This last week was pretty good! We met this Asian man on the street. He speaks
French, but not a whole lot, and pretty much no English at all so it was
difficult to communicate with him. But he wanted to give us his phone number so
he did. Then later we called and set up an appointment somehow to meet at the
train station a few days later. We met him there and he brought a friend with
him, who also knew little French and even less English. We took the tram from
the station to the church and then we taught a very simple lesson about prayer.
They liked it a lot! (still have to kind of work out the differences between
God and Buddha... but its fine) then after, they invited us to come to their
house and meet all of their families!! It was pretty cool. The two guys each have
a wife and 2 young kids, so 8 people in total! It’s actually rare here to find
a husband and wife (married) with 2 kids. And they're all really, really nice.
So hopefully things go really well with them. They're all from Mongolia which
is pretty cool!
I don’t think the Olympics are really a huge deal here. I haven’t
seen any ads or anything about it anywhere. But there is this one guy who we
are kind of teaching that just wants to watch the Olympics the whole time we
are trying to teach him. He told us that the Olympics interest him more than us
talking about our church so we'll see how much longer we'll be seeing him...
haha kidding.. I did happen to see from being at his house, they were just
doing coverage over the French athletes, obviously. And a couple of days ago,
we were waiting for some pizza we ordered at a pizza place and the room was
playing the Olympics on TV. They were showing England vs. Switzerland in
women's Curling. I know about that person from Orem in the Olympics who placed
2nd in the Women’s Skeleton. She went to Lakeridge Jr. High and she spoke
at an assembly when I was there.
So in the morning it’s hard to work out because we're in a
really tiny apartment and its cold and dark in the morning, and I just don’t
ever feel like going out and running. It’s a whole lot easier to work out when
you live in a 4-man apartment but I'll try to start running because the weather
is actually pretty good now. It was too hot to wear a coat today, and everyone
is just sitting outside at the many outdoor cafés.