A fun beginning. (Week #1 Transfer #9)

Hey everyone! This week was interesting and also very different than my normal one.  So first off, I am now training my blue!!!  His name is Elder Nelson, and he's from Canada!  Southern Alberta, so my 3rd Canadian companion!  I was trained by a Canadian, I finished a Canadian, and am now training a Canadian so now I guess I just need to be finished by a Canadian to complete the circle of my mission life.  Haha fun stuff.  He's so cool and so fired up, he's really excited for the mission and I'm excited to train him and work with him! 

Elder Laney and Elder Nelson - on the Mont!!

So consequently I spent the week in Lyon, headed up Monday (10 hours of trains) and the next day we did some contacting in the streets for Lyon and had a really cool discussion on training where we all shared ideas and were given some advice that President Brown had prepared for us. Finished the day with some really good pizza, all the trainers together.

Pizza and training.  Training and pizza.

 It was really fun, Elder Carlson is training too!  And a lot of other elders I know, it was so fun to see them all there. Spent the next morning in anticipation for our blues, then we finally entered the office room and sat down as president brown called them up one by one as they each opened their call letter to their first area and who their trainer was. Haha I kept flipping out since the elders were trying to pronounce the French town names, and they kept saying "mont..." then hesitate with the pronunciation.  And then they'd finish saying "Montpellier" or "Montaubon", haha, so I kept thinking they would say Mont de Marsan.  Anyway, I got my blue and it was so fun, we've had a good week since, already introduced him to a French butter and ham sandwich, French Burger King (amazing), kebabs and Roquefort. Haha he doesn't like Roquefort.  

I think it's great, but at first I hated it too I guess. He's so cool though, so fired up with bleu fire and doing awesome, he had no shame in contacting and just goes for it even if it's his first week in France speaking to French people it's so awesome. I wish I could have been as courageous at the beginning! He'll do so great :) 

We also got to got to Stake Conference, and I got to hear some awesome messages, my favorite were from President Brown, Elder Nelson said so too since he said he could understand him (he's had quite the introduction to the French language, at least 8 hours now of meetings in only French poor guy, haha, man I had it a lot easier when I started without a Stake Conference and a branch council my first week in France!) I really liked a message from President Brown on Saturday, he was explaining this story of the experiences he had with helping someone who was lost and wanted to find more but was just living a kind of crazy life, anyways he was making the whole crowd laugh and it made me happy to see e joy we can find in life having fun experiences with others and helping them.  It's always touched me the cool and funny experiences I have with people here.

Love you all and miss you and wish you the best of weeks! Go have some fun and crazy experiences with others :)

All the trainers!!

Love,
Elder Laney