Week #6 Transfer #2

Bonjour!
I can now announce I am no longer a bleu!!  After 2 transfers your a full grown missionary, and I'm now in transfer 3!  It looks like now that I'm done as a bleu I have finished my service at Tarbes.

Me and Frere Pho from Tarbes. I'll miss him so much! I saw him every Saturday and it was the best!

I received my first real transfer call and am now in Albi with my 2 new companions!  Elder Omohundro and Elder Robards, from Kentucky and Georgia respectively, and our ville Albi is in my same zone as at Tarbes, Toulouse, just the other district!  So I'm right at home, just another ville and another district.  Super cool, both are awesome and super funny and I already know them!  I'm excited to really get to know them and their both really fun.  Below our first picture.  Robards is the tall one and Omohundro is the other.  Omohundro was actually Elder Ambursley's companion in Tarbes right before me!

Elder Omohundro and Elder Robards and ME!

We had a good week in Tarbes. Not a ton of lessons but we did have an activity with 3 less active members where they came to the church and watched the last session of general conference with us that we had missed on Sunday! Super fun and uplifting for us all, great talks and even though it was in French I understood a lot.  I liked the "meditiser" talk, which is the French version of the word the speaker made up: ponderize.  I'm looking forward to memorizing and pondering on some scriptures from now on.

IN A CAR!!!!  No more walking!  (Now all the cheese will catch up with me and I'll get fat!)

So in Tarbes I got to be a counselor for 1 day!  Both families of the counselors to the branch president moved out so they called the missionaries in Tarbes as the counsellors to the branch president this last Sunday.  I moved out the day after haha, but I think it'll be cool for the elders to serve in this capacity, and even more Elder Withers became district leader of that district!   So he'll be having quite some responsibility, haha but he's excited.

Anyways, Albi is really beautiful and I'm excited to be here.  It's so funny because I'm companions with elder Omohundro who I replaced in Tarbes, and I moved from the one ville with probably the most walking in our mission to one of the very few where we actually have a car!

Gonna miss seeing these Tarbes mountains from the train!

 I'm gonna probably start finally gaining weight now. It's cool to still be in the same zone and to see everyone still, minus about half of our zone who all returned with honor, they'll be missed, such awesome guys and I'm happy to have gotten to know them and serve with them. I'm psyched to be here and to be  companions with these two awesome servants of God and even more excited for what the Lord has in store for me and us together here in my first new town.

Passez une Bonne semaine et je vous aimes tous!

Sincerement,
Elder Laney