Hey family how is everyone doing?
Well this has been a pretty exciting week. on wednesday we went to this museum.. of fine arts... or in english fine arts museum... anyways it was fun i guess i took some pictures that i wanted to send you but i dont have my camera or my sd card so thats too bad! then we had to leave a little early because we had a rendezvous that night with a member family. it was great!. umm so then the next day... thursday we had zone conference...my last... weird... anyways it was really good and we talked about The week of consecration that we are going to have next week. its going to be pretty cool i guess, and hard. we are only going to take half our dinner time and do at least 4 hours of finding every day which is going to be hard but we are going to have SOO many miracles. its going to be great!
we kind of tested a little bit the 4 hours of finding already and we had some good miracles... one that we had.. well ok so we were in this building looking for a guy and trying to decide what we were going to do, because he wasnt there, and so we decided to knock on the doors in the building which didnt really produce anything there wasnt anyone there but then when we got out of the building this guy like stopped us and asked us who we were and he was this 19 year old kid that was way cool. so ya... and then later we were deciding what we should do we only had like 15 minutes left and so we decided to pass a lady.. and it turned out there were these other people moving into the building... it was a mom and her daughter... and so we were like can we help you? and we helped them get like the bed frame in and up some of the stairs and realized that we had to dismantle it and so we ran to our apartment (it was like 5 minutes away) got some tools and came back!!! and it was broken!!! la HONTE! soo anyways we offered our services for the next day because they werent finished and they said ok that works... so the next day we came and helped them finish and it was us the mom the daughter and her boyfriend... so like at the end the mom was like thank you so much for everything like if it werent for you we would still be moving in like 2 days, its like God sent you! ... he did! it was way cool and this week they said that they were going to come to church and ya! thats so great! that was a sweet miracle! anyways other than that nothing way exciting has happened except that today we played sports including basketball! come to find out i cant jump as high anymore! but it still made me miss it way bad! anyways love you all hope you have a great week!
Elder Michael Laws
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Apr. 21, 2010
hey family!!!
at lot of cool stuff happened this week for you thats sweet! congratulations JESSE!! thats way cool. finally one of my sisters gives me another nephew.... that took long enough! there are definately enough girls already in the family! anyways! its been a great week.
well... i guess that being sick (constipated... :(..) for like 5 days wasnt that much fun, or my companion rolling his ankle... but it was still a great week!
on tuesday (preparation day) we went bowling again... it wasnt as good as last time but it was fun anyways. this week we arent going to go though... i guess since we're in france we might as well visit stuff. anyways after that we went and visited one of my favorite families here. they have a couple girls that are like 12 that arent very interested but since elder liechty and elder lepretre and me have been here they have started to change a lot. its pretty cool. oh and that morning we went or i guess like at noon we went and passed the guy whos way into indian stuff etc.. and a bunch of his friends were over which is cool.
on wednesday well i was sick and so we did a little exchange with the Zone leaders because we had a rendezvous to help our ward mission leader get a fridge etc... so i just sat around for a while reading the scriptures(turns out that they got in an accident! which is funny to me... but really sad) and then since it took them a lot longer than it should have i went with Elder Wery (hes from belguim) to the gare to buy some tickets for some missionaries that had got transfered and then we went to the institute because elder wery had to translate for this couple into french because these ladies from germany (americans) came to do some training... so basicallly i sat around. for the rest of the day. thursday we had district meeting with our new district! (no one changed haha!) we added another companionship to our district though because the other sister companionship in lyon got closed down. so now there is only one district in lyon. and i'm the district leader of the biggest district in the mission! WOW... (all that means is i have to call more people...which i hate doing!) anyways then we had our DMP meeting... which is with our ward mission leader anyways it was good but since i wasnt feeling that well we went back to the apart for the rest of the day until we went to our rendezvous that night. It was with Mathilde who is way cool and reads the book of mormon everyday and prays and stuff it was great!
friday we had a couple of rendezvous that went really well but nothing way exciting happend. one of the people we taught asked why churches (in general) baptized in the name of the father the son and the holy ghost.... and not just in christs name... because in the bible it says multiple times to baptize in the name of Jesus christ... i think its funny because i had no idea... i dont study other churches. just ours... so i told her why we do it! anyways that was kind of a silly story.
saturday morning we played soccer and thats when elder Liechty decided to roll his ankle. (it wasnt really a decision that he made but he did it anyways... weirdo). then that night we had a ward activity that like maybe 20 people came to (two of which amis) and a guy that we play soccer with came so that is sweet! anyways we played this game like 4 times thats called werewolf and basically i think that its just the same as mofia but with a some more charactors etc... (if any of you know what that game is haha!) it was fun even with only a little bit of people...
sunday was good we had our mission president come to our meeting and give a talk which was good. (sorry that i didnt give you any information for your talk dad... i failed to realize that it was so soon.) anyways after church we went with a family and our amis to their house and we ate lunch... STEAK! it was SOOOO good. oh man... it was good.. i'm starting to drool so i'm going to stop thinking about it but it was good and fun... and then because of a strike thats been going on for a while (which had ruined SO many of our plans) we didnt get home until late. anyways things have been going really well! and its been a great week! i love you and hope you have great weeks!
Elder Michael Laws
Je vous aime tous!
oh the picture of the little green guy came from me getting bored... and distracted! he's a rockstar though!
at lot of cool stuff happened this week for you thats sweet! congratulations JESSE!! thats way cool. finally one of my sisters gives me another nephew.... that took long enough! there are definately enough girls already in the family! anyways! its been a great week.
well... i guess that being sick (constipated... :(..) for like 5 days wasnt that much fun, or my companion rolling his ankle... but it was still a great week!
on tuesday (preparation day) we went bowling again... it wasnt as good as last time but it was fun anyways. this week we arent going to go though... i guess since we're in france we might as well visit stuff. anyways after that we went and visited one of my favorite families here. they have a couple girls that are like 12 that arent very interested but since elder liechty and elder lepretre and me have been here they have started to change a lot. its pretty cool. oh and that morning we went or i guess like at noon we went and passed the guy whos way into indian stuff etc.. and a bunch of his friends were over which is cool.
on wednesday well i was sick and so we did a little exchange with the Zone leaders because we had a rendezvous to help our ward mission leader get a fridge etc... so i just sat around for a while reading the scriptures(turns out that they got in an accident! which is funny to me... but really sad) and then since it took them a lot longer than it should have i went with Elder Wery (hes from belguim) to the gare to buy some tickets for some missionaries that had got transfered and then we went to the institute because elder wery had to translate for this couple into french because these ladies from germany (americans) came to do some training... so basicallly i sat around. for the rest of the day. thursday we had district meeting with our new district! (no one changed haha!) we added another companionship to our district though because the other sister companionship in lyon got closed down. so now there is only one district in lyon. and i'm the district leader of the biggest district in the mission! WOW... (all that means is i have to call more people...which i hate doing!) anyways then we had our DMP meeting... which is with our ward mission leader anyways it was good but since i wasnt feeling that well we went back to the apart for the rest of the day until we went to our rendezvous that night. It was with Mathilde who is way cool and reads the book of mormon everyday and prays and stuff it was great!
friday we had a couple of rendezvous that went really well but nothing way exciting happend. one of the people we taught asked why churches (in general) baptized in the name of the father the son and the holy ghost.... and not just in christs name... because in the bible it says multiple times to baptize in the name of Jesus christ... i think its funny because i had no idea... i dont study other churches. just ours... so i told her why we do it! anyways that was kind of a silly story.
saturday morning we played soccer and thats when elder Liechty decided to roll his ankle. (it wasnt really a decision that he made but he did it anyways... weirdo). then that night we had a ward activity that like maybe 20 people came to (two of which amis) and a guy that we play soccer with came so that is sweet! anyways we played this game like 4 times thats called werewolf and basically i think that its just the same as mofia but with a some more charactors etc... (if any of you know what that game is haha!) it was fun even with only a little bit of people...
sunday was good we had our mission president come to our meeting and give a talk which was good. (sorry that i didnt give you any information for your talk dad... i failed to realize that it was so soon.) anyways after church we went with a family and our amis to their house and we ate lunch... STEAK! it was SOOOO good. oh man... it was good.. i'm starting to drool so i'm going to stop thinking about it but it was good and fun... and then because of a strike thats been going on for a while (which had ruined SO many of our plans) we didnt get home until late. anyways things have been going really well! and its been a great week! i love you and hope you have great weeks!
Elder Michael Laws
Je vous aime tous!
oh the picture of the little green guy came from me getting bored... and distracted! he's a rockstar though!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Apr. 13, 2010
Hey Family!
HOw are you guys doing?!
its been a fun week. i decided that since the last couple of emails were... uneventful that i better write down what happened so that i wouldnt forget.
On wednesday, preparation day that is, we went bowling! it was fun, and i got the highest score of the day with 175! it was good. also something that i havent ever had happen was all of us on our lane one game got over 100. pretty cool.
umm alright. so then on thursday something cool that happend was that i was able to give a baptismal interview for one of the Sisters amis who got baptized saturday; it was a good experience. so then on saturday was the baptism and me and my comp. made some cookies for it... no bake cookies... UMMMM!!!! they were so good! oh and elder Liechty was asked to perform the baptism so thats cool for him.
on Friday we also made some cookies and went around and passed them to our investigators but also to people that were taught in the past and it was fun. one of the families that we passed has at least 15 peopel living in the same apartment! thats so crazy! and way too many people. while we were passing people this lady came up to us and was like hi elders... and of course we didnt know who she was and it turns out that she used to be a member in congo and she decided to go back to being catholic;... its wierd for me to see people that do that and other stuff like it... i dont like it... but it happens... its that dang moral agency thing...
we also went and saw this man who is from venezuela and has this thing for american indian culture. he was way nice. it was just weird because while we were talking he put on this indian music. it was funny. after that we got a phone call from president. he was making sure that we focused on keeping the rules that go with the institute because i guess that a missionary got sent home because of something that happened. its pretty sad because he was a great missionary and had changed a lot during his mission but i guess that no one can overcome temptation when they put themselves in a position to be tempted....
then that night we had a nice rendezvous with the bishop and his family... nice people those members of that mormon church...
so then on saturday we went and played soccer which was fun... i scrapped up my knee because we were playing on dirt, which hurt after when i thought that it would be smart for some reason to use a alcohol wipe... (not smart) then we went to the baptism... it was a good little meeting and i played the piano for a musical number... yikes! only messed up once at the end at least... (not bad for learning the song this week). so that was fun... then there was like a bazillion things to eat after. then on the way home this guy came to talk to us and he started to ask us a bunch of crazy questions... it was weird at first but after it was actually a really good conversation...
Then on sunday on our way to church this guy talked at us for a little while... its kind of annoying when people do that... i dont know if you've ever experienced it but ya.. its weird. but then church was good and we just passed some people etc..
then on monday we went to this little city 20 minutes away to visit a member but the thing is that there is a strike for the trains (like usual) and we went to the trainstation a little early, and there was a train that was 25 minutes late so we got on it and got to our rendezvous... which was pretty crazy. then we went and visited this less active who is deaf which is an interesting experience... he reads lips really well so it was good. then we walked like a billion miles to pass another member...who wasnt there!! sad... umm and thats about it for the week. except last night we had a little rendezvous with the people in the apartment of 15.. it was good. there were people coming in and out going here and there it was kind of funny but it was good. then on the way home some kids threw some rocks at us but missed pretty bad so no big deal... thats whats fun is that everyone here plays soccer and not baseball.. (thats for sure!!)
hope you have a great week!
Elder MIchael Laws
HOw are you guys doing?!
its been a fun week. i decided that since the last couple of emails were... uneventful that i better write down what happened so that i wouldnt forget.
On wednesday, preparation day that is, we went bowling! it was fun, and i got the highest score of the day with 175! it was good. also something that i havent ever had happen was all of us on our lane one game got over 100. pretty cool.
umm alright. so then on thursday something cool that happend was that i was able to give a baptismal interview for one of the Sisters amis who got baptized saturday; it was a good experience. so then on saturday was the baptism and me and my comp. made some cookies for it... no bake cookies... UMMMM!!!! they were so good! oh and elder Liechty was asked to perform the baptism so thats cool for him.
on Friday we also made some cookies and went around and passed them to our investigators but also to people that were taught in the past and it was fun. one of the families that we passed has at least 15 peopel living in the same apartment! thats so crazy! and way too many people. while we were passing people this lady came up to us and was like hi elders... and of course we didnt know who she was and it turns out that she used to be a member in congo and she decided to go back to being catholic;... its wierd for me to see people that do that and other stuff like it... i dont like it... but it happens... its that dang moral agency thing...
we also went and saw this man who is from venezuela and has this thing for american indian culture. he was way nice. it was just weird because while we were talking he put on this indian music. it was funny. after that we got a phone call from president. he was making sure that we focused on keeping the rules that go with the institute because i guess that a missionary got sent home because of something that happened. its pretty sad because he was a great missionary and had changed a lot during his mission but i guess that no one can overcome temptation when they put themselves in a position to be tempted....
then that night we had a nice rendezvous with the bishop and his family... nice people those members of that mormon church...
so then on saturday we went and played soccer which was fun... i scrapped up my knee because we were playing on dirt, which hurt after when i thought that it would be smart for some reason to use a alcohol wipe... (not smart) then we went to the baptism... it was a good little meeting and i played the piano for a musical number... yikes! only messed up once at the end at least... (not bad for learning the song this week). so that was fun... then there was like a bazillion things to eat after. then on the way home this guy came to talk to us and he started to ask us a bunch of crazy questions... it was weird at first but after it was actually a really good conversation...
Then on sunday on our way to church this guy talked at us for a little while... its kind of annoying when people do that... i dont know if you've ever experienced it but ya.. its weird. but then church was good and we just passed some people etc..
then on monday we went to this little city 20 minutes away to visit a member but the thing is that there is a strike for the trains (like usual) and we went to the trainstation a little early, and there was a train that was 25 minutes late so we got on it and got to our rendezvous... which was pretty crazy. then we went and visited this less active who is deaf which is an interesting experience... he reads lips really well so it was good. then we walked like a billion miles to pass another member...who wasnt there!! sad... umm and thats about it for the week. except last night we had a little rendezvous with the people in the apartment of 15.. it was good. there were people coming in and out going here and there it was kind of funny but it was good. then on the way home some kids threw some rocks at us but missed pretty bad so no big deal... thats whats fun is that everyone here plays soccer and not baseball.. (thats for sure!!)
hope you have a great week!
Elder MIchael Laws
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Apr. 07, 2010
Hey Family!
How are you all doing!?
well it has been a great week for me. mostly because we had general conference.
Like i said last week we are back down to two elders which was kind of weird at first but its been really good. We have had some really fun times. nothing specific i guess but its been great.
umm on wednesday we went and visited this family that we see pretty often and it was fun as usual. We taught about the gospel (faith repentance baptism gift of the holy ghost and enduring to the end) using an egg and a bottle. Its fun to do and maybe i'll show it to you some time. afterwards they fed us some meat and potatos... so good.
then after that the most exciting thing that we did i think was on saturday where we had General confernece but we also played soccer that morning. its great because we're starting to see that people recognize us and that we're different even. maybe less serious is the right word, nice, or i dont know... but its fun.
Now general Conference was just GREAT! it was just a feast... i could have sat there for another 10 hours listening to our leaders! we got to see saturday morning and afternoon, priesthood, and sunday morning session. i think that we are going to listen to some of the talks today from the last session while we eat lunch. idk how to explain exactly why i liked it it was just good. thats all...i got a lot of ideas for the future which is nice and also for the present.
On monday we had district meeting which, with the departure of elder Lepretre, means that i taught. it was good i think. the spirit was there and we got to talk a little bit about repentance and love of god etc... it was nice.
aside from that stuff we have been looking for more people to teach; be that talking to people on the road or passing people that have been taught in the past. we already have a lot of great amis, the difficulty that we have is that we cant really see them as often as i would like. but tahts life i guess. they have to work and go to school and take care of their families and all that so i guess that we cant ask them to see us all the time!!! oh well...
oh we did have a ward council and i think they talked about tacos for our ward party for like 15 minutes.... (count your blessings!) bref...
umm we also had interviews... which is something that i did forget about. it was good to see President and Sister Murdock. they brought me my package too which is good. they appreciated the fact that i opened it and shared! thanks mom! you can send more cadbury eggs if you want!
umm... other things... the 30th of march works for the homecoming talk thingy... if they want me to talk about a specific topic that would be cool to have before then! umm... any prospects for work would be welcome too.
that is all!
have a great week! Love you!
Elder Laws
that is just a picture at the institute here with some of the people that attend... its fun!
Love you!
Elder Laws
How are you all doing!?
well it has been a great week for me. mostly because we had general conference.
Like i said last week we are back down to two elders which was kind of weird at first but its been really good. We have had some really fun times. nothing specific i guess but its been great.
umm on wednesday we went and visited this family that we see pretty often and it was fun as usual. We taught about the gospel (faith repentance baptism gift of the holy ghost and enduring to the end) using an egg and a bottle. Its fun to do and maybe i'll show it to you some time. afterwards they fed us some meat and potatos... so good.
then after that the most exciting thing that we did i think was on saturday where we had General confernece but we also played soccer that morning. its great because we're starting to see that people recognize us and that we're different even. maybe less serious is the right word, nice, or i dont know... but its fun.
Now general Conference was just GREAT! it was just a feast... i could have sat there for another 10 hours listening to our leaders! we got to see saturday morning and afternoon, priesthood, and sunday morning session. i think that we are going to listen to some of the talks today from the last session while we eat lunch. idk how to explain exactly why i liked it it was just good. thats all...i got a lot of ideas for the future which is nice and also for the present.
On monday we had district meeting which, with the departure of elder Lepretre, means that i taught. it was good i think. the spirit was there and we got to talk a little bit about repentance and love of god etc... it was nice.
aside from that stuff we have been looking for more people to teach; be that talking to people on the road or passing people that have been taught in the past. we already have a lot of great amis, the difficulty that we have is that we cant really see them as often as i would like. but tahts life i guess. they have to work and go to school and take care of their families and all that so i guess that we cant ask them to see us all the time!!! oh well...
oh we did have a ward council and i think they talked about tacos for our ward party for like 15 minutes.... (count your blessings!) bref...
umm we also had interviews... which is something that i did forget about. it was good to see President and Sister Murdock. they brought me my package too which is good. they appreciated the fact that i opened it and shared! thanks mom! you can send more cadbury eggs if you want!
umm... other things... the 30th of march works for the homecoming talk thingy... if they want me to talk about a specific topic that would be cool to have before then! umm... any prospects for work would be welcome too.
that is all!
have a great week! Love you!
Elder Laws
that is just a picture at the institute here with some of the people that attend... its fun!
Love you!
Elder Laws
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