hey family!
well so i little birdie told me in my ear that all the women in the family were getting upset because i wasnt answering any of there questions so i'll try and see what i can do k? (with all the love in the world :P !!!) Mom i dont have my package yet but it will probably be tomorrow because we have zone conference then so ya. ummm, its hard to remember the questions so i will answer the ones i do remember... Halloween, i dont know what its like here because i havent been through one but i here its not really the same, they do celebrate it but... ya dunno tell you, next week i guess. ummm any other questions, well keshia told me to tell everything that happened during the week but that requires too much detail so thats not going to happen, haha! (love you babes) ummm..... well i hope your okay with that...
lets see what has happened cool this week... well yesterday was the Lyon Stakes, Stake Conference, and Elder Robert C. Oaks spoke to us, its pretty cool because well him, and another guy came in not knowing anybody and chose the person, and he chose his counselors without really knowing them. The Church isnt led by men but by God. and he knows whats up haha!
we have some cool new, amis that have a lot of potential... and one a girl from albania who, doesnt speak very good french or english but we got her a BOM in albanian and well that should be enough right???
umm... well the other day we were walking down to the Gare (train station) and we walked by a bar called Bar d'enfer, or in other words, hells bar, and well we thought it was funny because it burned down, at least on the inside :) i'll get a picture dont worry!
umm lets see i guess thats about it for me... i cant think of anything else exciting that happened really...
Love you tons
Elder Laws
Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Oct. 20, 2008
Hey Family!
Hows everything going?
well this week, lets see.
This is the week that i would have got transfered but didnt so thats cool. then on well, on tuesday, we had a really crappy day... yup, we were going to our district meeting because well it was tuesday, and we have to take a train for almost 3 hours there, well, i just have to say that it ended up being a 5 hour train ride.... that should be sufficient. but, then we got there had our district meeting, and we had a conference call with President Peterson (and the rest of the mission) which was really good and then since we didnt have a train for like 2 1/2 hours we had a little bit of time to do exchanges, so while me and well our district leader (who was moving) stayed in the apartment, our companions went to have a rendez-vous which turned out to be really, well bad i guess, also because we missed our train home so we decided to just stay the night there with ended up being not a bad decision because me and Elder Sorenson (whos one transfer younger than me in the mission) decided to go play basketball with some guys as kind of a finding technique, which i guess would have been a lot better if we weren't in our proselyting clothes. but it was fun and i broke one of my shoes pretty good, but i'm in the middle of fixing it so its okay! haha!
then we came home and all was good.
then lets see, basically this week has not held any crazy things, just basic rendez-vous, and proselyting.
umm lets see other stuff i forgot to tell you about a while ago. ummm we had some rocks thrown at us, and we didnt get hit so i guess that means we're samuel the lamanites. also Guillaume, one of the members here, who i've already mentioned before i think, he got his mission call to San Francisco, so me and Elder Lemich decided that we are going to go visit him once we get back :) he leaves december 30th so ya. cool stuff.
also wanted to ask if theres something going on in Sri Lanka, or India right now because we have a less active member here from there and the other night he was somewhat drunk, but also saying stuff like theres a war there or something?
also, oh ya this was this week and actually last night but i thought it was funny so we had contacted this lady, and we were talking and this old guy walked by who we had talked to before a little bit, anyways he joined the conversation and then we ended up walking with him for a bit and he asked us if we wanted to get a drink with him... too bad huh? haha well... i think thats about it for me have a great week and i love you!
Elder Laws
Hows everything going?
well this week, lets see.
This is the week that i would have got transfered but didnt so thats cool. then on well, on tuesday, we had a really crappy day... yup, we were going to our district meeting because well it was tuesday, and we have to take a train for almost 3 hours there, well, i just have to say that it ended up being a 5 hour train ride.... that should be sufficient. but, then we got there had our district meeting, and we had a conference call with President Peterson (and the rest of the mission) which was really good and then since we didnt have a train for like 2 1/2 hours we had a little bit of time to do exchanges, so while me and well our district leader (who was moving) stayed in the apartment, our companions went to have a rendez-vous which turned out to be really, well bad i guess, also because we missed our train home so we decided to just stay the night there with ended up being not a bad decision because me and Elder Sorenson (whos one transfer younger than me in the mission) decided to go play basketball with some guys as kind of a finding technique, which i guess would have been a lot better if we weren't in our proselyting clothes. but it was fun and i broke one of my shoes pretty good, but i'm in the middle of fixing it so its okay! haha!
then we came home and all was good.
then lets see, basically this week has not held any crazy things, just basic rendez-vous, and proselyting.
umm lets see other stuff i forgot to tell you about a while ago. ummm we had some rocks thrown at us, and we didnt get hit so i guess that means we're samuel the lamanites. also Guillaume, one of the members here, who i've already mentioned before i think, he got his mission call to San Francisco, so me and Elder Lemich decided that we are going to go visit him once we get back :) he leaves december 30th so ya. cool stuff.
also wanted to ask if theres something going on in Sri Lanka, or India right now because we have a less active member here from there and the other night he was somewhat drunk, but also saying stuff like theres a war there or something?
also, oh ya this was this week and actually last night but i thought it was funny so we had contacted this lady, and we were talking and this old guy walked by who we had talked to before a little bit, anyways he joined the conversation and then we ended up walking with him for a bit and he asked us if we wanted to get a drink with him... too bad huh? haha well... i think thats about it for me have a great week and i love you!
Elder Laws
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Oct. 13, 2008
Hey Family how are you doing!?!?
this week has been pretty good and we had a lot better time of things than last week so it was cool.
we talked to a lot of very nice, but very not interested people but thats okay because they will always remember when they see us and thats the goal, to get them thinking about it.
all of our amis are doing great, we dont have any baptismal dates yet but i'm expecting at least one in the next.. week i guess.
our Chinese family here in the ward are AMAZING haha. we tell them member missionary work is part of being a member and the next week we have a new chinese amis whos cool, and they're already like testifying and helping teach and helping him understand and oh man its cool. its even cooler because thats the promise that members are givin, that if you introduce people to the work, help teach them testify and be their support they'll get baptised and we're totally going to baptise him its awesome!!! (oh and frere cheng, the father, is definately going to become like a seventy or something haha theyre soo cool!!) the most recent news is, and i dont know if you are keeping track of time but, transfer calls were today. and I get to stay here for another 6 weeks with elder Lemich!! yay!! i love it here the members are sweet and oh man, its just awesome! its going to be a great!!! great!! transfer!!!
lets see what else... bahh i think thats about it.
have a great week and i love ya!
this week has been pretty good and we had a lot better time of things than last week so it was cool.
we talked to a lot of very nice, but very not interested people but thats okay because they will always remember when they see us and thats the goal, to get them thinking about it.
all of our amis are doing great, we dont have any baptismal dates yet but i'm expecting at least one in the next.. week i guess.
our Chinese family here in the ward are AMAZING haha. we tell them member missionary work is part of being a member and the next week we have a new chinese amis whos cool, and they're already like testifying and helping teach and helping him understand and oh man its cool. its even cooler because thats the promise that members are givin, that if you introduce people to the work, help teach them testify and be their support they'll get baptised and we're totally going to baptise him its awesome!!! (oh and frere cheng, the father, is definately going to become like a seventy or something haha theyre soo cool!!) the most recent news is, and i dont know if you are keeping track of time but, transfer calls were today. and I get to stay here for another 6 weeks with elder Lemich!! yay!! i love it here the members are sweet and oh man, its just awesome! its going to be a great!!! great!! transfer!!!
lets see what else... bahh i think thats about it.
have a great week and i love ya!
Monday, October 6, 2008
Oct. 06, 2008
hey family!
how are you guys doing today?
well, in fact this week was kind of crazy and not very effective at all.
we were in clermont until wednesday and came back to st etienne after that. after which we had during the week a couple of rendezvous fall through and not very good success finding. oh well i guess. but, we did have a great experience saturday night watching conference (the saturday morning session haha). we went to our recent convert families home ( the Chengs ) and ate some good food with them, another member, and a couple of non members, (all of which were chinese so the food was way yummy) then we watched a session of conference, and that session rocked yay! it was so much fun, basically like home :) then on sunday we went to lyon because they don't have it set up to play conference in St etienne. and spent the day there listening to the prophets, i didnt get to see the sunday afternoon session and so i'm hopeing that it was way cool and all that but at the same time not because i missed it ahhh! anyways now we're in st etienne and are going to our bishops house out in the country today. anyways thanks for everything have a great week!
Elder Laws
how are you guys doing today?
well, in fact this week was kind of crazy and not very effective at all.
we were in clermont until wednesday and came back to st etienne after that. after which we had during the week a couple of rendezvous fall through and not very good success finding. oh well i guess. but, we did have a great experience saturday night watching conference (the saturday morning session haha). we went to our recent convert families home ( the Chengs ) and ate some good food with them, another member, and a couple of non members, (all of which were chinese so the food was way yummy) then we watched a session of conference, and that session rocked yay! it was so much fun, basically like home :) then on sunday we went to lyon because they don't have it set up to play conference in St etienne. and spent the day there listening to the prophets, i didnt get to see the sunday afternoon session and so i'm hopeing that it was way cool and all that but at the same time not because i missed it ahhh! anyways now we're in st etienne and are going to our bishops house out in the country today. anyways thanks for everything have a great week!
Elder Laws
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sep. 29, 2008
hi family how is everyone doing?
well so this week was way weird but at the same time really good i guess.
to start off, we, well, i guess instead of going day by day i'll go all at once haha Our amis Mme Damoizet is probably not going to be baptised for a while because, while she is way accepting of everything and understands about everything too, she cant get herself to church, BECAUSE, her parents are against, basically other religions and shes scared to tell them or ask them if she can go to church (opposed to spending sundays with them). she had a depression a while ago and so she lives in a hospital apartment but should get out and find her own apartment sometime in january, so maybe it will have to wait til then, but we're trying to just help her find strength in herself, but all and all shes doing very well.
on saturday we had a way bizarre day. we went to the church at 10 for samedi sportif and didn't leave until 4 in the afternoon because after samedi sportif we had a rendezvous with and amis who was there, then we ate with members and then helped a member with some stuff. it was crazy. samedi sportif (if you dont know what that means its just like our time during the week to go play sports) was sweet! one of the recent converts in the ward, frere cheng, brought a friend (both chinese) and we had us also and nicholas and we played ping pong, then basketball, then like 45 minutes straight of ping-pong with me Elder Lemich, frere cheng, and Shuyang (whos an amis)it was awesome haha soooo good! (im getting way good too). anyways next time we get to see him we will probably ask him to be baptised which should again be cool.
hmm, well today we're in clermont ferand with the rest of our district for p-day and we're going to have an exchange tonight and tomorrow. anyways so this morning we went to a castle! haha it was awesome. we didnt get to go inside but i did almost buy a knife! haha that looked like a sword (sting from lotrs) but i didnt.
this weekend we're going to be in lyon for General Conference, they have a room where they show it in english so i'll be able to understand yay!!! it should be cool.
well so far ive seen a lot of great miracles and just want to let you know that there are no hard missions, if you ever tell someone where i am and they say that tell them that just because we dont baptise 100 people a month we dont have a goal for 200 baptisms a month (which some places do) and a lot of people in france couldn't care less and we get a lot of persecution and so on and so on, tell them theyre crazy!!! haha, i've met some of the strongest members, the strongest member missionaries in the world!! the rest of europes baptisms are going down yearly but we are reversing the trend, and thats what matters, because one day, the work will explode here, we're just laying the groundwork :)
love you all!!
a la prochaine
Elder Laws
well so this week was way weird but at the same time really good i guess.
to start off, we, well, i guess instead of going day by day i'll go all at once haha Our amis Mme Damoizet is probably not going to be baptised for a while because, while she is way accepting of everything and understands about everything too, she cant get herself to church, BECAUSE, her parents are against, basically other religions and shes scared to tell them or ask them if she can go to church (opposed to spending sundays with them). she had a depression a while ago and so she lives in a hospital apartment but should get out and find her own apartment sometime in january, so maybe it will have to wait til then, but we're trying to just help her find strength in herself, but all and all shes doing very well.
on saturday we had a way bizarre day. we went to the church at 10 for samedi sportif and didn't leave until 4 in the afternoon because after samedi sportif we had a rendezvous with and amis who was there, then we ate with members and then helped a member with some stuff. it was crazy. samedi sportif (if you dont know what that means its just like our time during the week to go play sports) was sweet! one of the recent converts in the ward, frere cheng, brought a friend (both chinese) and we had us also and nicholas and we played ping pong, then basketball, then like 45 minutes straight of ping-pong with me Elder Lemich, frere cheng, and Shuyang (whos an amis)it was awesome haha soooo good! (im getting way good too). anyways next time we get to see him we will probably ask him to be baptised which should again be cool.
hmm, well today we're in clermont ferand with the rest of our district for p-day and we're going to have an exchange tonight and tomorrow. anyways so this morning we went to a castle! haha it was awesome. we didnt get to go inside but i did almost buy a knife! haha that looked like a sword (sting from lotrs) but i didnt.
this weekend we're going to be in lyon for General Conference, they have a room where they show it in english so i'll be able to understand yay!!! it should be cool.
well so far ive seen a lot of great miracles and just want to let you know that there are no hard missions, if you ever tell someone where i am and they say that tell them that just because we dont baptise 100 people a month we dont have a goal for 200 baptisms a month (which some places do) and a lot of people in france couldn't care less and we get a lot of persecution and so on and so on, tell them theyre crazy!!! haha, i've met some of the strongest members, the strongest member missionaries in the world!! the rest of europes baptisms are going down yearly but we are reversing the trend, and thats what matters, because one day, the work will explode here, we're just laying the groundwork :)
love you all!!
a la prochaine
Elder Laws
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sep. 22, 2008
Hey Family How Are You?
well this week was GREAT!!! yay!!!
it was an awesome time so i guess i'll start from the beginning which was monday!
last pday, well wasnt the greatest and we didnt really do much but that doesnt matter too much.
then tuesday we took a train to lyon and had our zone meeting there and we stayed in lyon for exchanges with our zone leaders. which was really good for a couple reasons, one, the elder i was with is from Paris, thus speaking french and another because its good to see how different people do things here and so ya, it helped a lot which is the point.
so then we got up and came back wednesday morning at which point we went porting, (which our finding this week was absolutely ineffective) then we had a rendezvous (appointment) with mme damoizet, in which we talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ. and the importance of repentance baptism faith gift of the holy ghost and enduring to the end, and in the end we invited her to be baptised and she was worried at first but we got her to understand the importance (the spirirt got her to understand) of doing these ordinances by the right authority and she accepted it was sweet!
then we had another rendezvous with this way nice, but also way crazy (i use the word crazy here lightly, because well theres a lot of crazy people here) and ya, it was a good night.
so then on thursday we had to go to lyon for a legality check for me, health check, and i'm kind of suprised i passed because one of the things they ask for is the immunization record and i dont know if i've told you yet but i didnt finish my immunizations in the MTC because i had to leave so early but anyways i passed and so on to the next step sometime! haha! then we came back and visited a crazy less active lady in our ward but shes nice and didnt take up 2 hours of our time like last time haha! then tried to find people which we weren't very successful at doing like i said earlier.
friday we had our planning session and set goals and stuff which was relatively painless as far as that goes, and tried to find people then we had a rendezvous with mme damoizet again but she wasnt there!!!! nooo!!! haha, not that funny though. bah, so then we went and saw mme nercessian ( the crazy lady ) and had a good chat with her. the end.
Saturday yay! first we had samedi sportif and our sweet recent convert chinese family came and brought a friend who we're now teaching! yay! and we had a good time there, then latter we went back to the church and had a member visit which was really good, then ya went and tried to find people/ see mme damoizet (wasnt there again!!) so ya we had an ok day.
SUNDAY!!!! we rocked sunday man amazing. we got up and went to church and had 3 amis there it was sweet! we taught 2 seperate lessons during sunday school because well the chinese guy speaks english but not french and the other amis were french. so i got to teach in english yay!!! haha! i was actually useful haha! so we had a good time at church then after church we went to a members house for lunch and then straight to the famille chengs apartment (recent convert chinese family) and taught them a lesson and then their friend came and we taught him a lesson then we had another rendezvous with mme nercessian then after we went to check if mme damoizet was home and she was yay!! and that got us home barely on time at 930 haha!
it was a sweet week and the savior blessed us sooo much. thanks for all your support and have a great week!
a la prochaine
well this week was GREAT!!! yay!!!
it was an awesome time so i guess i'll start from the beginning which was monday!
last pday, well wasnt the greatest and we didnt really do much but that doesnt matter too much.
then tuesday we took a train to lyon and had our zone meeting there and we stayed in lyon for exchanges with our zone leaders. which was really good for a couple reasons, one, the elder i was with is from Paris, thus speaking french and another because its good to see how different people do things here and so ya, it helped a lot which is the point.
so then we got up and came back wednesday morning at which point we went porting, (which our finding this week was absolutely ineffective) then we had a rendezvous (appointment) with mme damoizet, in which we talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ. and the importance of repentance baptism faith gift of the holy ghost and enduring to the end, and in the end we invited her to be baptised and she was worried at first but we got her to understand the importance (the spirirt got her to understand) of doing these ordinances by the right authority and she accepted it was sweet!
then we had another rendezvous with this way nice, but also way crazy (i use the word crazy here lightly, because well theres a lot of crazy people here) and ya, it was a good night.
so then on thursday we had to go to lyon for a legality check for me, health check, and i'm kind of suprised i passed because one of the things they ask for is the immunization record and i dont know if i've told you yet but i didnt finish my immunizations in the MTC because i had to leave so early but anyways i passed and so on to the next step sometime! haha! then we came back and visited a crazy less active lady in our ward but shes nice and didnt take up 2 hours of our time like last time haha! then tried to find people which we weren't very successful at doing like i said earlier.
friday we had our planning session and set goals and stuff which was relatively painless as far as that goes, and tried to find people then we had a rendezvous with mme damoizet again but she wasnt there!!!! nooo!!! haha, not that funny though. bah, so then we went and saw mme nercessian ( the crazy lady ) and had a good chat with her. the end.
Saturday yay! first we had samedi sportif and our sweet recent convert chinese family came and brought a friend who we're now teaching! yay! and we had a good time there, then latter we went back to the church and had a member visit which was really good, then ya went and tried to find people/ see mme damoizet (wasnt there again!!) so ya we had an ok day.
SUNDAY!!!! we rocked sunday man amazing. we got up and went to church and had 3 amis there it was sweet! we taught 2 seperate lessons during sunday school because well the chinese guy speaks english but not french and the other amis were french. so i got to teach in english yay!!! haha! i was actually useful haha! so we had a good time at church then after church we went to a members house for lunch and then straight to the famille chengs apartment (recent convert chinese family) and taught them a lesson and then their friend came and we taught him a lesson then we had another rendezvous with mme nercessian then after we went to check if mme damoizet was home and she was yay!! and that got us home barely on time at 930 haha!
it was a sweet week and the savior blessed us sooo much. thanks for all your support and have a great week!
a la prochaine
Monday, September 15, 2008
Sep. 15, 2008
hello all!
hows everyone doing?
well first off i guess, the weather has been way weird here... its been kinda cold actually haha! well what can you do i guess? we had some weird fog rain stuff going on the other day, way bizarre. haha.
umm so my Companion is from Rawlings Wyoming he is a big guy, not tall but big and we get along really well, and so far we are doing some pretty good work. i told you about that lady we found and now we've taught her 2 times and soon to be 3, and this next rendezvous we are planning on asking her to be baptised, and ya it should be good.
umm mom i have got your emails the last couple of weeks and i'll be alright so stop worrying, we got all sorts of food, and when i need it i'll get some rain clothes. haha!
umm, so the french is coming along really well, and by that i mean i can understand most of whats being said haha, but its getting better and it should be cool when i can actually speak!
umm ya... thats about it for now, we had a great week just nothing that stands out sorry. idk if you know where the mission blog spot is but if you find out there should be slideshows from the mission, theyre pretty cool haha. well have a great week!
Elder Laws
hows everyone doing?
well first off i guess, the weather has been way weird here... its been kinda cold actually haha! well what can you do i guess? we had some weird fog rain stuff going on the other day, way bizarre. haha.
umm so my Companion is from Rawlings Wyoming he is a big guy, not tall but big and we get along really well, and so far we are doing some pretty good work. i told you about that lady we found and now we've taught her 2 times and soon to be 3, and this next rendezvous we are planning on asking her to be baptised, and ya it should be good.
umm mom i have got your emails the last couple of weeks and i'll be alright so stop worrying, we got all sorts of food, and when i need it i'll get some rain clothes. haha!
umm, so the french is coming along really well, and by that i mean i can understand most of whats being said haha, but its getting better and it should be cool when i can actually speak!
umm ya... thats about it for now, we had a great week just nothing that stands out sorry. idk if you know where the mission blog spot is but if you find out there should be slideshows from the mission, theyre pretty cool haha. well have a great week!
Elder Laws
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