July 1, 2013

Hey there everybody,

So another good week here in france. I'm getting used to being in a bigger ville with a bunch of missionaries again. Toulouse isn't as big as marseille but there are more missionaries and members here. There are 2 wards here and 7 equipes of missionaries here plus a senior couple. Because there are 2 wards and so many missionaries the sector is divided by the river that cuts toulouse in half. I'm not used to being kept out of half of the ville. Actually on second thought Marseille had so many "red zones" that i kind of am used to it ;)

So i got to meet a few new missionaries this past week. Elder Tulleys bleu is Elder Hunt. Hes going to be a good missionary and it is cool sharing an appartment with their equipe. Also there is now a sister swenson in our mission. Elder wilson was excited about that when he saw her name tag for the first time. On sunday all of the new missionaries in the ward bore their testimonies. 6 of the 8 of us in our ward are new to the are so there were plenty of missionariy testimonies. We have 2 blues in the ward (elder Hunt and soeur Bailey) seeing them trying to understand and speak french reminds me of how hard that was at first and helps me see how far ive come in that regard. I'm glad that i can understand people now.

We have a cool ami here who we engaged to baptism for the end of the july last week. She is from tahiti and she grew up in a part member family but was never baptised but we are working on that now :) Any way she is super cool and super upbeat and were lucky to be working with her.

Well i hope all is going well back in the states. I love you all,

Elder Swenson