Me and Elder Taylor took a trip down to Beziers to pick up a car from a senior couple who left. It was fun to visit, that's the ville where my first branch I served in is based, so it was neat to get to see everything again. On Tuesday we were able to teach our ami Cristelle again, and invited her to baptism after teaching her the gospel, she said she doesn't know yet, but she's willing to keep learning and think about it! The office received completely new computers on Wednesday, because of the new Mission President, so it's really nice, it's fun to kind of start over and work with a whole new computer. The funnest part about the week though is probably this temporary new companion we received! Our equip is now a four man equip, momentarily, so our apartment has six missionaries living in it. The laundry, shower, and food situation has now become very large. However, it's a ton of fun! He's one of the elders from Switzerland who left for a bit, and because he has a hurt ankle, he's staying with us. He's Tahitian, from the islands of Tahiti near Tonga and Samoa, and doesn't speak English hardly at all. However, when he speaks French with an American accent, it's super super funny, and he loves doing it! We all laugh a ton at it, so it's fun. Other than that, we had our District Meeting this week, which was a lot of fun, and was really really good for us I think. They talked a lot about kind of accepting ourselves, an
d others, and trying really hard not to compare ourselves. It's very easy I think to do so, want to be better, want to be seen better, and so it was good to remind ourselves that we're on the same team, and that we all have a part to play in this game. It was good. I hope everyone stay cool, it's burning here, so hopefully stateside it's better!
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| Welcome President and Sister Brown |
I think this week was hopefully the last week of the severely hot weather we've been having here in Lyon, and the start of at least a brief respite, we had some good cool breezes and cloud cover, so that helped out a lot. We had a fantastic start to the week on Monday, President Brown had his first interview tour this transfer and our zone had our conference on Monday, so we got to hear from him for the first time. He was truly happy to be there, and loved talking to us, getting to know us, and during the actually conference got us all very excited. He really wants to make a push in the mission in regards to how much we talk about family history with others, specifically in regards to the first temple being built on French soil up in Paris. He says we are some of the first missionaries ever who get to announce the coming of a temple to the French people, and we should take full advantage of that. It was really inspiring. The interview I had with him went very well, he's going to be a phenomenal mission president for us I think.
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| It is hot in France |
The rest of the week went well right up until transfers. Turns out our tripanionship is getting broken, me and Elder Taylor are going to stay here in the office, and Elder Pedersen is going to do his last four weeks in a beautiful ville he served in early on, called Annecy! We're excited for him, though we're sad to see him go. The tickets were the same, up very late into the night two nights in a row, but what was cool was that without any blatant indication, the whole process seemed to go by much much more smoothly than last time, which was kind of a cool blessing. In any case, the transfer ended on a good note, we got to go to the very well known cathedral here in Lyon, and it was really really neat inside, we got to go around and look over all Lyon at the edge. All in all, a good week. Hope everyone stays cool, au revoir!
Me and Elder Taylor took a trip down to Beziers to pick up a car from a senior couple who left. It was fun to visit, that's the ville where my first branch I served in is based, so it was neat to get to see everything again. On Tuesday we were able to teach our ami Cristelle again, and invited her to baptism after teaching her the gospel, she said she doesn't know yet, but she's willing to keep learning and think about it! The office received completely new computers on Wednesday, because of the new Mission President, so it's really nice, it's fun to kind of start over and work with a whole new computer. The funnest part about the week though is probably this temporary new companion we received! Our equip is now a four man equip, momentarily, so our apartment has six missionaries living in it. The laundry, shower, and food situation has now become very large. However, it's a ton of fun! He's one of the elders from Switzerland who left for a bit, and because he has a hurt ankle, he's staying with us. He's Tahitian, from the islands of Tahiti near Tonga and Samoa, and doesn't speak English hardly at all. However, when he speaks French with an American accent, it's super super funny, and he loves doing it! We all laugh a ton at it, so it's fun. Other than that, we had our District Meeting this week, which was a lot of fun, and was really really good for us I think. They talked a lot about kind of accepting ourselves, an
The rest of the week went well right up until transfers. Turns out our tripanionship is getting broken, me and Elder Taylor are going to stay here in the office, and Elder Pedersen is going to do his last four weeks in a beautiful ville he served in early on, called Annecy! We're excited for him, though we're sad to see him go. The tickets were the same, up very late into the night two nights in a row, but what was cool was that without any blatant indication, the whole process seemed to go by much much more smoothly than last time, which was kind of a cool blessing. In any case, the transfer ended on a good note, we got to go to the very well known cathedral here in Lyon, and it was really really neat inside, we got to go around and look over all Lyon at the edge. All in all, a good week. Hope everyone stays cool, au revoir!
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