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
Monday, July 6, 2009
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
Monday, June 22, 2009
Jun 22, 2009
so hello!
umm so this week has been pretty fun. mostly been doing the same things as always but today we found out transfers. But nothing is happening with me and elder Diffrient. but the other companionship is changing to 2 new missionaries. 1 of which already served there and will be training the other one. cool stuff.
umm lets see. so this week we actually did an exchange with the other elders and it was a lot of fun. umm nothing too crazy different because we are serving in the same city but its still cool. I was with elder terry who at times is a little wierd but at the same time cool.
i really dont have anything to talk about that much... umm on tuesday we had our last presidents interviews with President Peterson. He will shortly be replaced in July and so it was really sad. but it was good because we got some little presents for them and Sr. Peterson was going to cry because we waved goodbye to them as they drove by and everything so sad for them. and me. i really Love them theyre great. hopefully President and Sister Murdock are good replacements... that would be sad if they werent. (of course they will be)
umm other than that like i dont have much to say. we've found a couple of people to teach, one of which i've never seen (they found her on the exchange haha..) and the other is really hard to see. The first ones name is Mme Vuilliomenet which is funny because in the ward there is a Vuilliomenet family and there son is Elder Vuilliomenet in our mission. and they dont live very far away from them so its funny. the Dad is a little less active so we are actually going to try to get him to help us with rendezvous which should be fun. we'll see what happens.
umm i think thats about it. I love you, and hope you have a great week.
Elder Laws
umm so this week has been pretty fun. mostly been doing the same things as always but today we found out transfers. But nothing is happening with me and elder Diffrient. but the other companionship is changing to 2 new missionaries. 1 of which already served there and will be training the other one. cool stuff.
umm lets see. so this week we actually did an exchange with the other elders and it was a lot of fun. umm nothing too crazy different because we are serving in the same city but its still cool. I was with elder terry who at times is a little wierd but at the same time cool.
i really dont have anything to talk about that much... umm on tuesday we had our last presidents interviews with President Peterson. He will shortly be replaced in July and so it was really sad. but it was good because we got some little presents for them and Sr. Peterson was going to cry because we waved goodbye to them as they drove by and everything so sad for them. and me. i really Love them theyre great. hopefully President and Sister Murdock are good replacements... that would be sad if they werent. (of course they will be)
umm other than that like i dont have much to say. we've found a couple of people to teach, one of which i've never seen (they found her on the exchange haha..) and the other is really hard to see. The first ones name is Mme Vuilliomenet which is funny because in the ward there is a Vuilliomenet family and there son is Elder Vuilliomenet in our mission. and they dont live very far away from them so its funny. the Dad is a little less active so we are actually going to try to get him to help us with rendezvous which should be fun. we'll see what happens.
umm i think thats about it. I love you, and hope you have a great week.
Elder Laws
Monday, June 15, 2009
Jun 15, 2009
hey family! how is everyone?
well so this week has been pretty good. we have had a quite a few rendezvous with members this past week its been fun. and there has been a LOT of good food. i havent eaten so well in a while. They just stuff you like crazy! its yummy though so i'm all for it. (kind of making me fat though... haha.)
so umm.. well this week i went on an exchange with our Zone leaders. its was way fun and it started off way cool. We started after our Zone meeting so me and Elder Sorenson (he's one of my favorite, if not my favorite, missionary) went to the trainstation to catch a train to Yverdon. while we were waiting in the trainstation for the train a man walked up to us and asked us to explain a little so we did and he then proceeded to tell us he'd like to learn more. so we fixed a rendezvous and we saw him Thursday afternoon and it was really good. we'll see him again this week.
umm.. anyways so we get to yverdon and go to their apartment and drop my stuff off. Then we go, and since in Yverdon the bus system isnt very good they walk everywhere. and we had a long ways to walk. haha. so we start going and we get into the "downtown" area and then this guy and his friend stops us, and speaks to us in english and says they want to meet with us. haha. cool stuff. He was from Guatemala and had seen the Temple and knew a little and so ya thats way cool.
anyways so other than that things have been basically pretty routine. its been a lot of fun but also sometimes hard. we uhh.. also got another cool miracle yesterday after church. it was great.
we were porting in a little city about 15 minutes train ride from Neuchatel. We got done with the buildings we were at so we went to the trainstation to wait for the next train back to neuchatel and we were just sitting on a bench. then a man and a woman walked up to us and the man asked us if we were the mormons. we replied yes and he then went on to explain that he was from neuchatel but that he had been in brasil for the last couple years and that there were a LOT of churchs there. and then he asked us where the church was in neuchatel. the woman didnt speak french (portuguese... from brasil i'd imagine) but he said that they went to church all the time in brasil and that his friend told him that when he left that he had to come to church here so thats WAY cool. we just happened to be in the right place at the right time (well i mean not just happened but you get the point.) they said they'd come this coming sunday so thats way awesome. The lord is really full of love for his children and knows when his missionaries need a little miracle haha! so cool.
basically other than that nothing too cool has been happening so thats all for me. Hope you all have a great week. Love you!
Elder Laws
ps. i'll find some shoes here so i should be alright dad thanks for the offer though!
well so this week has been pretty good. we have had a quite a few rendezvous with members this past week its been fun. and there has been a LOT of good food. i havent eaten so well in a while. They just stuff you like crazy! its yummy though so i'm all for it. (kind of making me fat though... haha.)
so umm.. well this week i went on an exchange with our Zone leaders. its was way fun and it started off way cool. We started after our Zone meeting so me and Elder Sorenson (he's one of my favorite, if not my favorite, missionary) went to the trainstation to catch a train to Yverdon. while we were waiting in the trainstation for the train a man walked up to us and asked us to explain a little so we did and he then proceeded to tell us he'd like to learn more. so we fixed a rendezvous and we saw him Thursday afternoon and it was really good. we'll see him again this week.
umm.. anyways so we get to yverdon and go to their apartment and drop my stuff off. Then we go, and since in Yverdon the bus system isnt very good they walk everywhere. and we had a long ways to walk. haha. so we start going and we get into the "downtown" area and then this guy and his friend stops us, and speaks to us in english and says they want to meet with us. haha. cool stuff. He was from Guatemala and had seen the Temple and knew a little and so ya thats way cool.
anyways so other than that things have been basically pretty routine. its been a lot of fun but also sometimes hard. we uhh.. also got another cool miracle yesterday after church. it was great.
we were porting in a little city about 15 minutes train ride from Neuchatel. We got done with the buildings we were at so we went to the trainstation to wait for the next train back to neuchatel and we were just sitting on a bench. then a man and a woman walked up to us and the man asked us if we were the mormons. we replied yes and he then went on to explain that he was from neuchatel but that he had been in brasil for the last couple years and that there were a LOT of churchs there. and then he asked us where the church was in neuchatel. the woman didnt speak french (portuguese... from brasil i'd imagine) but he said that they went to church all the time in brasil and that his friend told him that when he left that he had to come to church here so thats WAY cool. we just happened to be in the right place at the right time (well i mean not just happened but you get the point.) they said they'd come this coming sunday so thats way awesome. The lord is really full of love for his children and knows when his missionaries need a little miracle haha! so cool.
basically other than that nothing too cool has been happening so thats all for me. Hope you all have a great week. Love you!
Elder Laws
ps. i'll find some shoes here so i should be alright dad thanks for the offer though!
Monday, June 8, 2009
Jun 08, 2009
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hello family!how is everyone doing?
well so this week has been alright. we started out by having preperation day which i already told you about but then by having the next day a day long trip to Lyon for elder Diffrients legality. so like that ended up being all day long because we got to the Trainstation and like 2 minutes before the train got there i was like... i dont have my passport.. so we had to go back and get my passport and then go and catch the next train which left an hour later which also made us miss the connecting train in Geneva but there was another one and we ended up getting there just fine and on time for his appointment.
now when we got to the gare the elders in Lyon met us there because one of them had to do legality too. so we did that and then got a patisserie to eat and well we missed our train home that night and ended up on an Exchange with those elders and yeah. so then we came home the next morning and everything was good.
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Other than that we have just been trying to find people to teach. Yesterday we talked with a lot of really nice people (none were interested...) and we also at church set up a lot of rendezvous with members because its kind of hard to do 8 hours of finding every day without things to break it up a little. so its cool. and i think this week will be the best week of the transfer so far for us. exciting...umm so like dad asked how it all worked for us so like we dont have to pay any like rent or anything, they give us some money for food mostly and like travel and stuff. but like anything else is basically paid by us, clothes toys etc haha... but ya its nice, i guess like in the passed you had to pay for your own lodging? is that right? but its cool. its nice having a lot of elders because then you dont have to worry so much about spending all of your money because you can get enough for less money per person.
so the picture is of a little valley north of Neuchatel named Val-de-Ruz and it was like the First week that i got here that i took it but i havent been able to send it so i thought that i would since i can.
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Other than that we have a few recent converts that we are working with, just trying to get them integrated etc. fun stuff. so uhh.... yeah... i think thats about it for me and i dont know if i have anything else or if you had any other questions so yeah.Have a great week Love you all
Elder Laws
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Jun 01, 2009
Hi Family again!
so i'm sorry but this week i wont be able to send pictures either, hopefully next week though because i want you to see this place before i leave it haha. (if i leave it too) umm.. so i guess we can just start uhh at today... Well it started with us getting up and doing laundry. then we played a little spades (which the other missionaries taught me how to play, fun game.) then at 11 we got on the train and headed to Bienne, which is like 20 minutes away because we were going to play Football...soccer.. with the Missionaries serving in the Zurich, Switzerland Mission. and its because they have missionaries in bienne, or biel in german, and we have missionaries there too and so we are both within our mission boundaries anyways it was a lot of fun. and i'm sooo tired. that pretty much took up our day. until now. i also cramped up and almost fell on my face but thats ok, i guess that happens when you play for 3 hours after not playing for a yearish... haha. umm... i dont even like soccer. haha. but it was still fun anyways.
umm then yesterday church was good. they had a little lesson on member missionary work (which idk if you knew but those are the most spiritual lessons usually, not even just because of my biased opinion, but really) because this ward has had a lot of baptisms recently and they need to make sure and retain people. and then like after church i was just like hey i like your tie, to the bishop and hey was like can i offer it to you and i was like ya sure so we exchanged ties, so i have a neuchatel bishop tie haha! its a cool tie.
umm then other than that the work is going ok... been seeing a lot of the Recent converts lately and also doing a LOT of porting. (we dont have any amis they all got baptised i guess...) the Lake here is beautiful and the last couple of days we've tried to contact by it but its too distracting because there are a bunch of sail boats and like people riding sail boards and all this crazy stuff and the lake has these huge cool waves and so i dont think its very effective because, its easy to just look at the lake. and i'd send a picture but i dont have enough time and i also yeah there isnt a usb plug in this thing either so i'll have to do it next week.
Other Things... well i think thats about it but i hope that you have a great week and i LOVE YOU ALL!!!
ELder Laws
Je vous aime, et on se verra dans un an... je crois..
so i'm sorry but this week i wont be able to send pictures either, hopefully next week though because i want you to see this place before i leave it haha. (if i leave it too) umm.. so i guess we can just start uhh at today... Well it started with us getting up and doing laundry. then we played a little spades (which the other missionaries taught me how to play, fun game.) then at 11 we got on the train and headed to Bienne, which is like 20 minutes away because we were going to play Football...soccer.. with the Missionaries serving in the Zurich, Switzerland Mission. and its because they have missionaries in bienne, or biel in german, and we have missionaries there too and so we are both within our mission boundaries anyways it was a lot of fun. and i'm sooo tired. that pretty much took up our day. until now. i also cramped up and almost fell on my face but thats ok, i guess that happens when you play for 3 hours after not playing for a yearish... haha. umm... i dont even like soccer. haha. but it was still fun anyways.
umm then yesterday church was good. they had a little lesson on member missionary work (which idk if you knew but those are the most spiritual lessons usually, not even just because of my biased opinion, but really) because this ward has had a lot of baptisms recently and they need to make sure and retain people. and then like after church i was just like hey i like your tie, to the bishop and hey was like can i offer it to you and i was like ya sure so we exchanged ties, so i have a neuchatel bishop tie haha! its a cool tie.
umm then other than that the work is going ok... been seeing a lot of the Recent converts lately and also doing a LOT of porting. (we dont have any amis they all got baptised i guess...) the Lake here is beautiful and the last couple of days we've tried to contact by it but its too distracting because there are a bunch of sail boats and like people riding sail boards and all this crazy stuff and the lake has these huge cool waves and so i dont think its very effective because, its easy to just look at the lake. and i'd send a picture but i dont have enough time and i also yeah there isnt a usb plug in this thing either so i'll have to do it next week.
Other Things... well i think thats about it but i hope that you have a great week and i LOVE YOU ALL!!!
ELder Laws
Je vous aime, et on se verra dans un an... je crois..
Monday, May 25, 2009
May 25, 2009
so uhh HI
hows everyone doing?
this last little bit has been really good and i dont think i told you but this weekend we had a baptism. I got here and everything was basically set up and yeah. thats that. I thought that maybe i would send you a picture but i cant, this comps not working. So the ladies name is Sr. Cappadona and shes from Maurice Island... by Madagascar, shes like 70 and way nice. it was a good service and the Member that gave us to her as a referal baptised her so we have officially lost our best amis, and other than that we have no one really to teach so yay finding!
umm other than that not much else is going on. there are a lot of people here that speak english though. its kind of cool. weird too though. also a lot of german speakers, and aparently portugeuse also. so yeah. ummm lets see.
we ate at this Member families house and they fed us Porkchops... yum.. those are the first in a LONG time. it was good. and theyre a cool family (old man and old woman haha). other than that i dont really have anything to talk about. aparently there has been a lot of crazy stuff going on with my friends (for info ask mom) and yeah... its crazy how much can change in a couple years...
well umm... thats about it. sorry that the email isnt very good this week but yeah. thats all for me. have a great week.
Elder Laws
LOVE YOU ALL
hows everyone doing?
this last little bit has been really good and i dont think i told you but this weekend we had a baptism. I got here and everything was basically set up and yeah. thats that. I thought that maybe i would send you a picture but i cant, this comps not working. So the ladies name is Sr. Cappadona and shes from Maurice Island... by Madagascar, shes like 70 and way nice. it was a good service and the Member that gave us to her as a referal baptised her so we have officially lost our best amis, and other than that we have no one really to teach so yay finding!
umm other than that not much else is going on. there are a lot of people here that speak english though. its kind of cool. weird too though. also a lot of german speakers, and aparently portugeuse also. so yeah. ummm lets see.
we ate at this Member families house and they fed us Porkchops... yum.. those are the first in a LONG time. it was good. and theyre a cool family (old man and old woman haha). other than that i dont really have anything to talk about. aparently there has been a lot of crazy stuff going on with my friends (for info ask mom) and yeah... its crazy how much can change in a couple years...
well umm... thats about it. sorry that the email isnt very good this week but yeah. thats all for me. have a great week.
Elder Laws
LOVE YOU ALL
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