Bonjour à tous!
This week was good! It
flewwwww by. Holy cow. We did quite a lot of random things this week.
ZONE BOWLING
We started out this week
by going to Toulouse to go bowling with the rest of the Toulouse Zone. It was
so stinking fun. I think of all of the zones I have served in, this is probably
my favorite one. It is one of the smaller zones geographically so we can hang
out more than usual. We know how to have a good time :)
I can't believe how much
I love and hate bowling. I think it is because I pretend like I don't care but
actually I care a ton and I'm super competitive. The trick is just to be super
silly when you throw the ball down the lane because then when you are really
bad it is okay... and when you do well it is amazing.
The first game we all
bowl(ed) around the same score of about 100ish except Elder Sorensen, who
killed us all. He doesn't even put his fingers in the holes an he just hucks
the thing down there and kills the pins.
The second round we all
got better. I think I ended up getting around 140ish... but, I mean, we are
missionaries. We don't keep score and aren't competitive because as the white
handbook says "don't allow the game to become competitive, as competitive
games lead to injury." hahaha
It was a great way to
start out the week. I love being a missionary. Being around other missionaries
is the best thing ever.
BIENVENUE A PRÉSIDENT ET
SOEUR BROWN
Thursday we finally got
to meet our new mission president and his wife! They are so nice. I kind of
wished they were mean so then I had a reason not to like them because the
Roneys are so great but I found myself loving them too... haha. They have SO
much energy. I was really surprised. They are so full of excitement and
readiness to go out and baptize people.
I think they will bring a
lot of good changes to the mission. I'm not going to lie and say it isn't weird
the Roneys aren't here anymore but I think the Browns are exactly what we need
right now to push the work forward. Soeur Brown is hilarious. She loves to
laugh and joke. President Brown is more reserved and serious, so they balance
each other out well.
In my interview with
President he asked me how much time I had left on my mission and I told him. He
paused for a second and then said, "Have you ever ran the 800m?" And
I say "Yeah..." And then he asked me how you are supposed to run the
800. I told him, the first lap you go out as hard as you can to get a good lead
and then the second lap you swing you arms and pray until you make it across
the finish.
He paused, and then said,
"That's what you've got to do right now." I really appreciated my
interview with him. I am so happy to be a missionary and to be serving. When I
had older companions earlier in my mission they would talk about how tired they
were all the time and I would judge them super hard for not working hard or for
"being lazy" and now I feel really bad because I understand what they
were talking about. You just get tired. It is a physical and mental
fatigue!
But! I'm swinging my arms
and I'm praying! haha. The final stretch is the most important part of the
race.
NOS AMIS
We are still searching
for amis. Last night I sent a mass text to all of our potential amis in the
phone asking them if they were interested in an English class and a ton of
people responded! We shall see if anything turns out. Pray that we find some
elect people :)
Brigitte is moving
forward. She is making some significant steps towards quitting smoking. Her and
Eda have become friends and it is really funny. They are so different and they
would have never had met if it weren't for the church. It is interesting to see
how people come in contact with each other because of the gospel.
This week we invited
Brigitte to pick a date to stop smoking. We are going to follow up tomorrow. It
is difficult because everyone in her house smokes :/ but I know she can do it.
We are probably going to have a branch fast for her.
Eda fed us this week, as
usual. She LOVES to feed us and she makes food for like 30 people and then
expects us to eat all of it. She is doing well. She is working on going to the
temple in the near future. She wants have the ordinances done for her husband
so bad. It is in the near future.
D'AUTRES CHOSES
Well! I have a new
"assignment" because as a missionary, you don't hold callings. I'm
now the ward clerk because they all think I know how to work MLS (church record
keeping system) really well when in actuality I guess a lot of the time until I
figure it out.
Transfer calls are this
Friday and now since I'm not the 2nd counselor anymore I have felt like I'm
going to leave to go die somewhere else (To
die is when your mission is over). There are 24ish missionaries who are
dying this transfer and only 12 coming in so there are going to be a lot of
people moving around.
I'm pretty nervous for
this transfer call because this is going to decide where I'm going to die in
the mission (logically speaking). If I stay here, I will more than likely do my
last two transfers here but if I leave then I will die wherever they send me.
Goodness... I just want to know right now!
Anywayyyyyy
Je vous aime! Merci pour
votre soutien!
Elder Cameron Johnson
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