Trying to Fit it All In....

bonjour tout le monde

had a pretty good week this week, however it just clicked in my head that my last weekend in france is a stake conference, and thats the weekend that we had planned on getting our investigator damba baptized and inviting the others for the same date september, but classic other church meeting get in the way of when we want to have baptisms joobies, so i have to figure something out, maybe just baptize him on saturday before the saturday session, we will see.

             we taught audrey again a couple time this past week, it went super well, she knows its true but is having a hard time commiting for the baptism.  before our last rendez vous, i told my comp, she is going to cry this rendez vous... and she did. haha she came to church which was great, so that is going good

             constant, another ami came to church as well, he is super cool and really like the church meeting, we knocked on his door a few weeks ago, he said it was like God knocked on his door in one of our later rendez vous; good stuff good stuff

              on friday we went over to visit a couple we have been teaching, sandra and patrick, i had to say what needed to be said, chastity, if you want to get baptized you either have to get married or move out, they took it ok i guess, they understood, but they are not really doing anything to make the necessary changes..

             anyways that is about it, i really really hope this whole stake conference thing doesnt ruin too much stuff the last week of the transfer, we will see.  the days are going by too fast, thats messed up, i try not to think about it too much, i always thought i would just be out here in france as a missionary for the rest of my life, nope. mais c'est pas grave

thanks for everything, much love

what do you guys want from france? 

just thought i would ask. Mariah??? ha ha

A GREAT week...

hello hello

this week was a pretty good week, went by really fast much to my dismay but it was pretty legit. emillion is doing great, she came to church, long train and bus ride for her, but she did it, it was really good, shes doing fine, we saw her twice and come to find out her son in law is one of the student of the member who came to teach with us, so the member frere ya called him out and kind of told him what was up, the church is good, so stop being a noob and he invited him to church, so its all good ha

               we had a great sunday as well, 4 investigators at church, the sister missionaries kept on asking me what are secret was ;) ha ha i just told them well about 10 percent of the people who say they are coming actually end of coming so you can do the math, go talk with some peeps! we have a baptismal date with one of them, damba, he is a really cool guy; super super humble, just need to stop smoking, hopefully we will be seeing him tomorrow.  Audrey came to church which was a bit of a surprise, a couple days ago i was standing in mcdonalds ready to get my grub on with my big mac, i noticed this chick that was staring rather obviously at my pack, so i'm like ça va? long story short we start talking, she is african, but born and raised in france, real parisienne, she looked a go go dancer in one of snoop doggs music videos, anyways she was super happy to meat an american and told me she wanted to come to church, and she did, ha ha during my lesson during second hour; i got called by frere ya to give the lesson, there was a good 15 people in the classroom; the subject, people of the covenant, so i talked about covenants for a while and quickly turned that into a lesson about baptism! haha because thats whats up.  i got a bit of nudging from the boys, saying well done on bringing a hoochie momma to church aha, we passed her over to the sisters..

               all else is going well, i got to see one of my baptisms from last year in cergy, chantal, met up with us in versailles, it was good to be able to talk with her, and catch up, wow one year already, we were both pretty shocked at that

              

anyways thanks for everything, talk to you all soon

much love

A TOUGH Day...

hello hello

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...

hello family

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...

hello hello

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...

hello family

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)...

hello hello

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