2/25

Hey! So whats up? This week a lot of good things happened. We taught a BUNCH of lessons, but none of them really wanted to talk after that. We are having kinda a hard time keeping amies. Right now we really want to find good amis. We got a new DMP. He is so cool. He is the old DMP's little bro and the stake president's son. He is such a BOSS. He gets it done. He passed around a sheet for everyone in the ward to write down when they are available to come out and teach or go finding with us, and a lot of people signed up. I think that a wildfire of missionary work is starting here in Angers.

So my new comp is from Ottawa, but he doesn't like the Sens. He likes the NJ Devils... He is 2 transfers older than me in the mission, and he speaks french already (with the accent).

On Monday night right after we taught a lesson with 3 ladies, they were like ok... into the kitchen. They made us fufu and couscous, with pilli pilli and manyuk stew.. and the best part of the stew..... caterpillars!! Like legit grubs. They were 3 inches long and big and black. they kinda tasted like smoked salmon, but the crunchy and gooshy and squirty part killed me. So I definitely didn't get off the hook for eating weird things on my mission. After eating that "feast" we had to chase down the last bus or we woulda had to walk home 45 minutes in the rain... so we SPRINTED! and you can guess what happened... caterpillar puke.

I'm really excited to be a part of the great missionary effort that's going on in the world. I know that God continues to answer my prayers. I am so blessed to be in Angers right now.

I don't need a birthday present... Today I bought a suit for clearance... the big sales are over here and they have really cheap stuff left over.. so I bought my birthday present today.

ok so here is my paragraph so the ward:

Bonjour Chico 1st ward! Everything is going GREAT in France! It is a really exciting time to be a missionary, and I am blessed to be in the France Paris Mission. Although this mission has been the hardest thing I've ever done, it's also the best thing I've ever done. I really encourage everyone who can go on a mission to go, or if they cant yet, prepare to go. A word of advice to all future missionaries in the ward, the Missionary Training Center is not really where you are trained to be a missionary, it's in church and in your everyday life when you receive the best training. I was really blessed to grow up in this ward, this was the real MTC.

Seeing people grow in the gospel and begin to understand things with their minds is AWESOME, but when people learn the principles in their heart, that is when I feel the success and that I am really helping them. In the year 2012, in the France Paris Mission, there was the most baptisms in history for this mission. Thank you for all of your support and prayers. You are Chico 1st for a reason!

I hope Bradley keeps playing basketball.

The president of SVU wrote me about the block program for missionaries... would that even work for me?