bonjour à tous! j'espère que la semaine s'est passé bien! si non, n'oubliez pas qu'il y a une nouvelle semaine devant vous :) (loose translation:I hope you had a great week, and if not, well you got another one coming up)
so i might have a quick letter this week...maybe lol. well anyway, elder vira and i went on an exchange this tuesday, he is one of the other elders living with us here in cannes and is from venuatu! super cool. so that was a really cool day! we put the questionnaires that i was talking about last week to work and boy did they work! they are so great! even if the person isn't interested we still get a nice 10 minute conversation with them and they realize that we are not these crazy people lol Later that night we went to bishop's house so elder yang and elder GM could get haircuts. well we were there for a while and i ended up talking to his 15 year-old son Dorian for a while. this dude is sooo cool!! needless to say we got close...he reminds me a lot of you chris! and its weird bc he seems way old, but he is just about your age!!
wednesday was another day in antibes. antibes is an outside ville in our sector, but there used to be a branch there so there are alot of less actives and much work to do. anyway we went and had 2 lunches there with some less actives, it was nice. we then went to choir practice which is every wednesday night at 7, but everyone knows i have a terrible voice so it is not always the most fun thing to do for me lol. happy birthday dad!!! getting old on me ;)
thursday we went to toulon for a district meeting, so the day was pretty much taken up with trains and district meeting.
friday was filled with weekly planning and ward council...next week looks like a good one! we finally got some things set up rather than just finding the whole week. ward council here is intense! we are in the process of getting our building under construction so we will be having church in antibes (idk when were making the move over there though). but the big problem were having is that we won't have a baptismal font within a 1 hour long train ride, so we all came to the decision that if we have a baptism we will do the baptism in the ocean!!! talk about motivation to get a baptism :)
saturday we had to wake up at 5:30 to travel to toulon again bc one of their amis was getting baptized! so very excited but that took up the whole day lol idk if you all remember our ami we had in manosque, but her name is catherine and she got baptized saturday also!!!
sunday was a great day! so saturday night we invited all of our amis to church. but sadly no one answered so we just left messages. well when we got to church yesterday, mme. miranda came to church (she is the lady we saw last sunday that is married with 3 kids) she was like "ya i got your message and my brother called me this morning at 7 and said 'go to church!'" lol her brother is a branch president in portugal so he should help her out a lot. but we got into a RDV with her and she started telling us about her brother's conversion story. she started crying bc she was so touched by it. we told her that she could have the "peace" that she sees in her brother's life. we want that for her whole family. oh she has got a lot of potential!!
so ya that is about it for the week! here is what i learned:
1. is snapchat still a big app in the US? it is pretty big here lol
2. if you would like to know more about cannes, you can visit
cannes.com lol
3. whatever you do, do it with love?
4. no matter what is happening know that the lord is in control and is doing it for your benefit.
5. hope is a precious principle by which to live; it gives us purpose to all that we do.
6. no amount of sorrow can make things right; only the lord's love can, if you let him.
7. being emotionally strong can be a very lonely thing.
quick spiritual thought: alma 30:44 all things denote that there is a god! just look at the sun, the stars at night and the moon. look at all of it, it all testifies that there is a "supreme creator"
love you all, God is good and jesus is our savior, aren't we all witnesses?
have a great week!
-elder thompson
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| just another day at the beach...pday! |
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| super girly photo, but it's a cool pic! lol |
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| this guy is great! Elder GM |
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| elder hendershot roomie reunion from pau! he is serving in nice and we are super close! |
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| view from my seat on the train, may as well be in so. cal |
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| we are not the only ones who believe this |
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| call us the baptismal guardians |
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| serious photo bombers! |
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| escargo is actually really good;) |
