65th email from France (the Bureau)

Hey Everyone, Thanks for all your pictures! Seems like you having a good time. I forgot that Ivy was coming back. I guess I knew, I just forgot it was this week. We had an ok week, I was convinced it would be the best week ever then slowly it kind of fell apart but we did a lot of cool things. It just ended up with lots of rendez-vous that didn’t work out. Everything in the bureau is going fine. Time flies by here. This week I had the car reports to send in so that took a lot of time also I went to president’s house again to do the car inspections. That went well; it was just really hot going from car to car in the heat. Also, we have been trying to get ready for the zone conferences this week so we have been all over buying things for the apartments that Elder Wright takes care of. We ended up spending 300 Euros just on fans. I don’t know if there were actually that many that broke since last summer or all the missionaries just wanted more- it has been hot though. During these summer months in France is when all the old people die because nobody has air conditioning like in the states. We also took our trip to Brive- it was cool to be on the Bordeaux side that we don’t see very often. Also we've been to all kinds of car dealerships and phone stores just running errands- it’s kind of good to get out of the bureau but annoying at the same time. We had the elders come that had visa problems. I think it was Tuesday that three of them came then left for their new villes! I’m really happy because the new phone contract is set finally, they signed Tuesday. We negotiated it then passed it to toiry, the church offices in France to do all the paperwork but it ended up being really, really good. We changed it from just our mission to all the church phones in France and should save around fifty thousand Euros in the next two years! We have been talking to a few different companies and one SFR offered us 8 months free service which kind of shows how much they will do when you have companies working against each other. Hopefully we will get the new phones soon because I have a huge list of people that need them. The 14 juillet or the 4th of July for France is coming up soon. The French will probably take all week off for that. Most everyone left for vacation for a few months like they all do every year. These weasels pretty much took vacation days for the death of Michael Jackson- not really- but its amazing how affected they seemed to be by it. ha We were in a rendez-vous last week and our ami told us that he died and we didn’t really have anything to say, just kind of a loss of words because we didn’t really care that much. Then she got all sad and apologetic for telling us the bad news, thinking that we were hurt deep down. It was kind of funny. We need to go pick up someone at the gar bring him to the carte de sejour place then later on back to the gar(train station). The tour de France has started! Everyone is pretty excited for that. I guess it starts in Monaco then makes its way up through France. Elder P. was going to go get to go with members in Perpignan then was super mad when he found out zone conference was the same day. Everything is good. I’m hoping to go shopping a little today. I still really need a few things and it’s all so cheap if I don’t do it now it’s kind of a waste. The only problem is that I hate to drag Elder W. around because he doesn’t want to go at all. Hopefully I can work something out with Elder M. So I’ve just been rambling- you can take most of this! Love y’all, Taylor