bonjour à tous!
How is everyone doing?
Well so this passed week has been not bad. monday we played football with some members for a little while and well it was fun but also silly. because they're swiss haha... it was a lot of fun. then we went to the church and played a little ping pong and well this kid from Nigeria who's a recent convert and like 17 beat me... we had some good games though it was fun.
on Wednesday...or Tuesday, tuesday we went on exchanges with elder uhh... our zone leaders. (i'm really scattered brain you'll have to excuse my horrible English.) and i went with elder Nelson. He's a great Elder and a cool guy too. we had a great time. the NExt day was Zone Conference. We went just stayed where we were because i went to Yverdon on my exchange so it was a nice set up for wake up not earlier than normal and not have to take a train and all that good stuff haha. it was really good and really fun because a lot of my old companions were there and elder Jensen, who just went home this week was there and i got to see him one last time it was cool. (i served with elder jensen in valence..) we had some great teachings from our Zone leaders, assistants to the president, and President and Sr. Murdock. They were all good. a lot of review stuff but its normal i think when theres a new mission president.
umm... still just truckin along, vacation time has come so a lot of people are not around but we are still doing alright. hopefully things go good this week.
but uhh... aside from that i dont have much to say. uhh oh wait. haha. forgot. this sunday we also went on a little exchange with the other elders here in neuchatel and it went way well.. i went with Elder Chapman who is going to be going home soon and whose plans all fell...(sad..) but it went well anyways. we went porting and talked to some way cool people and a few told us we could come back so thats cool stuff.
umm now i think i'm done...ya, i am. haha love you all have a great week!
Elder Laws
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
July 20, 2009
Hello hello hello!
hows everyone doing?
hope all is going well!
so this week has been better than the last... i also forgot that we had some stuff that was fun we did and i dont remember if i told you so i'll do that now... this would be...two weeks ago. We helped this family in the ward move and i'll tell you its way different than in Utah.. haha.. point A) there arent 70 members of the elders quorum that come help B) they live in apartment buildings and C) well... stairs arent fun climbing haha. but it was still a good time, and its always fun to do service! that same night we went over to our neighbors house and helped her put together some like shoe cabinet or something and it was way good. brought back some good memories of work! i really enjoy putting stuff together and it almost went too fast... but at the end of the day we were exhausted so thats great.
so this past week has been alright. elder diffrient was sick monday and tuesday and then we had Interviews Wednesday. It was good to meet the New Mission President and his wife they are really nice people and are excited to be here. They are nothing like President and Sister Peterson so it will be an adjustment but i think that everything should be okay since its a calling from the lord. He knows what he's doing!
Other than that we've just been trying to find new people. On Thursday(To continue the week) we did exchanges with The Elders Serving in Bienne (or biel in german). It was fun i went out there with an Elder Named Elder Whatcott. He's from oklahoma and proud of it. it was a lot of fun and we talked with some cool people. also some people that didnt speak french it was great. i guess thats pretty normal there because there are more people that speak german there than french. there are actually Missionaries there from the Zurich Switzerland mission so its pretty cool. it was fun, we were going to do exchanges (exchange in the exchange weird huh?) with the German Elders but they actually couldnt for some reason or another but it was fun just the same.
Well for those who dont remember my companion is still Elder Diffrient and he's from Mississippi. Hes about as short as keshia, and he's got a funny accent haha. i'll send a picture so you can see.
umm... aside from that other weird things that happened.. we had a conversation with an elder that was asleep for about an hour and a half.. it was fun/also weird and he said some funny things.. the best part was that he spoke in french the whole time and this is his first transfer. way cool stuff. its awesome.
i think thats about all that has happened this week. i hope you have a great week! love you all!
Elder Laws
ps in the picture elder diffrient is on the right love you!
hows everyone doing?
hope all is going well!
so this week has been better than the last... i also forgot that we had some stuff that was fun we did and i dont remember if i told you so i'll do that now... this would be...two weeks ago. We helped this family in the ward move and i'll tell you its way different than in Utah.. haha.. point A) there arent 70 members of the elders quorum that come help B) they live in apartment buildings and C) well... stairs arent fun climbing haha. but it was still a good time, and its always fun to do service! that same night we went over to our neighbors house and helped her put together some like shoe cabinet or something and it was way good. brought back some good memories of work! i really enjoy putting stuff together and it almost went too fast... but at the end of the day we were exhausted so thats great.
so this past week has been alright. elder diffrient was sick monday and tuesday and then we had Interviews Wednesday. It was good to meet the New Mission President and his wife they are really nice people and are excited to be here. They are nothing like President and Sister Peterson so it will be an adjustment but i think that everything should be okay since its a calling from the lord. He knows what he's doing!
Other than that we've just been trying to find new people. On Thursday(To continue the week) we did exchanges with The Elders Serving in Bienne (or biel in german). It was fun i went out there with an Elder Named Elder Whatcott. He's from oklahoma and proud of it. it was a lot of fun and we talked with some cool people. also some people that didnt speak french it was great. i guess thats pretty normal there because there are more people that speak german there than french. there are actually Missionaries there from the Zurich Switzerland mission so its pretty cool. it was fun, we were going to do exchanges (exchange in the exchange weird huh?) with the German Elders but they actually couldnt for some reason or another but it was fun just the same.
Well for those who dont remember my companion is still Elder Diffrient and he's from Mississippi. Hes about as short as keshia, and he's got a funny accent haha. i'll send a picture so you can see.
umm... aside from that other weird things that happened.. we had a conversation with an elder that was asleep for about an hour and a half.. it was fun/also weird and he said some funny things.. the best part was that he spoke in french the whole time and this is his first transfer. way cool stuff. its awesome.
i think thats about all that has happened this week. i hope you have a great week! love you all!
Elder Laws
ps in the picture elder diffrient is on the right love you!
Monday, July 13, 2009
July 13, 2009
Hey family!
Hope you are all doing well.
This week has been basically basic. Just doing the same things, finding, visiting members and trying not to go too crazy haha! its been fun.
This sunday a member invited one of his friends to church but sadly she wasnt too interested past that. she was really nice though. Sundays are always great though because the spirit is just so strong and the members are great.
Other than that today we are all alone here in Neuchatel. The other companionship went to fribourg for the day but we had other things to do so we couldnt. oh well! we should have some fun anyways, doing i dont know what. yay!
umm.... its kind of hard to have much to write about this week because my companion was a little sick the whole time so yeah. we were in and out but it was still an okay week. hopefully we'll be able to get out a little more this week so that my email isnt so bad next time haha! there are other reasons too of course! ummm....
I dont know what else to say SORRY!!
have a great week! Love you all! congratulations Austin, and HAppy Birthday NYah! have a great week!
Elder Laws
Hope you are all doing well.
This week has been basically basic. Just doing the same things, finding, visiting members and trying not to go too crazy haha! its been fun.
This sunday a member invited one of his friends to church but sadly she wasnt too interested past that. she was really nice though. Sundays are always great though because the spirit is just so strong and the members are great.
Other than that today we are all alone here in Neuchatel. The other companionship went to fribourg for the day but we had other things to do so we couldnt. oh well! we should have some fun anyways, doing i dont know what. yay!
umm.... its kind of hard to have much to write about this week because my companion was a little sick the whole time so yeah. we were in and out but it was still an okay week. hopefully we'll be able to get out a little more this week so that my email isnt so bad next time haha! there are other reasons too of course! ummm....
I dont know what else to say SORRY!!
have a great week! Love you all! congratulations Austin, and HAppy Birthday NYah! have a great week!
Elder Laws
Monday, July 6, 2009
July 06, 2009
Hello Family!
how is everyone doing? i hope good.
This week has been basically the same as all the others haha. just trying to keep busy. We saw a lot of members and they are awesome! its a lot of fun to be in the homes of people who are living the gospel and love it. We had a couple rendezvous that we ate in and the food is still good here haha! Another rendezvous that we had we werent really expecting to eat but we got over and the Member had invited a couple of New members, another Member, and a friend of his. It is really cool to see that the ward is trying to strengthen each other, and help others to see find the Truth, and love and joy we have. (he might be trying to find a wife too haha! but thats not important)
The Fourth of July was this weekend too! it was a lot of fun and we started off the celebration with a little football throwing in the morning for exercises. after that we had French Toast (a TON) for breakfast and then Pizza for Lunch. Of course we worked and stuff in the inbetween time, but we also sang all the Patriotic songs in the Hymn book and did all sorts of stuff like that. For dinner we had a FEAST! it was great. We had Hamburgers, Potato Salad, Deviled eggs, doritos, these scone things that our neighbor gave us, and Sprite and Fantas. It was great. .... then i got sick haha! which i guess you could say ended the Night off with fireworks.. (that wasnt very funny i know...) I guess that when you eat so many eggs in one day your likely to get food poisoning (thats what we figured it was at least). Anyways so i got up like 6 or 7 times during the night to use the bathroom and throw up and stuff it was fun... Which kind of made it so i wasnt feeling so good so i had to stay in the apartment all day sunday. (i guess i could have gone out, but that would have been risky you know?) so it was fun. i'm okay now though, i got to eat a little last night and i didnt have to wake up in the middle of the night for anything so i think its all done.
Thats basically been the week. My fellow missionaries tell me that i talk a lot in my sleep and so i was wondering if you ever noticed me doing that before or if its something i picked up on the Mission. I wouldnt be suprised... Just kind of weird.
Lets see. I Think thats about it... no wait i forgot another interesting detail about our Holiday celebration. we decided to see who could gain the most weight in the one day because we knew that we'd be eating a LOT that day. so in the morning we weighed ourselves.... I was at 181 i believe anyways. so at the end of the night right after diner (before i got sick) we weighed in and we basically all tied (except elder Diffrient) and we all gain 5 pounds. so i was at 186... the next morning when i woke up...well the last time at least. i decided that i would weigh myself and i was at 178.... crazy huh? i thought it was funny...
So one thing that i learned this week from studying the Book of Mormon is that Nephi is SOOO cool. I mean, I knew that already, but still it is just great to read and see the confidence that Nephi has in the Lord, and the Strength that the Lord gives him because of it. Its really cool.
Also i read a few of the conference talks (i got the ensign you sent), oh side note, enseigner is the verb in french meaning to teach, cool huh?, anyways I know that the leaders of the church are inspired greatly and that each of the messages given during conference can apply to us. Its such a comfort to know that there are people on the earth that are receiving revelation for us all and better yet, that God is giving it to us. I know that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
I love you all! Have a great week!
Elder Michael Laws
how is everyone doing? i hope good.
This week has been basically the same as all the others haha. just trying to keep busy. We saw a lot of members and they are awesome! its a lot of fun to be in the homes of people who are living the gospel and love it. We had a couple rendezvous that we ate in and the food is still good here haha! Another rendezvous that we had we werent really expecting to eat but we got over and the Member had invited a couple of New members, another Member, and a friend of his. It is really cool to see that the ward is trying to strengthen each other, and help others to see find the Truth, and love and joy we have. (he might be trying to find a wife too haha! but thats not important)
The Fourth of July was this weekend too! it was a lot of fun and we started off the celebration with a little football throwing in the morning for exercises. after that we had French Toast (a TON) for breakfast and then Pizza for Lunch. Of course we worked and stuff in the inbetween time, but we also sang all the Patriotic songs in the Hymn book and did all sorts of stuff like that. For dinner we had a FEAST! it was great. We had Hamburgers, Potato Salad, Deviled eggs, doritos, these scone things that our neighbor gave us, and Sprite and Fantas. It was great. .... then i got sick haha! which i guess you could say ended the Night off with fireworks.. (that wasnt very funny i know...) I guess that when you eat so many eggs in one day your likely to get food poisoning (thats what we figured it was at least). Anyways so i got up like 6 or 7 times during the night to use the bathroom and throw up and stuff it was fun... Which kind of made it so i wasnt feeling so good so i had to stay in the apartment all day sunday. (i guess i could have gone out, but that would have been risky you know?) so it was fun. i'm okay now though, i got to eat a little last night and i didnt have to wake up in the middle of the night for anything so i think its all done.
Thats basically been the week. My fellow missionaries tell me that i talk a lot in my sleep and so i was wondering if you ever noticed me doing that before or if its something i picked up on the Mission. I wouldnt be suprised... Just kind of weird.
Lets see. I Think thats about it... no wait i forgot another interesting detail about our Holiday celebration. we decided to see who could gain the most weight in the one day because we knew that we'd be eating a LOT that day. so in the morning we weighed ourselves.... I was at 181 i believe anyways. so at the end of the night right after diner (before i got sick) we weighed in and we basically all tied (except elder Diffrient) and we all gain 5 pounds. so i was at 186... the next morning when i woke up...well the last time at least. i decided that i would weigh myself and i was at 178.... crazy huh? i thought it was funny...
So one thing that i learned this week from studying the Book of Mormon is that Nephi is SOOO cool. I mean, I knew that already, but still it is just great to read and see the confidence that Nephi has in the Lord, and the Strength that the Lord gives him because of it. Its really cool.
Also i read a few of the conference talks (i got the ensign you sent), oh side note, enseigner is the verb in french meaning to teach, cool huh?, anyways I know that the leaders of the church are inspired greatly and that each of the messages given during conference can apply to us. Its such a comfort to know that there are people on the earth that are receiving revelation for us all and better yet, that God is giving it to us. I know that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
I love you all! Have a great week!
Elder Michael Laws
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
July 01, 2009
Hi Family!
so the reason that i am writing today is because well the churches email site wasnt working very well on monday so yeah... this is the first time that we've really have been able to get over here again so yup.
Umm other than that the week has been really good. Elder Chapman and Elder Leichty got here safe and sound, and its really fun to have them around. Elder Leichty is on his First transfer so its kind of fun to "be the example" and to have some fun. its crazy though because he reminds me a TON of Kollin haha. looks, personality, everything... its bizarre.
well so i dont know if you remember me telling you about a couple that we talked to that said that they were going to come to church well they showed up at church this sunday its way cool. They live in Brazil and are just Visiting for a while but its way cool. We got their number and we are going to see them sometime this week. other than that we have just been trying to visit members less actives amis, finding people to teach and sleepign haha.
this past week when i hit almost 190 pounds (it was only one day...) i decided that it was about time to take that exercise time that they give us a little more seriously and i'm back down to what i usually am. Also sore! haha. Elder Diffrient might get sick of it one of these days but as long as i can i'm going to make him go running with me haha.
umm. so the other day we were all officially completely out of money it was kind of funny because the other missionaries got here and had to buy bus passes and they had no money. thats ok though because we got through it. it was really funny actually. its mostly my fault because i hadnt sent in reimbursements for a while... and yeah... but thats taken care of now. yay! money haha.
umm but other than that i cant think of anything else. like it was a good week and i gotta go so have a good one! LOVE YOU!
Elder Laws
so the reason that i am writing today is because well the churches email site wasnt working very well on monday so yeah... this is the first time that we've really have been able to get over here again so yup.
Umm other than that the week has been really good. Elder Chapman and Elder Leichty got here safe and sound, and its really fun to have them around. Elder Leichty is on his First transfer so its kind of fun to "be the example" and to have some fun. its crazy though because he reminds me a TON of Kollin haha. looks, personality, everything... its bizarre.
well so i dont know if you remember me telling you about a couple that we talked to that said that they were going to come to church well they showed up at church this sunday its way cool. They live in Brazil and are just Visiting for a while but its way cool. We got their number and we are going to see them sometime this week. other than that we have just been trying to visit members less actives amis, finding people to teach and sleepign haha.
this past week when i hit almost 190 pounds (it was only one day...) i decided that it was about time to take that exercise time that they give us a little more seriously and i'm back down to what i usually am. Also sore! haha. Elder Diffrient might get sick of it one of these days but as long as i can i'm going to make him go running with me haha.
umm. so the other day we were all officially completely out of money it was kind of funny because the other missionaries got here and had to buy bus passes and they had no money. thats ok though because we got through it. it was really funny actually. its mostly my fault because i hadnt sent in reimbursements for a while... and yeah... but thats taken care of now. yay! money haha.
umm but other than that i cant think of anything else. like it was a good week and i gotta go so have a good one! LOVE YOU!
Elder Laws
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