September 12, 2011

Bonjour Mère et Père, I don't have a lot of time this week sorry, I replied to Mim Johnson and wrote her a nice email :) This week was really interesting! We did some sweet service for an older couple I may have mentioned a couple of months ago. We went into a neighboring valley and helped him arrange firewood! This man and his wife are craftsmen too!! They built their own cabin with their bear hands!! We taught a new investigator this week, his name is Michel. He is really cool, loves reading the Book of Mormon. We read with him on Wednesday and had a great experience! We read 1 Nephi 4, and encountered the conflict with Nephi and Laban. He had an interesting point of view. He was okay with the fact that Nephi killed Laban, because Laban had tried to kill Nephi after Nephi tried to give him the choice. What he couldn't get over was that Nephi told Zoram he would kill him if he didn't rest with them in the desert. We had a great lesson that was definitley inspired by the spirit! He edified us all, and I was taught that Zoram knew Nephi was a man of God, and that he CHOSE to follow Nephi because so. We also did a lengthy exchange this week with the elders from Avignon. Elder Nicholes (my second companion) is now my district leader. We had conflicts with the trains, so we ended up doing a two day exchange Gap is 3 hours away from everything, and if the trains are delayed it screws up everything. Right now there is construction with the tracks, so they take us by bus to a neighboring city then we get on the train... it takes so long! So we went to Aix en province Thursday for district meeting, I came back with Elder Nicholes. Friday we left Gap and went to Aix, and because there were problems on both sides( our train and Avignons) we just went straight back to Gap for the night. The next day we re-exchanged! I spent 12 hours total on train over the past 3 days, and spent over 100 euros in tickets ha ha. All is well though, no worries :) Satan sent one of his evil spiders to torment us again! Even worse Elder Workman missed when he went to smack with his flip flop. I was screaming like a little girl. He ended up stepping on it, and ended it's life. The conflict was finished ha ha. Makes me a little worried though, where there are two, there are more..... maybe the war has just begun! I love you all, got to go for now!! Ciao Ciao, GROS BISOUS!!! Elder Petersen