Well what a busy week this has been, let’s start with grandpa's question Elder W. is from Azusa, CA and I am picking up on the French but it is really hard to understand some people because they talk super fast and sometimes mumble but they say the same to me so I guess it means I am now French hahaha. Okay this week was super fun. Vannes is a gorgeous city and I love it. It’s such a slow moving city. Here is some French culture for y’all, in France everything shuts down at 7:00pm so nobody is outside either. It is like a ghost town. Nothing is opened on Sundays so that is another cool thing. On Monday when I got off we walked around and then had a diner appointment with the branch president. He fed us diner and we watched the last sessions of general conference which was really good. Then we left them a card and left. On Tuesday was my first district meeting and we had to go to Renne also. We did exchanges so I got to go to Saint Brieuc with our district leader. Renne is a beautiful city. It is like Paris just smaller and cleaner. The meeting was great. we got to know each other and discussed finding. Then we ate lunch together which was lasagna, salad, and CREPES. Man, we eat a lot of those let me tell ya! Okay after that I said goodbye to my "Father", that is what they call your trainer for elders, and left for Saint Brieuc. So Saint Brieuc is just like Vannes just north of us and is really nice. We got to contact a few people and we got a couple of numbers which was pretty exciting. Then the day was done just like that. Got to talk a little with Elder A. and he is awesome. He is super funny and really weird. I love it. The next morning we went to the train station and met my father and Elder A’s companion and we ate lunch. I had my first kabob. It was really good but nobody knows what the meat is. It is very strange. Then we said goodbye and Elder W. and I left back for Vannes. We arrived in Vannes at 3 and got to work. We contacted a few people and got some numbers. We gave them a call but nobody answered so we just left messages. We then ate dinner and rode the bus to the church and had our first missionary night. It is when investigators come and meet members. We give a little message and then play a game. It was pretty fun. We have two investigators named L. and E.. Elder W. met L. through the G. family who you will hear about later and he has been meeting with the missionaries for a while. He has a baptism date for the 20th of April but we don’t think he is ready yet because he is still struggling with the word of wisdom. But E., Elder W., and I met through a recent convert of the church. He is awesome! He does not speak French so it’s English with him which I am grateful for! But he is doing well. We met with him on the next day, Thursday, and discussed who we are and what we are here do to along with the first lesson. He accepted everything we taught him and has a date for the 11th of May which is super cool! We will be meeting with him twice a week to make sure he is ready. Then on Friday we taught L.. He has an amazing story. The G. family is a family from England so they speak English and French. It’s super cool. They met L. and his family and have been working with him for awhile before they brought in the missionaries. When they did he just took off and his kids are also interested. L. has a problem with smoking. We met with him and the G. family discussed the word of wisdom with him early. He came to us saying that the coffee he drank taste horrible to him now and he can’t stand the taste. Every time he smokes he burns himself and can’t stand the taste. It was so cool to hear him say this. We discussed that the Lord was showing him that he was making a right choice by meeting with us and getting baptized but he still does those things because it’s his way of dealing with the stress. We gave him stuff to do instead. One of them is eating chocolate and he said he will try. So after the appointment we had dinner with the G. family. They are super funny. Gosh, I love English accents! It seriously feels like I am in a Harry Potter movie. The family is super cool. Brother G. moved his family here because he felt like they needed to move to France. It was cool listening to his story, he has two teenage daughters who asked for my facebook name and are now on a quest to find me because they can’t find me. Both of them are friends with L's kids and they work on the kids. This family is incredible with missionary work and they loved the card we gave them. They said it looked so professional haha. Saturday we met with E. again and gave him a baptism calendar and discussed our plan for him and what we are going to be teaching which lead into God's plan for us. So brillant haha!! The lesson went really well and we said goodbye and ate lunch at McDonalds so tell Meesha that a McBaguet is really good! haha. Then we got a call from Fere B.. He is the mission leader for the branch and he took us to visit some new converts. We met this one family with cutest little girl and they are a super solid family. Sunday, it was my first real Sunday here in Vannes so we went to church and they do it backwards. Priesthood was first. Don’t ask me what they said because I could not tell you! Just that it involved conference and members being missionaries. Then we had Sunday school with E. and L. and we discussed families. It was so awesome. L. loved it and so did E. Then we had sacrament meeting last and they asked me and Elder W. to say the sacrament prayers. I was super nervous because my French was not great but I said the water. I messed up saying one word and said it again perfect. I was so grateful for my companion. He helped me just before. Then because it was fast Sunday we had testimonies and I got and introduce me and bore my testimony. After the meeting everybody came up and said hi and some other stuff and L. was crying because he told me he felt the spirit so strong. I told him if you want to be baptized commit to me right now to obey the word of wisdom but he would not do it. UGGGGH !!! After church we ate lunch and went contacting and everybody was out taking nice Sunday walks. This lady came up to us and said you are Mormon boys and we said yea and then she asked American Mormon boys and we said yea. She then said really loud I LOVE YOU SO MUCH and we just stood there. I said thank you that is so sweet here take this book I am sure you will love it too. I gave her a Book of Mormon and she took and shook our hands and kissed them. It was really weird so we did not go back down that street! While we were walking by the port we saw this older couple just playing boule (bocce ball or lawn bowling) together. It was so cute. We went and said hi but they were not interested in the church. This morning I cleaned the apartment kitchen. It was so gross! Now we now have a white stove and regenerator and microwave not a brown and black one. That was good and that was my week.
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