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found another picture that had Elder Guymon in it....ahah, I love that his mission president's wife Facebooks! 

Zone Conference Photos

Legality, Singing, Eifell Tower- big whoop

So this week we spent a lot of time in Paris again. I had to go to a legality office in Versailles and that took all day long! I had to pee in a cup but I didn't have to pee.. so it took a couple hours. I also had to get lung x-rays.

This week was stake conference. At the Saturday night session all the missionaries in the Paris and Versailles zones had to sing. I stood right in the front and I didn't really know the words. I was super embarrassed. We also brought our ami, who is getting baptized, to the conference. He loved it. We rented out a big meeting hall next to Napoleon's huge house in Versailles. It reminded me of a big opera house. The baptism is this Saturday. Yesterday we also set a baptismal date for the éàth of october with a really cool guy that I contacted. He said that in every other church he's ever been to, he has felt that its missing something.

 

I'm pretty sick today and its pouring rain and windy.

We ran out of food again this week.

I saw Elder Munns (his MTC companion) at legality.

I've never been to the top of the Eiffel tower, but I've walked around under it. It's pretty weird just being in Paris, sometimes ill be walking and it'll just hit me, like... theres the Eiffel tower right there. big whoop. haha

On the 30th I will not be 1/6 of the way done (Scott wrote in a letter that William is almost 1/6 of the way into his mission), it'll be on October 30th.

We ate horse and a baby pigeon. (Our friend Richard Jones told him French people eat those)

You should get Bradley a "Preach my Gospel" and tell him to read it. I wish I would have done that.

 

I don't really miss hunting that much.

Leftover Quiche, Australian Accents, friends

This was William's e mail from Sept 17th--

This week was pretty odd. Well, first of all, yeah, the 2 other elders moved in. I think it'll be so good for our area to have 2 more missionaries. Our area is HUGE!

Everything is going great with the man we have a baptismal date with. He is going to be such a strong member! He has so many friends in the ward. The baptism is scheduled for the 29th.

 

Since the other 2 missionaries moved in halfway through the week, we didn't really think ahead to buy enough food for 4 grown people.  So towards the end of the week we had to get really creative with our dinner. We made a quiche with pineapple, onions, potatoes, and old spaghetti. The other elders are shopping right now while we're doing emails, so I hope they buy enough.     

                                                               

Something pretty weird happened. We got a referral from the missionaries in Versailles. so we went and taught them a lesson. That night we contacted a Thai girl on the street who barely spoke french or English. We told her that we could give her a Thai book of Mormon and bring it to her and she really didn't want to give her address or her number, so we just kinda thought we'd seen the end of her. Then at our next rendez vous with the referral family, guess who was there... that Thai girl! and her husband! we taught all 4 of them an awesome lesson! The 2 wives work together.

 

That's pretty much all of the news for this week. I'm pretty excited because we are having a legality thing for everyone from my mtc group, so I get to see my district this week.

 

I keep thinking about how different it must be to be a missionary in Chico, or at least speaking English.

And also dad, whenever we are out in public we speak in Australian accents. I thought that you would think that's funny. We do it because people can pick up on our American accent even in french, so we just speak English with an accent. It's so funny.

baking a cake, clean apartment, sheep cheese

We got the news the there's going to be a Cergy 2 equipe, so that means that a new companionship is going to be in Cergy.  So that means that they are going to be living in our scrawny apartment with us. So that means we have to clean our scrawny apartment!!!  So that's a big change.

 

Our ami, who has a baptismal date the 29th, came to church. He's a boss. He made so many friends.

Our goal to hit up the part member families is going pretty well. We have a bunch of people to visit. One of the moms told us that when we come we have to bring them a cake. I'm pretty scared to make it because I don't know how to follow directions to make a cake in french.  We'll see how that goes.

 

It's crazy that I've already done one transfer.  It went by so quick! but I'm also sad because I know that SVU is starting up and I really miss my friends.

I discovered my new favorite french food- brebis.   It's sheep cheese.   It taste so much better than chèvre (goat cheese).   After ever meal, French people get out some baggettes and their bucket of cheese and they force you to try soooo many cheeses.   My least favorite is roquefort.   You can see the green felty mold growing on it.   This guy that Elder Webber and I reactivated LOVES it and forces me to eat it.

This week was pretty slow but I'm really looking forward to the next transfer, now that I know what to expect and now that i have some friends in the ward and how to be a missionary.

no one writes me...

bradley.. the only thing that being tall is good for is seeing the dust on people's refrigerator

andrew... jak 2 is insanely hard, especially when you have to steal 5 of the police car things.  I never beat that part.

 

dad. yeah I hear that no birds can walk backwards, so if you make a cylinder with one end closed theyll never get out.

Mona Lisa, flaming teabag, Schwartzy

We found a guy who was like "I can tell that you are men of God and I know that what you are saying is true. You guys didn't even look at the 3 pretty girls who walked past because you were so focused on me."

 

I'm starting to actually contribute a lot in lessons so I don't feel like a worthless missionary anymore.

The members love me because at church elder webber goes and talks to people so I go and talk to people and just make a fool of myself. We're starting to get a lot more mangez-vous because I make friends with old ladies.   They are nice and help me with the language.

Do you remember the missionary trick with the burning teabag?  (how you hold it on you hand and burn it from the top it'll fly up in the air before it burns you? it shows that if you have faith then everything will turn out ok.)   I tried to do that to a less active member and it tipped over and fell on his hand and then on his mom.  It was my worst nightmare come true. BUTTTTTT, they came to church this week, so that's super cool.

The soccer team here (Paris st. germaine) is super, super popular.  Two out of five people on the street wear jerseys.  Who is good on that team?  Is there anyone that I know?

While we were at the Louvre we tried to take our picture with the Mona Lisa, but there were swarms of tourists taking pictures. We got some pictures but we didn't have time to really enjoy that it was the most famous painting in the world.  In fact, I don't even think I looked at it for a whole second.

dad- I remember you telling me about how there was an invasion of European doves and you're supposed to shoot them all.   There's a park that we teach lessons in that is rollin in them. theres so many. it s like one of your bee swarms.

 

 

We have an amie who calls me Schwarzy (like Arnold Schwarzaneggar) because she thinks I look like him. I don't.

 

Every month we buy an unlimited bus/train ticket thing called a navigo.   We take the train/bus/metro everywhere.  It's starting to get super cold and grey here.   It reminds me of winter in Virginia.