Well, another week in Rouen...
Tuesday consisted of a district meeting here in Rouen which went quite well. :) then elder sumrak (another elder in the district) and I headed off to Le Havre for exchanges there, while our companions stayed here. we got there and had english class to teach there, followed by a meeting that didnt happen. haha so we did a lil contacting and went back to their apt. (not appt... haha) I started learning a rubik's cube that nite, too. :) i was disappointed that i went to Le havre though, because we had an appt with Shi-Lin that afternoon, which i missed. lame.
The next morning, we got up and did our studies. a little after finishing, Elder Barton and Wakatsuki came to Le Havre, we had a district meal, then we headed back to rouen. We taught a man (the boyfriend of an inactive...) the first lesson and he seemed to be alright with all that we were saying and things. I had so much hope for him! then we showed him a plan de salut pamphlet at the end and said that we wanted to teach him Gods plan for us next time. he said we were welcome to, just as long as we knew he wouldnt agree w it. awww... lame. then we went and taught english class which went well. :)
thursday... we had an empty day for the most part. LOTS OF CONTACTING! yay. such a blast.
friday is swear the river was gonna overflow! haha it is usually a good 20 30 feet under the side wall of the river and it was 4 feet from the top in the morning! i was so disappointed when it hadnt gone over by the time we had to go out, and when we came back home later in the day, it was lower than before. lame. haha But we left to contact and teach a man who we thought was an old investigator. it turns out that he is inactive and has been for 30 years! but he is really nice and open with us. we have a return visit planned to help him refind his testimony! he seems so cool! im excited for him. Our DMB (branch miss leader), Tarolin, is out of town right now, so we had to go to branch priesthood counsil this week. I felt we got alot accomplished, as opposed to the week before. (the week before was the same people as this week, but plus primary, YW, and RS pres's... what are these 2 dif meetings called??)
sat we went out in the morning contacting and some guy got mad about something or another and took our names down. im not exactly sure what he plans on doing with our names... call the cops on us for being legal i guess! haha we didnt do anything wrong or close to being wrong. but anyways, that afternoon we played soccer with some members for our "samedi (/saturday) sports". Well, i tweaked my hamstring or something cuz i dont play soccer! haha. and cuz it was my first real athletics since the mtc, too. when i was walking back home, my left foot, rather than lifting front to back, was lifting right to left! and it hurt to try and flex my toes up on that foot. I called up the mission doctor and he told me some stretches to do and stuff, and im walking relatively normal again. haha. its still a bit tight though. It also made it so we had to stay in for the evening. :/ oh, and sat was also my 4 month mark... :)
Yesterday we had church. Shi-Lin is down in Paris right now for the chinese new year with some friends. so he wasnt there. But He went to church down in Paris! nice! (i am so disappointed in French!! they dont have a good word for nice in this context! lame. the closest is "Bravo!"- yes- it is spelled with the exclamation point in the dictionary... haha) and they have chinese elders there, too, so it was prob good for him. :) the only other interesting thing that happened was our phone stopped working and we were waiting for a member to call us. Well, that evening we got 5 messages from him looking for us! i felt so bad. sometimes technology can work against us. :/
Today we taught another less active in the morning (cutting into our prep day!... thats a devoted missionary there!!! jk...) and then went to the joan of arc museum in the afternoon. this is the city where she was murdered, btw. idk if i have said that before. but its a fact. :)
some other stuff: I told you a while ago i had an old insurance card. i lied. its actually the new card.
I enjoyed reading nathans version of the weekly letter. haha especially when he brought up the tuxes at the wedding! so funny.
It sounds like Kate and Chuck are doing well in arkansas... (haha... arkansas! :p jk) and your trip there was good.
Everyone here in France wants to talk about Obama! they are in love with him! hes on all the newsstands and stuff. i think he will do a good job though...
ok, well, just thought id throw in another story for you to look up. its the power of laughter in the sept 07 ensign. its a good story, and i think it goes well with the Families FHE theme. ok. sounds good. i will close for this week. the church is true. :)
peace.
Elder Jergensen