and nice, and its awesome! (he also served his mission in England, and he LOVES the missionaries) him and his wife have 4 kids and the littlest is the cutest little girl in the world. she's like 2 years old i think and she Loves us (the missionaries in general) and she just runs around FOREVER!!! haha!
sweet family!
anyways so then we went to our rendezvous 20 minutes late, and he wasnt expecting us (carlos) so we rescheduled for today and then we went and ate at another members house... and now i feel fat, and something we ate made me a little sick... and i have gross burps... umm and that was about all the exciting things this week. hope you have a great week and love you all!
Elder laws
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