29 Apr 2014

Hey momma.

Yeah it was pretty cool to hear about claudia. Can you believe that Soeur Anderson is still in Montauban?! and she had gotten there before I was there! Crazy I think shes been there for close to or more than 6 months.

Yes President said we can use the google whatever thing. haha. Just give me instructions of what to do and I will do it. Other than that Im not quite sure what time of day or anything that will be. Ill keep you updated.

About my apartment? um its decent sized 1bdrm and there is just me and my companion. Its kinda far away from the center of town and the buses dont run frequently on sundays so we walk about 40mins to church. But during the week its fine.
The terrain is allot like Nice though there are allot more trees here but there are definitely allot of hills. Ive been having some problems with that. Because I have shin splints now. But I talked with the mission nurse and she told me how to take care of it. I should be fine in a little while.. But in the meantime I cant go running in the mornings so I need to figure out something for workouts. I feel like Im getting old and falling apart.

So right now all of our Amis are not French. One is from Turkey, another from Iran and the other from the Maurice Islands. The first two dont speak french very well so teaching them is a little tricky. Im hoping we can find members somewhere that speak their languages that we can skype with so that we are sure they understand.

This week we had interviews with president which is why I am just emailing right now. It was really good! I learned allot.

I should go our day got all flipped around and email time got really cut short cause some members came to do geneology earlier so If we dont leave soon we will be really late getting home.

Love ya lots

21 Apr 2014

Hey there!

Yeah Easter is a pretty big holiday here. Pretty much the same as it is there lots of candy and people go to church.

I Love Aix! It's great! The members are really great and so are our amis!

So you know that I've been gone for a long time when I have no idea what to talk about in my emails. Sorry my emails have been so lame and not informative at all.  I often don't even know where to start. I got some really awesome news the other day. One of the people Sr Anderson and I found and taught in Montauban got baptised last weekend! So cool!

Aix is a pretty big tourist ville. We have run into quite a few americans lately who are here for study abroad. We found one guy from michigan playing basketball in the church parking lot. haha.

I have been reading in the bible lately during studies and came across Luke 10:8. I thought that was really funny and immediately shared it with the italian sister who is kinda a picky eater.

Oh I saw the Because of him video on Lds.org its super good! check it out if you havent already!

Okay I think this is progress from what I have been writting lately.
Love ya always!

14 Apr 2014 {Transfer #8: Aix-en-provence}

Nope. Im now in Aix-en-provence! Is not far from Marseille.. I've been here quite a bit before on exchanges and for meetings so I am pretty familiar with it. I'm sure it will be a great experience.

Sorry I don't have more to tell you this week my brain is kinda scattered...travelling will do that to ya. I think I am gonna send some stuff home because I am sure I wont need it but I don't want to leave it behind either. But Ill lwill let you know when i send stuff though.

Love ya lots!!

7 Apr 2014

Hey!

Yeah the morning General Conference sessions we watched at the same time! For us here the afternoon sessions are at 10pm so we watched the saturday afternoon sunday morning and We haven't seen the sunday afternoon session yet. Could you send me the Ensign as soon as possible otherwise I wont get it until august unless i print out the talks individually. Conference was great! It was really cool this time because I recognized a lot of what they said from my studies and because I've been reading last conference Ensign. Also I watched in French and I understood it all as long as I was focusing on it. A couple of times my mind ended up wandering but I didnt fall asleep. I felt guilty for all the many conferences that I slept through in the past. Everything they said was so great! We watched with some recent converts and they were so excited to watch conference it was really cool.

I'm not sure about the mothers day thing. Ill let you know when I find out anything. But Im sure I can skype multiple family members. Ill be sure to arrange it so its not at 6am this time though.


Yes I do still want to go back to byu-i. I have already taken a new testament class( I dont remember how I did in it though so just make sure its not the same class) They got that form you had me send right?


Yeah I'll find out friday what is happening. I imagine I will be transfered because they just bought an apt for Elders here and president told me that when he puts elders here he will take out an equipe of sisters. So i think my chances of leaving are on the higher side. I will be sad to leave here I will definitely have a couple more people to write and keep in contact with if I do leave.


So last monday I tried making root beer...not bad. but definitely not as good as the real stuff.
I might be brave today and try going to get my hair trimmed today. Ill let you know how that goes.


Time has been going by pretty fast and everyday I get a little panicked because the end of the mission keeps getting closer! not that I dont miss you or don't want to come home. I just want to be sure that I have changed because of my mission that it has made me be better. But at the same time Im not really sure how to gage if I have changed or not. I was talking about it with sr Koyle the other day and she asked me what I felt I had to accomplish in order to feel successful. So I thought about that for a while. And I have made some goals. My really solid goals are mostl things I am going to do in studies. But I also noticed that there is at least one area of missionary work that I am still not super comfortable with and that is contacting. It is something that I have made allot of progress in but I think in order to not have any regrets I need to really love and enjoy contacting before the end. So Loving contacting and accomplishing all my study goals is what I have decided I have to do in order to feel like I have accomplished something or that I have done my part in order to let my mission really change me.


Love ya lots!!!!