Sounds like stake conference was great. Who spoke? Jay Burnette
sent me the stake news letter, I was super excited to see it. Next time
you see him tell him thanks for me!
Well I've managed to get my feet back under myself and into
the work. Valence is pretty cool. It's a lot newer, it kind of looks
like a smaller version of Lyon. The streets are a lot bigger and the
buildings a lot taller. There are lots of stores and more American
restaurants in town. Another thing different is that there are tons of
buses that run through town. So I purchased by first ever bus pass haha.
Its nice having it because it cuts down a ton on time walking around
the area. Its weird getting used to contacting people on the bus though!
its a lot different. The weirdest thing I think is just having a new
companion. I went from E. Wilcox my teddy bear American father, to my
english step father. haha its weird adjusting to new people and living
with different people.
This week we started teaching lots of new people.
Hopefully we will be able to end up baptizing some of them. We are
teaching 4 rugbymen haha. We managed to work our way into their circle
and are teaching bunches of them. Theyre all really nice and hopefully
some of them will start progressing towards baptism. The ward here is
pretty great already. Its cool because they have youth. Theres about 5
or so young men preparing to go on missions in the next couple years, so
we have been having them come out and help us teach. Its been fun.
We ate over at this partial member family (one of
the rugby players) and the mother served us KFC. Haha it was hilarious I
was so shocked to eat it. I felt like I was back home eating it in the
kitchen with dad sitting to the left of me and mom on the couch.
Oh I forgot to email and mention a funny story that
happened about 2 weeks ago. When I was in Brive we were teaching a
member and he started going through a pile of pictures to show me a
picture of someone in the Branch of Bergerac. While he was flipping
through I saw a picture of one of Bishop Smarts daughters! I freaked out
and had him search back for the picture. haha turns out her husband
served in Brive. Who would of thought I would see that Smarts out here
in France.
Well we did something wrong with the oven and it
started fuming toxic gas (or so we assume) and completely smoked out our
apartment. We set up all the fans and opened all the windows, hopefully
we can get it all out by the time we return tonight! Thats all for this
week hopefully I'll have some awesome stories to recount newt week.
Thanks for all the prayers, I definitely need them! I love you all,
youre all so awesome. If I could, I would like to just invite you all to
go tell someone you love, that you love them. We dont say I love you
enough! As Shakespeare said, 'they do not love, that do not show their
love'. Have a great week everyone! Until next time,
stay classy.
Forever Love
Elder Gruber
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