This week is the transfer week! They havent sent out the email of all of the transfers yet but i'm pretty positive im staying here with Elder Reed. 

After that missionary fireside, hopefully they let missionaries get on facebook soon cause ive been dying to! haha kidding..

A cool story here: We were on the tram that goes around the city and this man comes up to us and starts talking to us, in English! We said he wanted to meet with us sometime to talk about God and so we met with him the next day. He lives in this Evangelical church that is in the basement of this little apartment complex so its pretty small. So we taught him about the Restoration and stuff and he loved it. Then he tells us he was baptized in our church!! Pretty crazy. He told us he's living in that Evangelical church cause the preacher there is letting him stay there for free until he finds an apartment to live in. So thats pretty nice from that preacher. But both of our church meetings are at the same time on Sunday

 and he feels obligated to go to that one because he lives there... haha And Elder Reed and I have noticed its been quite a while since hes gone to church haha. He came to this ward barbeque we had and asked if we had some coffee for him to drink, so its been a while. But he has been baptized and confirmed and is in church records. Anyways, his name is Steve, he's originally from Nigeria but has lived in Spain for the past 8 years. He had to leave Spain because of some economical crisis and he cant get a job so he came to France to look for one. So thats cool. 

Pictures from Cooper's Zone Conference

My companion and I picked out the same ties the very first day of transfers when we were in Paris because you both wear them to zone conference.  Elder Ballard couldn't make our zone conference.  He only stayed in Paris and our conference was in Angers, a different city.  But in September we're going to have a mission conference and Elder Oaks will be there so that will be awesome.  Yes, it is really humid here and I need to get a hair cut soon.  Elder Reed is a good companion.  He helps me with a lot of stuff.  We went to this members house and had a quick little spiritual thought with her.  We later found out that she doesn't go to church a lot, so it was good we visited her.

June 10, 2013

It was another rough week.  No lessons again but we have a lot of member visits this week and we're going to try and have the members help us!  Also, our Zone Conference is this week and that'll be fun!

As for my excercising, I have about 30-45 minutes right when I wake up to do some exercise.  I've been too tired to do anything at that time so I really haven't done much.  But I did go for a nice little jog on Saturday.  No news about the temple here.  It'll be a while still.  As for being called Elder, I got use to that the first day at the MTC!!!  The showers here are normal but the washer and dryer machines are different.  It's weird but I'm used to it now.

French is really hard but I'll try hard to speak French as much as I can.  I live with a native who doesn't know much English at all so that's kind of good.

That's all! c ya
Coop

June 3, 2013

K so instead of writing at the church i'm at some cybercafe so my time is limited!

The weather here has been cloudy, cold, and rainy since i got here. But about 2 days ago, its been really hot and sunny so hopefully that sticks around for a while. 

Im buying things with my missionary debit card i have. I get around 175 euros a month and I spend over 30 euros at least per week on groceries. And starting sometime in June (this month) is the huge clearance sale that everyone talks about. It goes for 4 weeks and everything is on sale. And the more weeks that pass, the cheaper everything gets so make sure theres money in the card!!! hahaha

Ive boughten some ties and some t-shirts so far and thats it for clothing. 

The place im staying at has a really small kitchen, bathroom, and two bedrooms. haha thats it.

Since that one time eaten at their house we've eaten at two other members homes. No tomatoes!

The baguettes are really good here. The patisseries are even better!! There are these things called Religieuse which are super good. And also Mille Feuille which is also really good. Everything at a patisserie shop is soo good!!!

For meals we usually cook pasta, and cook some meat and mix it with some bolognaise sauce. its pretty good. Another meal we usually have is burritoes. haha we cook beans, meat, and cheese and have burritoes. And another one we have is crepes with Nutella. haha

As far as teaching goes, it was rough. We didnt teach any lessons this past week. We havent gotten a referral yet from anybody and usually we go contacting downtown on the street or door-to-door contacting in neighborhoods. But we have a couple of scheduled lessons this week with people we contacted on Saturday and Sunday so that should be better.

That lesson that was two hours away was because we contacted some guy on the street in downtown and he allowed us to come over to his house to teach a lesson. But he happened to live 2 hours away. That was our only lesson with him cause we're not supposed to go that far away for investigators anyways. And he also didnt want us to come back. 

Well im done now. see ya!!