May 21, 2013
Bonjour mes amis!
Wow its been a crazy crazy week and im so upset i forgot to bring my camera to the library so i could show yall a bit. So I guess youve heard that Im serving in Vitrolles, France right now. It is such a beautiful area. I'm seriously in love with it. Our secteur is kinda big so we have a car!! Everyone is so jealous because we have one and they cant! oh well they'll live. I just have to survive since i'm the designated driver since I have a valid drivers license. Boy do I wish I really learned how to drive stick...
So ive been in France for a week. What the heck?! I love it. The morning we left the MTC was quite eventful. A sister in my zone had seriously overpacked and needed places to even out her suitcase weight for the flights. Lucky me was the only one under weight in all 3 of my bags so I ended up carrying about an extra 50lbs of Soeur Wood's stuff. It was quite the event. I'll send pictures next week. SO the flight was soo long but good. When we arrived we met pres and sis roney. they are so great. We spent the next few days in a hotel in lyon-because we had some legality things to do. J'ai un histoire à propros légalité!! So they did a basic physical to make sure im healthy enough to live in France for the next year.. So I hopped on the scale and this poor french woman FLIPPED. I dont know how else to describe it. She went nuts. All in all she thought I had a severe case of Diabetes, accused me of never exercising in my life, told me not to eat. My word. I seriously was trying so so hard not to laugh. So she told me where I could go to check up on my diabetes and she actually PRICKED MY FINGER to test me. She didnt warn me at all just stabbed my finger then ran a test and was like O! Vous n'avez pas le diabetes... I was like I could have told you that... My finger is bleeding!! Haha that was fun.
Vitrolles is Sweet. We have one engagé -ami committed to baptism- named Charles. Very sweet and humble man. Im so excited for him. We also have many other amis we are teaching. Christopher is just waiting for Bishops approval to be baptized so we teach him to help him stay motivated, Phillippe we taught the first lesson yesterday and he LOVED IT. He went crazy. He is so cool. Everyone tries so hard to include me because they know I cant understand what is being said about 75 percent of the time. Its getting better. Oh and Philippe is a pretty successful artist and poet... thought that was worth mentioning.. Speaking of artists we taught another today named Robert. I loved his paintings he had all around the house SO SICK. If I get closer to him i might be tempted to have him paint me something. Finally, the Lavie famille. They are eternal investigators apparently. Members who havent been baptized. I think its because the Mom doesnt see the whole reason why baptism is so important. Her kids do but I dont think she does. Theres a few other amis I havent met but I will this week.
Contacting? OUI! first time out contacting, it was pouring. It was so fun. We got a lot of "C'est pourquoi?!" and NON MERCI's but I had fun knocking around in the rain. So far we still havent found anyone new but we will in time. The ward is small but the members are STRONG. My word they are so determined to live the gospel and they are not ashamed of it. I love them all. They all tried so hard to say things in english for me and it was so good seeing them try so hard. I hope I can understand them more so I can talk to them. They are so great!
It has been a good week and im anxious for more!
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Elder Alec Stephen Dover
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