August 17, 2009

Hey Family!!!
apparently i need to apologize for last week. i guess you guys didnt get the email that i wrote, and thought i sent. oh well hopefully you get this one.
so this last couple of weeks have been a lot of fun. i got here safe and sound and we went straight to work. we are teaching a few people but sadly most of them have been on vacation so its been kind of slow.umm so ya. BUT it has still been really fun.
i guess i can start off telling you a little bit about my New companion Elder Walker. He is from arizona or ogden depending on who he is talking to and he is about 6'4" or 6'5" i guess and has blond hair. He has been on his mission a little more than 6 monthes(the same as elder diffrient) and he is 19 years old. Ummm Other than that we are both pretty, not that talkative, but its not because we hate each other its just because thats our personalities (we talked about it already). When he was in school he ran cross country and also started the Chess club and the Comic book club with one of his friends, but he doesnt really look like thats what he would be interested in. um other than that idk what to tell you about him... :-) ummm so this last week we had a couple of cool miracles that i thought id share with you. ummm firstly we have run into like 3 member families on vacation that wanted to know the times and address for church, way cool. so like one of these times we were at a bus stop waiting for the bus and twice like the bus was supposed to come and didnt, so we ended up sitting there way longer than we wanted and it was just way annoying. then this man and woman comes up to us asks if were the missionaries and for like the times and address for church. so we give it to them and i swear not like 2 minutes later our bus shows up... that really strengthened my testimony that God really looks out for all of his children and that he knows what is important for us and what we need. so like, God was able to bless the life of this member family, through us, it was way cool.
Other things that happened is like this whole week we just ported and ported and called people, and everyone was on vacation so we just proselyted (contacting porting) all week, and it was really hard, but this sunday we reaped the benefits of our hard work and were able to teach like 3 lessons, have a few amis at church, and it was great. we also found a new amis so its really cool. She is a really nice old lady, who has just been looking for truths, and really just likes to talk about god. its been really good.
Umm as for the Members here annecy is a small branch of 20 active members, and they are all really great as far as i've been able to tell. all willing to help and very spiritual people. its awesome, a little different because, like there are such a little amount of people but at the same time its cool.
ummmm oh another experience that we had is that we went out to this little town like an hour by bus away to try and track down this member family that moved in. anyways this place is Ugine. and uhh... we ended up missing our bus back and had to like stay there for like 2 more hours, it was rough. and its hard too because like we cant go out there too often so if we find people that are interested like they live an hour away and the buses are not that often so it would be tough to teach and hard to get them to church. thats why we need to spread the gospel even more. so that like theres missionaries and chapels in every one of those villes. that would be nice.
thats all for me.
love you
Elder Laws