Hello Family
so basically i dont have much time because we are going to geneva pretty soon so hopefully i'll be quick.
Today was transfer call day and we didnt get one so we're staying together which is sweet! i love it here so thats cool. Sadly it seems like the rest of the world this weekend both me and my companion we sick and didnt want to get our investigators sick so we just stayed inside and slept and stuff. but other than that the week was great!
on tuesday there was a train strike so we had district meeting then did another exchange with the elders in Chambery and it was great. i was with elder Williams who actually started his mission here in Annecy so we went and saw a few people that he taught and it was cool. Day went really well.
other than that we have just been hanging out (not really) and talking to everyone. Trying to see investigators and members and just like teach them the gospel. We saw a less active member this week who actually stpped drinking recently and had TONS more energy (imagine that.. :) ). it was way cool. Follow the commandments and get bless... odd concept no?
Well so basically today we are going to play sports in geneva which is way exciting! i miss beign able to play basketball so often.. hhaa
ummm... oh someone asked me for a christmas list so here goes.
- New Scriptures
- Ipod/Music
- absolutely NO CANDY haha...(i guess you can send traditional stuff)
- Letters!
- Church Books
- Oil Vial (last one got lost)
- Piano Music
- Photo Frame (electronic one...)
Basically i dont need any of this stuff but it would be cool... i realized when i was thinking of all this stuff that i really dont need anything (its a great feeling!).
i also need your addresses and if someone could send me a picture of the entire family (or as many people as possible) that would be sweet
ANyways i gotta go hope you have a great week!
Love YOU!
Elder Laws
Monday, October 26, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Oct. 19, 2009
Hello people....!
how is everyone doing?
so basically this week has been a lot of fun!
on tuesday we went to chambery for an exchange and i went with elder Walch and we actually had a sweet miracle. this lady stopped in her car and called us over (as we were contacting) and she just asked us what it was all about so we explained the restoration quickly and then she asked if we had a church in Chambery and we were like ya and so we gave her the address and the times and stuff and she was like cool i'll see you sunday then and then left. so thats cool (sadly she didnt go but ya)
so then we went and ate lunch and stuff we had a rendezvous with a less active then went to this little town called aix les bains in their area. and worked there for the rest of the day. It was fun because well my companion doesnt really care about sports and he likes sports and stuff and so we talked all day about it it was fun (sadly he's a new england patriots fan so i had to put him in his place but we quickly got past that conflict and got the spirit back haha!)
but it was fun. The next day we came back to annecy and had our district meeting that morning. it was good and i hope that it helped out the district.
Other than that we've just been teaching people. On sunday we had church and there were a few visitors from the stake and things like that and after church we had le repas de branche (ward meal) they do it every 3rd sunday of the month. (which was really good because we didnt go shopping this week and had like NO food haha... a little but ya...) after that we had a rendezvous with this family from nigeria. Mom and dad and two kids. it was fun and we are going to see them next sunday and show them the restoration. oh and they speak english which is pretty cool. i prefer to teach the gospel in french now but it should be fun anyways!
its been a great experience to be here in annecy and i LOve the people here (even when some of them arent nice...) all of our amis are great and the members here rock!
oh ya and so like... our ward mission leader wanted us to show this film to one of our investigators (the mediator) but he didnt know where it was and we didnt have a dvd player and all that jazz but then we were at the church one day looking at the videos that were there to see if we could use any in teaching (because there isnt a dvd player there) and we found the mediator so we were like cool lets try it out to make sure it works (it was an old video cassette so you never know right?) so we go to make sure put it in rewind it a little push play and its working so were like cool lets try to find the video we want to see (because there was more than one little video on it) so we were rewinding it and pressed play and then it broke... and so now there is a vhs... stuck in the vcr and its kind of annoying... it doesnt work... it wont eject... it wont do anything... so we opened it up (the back) and couldnt figure out how to get it to work... its still all wound through the machine but its just doesnt realize there is a video in there.... something always happens...
But so ya... the end of that has not yet been established...so i'll keep you updated.
ummm other than that i'm doing really well and its been good to hear from you all!
Love you and have a great week!
Elder Laws
how is everyone doing?
so basically this week has been a lot of fun!
on tuesday we went to chambery for an exchange and i went with elder Walch and we actually had a sweet miracle. this lady stopped in her car and called us over (as we were contacting) and she just asked us what it was all about so we explained the restoration quickly and then she asked if we had a church in Chambery and we were like ya and so we gave her the address and the times and stuff and she was like cool i'll see you sunday then and then left. so thats cool (sadly she didnt go but ya)
so then we went and ate lunch and stuff we had a rendezvous with a less active then went to this little town called aix les bains in their area. and worked there for the rest of the day. It was fun because well my companion doesnt really care about sports and he likes sports and stuff and so we talked all day about it it was fun (sadly he's a new england patriots fan so i had to put him in his place but we quickly got past that conflict and got the spirit back haha!)
but it was fun. The next day we came back to annecy and had our district meeting that morning. it was good and i hope that it helped out the district.
Other than that we've just been teaching people. On sunday we had church and there were a few visitors from the stake and things like that and after church we had le repas de branche (ward meal) they do it every 3rd sunday of the month. (which was really good because we didnt go shopping this week and had like NO food haha... a little but ya...) after that we had a rendezvous with this family from nigeria. Mom and dad and two kids. it was fun and we are going to see them next sunday and show them the restoration. oh and they speak english which is pretty cool. i prefer to teach the gospel in french now but it should be fun anyways!
its been a great experience to be here in annecy and i LOve the people here (even when some of them arent nice...) all of our amis are great and the members here rock!
oh ya and so like... our ward mission leader wanted us to show this film to one of our investigators (the mediator) but he didnt know where it was and we didnt have a dvd player and all that jazz but then we were at the church one day looking at the videos that were there to see if we could use any in teaching (because there isnt a dvd player there) and we found the mediator so we were like cool lets try it out to make sure it works (it was an old video cassette so you never know right?) so we go to make sure put it in rewind it a little push play and its working so were like cool lets try to find the video we want to see (because there was more than one little video on it) so we were rewinding it and pressed play and then it broke... and so now there is a vhs... stuck in the vcr and its kind of annoying... it doesnt work... it wont eject... it wont do anything... so we opened it up (the back) and couldnt figure out how to get it to work... its still all wound through the machine but its just doesnt realize there is a video in there.... something always happens...
But so ya... the end of that has not yet been established...so i'll keep you updated.
ummm other than that i'm doing really well and its been good to hear from you all!
Love you and have a great week!
Elder Laws
Monday, October 12, 2009
Oct. 12, 2009
Hi Family!
How is everybody doing?
This week was just a little bit crazy...thats all. It started out with being in geneva for preparation day. We went and played soccer (thumbs down...) which was fun (even though i would have preferred basketball). and also after that we went back to the mission home and played Risk which was pretty uneventful and i think that i pretty much lost... even though we didnt finish... it was still fun though. After that we had an exchange with the zone leaders that started that night and went until tuesday. I was with Elder LePretre who is from Paris. It was a lot of fun and we had some cool miracles where we found this family that they could teach and also we taught this guy who was WAY cool. it was a lot of fun. After that we FINALLY got back to annecy haha. but we couldnt get too confortable because on thursday we had Interviews in Annemasse... and then did an exchange with the Elders there. IT was good and fun. so basically that means that we were in our area for a grand total of 3 whole days yay!!! haha... but yesterday when we were porting we found this family that said that we could come back next week and talked to a TON of really nice people. Also Church was way good and we talked about JOseph Smith and what he was to each one of us... The evidences (physical and spiritual) are just WAYY too overwhelming to deny the fact that he was someone special. The book of mormon in itself is too crazy for someone that was only a young uneducated farmboy to have written. Its hard to think that people dont believe.. if they took even 1 hour to just study his life and works there is NO way that they could think that he was just a really smart young kid... Anyways i had a really great week and thanks everyone for writing me! I love YOu and have a good day and week!
Elder Laws
ps Congratulations Amelia!
How is everybody doing?
This week was just a little bit crazy...thats all. It started out with being in geneva for preparation day. We went and played soccer (thumbs down...) which was fun (even though i would have preferred basketball). and also after that we went back to the mission home and played Risk which was pretty uneventful and i think that i pretty much lost... even though we didnt finish... it was still fun though. After that we had an exchange with the zone leaders that started that night and went until tuesday. I was with Elder LePretre who is from Paris. It was a lot of fun and we had some cool miracles where we found this family that they could teach and also we taught this guy who was WAY cool. it was a lot of fun. After that we FINALLY got back to annecy haha. but we couldnt get too confortable because on thursday we had Interviews in Annemasse... and then did an exchange with the Elders there. IT was good and fun. so basically that means that we were in our area for a grand total of 3 whole days yay!!! haha... but yesterday when we were porting we found this family that said that we could come back next week and talked to a TON of really nice people. Also Church was way good and we talked about JOseph Smith and what he was to each one of us... The evidences (physical and spiritual) are just WAYY too overwhelming to deny the fact that he was someone special. The book of mormon in itself is too crazy for someone that was only a young uneducated farmboy to have written. Its hard to think that people dont believe.. if they took even 1 hour to just study his life and works there is NO way that they could think that he was just a really smart young kid... Anyways i had a really great week and thanks everyone for writing me! I love YOu and have a good day and week!
Elder Laws
ps Congratulations Amelia!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Oct. 05, 2009
Hello family!
so this week has been interesting and great at the same time! we basically had no time in our area which was kind of bad but we were able to see most of our investigators so its cool! but other than that we came to geneva on thursday for legality stuff and we were supposed to have an exchange with our Zone leaders but then there was a bunch of confusion and stuff and we didnt do it so like thats going to be tonight so on saturday we went to a city called bellegarde which is on its way to geneva and visited a couple of members family! it was fun and we went from there to general conference.
the schedule is a little different here in switzerland because well when its 10 there is 6 at night here. so like thats when the first session is saturday. then the next day they show priesthood session at 11 o clock and then saturday afternoon session at 2. after that they have sunday morning at 6 and then sunday afternoon at 10 To 12 so normally we dont get to watch that one BUT... we were staying at the mission home here in geneva with like the office elders and assistants and president murdock let us come over to his side of the mission home and watch in their basement! so it was WAYYY good!
I loved the talk by elder Holland because lately we've just been focusing on getting our investigators to read the book of mormon. so its way cool. and i also really enjoyed elder Scotts talk a bunch. it was a lot of fun and i went with a question and got the answer like right away. idk if you've ever tried just having a question whenever you go to church or watch conference but its really a great experience. When i was talking to one of the Missionaries in my district (did i tell you i was district leader again?) last night for weekly calls he told me that he had like 20 questions written down and that he got an answer to ALL of them... cool stuff. anyways so we are actually still in geneva because we have the exchange with the zone leaders so we are going to play soccer and basketball with like the entire zone so it should be TONS of fun.
Sorry that i havent sent any pictures in a while but my battery charger was left in neuchatel and i called and asked them to get it to the mission president so he could get it to me but they have just forgotten every time i guess... so i havent had my camera the last 2 transfers...; way sad.. anyways once i get it i will get you some pictures so ya! I love you all and thanks for all your examples! have a great week!
Elder Laws
so this week has been interesting and great at the same time! we basically had no time in our area which was kind of bad but we were able to see most of our investigators so its cool! but other than that we came to geneva on thursday for legality stuff and we were supposed to have an exchange with our Zone leaders but then there was a bunch of confusion and stuff and we didnt do it so like thats going to be tonight so on saturday we went to a city called bellegarde which is on its way to geneva and visited a couple of members family! it was fun and we went from there to general conference.
the schedule is a little different here in switzerland because well when its 10 there is 6 at night here. so like thats when the first session is saturday. then the next day they show priesthood session at 11 o clock and then saturday afternoon session at 2. after that they have sunday morning at 6 and then sunday afternoon at 10 To 12 so normally we dont get to watch that one BUT... we were staying at the mission home here in geneva with like the office elders and assistants and president murdock let us come over to his side of the mission home and watch in their basement! so it was WAYYY good!
I loved the talk by elder Holland because lately we've just been focusing on getting our investigators to read the book of mormon. so its way cool. and i also really enjoyed elder Scotts talk a bunch. it was a lot of fun and i went with a question and got the answer like right away. idk if you've ever tried just having a question whenever you go to church or watch conference but its really a great experience. When i was talking to one of the Missionaries in my district (did i tell you i was district leader again?) last night for weekly calls he told me that he had like 20 questions written down and that he got an answer to ALL of them... cool stuff. anyways so we are actually still in geneva because we have the exchange with the zone leaders so we are going to play soccer and basketball with like the entire zone so it should be TONS of fun.
Sorry that i havent sent any pictures in a while but my battery charger was left in neuchatel and i called and asked them to get it to the mission president so he could get it to me but they have just forgotten every time i guess... so i havent had my camera the last 2 transfers...; way sad.. anyways once i get it i will get you some pictures so ya! I love you all and thanks for all your examples! have a great week!
Elder Laws
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