Last E-Mail, Weird

Bonjour!

Happy b-day mom! I hope everything goes well with all the vacations y'all will be doing and stuff.  Well can you believe that this is the last e-mail that I will be sending to you as a missionary? Me either. It kinda makes me sick. I have been kinda depressed as the time begins to shrink and shrink. Being sick last weekend didn't help much either.  NO, not pancreas stuff, but if I am completely honest I should not have left the hospital as early as I did. My enzyme levels were still at like 3,000 and it has been taking me a bit of time to REALLY recover.  I have been really tired.  I didn't sleep all of last week and I guess that made my immune system crash a bit. Small things, such as a cold, were really amplified.  I managed to finally catch a few z's Sunday and yesterday and I feel alright now.  I must admit that I have lost a ton of motivation this transfer as far as work goes.  I feel like it is my fault that everything has kinda gone down the toilet. YES, I know that I couldn't control anything, but.......still. Well that's enough!  I just really needed to vent!

     On the bright side, we did manage to fix a baptismal date for the beginning of July with a brand new amie from Nigeria. Anna has a lot of faith and just really wants to learn about Christ. She is a referral from an old investigator, and she is excited to learn more about the gospel. We have also been finding tons and tons of potentials contacting.  A good half of them were fake numbers, however we did manage to make a few new amis outta all of it. We will be seeing one of them today, his name is Romaric, and we will be trying to fix a date with him, as well as a few others.

    Well I'm keeping my head high and I have definitely grown closer to my Savior this transfer if nothing else. You know everything that President Finn blessed me with has come true so far. Not in ways I expected,  but lets just say I have learned a lot about humility these past few months (not that I can even say that I am humble) and without God we truly are nothing.

     Well, this is it. One more push!  I love all of you and I am so grateful for all of your support! I definitely did not serve this mission alone! Thank you tons! I will see you at Salt Lake at 2 next Thursday......à bientot!

LOVE ELDER LYONS

Last few weeks!

So... I will get the little thingies outta the way first, comme d'hab!

YEP, I got all of the B-day packages and I loved em all!  They are pretty much all eaten already.  I haven't had the return visit to the Dr. yet and I am not completely sure when it is... I just had a follow up blood test . I think they were making sure that my enzymes are down..... not completely sure about that because I can't read the doctors hand writing. I will give them a call soon if I don't hear anything.   Yes, I look forward to SF!!

    Well, I still had to take the first half of this week a little slow, but I got up to working a full day by Wednesday or Thursday. We also had a member of the seventy come and visit us in Paris and he pretty much tore it up! Elder Teixeria challenged us to have the faith to find new investigators everyday and to teach 21 lessons a week! That's a lot in case you were wondering.  Our stand was set at 16 a week and not everyone reaches that. HE was the mission pres. in the Sao Paulo south mission and apparently it wasn't always on fire like it is now. They used to be a lot like Europe but when he came in as president he felt inspired to boost the goals up and look at em now! He gave an incredible talk on faith and hard work and pretty much pumped me up for my last two weeks. I also had to give what we call a "dying testimony". This is where all of the missionaries that will be leaving at the end of the transfer give their final words, so to speak, and bear their testimonies......wasn't fun, but it was good.

This week was a little rough and we didn't have much going on, but we did have a cool church activity where the members were suppose to bring friends to teach and do a little tour of the church.  No one came but a few members so those members that came decided to go find people with us!!  IT was cool to do contacting with frère gaba and we ended up (all together) finding 4 or 5 people.  We got their addresses and numbers and fixed rdvs so it was successful in the end. Well... now comes the big push to really find and teach people before we hand Melun off to two brand new missionaries.  We will see what happens.

I LOVE YOU

elder lyons