Hey everyone, how’s it going? Pretty good here. We're at the church writing emails because the place we normally go is really dumb and the guy isn’t ever there. So I just got done taking a little nap while Elder Calder did his. Ahh- I'm still in Vitrolles! Yeah, I'm pretty excited. I really didn’t want to go even though I figured I would. Everyone seems pretty shocked that I stayed here another transfer. That makes 5 which puts me here until the first week of November. This week has been good but kind of hard, too. We’ve been all over. I spent four nights without being here in Vitrolles. We were running around doing all the exchanges that we should have done earlier. So we’ve been in Aix, Avignon and then Marseille a little. It was lots of fun but pretty exhausting. This was the first transfer that I was really excited to have. Before we didn’t really see a lot of the missionaries but since Elder Calder was in the office before so he knows everyone and just being with a lot of other elders last week was good. We talked about transfers a lot. Just where everyone would go, who would become the new leaders and all that. We actually made predictions one night in Avignon. Not a whole lot changed though. Only one elder from the district left. Our exchanges were really cool. I actually worked in Aix with Elder Scott from the mtc so that was a lot of fun. We had a really good day. It kind of started rough, someone wasn’t there for a rendez vous so we were just kind of walking around centre ville and I see this girl who was just really excited to see us. So I walked over and kind of contacted her I guess. Then she’s like " I don’t speak French" ha so that was cool. But anyways she had just moved there from South Africa to be a nanny I guess. But she’s a member just a little less active so we talked to her for a long time- she bought us ice cream which was really good- then showed her where the church was. It was a sweet little miracle. Then later on in the day we had a member lesson planned and when we got there it was the family of Boris, the kid from the hike, so that was really cool to see him again. We got to laugh about how we "almost died". Later on in the day we had a rv with this lady who is a "voyant" or mind reader I guess. Not with a crystal ball but I think she reads palms so I figured it would be a little interesting but it wasn’t too bad. We taught a really good first lesson and invited her to come to church. Both Avignon and Aix are a lot bigger than Vitrolles so it was cool just to be around a lot of people. It was different but I think I wouldn’t mind a big city -I would really like to go to Marseille- it's my favorite. One morning in Avignon we all went to play rugby by the Pope's Palace which is in the middle of the town. I figured it would be pretty crowded but since we were there early we were the only ones.
It's absolutely the coolest castle I've ever seen. It's so big, I loved it and we just threw the ball around for about 30 minutes on the big slab right in front of it. I took a lot of good photos. I'll send y'all. OK, so we’ve been talking with Sonia a lot and we’ve planned to have the baptism October 18 which is really the biggest reason I'm glad to be staying. We gave her a blessing Sunday with the bishop to stop smoking but other than that she is ready. We hadn’t been seeing them that often but then she told us that she liked it when we used to have lots of rendez vous so we made a schedule where were going to see them times a week -Mondays, Thursdays and Saturday so that’s going to be really good. Last night I showed them all my pictures and we just talked about all of them for a while- it was fun.
One thing I started doing with Elder Calder is decorating our planners. We cut things out of all the publicity we get then glue them on, then put a nice layer of tape over. I really liked the one from last transfer- it just had Vitrolles written a lot but yesterday I made the new one it has a big 300 which is our goal for baptisms for the year. Then a big thing I cut out that says information immédiate demandez un rendez-vous then Vitrolles at the bottom. It is si cool. Elodie was at church Sunday so it was really cool to see her again. They said they would invite us over to eat some day so I hope they do. We went shopping today and spent 100 euros which is like 150 dollars. It was so much stuff- it should last at least 3 weeks. All the Muslim people are doing their Ramadan or whatever, their fast for the month of September where they eat really early then not all day until 9 I think. But anyways everyone keeps talking about this party they have every year at the end of it. Apparently they just go nuts for a whole day. I hope its not too bad considering were practically living in Tunisia and they are everywhere. Well, that’s about it everything is good. I'm really excited to be staying here for another 6 weeks. Love y'all, Taylor
Ok, I really don’t want to get you worried but people keep talking about this strike for the mail people that starts today and could last quite a long time. In the past they have been short but they said this could be a few months so maybe stuff will get lost or stolen or whatever. But I hope what you sent gets here but don’t send anything else until I know what’s up. I got your memory card and I'll send mine as soon as the strike is over.
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