May 13, 2014

Salut tout le monde,

 

It was great talking with you on skype! As you can tell from this late email our attempt to brake into our under-construction church yesterday to do our emails failed. We got library cards though so now we can do them here. However the library like a lot of things here is closed on monday because I am serving in a country filled with lazy people. So next week we might be doing emails on tuesday as well. Anyway so this past week we got in a bit of an accident(not our fault) so we are now without a car for about 2 weeks. The car honestly isn't super beat up and is still perfectly drivable but the office doesn't want us driving it till we can fix it just to be safe. This is bad news because litterally the work here just got a million times harder. We do have bikes... but those are broken. The bus system here is horrible and as i have explained in the past Vitrolles itself is a tiny ghetto ville with little to no people to contact. We are trying to do our best though and hopefully we will be able to figure out how to work the most effectively with what we have. Gotta love them trials!

 

Work with our amis has been moving along. Work with the family akobé is moving pretty slow. They love us and we still see them weekly but unfourtunately they also love the catholic church and aren't super motivated to change. It'll come though. Please keep them in your prayers for us. Other than that we have a few new amis in the ville Martigues. Unfourtunately getting out there now takes and hour and costs 8 euros... Hopefully we will be able to work things out to be able to see all of them and get them progressing. We have schelduled to go and do service at the Lavie familys this week and hopefully we'll be able to talk with the son about fixing a baptismal date.

 

This past week we had a few activities with the ward including a big picnick where we got to teach french people how to play baseball. It was fun and we had quite a few less actives and amis who came. It was a great opportunity to grow closer with all of the awesome ward members. I also got to do an exchange in Marseille this past week and it was a blast being able to work out there again. The mission has flown by and it feels like i was just serving in marseille. It's crazy to think that I am now in my 7th ville. I love the mission and even though it is filled with all sorts of trials and difficulties it is definately worth it. I love you all,

 

Elder Swenson