A TOUGH Day...

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this week was pretty good. but probably the hardest sunday of my life, hardest day of my life joobies. on my way to church walking; called emillion to make sure she was on her way because she was getting confirmed this last sunday, i was on the phone with her, and right away from the tone of her voice i new it was not ok, she said she was not coming because she didnt want to leave her kids, her kids are being the devil and trying to convince her not to continue, we saw her the day before and she was great, her kids who are like 30 didnt even want to join us and were being super immature in the kitchen when i invited them to come join us.  anyways i was distraught.. i wanted to throw up almost, but i talked with her on the phone for a good 15 minutes and finally got her to promise me that she was going to come and get confirmed and recieve the holy ghost, she is so torn, but she came and got confirmed, i ended up doing it, because the member didnt want to, geeze.  but i had a couple members who she is close with reeally talk with her, i think things will start going better now. i had to give the lesson in priesthood while we were figuring this all out, and then, she called telling me she forgot her bus pass so i had to find a member that had a car and drive us up there, it was out of control, but its all good now, i will be calling her tonight to go and see her on wednesday.

    my lesson went well though ;) haha and we had a couple other amis that came, so that was good

i am at the mission home now, just had my interview with president and his wife, went well.  yesterday me and my blue went out to teach this family that lived over by all these big bats, we had eggs thrown at us from the windows, probably muslims... haha but i did some legit judo dodging

anyways thats about all, talk to you all soon, much love

thanks for everything, and all the advice, it helps alot

bisous bisous

A Baptism...

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this week was pretty good, emilionne got baptized on sunday, it was awesome.  we finally decided to just go ahead with everything and have her get baptized on sunday; so we saw her almost every day the week before the baptism. we asked her this past thursday who she wanted to have baptize her, i told a bunch of members that she knew that would happily baptize her, she said she would prefer if we baptized her, what a surprise ha, so i told her elder sughroue would be happy to do that for her, he didnt understand what i said until after the rendez vous, but he was pretty pumped when i told him after, he said he didnt think he would baptize someone for at least the first 6 months of his mission

the baptismal ordanance went by smoothly, afterward she had the opportunity to bare her testimony; and her two sons and their wives came, which was cool because they were all really catholic, and didnt really want their mom to get baptized, but when she bore her testimony, she said, i know my kids didnt really want me to get baptized again, but i followed my heart and did what i know is true.  i thank the missionaries. one of her sons started to cry a little, it was good to see ha. once the kids saw the church and met the members and us, alot changed

we had a few other investigators come to church; one of them named ricardo and his french wife, so that was super cool.  he invited us over to eat at his place, it was super good, i did plenty of magic tricks, it was too much fun haha

everything else is going well, i got news that i will be spending my last transfer here

so all is going well, now we just need to get back to work and get some baptismal dates fixed, we some serious potentials.

so everything is going well. thanks for everything i appreciate it

much love :)

talk to you all soon

Summer Time...

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it has been a hot week and a long week, and our preparation day is almost over already; pretty ridiculous.  we did fix a baptismal date this past week, its a bit shaky but we will be seeing her, more ofter now so hopefully we can get that one going well soon.  not much else is really new, we still do alot of finding, contacting and porting, lots of bat porting, finding tons of people but none of them really progressing and vacances have started so everybody in france leaves on vacation for like a month which does not really help things.  a family did invite us over to have some crêpes on sunday evening so that was a nice break from the normal flow of things.

we took the metro into paris today, gonna hit up soldes while its the last week, thats all the shopping i wanted to do, then i will be good until the end of my mission

i dont know if you got the photo i just sent you of dominique, what a cool dude, found him doing some bat porting in strasbourg two weeks before i left, cool to see that his baptismal date stayed sure and now he is a member of the church; good for him and even better for the ward (they need it)

as to answer your questions about what i want to do after my mission, i dont know... alot of people have asked me, i need to give it some serious thought, i will figure something out, school yes, rugby yes, have fun with the fam yes, but the rest i do not know, i dont even know whats majors exist, i will probably set up some kind of appointment with a byu counselor see what i like and see what would be the best options to take, so yeah i will let you guys know what i think of next week

anyways much love, thanks for everthing

talk to you all soon

bisous bisous

Going Well...

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sounds like a pretty fun summer so far, stadium of fire, good times good times.  its starting to get super hot over here as well, especially when down in the metros; joobies.  things are going ok, we are teaching lots of lessons now, well above the mission average, and found 7 new investigators this past week; 3 of them came to church on sunday so that was great, people tell us that we are tearing it up ha ha but i still hestitate and stress a bit, because we want BAPTISMS, so there are some things we need to do better or differently to get baptisms this transfer;

the ward is cool, sunday was great we got to present ourselves, my blue did a pretty good job ha ha i wrote down a few things he could say, he did a good job, it reminds me of the first time i was training because it was exactly one year ago and it was summer, i was in a suburb of paris, its like its happening all over again, pretty weird.

nah dont worry about sending me anything, everything is good, shoes socks and shirts that i have should last me until i come home, however i was thinking, i did want to profit from soldes; or sales that are going here for the next month, everything is super super super cheap, its a national thing, so if you want to slip just a few dollars on the my ol visa card, that would be great :) ha ha i dont even remember how much money i have on there now, or my password, is that a problem??

anyways things are going great, the apartment is better now, we have warm water, and the other stuff is figured out so its all good

we are off to go eat paninis and crêpes in the "secret" spot that i know in down town paris, its super cheap and then off to throw around the football with elder burgess and his comp later this afternoon in front of the eiffel tower mahahaha what pimp daddys

thanks for everything, talk to you all soon 

Moving (again), and reaction to Zach's call (to Uruguay)...

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wow uruguay, joobies, i guess all these rugby tours to south america has just been getting him ready for them south americans; and i thought for sure he would come to france i would train him in my last transfer... ha nah i kid, wow that is super super super cool, is he excited about it?? i am pumped that i get to see him for a few weeks before he leaves on his mission, thats legit.  its so crazy all the changes that are going down back home and out here in the mission; too much change; but whatevs, sadly this email will be alot shorter than i would like it to be, this will be my last p day here in strasbourg.... yeah i got the call yesterday that my days as a zone leader are finished, president thanked me and said i was one of the best zone leaders in the mission ah shux, but now i am white washing again, the FOURTH time, this time i am going to versailles, one of the richest parts of france and i will be training a new missionary for my last two transfers, YAY haha i did want to train; i am super excited about it all, the versailles ward is huge and hopefully we will have a good amount of baptisms

             we had the baptism of blessing godday this past sunday; it went really well, super happy about it, the ward loved it too, they are lovin all the baptisms!! ha i am going to miss strasbourg soooooo much; probably my favorite city as far as cities go. only doing one transfer in antony and then is strasbourg is hard, you just start to get close with all the members and the area and then you peace out; its hard, but the young adults wanted to say goodbye tonight, so we are going to go say goodbye to them, and all the investigators and memebrs that i am close with; today and tomorrow, and for sure the two baptisms we had while here.  so we have alot planned out

            heres my address for versailles before i forget, facebook that shnizzle :)

Elder Josh Webber, Les missionnaires

6, rue Romain Gary 

78180 MONTIGNY LES BRETONNEUX

France

we MUST come back and visit strasbourg as a family after the mish; ooohh too legit here

but anyways this week was good, we fixed another baptismal date with a french man named doinique, i am a bit sad that i wont be here for his baptism, but ça va aller.  P.S. my young comp elder adams said this morning that i have the best french in the mission hahah ho hoh ho ho ah joobies, just had to throw that out there boys and girls

the work is going great here, i was happy to be a part of the change, i really hope that the ward now picks up it game and works harder, feels the joy and excititment that comes from doing missionary work

it was fête de la musique this week, a national music day in france, where they play music EVERYWHERE, it was OUT OF CONTROL here, i may or may not have danced with mario to some techno beats in the streets on the way back to the apartment, totally got some video evidence.  it was pretty cool though.

anyways talk to you all soon

classes look great, thanks for doing that :)

much love

à plu

21 Years OLD!

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yeah birthday was great, 21 years old, joobies that is not okay, its gonna take some getting used to saying that.  thanks for the birthday cards, twas very funny indeed.  the dinner with the members went great, they fed us soooo much food, and gave me huge birthday card that all the members from the ward had written on.  I even got a phone call, i answered and i couldnt recognize the voice, she just started singing happy birthday, then finally i realized that it was patricia a member from le mans; the le mans members called me and wished me happy birthday! ha that was the best part.

      yeah i guess i have lost quite a bit of weight, i honestly just dont really eat that much any more, my stomach has shrunk alot ha ha to the dismay of my companion, "dude dont you ever get hungry?" lets go back and eat.  i'll start eating some more pasta i guess

      we had 4 investigatos at church yesterday; blessing who is getting baptized this sunday; as well as anna a young german girl, 23 i think, charles, my home boy who we are suppose to play basket ball with pretty soon, and fabioula, a lady we met doing some porting a little while ago.

     I have to say that we were doing some contacting on our way home from an investigators house yesterday; she invited us over for dinner, and i contacted this young woman; she was athiest of course, but super nice and "open minded" or so she says; we talked for a while and low and behold she pulls the classic, religion ties me down, i dont need people telling me what and what not to do, its not free.  something like that, I DESTROYED HER, in a good way though, i told her madame, i have been speaking with people in the road for a long time now, and i can say that the people that i find are the most tied down or say the EXACT same things EVERY time are aethiest, i can literally predict everything that you are going to say, why you dont believe in god and why you dont like religion. "oh yeah?" she said, i explained to her how in fact athiesm is generally speaking the most closed minded way of thinking and the farthest you can get from freedom, she had nothing to say... then she said "well if i were to join a religion it would be-" "yeah i know budhissm" i said, and i hit it right o the money; oh ha ha ha ha aeithists just crack me up sometimes; but honestly we laughed and i was nice, ended on a good note

things are going great, loving the ward, HUGE gay parade came by infront of our apartment, i kind of got carried away and ran into the crowed taking a video, i stood out... they all started sitting down on the streets, until i was left the only person standing surounded by hundreds of flamers and shemales, playing my video camera in my white shirt and tie, ha ha ha scatter boys!!!!

anyways thanks for the cards

talk to you all soon

much love

Doing GREAT!

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ah yesh the ol united alumni games; always the best; joseph what a pimp daddy ha ha, thats pretty cool, and zachs graduation, wowzers; it doesnt seem like too long ago that i was at my graduation at the marriott center, joobies. and now he is waiting his mission call; crazy stuff, i got an email from bracken mudrow last week, that was cool.

      

we have a baptism coming up this saturday so we are pretty excited about that, and then one planned for the 15th, now we just need to fix some more, we want to have at least two more dates this week; there is so much potential here and we want to keep having a healthy number of dates and progressing amis.

       
so things are going really good so far, we have zone conference coming up next week in paris with elder ballard so that is something that we are looking forward to as well.

 

yeah strasbourg is prrrrretty pretty, you should see where are apartment is, pretty legit, we bumped into a member from the states on our way home to the apartment the other night, he for sure reminded us how lucky we were to be serving in a place like that. its true ha ha, we see members from america from time to time; its funny because i can spot them from a mile away.

 

i love to just go out and talk with peeps, i am trying to get my younger zone leader comp in the same state of mind ha, once you make that click in your head and you see it as something friggin legit and fun; you see success, hes a good guy

 

we had 4 investigators at church; and the ward was kind of freaking out; ha ha it had been a while since that had happened, oohh the joy of coming into a ville after some missionaries that slacked off, that is one of the postives of having to start the work all over again.

 

anyways i think that is all; i got zachs gradutaion announcement, twas very cool; thanks

 

talk to you all soon

 

much love