This last week we had zone conference. It was good. I tried speaking in French in the interviews. When I was with the President, we were speaking French for a bit and then he started speaking in English. But I kept responding in French trying to speak it but he just kept speaking English! So I just went and spoke English too for the rest of the interview. haha It was good, it was a fun day. And like always, my French is like how its always been. But its not about me speaking it, its about me understanding when people talk. It still sounds like jibberish sounds to me.  

My companion has been a member for two years.  I don't really know much of his conversion story, except his mom was really interested and had lessons from missionaries then he had lessons from missionaries. We're trying to find more people all the time because lots of the people we already have are on vacation or something. They have busy lives. Its hard to find time because people work all the time.

Luxembourg has more mountains than France, thats for sure. And I haven't seen an actual mountain like back home. Just really big hills covered by trees. I found out earlier that in our area of Luxembourg, we can go in to Germany and in to Belgium and in to France. So the area covers 4 countries!  We haven't gone outside of Luxembourg yet (except for zone conference) but I want to go to Germany because I'll probably never go there again after the mission, so that'll be cool to just go there some day when we have time! 

I went to the big American Military Cemetary today and I found the grave of George Patten. The cemetary is pretty cool!



                                  Cooper sees many luxurious sports cars everyday in Luxembourg

             

                                   In the world

                                  The grave of General Patten at the American Military Cemetery

Luxembourg is awesome!!! Everything here is so cool! Literally Everyone here in this country speaks at least 2 languages. Most of them can speak Luxembourgoise, French, and usually English. And a ton of other people speak Spanish or Portugese. I would say more people speak Spanish or Portugese than French. Its really weird. And Some of the members in the ward are from the US and only speak English and there are some others that only speak Spanish. Then there are the rest that can speak French and English and another language too... But for me, I feel like my French will go down because its not as needed here... which is bad because I still am not fluent yet...

So my companion's name is Elder Bananier. He's from Guadalupe (an island in the Caribbean). His native language is French but he's fluent in English so thats good. He was actually called to the Paris mission speaking Spanish, so he knows Spanish too. And he's picked up Portugese as well because there are so many people that he's spoken with who speak Portugese. So he's been out on his mission for around 7-8 months. After the MTC, he came here and his first area was Luxembourg.  So he's actually never left here yet. This is his last transfer in Luxembourg. 

I also live with two other Elders. Elder Esparza, who is from Germany but originally from Ecuador. And Elder Dicataldo, who is from Italy. This is Elder dicataldo's last transfer of the mission so I'm with another Elder who's going home in a few weeks. But Elder Esparza is in the group behind me so he's kind of new here. And they both are fluent in English so that makes me happy.

So there are some investigators here who are really close to baptism. So hopefully we'll get a few baptisms in the next few weeks! And I have no idea what's going to happen with Abra in Orléans.

Hi everyone!

Just recently we taught a lesson to this lady who lives close by us. Her name is Abra (just like the Pokemon character) and she is from Africa somewhere. We taught about the Book of Mormon and the first lesson from Preach my Gospel to her. It was kind of hard for her to understand at first but we answered all of her questions and made sure that she understood everything we talked about, like where the book of mormon comes from, what's it about, that it isnt another translation of the Bible, and how there's only one true church. And she loved hearing about all of that and she accepted an invitation to be baptized! She understands that there's only one true church on the earth and she wants to be baptized now! It was really awesome! 

We have another lesson on Tuesday with her so we're going to set up a date for her to prepare for the baptism. However..... This week is the start of the new transfer and I'm packing up and leaving Orléans...

I'm going to Luxembourg!!! It was such a surprise! I thought that someone else would come here but they're going to only have one team of missionaries in Orléans now instead of two. So it's going to be crazy leaving. There's only one area in Luxembourg and it's the whole country haha. My new companions name is Elder Bananier. I dont know anything about him but the others that im with right now say he's really cool and he knows like 5 different languages haha. And Luxembourg is like a huge melting pot of languages. Lots of people there speak French, English, Spanish, German, and the secret Luxembourg language called Luxembourgeoise. I have no idea what that is but everyone there speaks that language and also knows 1 or 2 more extra ones, mostly French. So i'm really excited!

                                                               A Hobbit House!