This weeks email will have to be with no caps because this keyboard is weird.
Thanks for the pictures of jenny! she looks so good I really wish I could be there.
that's great about the absentee ballot, glad it came so quickly.
i'm sorry to hear about sandy messervy i know she'll be missed by the ward.
glad you're going to see grandma and grandpa again mom. tell everybody from the family that i love them!
dad i don't think i ever knew that about your mission. what a big sacrifice!
on tuesday we were told that the newish missionaries would be leaving the next day for belgium to do our belgian legality. noramally it's later in the transfer and we have more time to plan but no one told the poor secretary and he had to rush around buying tickets and letting everyone know all in just one day! we got to ride first class for 1 hour and 23 minutes (an elder and i sat by this awesome chilean couple) then arrived, did a little sight seeing and ate delicious french fries, a specialty there, and waffles, where we visited the famous mannequin pis (peeing boy statue). then we went and signed a legal paper and that was it. much less hassle then in france. we got on another first class train and came home. It was a nice little vacation and time to talk to everybody from the mtc. we won't all be together like that again for another year when we have to do more legality stuff.
gues what!!!!!!! we have a baptism date!! we called an old investigator that we found in the Torcy mission records (the area book). her name is delphine, she's 22 and the daughter of members who now hate the church. it was hard to set up an appointment because we can't meet at her house due to her parents, but we finally met her. she said she had been praying for help when we called. she can't wait to be baptised and has been living like a member already while she waited for the Lord to open a window for her to get to the church. she still has the obstacle of working on sundays, but she has faith that it will be resolved. we're going to teach her the lessons (which she pretty much already knows by heart) 3 times a week until she gets baptized on October 20th.
it will be in bordeaux because her extended family lives there and they are all active members. also, to avoid her parents. everybody wasn't sure if she could be baptized outside of her ward bounderies, but I remembered that Beth from byrd springs was baptized in her grandparents ward, when everybody heard that they decided it was possible.
we also had some success with a less active woman we've been visiting for awhile. in fact, she was the first person sr. dremeaux took me to see in Torcy. we've discovered that she really does have a strong testimony and that she really does want to come to church. sure enough, she was there yesterday!!!
on friday i was asked to give my first talk in church. i really only had about 1 day to write it and then have sr. dremeaux correct my french. i chose to speak about sacrifice, i think it went well, i just hated that i had to read the whole thing word for word rather than speak for naturally. i felt like i was 12 years old and giving my first talke, i kept trying to remember to look up at the audience. however everyone said my accent was good (i think they're being nice) so that made me feel better.
