Life is really not hard

Wow, I love the picture of Dad!  (hehehe )  I wish I had Spongebob pj's like that! And since when have all my sisters gotten SO beautiful! You are all growing up too fast! Yes Chris your beautiful too!

    I can't believe you heard Elder Spicer speak!  I did get to meet him for a little while, and he was a stellar elder!  I also have ,of course, met John Paul. He is a recent convert who likes to goof off with the missionaries. He is pretty tight!

     I am sending a letter with my SD card in it.  It should have pictures of Le Mans, Nivelle and Dunkerque, but you will have to pull up some differently, because I have a lot of other elders photos saved on a different file that can't be pulled up with a camera.  I think the file name is, "stolen."

     So this week has been very .....well lets just say I have learned a lot this week.  

    At the beginning of the week ,we had my favorite district meeting/finding activity! The zone leaders gave the training. The theme was: If you are not happy or having fun, you are not doing your mission right!  The message we share is the happiest message ever, and should fill you with unspeakable joy, and you should have a blast doing it!  They expressed how contacting is so much more successful if your happy!  After the training I was super pumped!  In less than an hour our little group of 6 elders, set up two rendezvous, got 10 numbers, and gave out 9 Book of Mormons!  I went with Elder Caywood because we were on exchanges, and we were just having a ball talking to everyone!  We met some really cool people.....and some really interesting people as well!  The best contact was the last one of course!  After we had talked for awhile, I bore my testimony of the Book of Mormon and how it helped me get through experiences with pancreatitis and when my mom had cancer, and he was really touched.  I don't think I have ever felt the spirit so strong in a street contact. It was so cool! Later that day I went to Lille with Elder Caywood for the rest of the exchanges. We had a rendezvous later that day but we had about a half an hour until it started, and basically Elder Caywood said, " well, we can go up early or we can go find someone."  I said ,"let's do it!"  No one was out on the street and it looked like this was not  going to be the best use of 30 minutes. But, I randomly felt like knocking on someones door....so i did!  We talked to this family for 15 minutes at the door and they initially wanted nothing to do with us, but the spirit was SO strong when we talked to them. They said they were Catholic but they opened up to us and said that they had been very doubtful about if God was really there or not. Especially with all the crap going on, and we boldly testified that there is a god and that we need trials for our experience and many other things. We ended up only giving them a card with our number on it, and they said we could come back later.  WOW that was powerful so we kept doing that for the rest of the time we had, and had some really cool contacts!

    Ummmm, Oh this Sunday an amie named Andre finally came to church. We taught him a recap of the restoration by watching the film. Then we basically shared our conversion stories with him and testified of the Book of Mormon.  It was probably the most powerful rendezvous I have had for a long time! He loved it! And he basically bore testimony to us about prayer and how that was the only way to know if anything is true and  how he was going to do that when reading the Book of Mormon. He was excited to do so because he had nothing but good feelings about our  message. He is a stud!

     P.S.  Thank you so much Grandpa for that scripture you shared with my family and me! It really gave me a new perspective. I have read that story about Ammon and Aaron and all of the other sons of Mosiah SO many times, but I cannot even express how hard it hit me the last time I just read it! I wish I could explain but I think I will just have to tell ya in a letter because I got's to head.         Well, I loves y'all lots.  Keep your pants on pictures are on their way! hehe
                                            love elder lyons