Sister Fitch: August 1, 2011

Oh boy, what a week.  I was looking over my journal entries, and I think most of them start out with that.  "Ohhhh boy."  So, this week was super...super.  and interesting!  We helped harvest garlic at this farm on monday.  the church helps with the whole process--planting, weeding, harvesting, the whole bit.  The farm sells them to fund a home for folks that live in a home, I think that have mental disabilities.  Anyway, it was way fun.  

Our investigator Chloe has had tons of things happen in her life lately that are either going to make or break her faith.  I hope she takes solace in the Book of Mormon--she's been reading it like a crazy person.  She was already to Alma by our third lesson.  Sheesh!  She always has tons of questions, so sometimes its hard to get to our actual lesson.  One of our other investigators smurfed us, then we saw her on the street and she just about ran into oncoming traffic trying to dodge us.  Woops.  So we had a pretty awkward conversation before heading to our next appointment.  She came to church though, so all's well.  I think she's on track and gaining a testimony.  We've done lots of street contacting and door knocking this week...oh boy.  That's...fun!!  It really is, in a kind of twisted way.  So many different ways to be rejected.  The only time I get annoyed is when people are flat out rude, or when they don't even give us a chance to talk before saying they aren't interested.  how do you know you aren't interested?? You don't even know what I'm going to say!  one woman told us we were ridiculous for believing in something imaginery that some guy wrote up one day.  Lots of people are just super cold and rude.  Lots of people are super sweet and kind and listen to us and take our card and sometimes even a book of mormon.  We spent forty five minutes the other day sitting on a bench downtown next to a busy intersection talking to Monica/Mark, a gender variant (that is, neither male nor female) he/she had lots of interesting questions for us, but mostly just needed someone to listen to him/her.  Our lesson had smurfed us, so we had the time.  

Oh gee, suddenly everyone wants to leave RIGHT NOW so I should wrap this up.  We HAD a dinner appointment last night, for sunday, but they smurfed us.  Weren't home.  Sigh.  We saved up our "klick" (kilometre limit) all week to be able to go, and...they weren't home.  Sigh.  I spoke in church too, Mark!  Sweet!  The first thing the bishop said to me when i got here was "Hi, you're speaking next week."  So, there you go.  We had three investigators at church, did I say that?  yeah, it was awesome.  I was feeling REALLY overwhelmed the other day, like there was just too much work to do and not enough people listening to us, and how on earth are we supposed to do this??  Then all of the sudden I remembered the verse in 2 kings (6:16 I think) about "fear not, for they that are with us are more than they that are with them," or something like that.  Point is, there are plenty more working here than just us.  Just because we can't see them, doesn't mean there aren't LEGIONS of angels out and about in ottowa.  Then I read Luke ch. 12; don't worry, God takes care of birds and flowers, he's not going to forget any of us.  So, there was lots more I wanted to write.  Too much happens every week.  I better go though.  I love you all, and I love this work.  nothing's ever been harder, nothing's ever been better.  

much love to you all,

 

Hanala

Elder Fitch: August 1, 2011

HELLO!!!

 

This week in Montauban.....pas grande chose. I love it here though! it's so nice to be in a different city! and i really like the little branch of members here. they are very awesome.

I gave a talk in sacrament yesterday on searching diligently to learn of Christ, it was based off of Elder Utchdorfs talk last conference called Waiting on the Road to Damascas, it is super good i recomend it. it was a little intimidating doing a talk in french, but i went for a good 20 minutes and i was understood, i think haha. but if nothing else i learned alot in preparing it.

Our recent convert Auguste is doing awesome! he is SO cool. There are not alot of people that are like him.

 So i forgot to mention what our appartment is like....well it's Very small. we have an evil portugese lady that lives under us that always beats on her cieling if we step too hard, oh and we have a lovely infestation of cockroachs! what we do for fun in montauban is we hunt them. they're mostly in our kitchen. it is very gross, but be of good cheer i've killed about 10000 so far, unfortunately i probably haven't made a dent. it's very very gross....and thats all i have to say about that.

 

so what else, oh so we've had a few rdvs with creepy jimmy, he is definitley very special, we're not quite sure what to do with him. other than that not a lot of investigators, BUT it is alot more than we had in NImes. Rdvs work a lot more often, not as many Smirfs, haha im Canadian eh?

 

the weather was very rainy but it's starting to get hot again, and i'd also just like everyone to know that 45 degrees is well over a hundred, so poor hanny.

 

Again we are the only missionaries in the city but my district is awesome! its us, Albi and Toulouse which makes about 14 missionaries which is normally a zone, actually the zone and the district are the same right now. im in the same district as Elder Turley from the MTC i saw him last week too it was awesome.

 

whoo!! i LOVE being a missionary! Hurrah for Israel!! LOVE YOU ALL

 

Mark

Letter from the Editor

Ok, so I am not the greatest at updating, immediately, but I just wanted to let you folks that read this know that I WILL update what they send eventually.

And also, I'm an unpaid editor.

Elder Fitch: July 25, 2011

Hello!!!

 

WELLL I walked into another baptism.... i got here and found out that that saturday would be a baptism. it was way awesome, it was a man named Auguste from Martanique. He is super awesome!! so because of that i had to do an exchange in Albi. Cause thats where the District leader is and he is the one who has to do the interview. so that was fun, specially cause it was with an elder I already knew who was in Montpellier the last transfer i was in Nimes and i did an exchange with him there. the district leader is awesome too he is from south africa and has a super sick accent. Super funny too, i already have funny stories with him. Albi is beautiful too. Montauban also actually. It is this super little ville(city). one of the smallest in the whole mission. I really like it. It's old, but old alot different from Nimes. It's all red brick buildings. pretty cool. It makes me feel like im alot more north than i am. plus it's been raining and cold so that could be it too. it feels like the fall. it's been a really abnormally rainy season over here too. not near as hot as normal. which im totally fine with, i personally can't wait till winter, but whatevs.

 

So yesterday i went to south america for a while too that was pretty cool. ok not really. but we went to an amis birthday party and she is latino and almost everyone at the party was from south america. there was even a legit lamanite there too, i kid you not. it was awesome. it was outside and a ways out of town so it totally felt like we had litterally left france. we couldn't understand a word being said, it was all in spanish. it felt like i was starting my mission over in south america. super crazy, but really fun. they tried to get us to drink some tekila. which if you didn't know it's like beer. all in all it was a great sunday activity!

 

So today actually not that long ago we finished working for the day, but we had an interesting experience. We were all walking along in town when Elder Kirkpatrick notices this guy staring at us. he doesn't think anything of it and we continue along. about 15 or 20 minutes later we get to where we were going. we were standing on the sidewalk waiting for the person to answer the door when we look back the way we came and theres this guy about 30 yards back just chillin looking at us. this is when Elder KP tells me that he saw this guy in town starring at us. We get suspicious and so we're like ok well lets keep going to our next place and just see if he keeps following us. we start going. he starts going. we keep going 15 or 20 minutes later he's still behind us. so we go Jason Borne on him. the next street we came to we turned and stopped not to far away. along comes mr creepy. he sees us hesitates, and pulls out his phone and keeps going down the street we turned on on the other side. so then we start going back and go the way we origanally were going but we watched him. just before we got out of site stopped and turned around, saw us still looking at him so he pretended he was doing something else. hmmm. a little further down we see that he is indeed still following us. so we stop again when we're out of site again. he comes, sees us and stops dead in his tracks. ah ha!! got him. so totally obviously following us. it actually kinda took the fun out of it cause it was so easy, so not like jason Borne. oh well so we keep going so we can trap him again. we get to another corner and same thing happens again, but this time we were ready to pounce!! we did what missionaries do best..., we beat the snot out of him and smashed his walky talky!!!,,,wait thats Jason still, ok so we offered him the Gospel of Jesus Christ!!! voila! bet he didn't see that coming!! right so we contacted him. he was a very weird person who was way too interested. he ACTUALLY said im interested, that is the first time i have EVER heard a french person say that. we explained the Book of Mormon and let him hold it and he just clung right to it haha so we jsut left him with it. He also was a little too anxious to meet again too. so bizarre! the first name he gave us was Jimmy. then it was Dimitri. I don't know but we named him creepy Jimmy. after that we left and did what we were planning to do and then we came back the same way and he was just sitting there still and when he saw us he like pulled out his phone real quick and barely acknowledged us. oh creepy Jimmy, so creepy. then we were pretty paranoid after that and made sure he wasn't still following us when we went home. so there you go that was today.

 

the ward here is not a ward, it is a tiny branch, but there pretty cool so far. I got here wednesday and found out i was giving a talk in sacrament the coming sunday. haha so that was interesting i was ready but it turned out that the stake pres was there and so he got my time. oh well. but i have to do it still next week.

 

My Comp is really cool. so i'm likin it so far.

 

yup thats it. ciao bisou bisou.

 

Elder Fitch

Elder Fitch: July 18, 2011

WELL HOWDY!!!

 

what a week! man this one just blew by!! theres is lots more cool stuff to talk about.

 

First off. pagan highlight of the week. Thursday was the 14 of July. that is their 4th of July. However they party the 13 so they can have a day off on the 14. The French seriously look for any and every excuse to not work. anyway so there was a parade we didn't see. It was really a pretty normal day. UNTIL.........1025pm we're all getting ready for bed right? Then BOOM!! BOOM!! what's this? what this? it's high up in the air whats this? whats this? I really have to stare! ya i sang that. any way fire works started going off from the coloseum which is just down the street. You couldn't really see anything from our window, BUT lucky for us we were also house sitting for our landlord, who is awesome but thats another story, anyway so we are the 2nd floor, she is the 3rd and 4th floor. so we run up there. Also luckily ealier that evening as we were feeding the bird and watering plants i discovered a closet that goes up yet another level to a tiny room she use for storage, but theres more......it has a window that puts you on the roof! ya theres no way i could resist that. So i climbed out on the roof and WOW!!! Best front row seats you could get!!!!! wow man i can't even adequately describe how cool it was to be sitting on top of the french rooftops of Nimes watching a sick awesome firework shop that was like RIGHT THERE! ah! sweet. plus! the full moon was right dead in the middle of it all, sammy, it looked so cool! PLUS i saw some stars!! including the big dipper and north star!! first time in 6 months. man that seriously was so cool. ya we didn't get to bed till 1100 but felt like it was more of a blessing the Lord gave us than a rule we were breaking, plus i adequately justified myself by telling me that hey, Hannah got to stay out late and see fireworks. so theres that story.

 

One technique our new mission president has asked us to try in finding new amis is street boarding, which is we have a tripod with a big poster board with pictures and stuff on it and we contact people from there. I was'nt really very excited to try this. for one it's a TJ thing. except they don't talk to people they wait for people to talk to them. for two there's not any good places in Nimes to do that. So i wasn't looking forward to that. Well we gave it a go. AND i'll just say we didn't have flocks of people running to see what we were doing. it really wasn't all that great, but it was partly our fault, bad day and bad time of day. BUT i have come to believe it is inspired and we just need to place it better, but even still i did meet this one guy. this guys name is Pierre. he is about 70. he stopped and i had an awesome conversation with him, and he agreed to meet again. which is actually where i was just before i came to do emails, but more about that in a sec. anyway so there was still success.

 

ALES DAY! Ales day was really awesome this week and I'll tell you why. First we have dropped all of our investigators in Nimes. We have none here. Even Emeline, cause of her dumb mom who is dumb. ya i'm a little bitter. anyway so tht is a bummer cause it's not even emelines fault, she is awesome. Some however might be picked up in a few weeks again but for right now c'est pas le peine. On the other hand we now have 2 amis who live in Ales!! whoo whoo!! so that is cool. we met with them both on friday and they are both awesome on I believe will both progress. it will still be slow, cause we're not there alot, but still. I'm glad we started going up there, the ball is rolling again. So the Nimes Elders only have investigators in Ales. go figure.

 

OH ya we got spit at the other day haha yeah.

 

Oh ya another strange thing, so it has rained here in Nimes almost exactly every 6 weeks. It rained right before and as i got here, it rained at the end of transfer 1 and 2 and now it rained again, a really lot. It's fine with me cause it's less hot that way.

 

The other day a Kitten was following us everywhere....we named him Little Simba....we had to ditch him in trixy ways....taht was the last i saw him.... oh im over it.

 

Hey so we had kind of a cool RDV the other day. it was almost time to go in and we are walking along and we come across the young girl about 24ish years old. i say hello how are you? , she says not very good and almost walks away but we stopped her told her how our message was one that could help her and bring happiness so she said ok and so we found a bench and we talked about our message a little but we talked more about the support and blessing the Atonement of Christ can be in our lives for every aspect not just spiritually but for EVERYTHING! It was really awesome and she cried and stuff but it went awesome! She didn't really want to know more about the church but we left her a BOM and a good chapter and we left. the very NEXT day i tell you, we SUPER RANDOMILY ran into her again, and that just doesn't happen, the circumstances were seriously the hand of God. I mean it was litterally timed to the second! if we or her had been not even one second different we would not have even noticed each other, we litterally ran into each other in a huge crowd of people. anyway, we didn't really get to talk to her BUT she was happy! and she gave a really great thank you for everything. heck ya, thats what its about, not the numbers, it's about helping people!! and i tell you the Lord is in it.

 

What else.... what else..... OH YA TRANSFERS!! So........................................................................I am..................................................................LEAVING NIMES!!!!! I am going to serve in the city of......................MONTAUBAN!!! with Elder Kirkpatric. Montauban is just north of toulouse so Im still in the old mission boudaries, which is different because most that got transfered went up to the old geneva mission. I've actually even already met my new companion he is pretty cool. also i met the branch pres from there too cause he came to Nimes one time. SO ya. I"M STOKED!!! i so need a change. Love Nimes. But i gotta get out of here!!!!! hahah it's really not that bad. cool so more on that next week.

 

oh and ps you all can still send stuff to the old address, it would actually be alot quicker than sending it to the new one so faite comme ca. oui? bien.

 

alright thats all for now, thanks for tuning in to..... MME, THATS MARKS MISSION EMAIL! ciao bisou bisou.

 

ELDER FITCH  

Elder Fitch: July 11, 2011

OI!!

So this week....man this week just seems EXTRA blurred! Last monday, the 4, was pretty fun. Since it was PDay and the 4th we went a little pagan. (to be pagan is a missionary word for anything to do with something that has nothing to do with the mission, ie home, girls, schools, etc.) anyway so we visited the maison carre, which is litterally a roman pagan temple, then we got slushies in honor of america, we visited the only other american we knew, we dressed in pday clothes, we looked around a few stores for some needed supplies, and then we wrote letters, kinda., then for dinner we were going to make burgers but we ended up just making pasta, like always. So that is how i spent the 4th.

The week was yet difficult, we are still having a really hard time finding people. It makes days hard to plan when all you have to do is contacting, which makes for a really long day. but it is still awesome! slimy yet satisfying. but really being a missionary is the most satisfying work i've ever done.

Oh ya so this is probably my last week in Nimes. the transfer ends this week. The rumor is that the two new areas are going to be heavily integrated, with changes to almost every campanionship. So if i leave i will probably go to an area more north. but i have no idea and could even stay i donno. and i wont know until not tomarrow but the next tuesday and then transfers happen on the wednesday. half way through the first week of the next transfer.....ya i don't find that very effective, but whatev. it's not up to me. On verra.

oh ya also. so tomarrow is my 6 month mark. thats crazy! i can't believe it. 1/4 of my mission is over. i now only have as much left as hannah started with ha. thats kinda funny.

oh oh ya ya. So this week is going to rock and there'll be some sick awesome crazy story. so stay tuned

I love you all! Mission is sick! The church is true! ciao bisou bisou.

Elder Fitch

Sister Fitch: July 25, 2011

hello all!

 

Hurray for no stupid timer in the corner of the screen threatening to shut me down every moment.  Stupid timer.  Ok, sooo much to write!! 

 

I have been assigned to Ottowa.  Must admit, I was...devastated.  Ha.  It's an English speaking area, and not only do I have NO CLUE how to teach in English, I so so so desperately wanted to be French speaking.  This is the only English area for sisters in the mission.  Sigh.  After just one week, my French is seriously suffering.  But, I was called to speak French, so I know I WILL be using it sometime.  My trainer is Sister Palmer, and she's really great.  She's spunky and fun and hiccups randomly throughout the day.  She's really patient and encouraging, and is nice to be but pushes me too.  Gosh, this is HARD!  Street contacting is the hardest for me.  I never know what to say.  There's a lot that's hard, but I will learn.  My trainer is great, so I have no worries--it will all come with time.  Getting to a new area is kind of overwhelming anyway, I think, but being Green...yeesh.  Mark, I'm sure you can relate. 

 

We have several lessons every day.  When we have a rattez-vous here, Mark, we call it getting Smurfed.  No idea why.  We got smurfed ALL day on Saturday.  Hooray!  Its so....fun!!  We have three (kind of four) amis with baptism dates.  We are teaching several others, but some have a ways to go.  Last night we had an appointment with a less active family.  They are awesome.  They were a little cold at first, but by the end they were saying "our home is your home.  We are your family while you are here."  They are from El Salvador.  I'm excited to keep working with them.  So, I had two weeks of emails to read through, so even though I get a whole hour, I still don't have much time to write.  Sigh.  I have a hard time keeping up with my journal too!

 

So, I could go into each of my investigators, but there is too much to say about all of them!  One of them, Blair, was a referral from X-Box...yeah.  He played x-box live and asked one of the guys he played with why he never played on sunday.  He told him he was mormon, Blair asked lots of questions, his friend referred him, we've been teaching him and he's getting baptized september 3!  Anyway, lots of crazy things like that. 

 

Today for p-day we went to Parliament.  It was neat, but the tour was in French, and the girl was REALLY hard to understand, so I mostly just looked around and enjoyed the architecture.  Then we went and got Poutine, which is...different.  but i really like it.  It's french fries with cheese curds and gravy on it...weird, I know.  But tasty!!  And...hearty.  I could feel myself expanding. 

 

What else?  The President and his wife are great.  We got to spend the night and morning we arrived at their house, and they fed us, and it was divine.  My hair is going CRAZY in the humidity.  It got up to 45 degrees the other day. NO idea what that is in ferenheit.  All I know is it was HOT HOT HOT.  Headache, kind of lethargic, not fun.  Yesterday was nice, and today is cloudy and nice too.  Looking forward to fall.  Oh boy, what else.  Hmm.  I haven't really been myself since getting here; just so much to adjust to and learn that I feel very small and very...small.  It's coming, though.  It's been really good to spend so much time serving others.  It's easy to forget how overwhelmed, tired, frustrated, exhausted, and inadequate I can feel when I am serving others!! And then those feelings just sort of go away.  The harder I work the happier I am.  I am meeting some really amazing people, who are making HUGE changes to have the gospel in their lives.  I have been humbled by their faith.  Anyway, must go, can't believe its already been an hour.  Arg! 

 

Much love to you all.  I LOVE being a missionary.  I'm learning what people meant when they said the mission is hard.  I can't believe how emotionally attached I already am to so many people.  Alright, I was going to write things down so I would remember to write them in my email, but too much happened this week to write about it all anyway.  THANK YOU all for your emails.  It's nice to hear from you.  if you send real mail (which is AWESOME...) send it to the mission home.  I get it any time anyone comes to Ottowa from the Island (Montreal is on an island).  Which is usually at least once or twice a month.  okay, I LOVE you all very much. 

 

Avec amour,

 

Hannah

Sister Fitch is IN CANADA!: July 19, 2011

Hi everyone!  Just a quick note to let you know I got here safe, made it to the mission home in one piece (got accosted at customs--stole my pepper spray.  sigh.), and had a FABULOUS dinner with the APs, the Mission President and his wife, and the other new missionaries.  There are seven of us.  Tomorrow we do some training then get assigned our area and our companions!  Sounds like p-day is monday, so I won't be able to read or respond to emails til then. Its been a lovely evening here, kicking off the mission in a really great way with really great people.  Much love to you all,

Hannah

Sister Fitch: July 5, 2011

Bonjour tout le monde :) Je vous aime. 

 

I am grateful for a fantastic family that supports me.  I'm grateful for every piece of mail I get from you--thank you thank you thank you!!! 

 

I am grateful to be serving a mission "with" my brother.  Nothing compares. 

 

I am grateful for the priesthood.

 

I am grateful for a wonderful district that helps me grow and learn.

 

I am grateful for the spotlight that being on a mission puts on my weaknesses; what better place or time to turn them into strengths?

 

I am grateful for the Restoration of the Gospel.  It doesn't get much more miraculous or merciful than that.

 

I am grateful for my Patriarchal blessing and the amazing, wonderful grandpa that gave it to me.

 

I am grateful for the scriptures and how individually tailored they can be to my needs and questions.

 

I am grateful to be faced with challenges and trials--no other way to grow.

 

I am grateful for two beautiful nephews who brighten every day of my life.

 

I am grateful for my health.

 

I am grateful for a bed, for food, for warmth, for clothes on my back and shoes on my feet.

 

I am grateful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ and the enabling power of His grace.

 

I am grateful for America, for freedom, for security, for liberty.

 

     The list could go on and on.  I really am grateful for my family, and for my friends.  One of the absolute greatest blessings of my life has been the people in it.  People who I will have forever, and people who briefly come into my life, help me learn something I needed to learn, let me use the gifts I have been blessed with to help them, and then are gone, maybe never to be seen again til Heaven. 

 

I was oh so sick this week.  Cold from Hell, I tell you.  Sorry...can missionaries say that...??  You can edit that out if you want...eh hem.  Anyway, it was quite miserable.  Couldn't breath, couldn't focus, couldn't function.  Wasn't much fun.  To top it off, I had a bit of a melt down.  Little by little, concerns and insecurities creep their way into my mind and heart and then the smallest thing can blow me over.  I had my first priesthood blessing that was a blessing just for the sake of a blessing (as in, not a setting apart, patriarchal, etc.).  The priesthood is real, my friends.  It was such a beautiful thing.  Nothing in my circumstances changed, but suddenly the burden was lighter.  Suddenly that horrible dark cloud around my head was gone, and I could face my problems and struggles with a clear mind. 

 

This week was really awesome in the way of devotionals.  We had an awesome 4th of July celebration on Saturday, complete with a flag ceremony and bagpipes.  Then we got to stay out late and watch the fireworks from Stadium of fire!!  Woot.  My favorite holiday. Family, start planning now for 4th of July 2013--it's gonna be big.  I plan on being in the country for once.  We also had Jenny Oaks Baker come play for us.  She is a world-renowned violinist, as well as the daughter of Elder Dallin H. Oaks.  She was incredible.  Look her up--you will be astounded.  Her three daughters played for us too--cello, violin, and piano (ages 6, 9, and 8 [?] respectively).  So great.  Holy moly, two minutes left.  Curse that timer. 

     C

Can't believe its already pday again and that i only have one more here.  Canada, look out (and get over that dang postal service strike, please) because I'm on my way.  Can't wait.  Only I can.  Because the MTC is awesome.  Except when you have to wait in line for dinner for an HOUR on fast sunday...not fun. 

  

Much love.

Elder Fitch: July 4, 2011

Et Bien.......HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!!

 

It's a funny feeling having it not be a big deal all over the place. No body cares. Oh well, i care. I'm stinkin proud to be an American, where at least i know im free. and you know I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me, and I'll proudly stand up next to you and defend our rights today cause there ain't no doubt i love that land. God bless the USA.  ya i totally just sang that in my head. but all seriously I really am proud to be American. more than i EVER have in my life. It was always just one of those things i took for granted. I was always told it was different other places, but i guess i had to see to believe. (which is dumb cause i hate that excuse. je croire ce que je vois. blah!  people tell us that all the time.) Anyway go les etats unis!!!

 

This week was...well lets put it this way. we know that after much tribulation comes the blessings. right? exactly. I am a firm believer, and it all made sense this week. this is what we came up with... OUR tribulation BLESSES south america!! it's so simple! haha. Ok it doesn't work like that, but this week was really rough. actually this whole transfer really. This last week we only had 5 lessons. Emeline's baptism fell through. Angela the italian lady stopped wanting to see us about 3 weeks or so ago. so we no longer have anyone engaged to be baptized. Emeline fell through because of her mom. Betty is her name. we gave her a new name, Betty Brickwall. She has been our biggest obstacle in teaching Emeline. we come for RDVs and she's just not there or she's asleep tah tah tah she seriously has a Mary Poppins EXCUSE bag. Seriously frustrating. and its not because she doesn't want to be baptized either. just dumb. Emeline has an awesome testimony, more so than her recent convert brickwall i mean mother. But she's scared and doesn't have a lot of support from anyone but the missionaries. so a bit frustrating. i've developed a twitch when i hear the name Betty. ope there it goes again. It'll happen though.

Send your prayers.

 

Ales Day fell through so no news there for this week.

 

Oh ya im now in the mission of Lyon. what up. I met President Murdock on tuesday and he is very nice. It was strange, the conference was all in english. it felt wierd. i didn't like it. whats more is the APs from Geneva talked on the phone in english. those are both AGAINST the rules!! ok so there not anymore but it was super wierd not to have everything in french. I like it better in french. Also the APs from Geneva stayed at our appartment on thursday night but they didn't get there till about 130 in the morning! we had to wait up for them. Thats the latest ive been up in over 6 months! plus we had to go look for them so we were not only up but out of the appartment....so awesome...i was so hyper. biggest thrill ever! 

 

Lets see oh we do have a muslim amis we're teaching which is cool. He's the one who cut my hair. but it's more like a trade of beliefs. he sang to us today from the Coran. sounded cool, but still not converted. 

 

Things with Elder Winslow are good, he's awesome.

 

ok so that's really all the big news. oh wait Akon is coming to sing in the coloseum. not thats all. ciao bisou bisou

Elder Fitch