September 17, 2013

Hey all,

So new ville, new comp. This transfer I will be serving in Montpellier with Elder Pielstick. From what I've seen so far I think montpellier is going to be awesome. Last night we went to a family home evening at a members house with a bunch of amis and less actives. It went really well and I am excited to meet all of the members here. Montpellier is one of the bigger villes (still smaller than marseille and toulouse) so there are 4 equipes of missionaries here. Any way i know this will be a great transfer full of miracles.

Elder Crossman got transfered as well. We weren't really expecting to both leave but president Roney always does the unexpected with transfer calls. He is going to be serving in Perpignan. This is still in our zone so we will get to see each other at conferences. Any way, he is opening up an equipe there and so they have a new appartment. The keys to the appartment are in Lyon for the moment though because someone forgot to send them or take them or something. So for the next few days until they can get their keys they are staying in our apt. which already has 4 elders in it. Good times. I also found out this morning that it is better not to go last for taking a shower in an appartment with six elders if you want any hot water.

So last week in Angouleme we had an activity at the church. We had an american night where we played music, taught how to make chocolat chip cookies, and ate hamburgers. It went really well and we had a good turn out with a bunch of less actives and amis. For the beginning part we had a musical portion where me, elder Crossman, and two other members played guitar. Frere Temahouki, a really cool older Tahitian member played with us and it was great. He had this really old guitar that he's had since he was 19 (he's like 65 now) that was super beat up and had a big hole in the side of it. It was really funny and he won the crowd over. Because there were plenty of extra pre cooked hamburger patties left over at the end, we ended up eating hamburgers for the next couple of meals because they gave us all of the extras. I think i'm good not having a hamburger for a while.

Any way sorry for the late email. Yesterday was pretty busy so emails got pushed back to today. I love you all and hope you are all doing well. Happy birthday to all of those who had them recently. Until next week,

Elder Swenson