So this week was a crazy week overall. we got a lot of things done so i was happy in the end.
Tuesday i had an exchange with our district leader, Elder Nelson. He is a stud from tremonton haha. it's so nice talking about all the good old boys that i used to play baseball with and of course just laughing about the silly things that go on in tremonton. we rep the northern part of utah in the mission so hardly anyone understands what our lives are like but we understand each other perfectly. he was the first person i'd heard my whole mission use the word gripe. this reminded me of my mom because she's straight from tremonton herself. it was a fun exchange where we did a lot of walking and a lot of contacting with no success. we taught our ami francois and his son that same evening only to find out that they're going to africa for one month. bummer. too bad i don't have another 6 months here so i could see them a few more times. this guy is legit he has already read halfway through 2nd nephi. he is super interested and i think he's starting to actually believe in god. the book of mormon has that effect on people that's for sure.
Wednesday was the second to last district meeting for me so i wasn't super sad. i told everyone i was saving that for this week when i'll have my last one. once that was finished we went off and found some less actives which led us to houses that didn't exist and all that good stuff. it wasn't really anything out of the ordinary. overall this week we found 4 less actives though. we were super pumped because that's the new vision of the mission. we are going for reactivating less actives and keeping the recent converts. it's a process bringing people back to church but it's worth it.
we kind of glided to saturday with some contacting and scattered lessons to people in the road. saturday was a crazy day where we were able to see 4 people. we went less active hunting yet again and came up with 2. it was a nice haul and we got to walk along the river la somme the whole way with people fishing. i almost thought about asking them to try but it looked just as boring as it did before. sorry dad 2 years couldn't make me want to fish in any way. after we saw the less actives it was time to teach blessing once again. we went with fonja who is in the running for favorite member of all time. watch out buff frère caby. when we got to blessing's she was asleep because she though we weren't going to come because of the rain. haha africans are the very best. we taught her and she was just awesome even if she was half asleep.
sunday was a great day as well. i gave a talk about the word of wisdom and everyone seemed to love it. i don't think anyone has ever told anybody that their talked sucked so who really knows if it was good or not. blessing came to church and everything was peachy.
this is the last time i will be blogging as a missionary so i just wanted to thank everyone who has supported me and all that. the mission is the greatest thing ever and i've learned so much. i've grown more than i could have ever hoped and i'm so grateful that the lord has given me this opportunity. i'm going to miss france more than anything as well as all the amazing people. i think i may have to just come back and live here. life is so good as a missionary and i hope it will be this good back in the real world. thanks mom and dad for being such a good example as well as president and sister poznanski who are now my second pair of parents. i figure it would be could to have some parents in europe just in case i do ever live here. i love you all and see you soon!
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