Craziest week of my life!!
Hey Fam,
This has been the craziest week of my life!
*Tuesday: Right as we got off the plane, they gave us book's of Mormon to hand out
for the train ride there. We got into the train and after sitting 10
minutes in the train I started to try and talk to people and they would
just stare at me and laugh, so that kind of sucked. Then I started
talking to this black dude and told him about the church and gave him the book of Mormon. I gave him the contact information for the church in Versaille but
he didn't seem interested at all. After that we went to the mission home
and president Babin said a few words and then we all walked to Notre Dame and that was pretty sick. Then we walked to the top of consecration hill and
got a sweet view of Paris. After that, we went to a hotel to stay the
night and it was pretty shabby.
*Wednesday: Today we found
out who our trainers are and where our first area is. My trainer is
Elder Ireland, a huge 6 foot 6 Canadian and way cool. I don't think I
could have got a better trainer. My first area in the mission is a place
called Evry, 45 minutes away from Versaille. We went to the apartment
and I met the two other missionaries staying there, Elder Empey and
Elder Davis. They are both way cool guys. They have all been out here
forever. After I met them, we went contacting and it was so bad. I have
never felt so unqualified in my life. The people here legit are the
saddest people in the world. They all hated us and would laugh literally
the whole time I was trying to speak. Pretty sucky night.
*Thursday: Our goal was to get at least 1 person that wanted to hear what we had
to say and we wouldn't stop contacting until we found one. After
contacting for 4 hours strait, we finally found a nice black guy on a
bike named Bruzza and he was really interested, so we set up another
time to teach him more. We contacted so long that I didn't even mind it
anymore. After that we went door to door and it was crazy. Every single
door that we went to told us to "de gaush", I didn't spell it right but
it means "get out!". It's so nuts how angry the people are here.
*Friday:
we went to an investigators house that is going to be baptised in
December and we taught him the importance of prayer and the scriptures.
My teaching is definitely not as good as I thought it was. we went
contacting the rest of the day and no luck.
*Saturday:
Saturday was pretty chill, just a baptism where I met most of the
members and we went contacting again but this time we went to like to
most ghetto part of Paris called Gingnre, and not one person wanted to
stop and talk.
*Sunday: Sunday we went to church and I had
to go up in front of the ward, bear my testimony and tell a little about
myself and went through three hours of church not knowing even kind of
what anyone was saying. After we went to church we went to this ladies
house to give her a blessing because she was sick. We got there and she
wanted me to say the blessing so I gave her one and the french was bad
but it was a sweet experience.
I haven't really had any
good food here yet because the missionaries in my room have already
tried everything and there really isn't any really good places to eat
here in Evry, so we have been making a ton of crepes and eating really
strong cheese with baguettes almost every meal but its pretty good. So
far I love it here and I just cant wait until I can understand the
french and speak it! long ways to go but I'll survive!!!
Love all you guys so much!!
Elder Carson
So I looked at Elder Empey's email this week and it was hilarious. I know Jaxon is having a blast with these Elder's. I really hope they can all stay together for another transfer. They only have 4 week's until the next transfer which is short because of Christmas. Elder Davis get's to go home in December so he will for sure be leaving. Here is what I found on Elder Empey's email. (He must of got confused with American fork and Spanish Fork)
So
we got a new elder in our appt, Elder Carson. He's brand new from
Spanish Fork Utah, and super cool! We played a couple of pranks on him
when he first got here. Elder Ireland told him he only spoke french and
then when they got to Evry he took him to our appt saying it was a
referral. Elder Davis pretended to be french an I told him that I just
moved here from America and don't speak any french. He gave me the whole
first lesson and his personal book of Mormon and said he would just come
get it later haha. they left and then came back and we were back in
missionary clothes and he was pretty suprised. Elder Ireland and Davis
kept pretending like they only spoke french for 2 more days after that.
I saw Austin Pitcher at the temple the day before I left the MTC.
He got to see one of his friends from American Fork who is serving in Paris France also. Elder Josh Beck.
Sight seeing and contacting with some Elder's from the MTC.
A few sweet shots of Paris. You can see the Eiffel Tower far away to the right.
Louvre Palace
Jaxon inside Notre Dame.
The inside of Notre Dame.
Elder Edmund's, Elder Taylor and Elder Carson. Companion's at the MTC. This is the outside of Notre Dame.
Evry France
Jaxon's companion Elder Ireland (far right) and his other roomie's Elder Davis (far left) and Elder Empey (middle).
All 4 Elder's sleep in a 1 Bedroom apartment.
Our kitchen and laundry room.
A park in Evry where we usually go contacting
A street in Evry
A cool building in Evry
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