Everything here is going smoothly

Hey everyone. Everything here is going smoothly. Just a little lately I've noticed how much french I can speak and how much I have improved. Within the last couple days we have met about 3 people that we probably will start seeing and start teaching. The weather is like it's usually been. one day it rains, the other it's perfectly nice, and so on. I need to male this short but anyways, I hope everything is going well back home and I hope everyone had a good Memorial day. P.S. the french people have way too many holidays and are really lazy. Just ask Terina or Marshall. I have seen about 4 strikes already since I've been here. It's hilarious and it's for the weirdest reasons. Anyways, have a great week.
-Elder Jex

short sleeved shirts

Well, it's gotten to the point of short sleeved shirts everyday. That's good because I like it when it's hot. But not too hot. Anyways, things are chugging along here in Saint Nazaire. The language is still coming but right now is my French week. A French week is when the whole mission speaks French for one whole week full time (in the apt) (with your comp)(all the time). It's pretty hard for me since I still don't know that language but I think I can get used to it. Just last week, my Italien comp got a dear john. I started laughing because it always happens. That's one of the main reasons that I don't have a girlfriend right now. Also, he has received to other letters from his girlfriend, ex I should say and he doesn't want to open them up. But oh well. Within the last week, we have taught a couple people in the last week. One of them, we asked to be baptized. He hasn't really made up his mind but I think he'll come around. The other is a lady that speaks 4 different languages and she wanted to speak english so basically I taught the lesson. It actually was pretty easy. But anyways, Things are going well here.
-Elder Jex

Saint Nazaire

So this last week has gone by fairly slow but fast enough. I think when you move to another city, things start out slow but once you start getting used to it, it starts to become a lot faster and you don't know where the time went. That is sort of what it starting to feel like. Everyday We have a couple appointments set up and everything just flies by. It was great to talk to everyone in the family. And for some reason, I'm not that home sick. I think that is a good thing. the missionaries say that longer into your mission, you aren't worried about home as mush anymore. But yesterday, I went to Angers for Zone conference. It's about an hour and a half away from Saint Nazaire. Everything went well. This was the last zone conference for my President (Pres. Pond) because next transfer we get a new President. Hopefully he is like Pres Pond because he moves the missionaries around a lot. I like moving around from city to city. For me, 3 transfers (4 1/2 months) in one city is enough, then I want to go to another. But anyways, we had 2 other companionships stay with us this last night because they missed their train for Nantes. Apparently there was some kind of bomb scare on the train so everything got shut down or something. But it was fun though. 6 elders in a 2 man apartment. Crazy!! Everything is going well, I am a little sick but it's going away already. Here are 2 pics. The first one is me in front of the big park with a lake and the other is a castle (with a moat) right next to the beach but you can't see it.
-Elder Jex

Saint Nazaire

So, first week in Saint Nazaire. It's pretty hot down here, just the other day I was doing some service and I got a sunburn on my face. The city is ok, I think Le Havre is better in my opinion. We have a small branch here around the size that Le Havre has. The members are great, I have already had a lesson with an investigator with a member. The beach is better than Le Havre but that's only because there aren't any huge rock anywhere. Also, a little bit about my companion, he is 24 years old. He is from Italy, from a little town about 2 hours from Rome. He's going bald haha. And he is shorter than me, well, all companions have been shorter than me so far. But anyways, the work here is usually porting (door-to-door). Contacting sometimes works, but not really here, there isn't enough people. We did have a car to use but now that a new older couple is coming into the mission, we had to give it up for them. Now we just take the bus everywhere. That's about it for this week, we haven't had to many stories with any investigators, but next week I'm sure of it.

I am now in St Nazaire!!

Well, everyone! I am now in St Nazaire!! It's south west of Le Havre. It took me about 6 hours to get here from Le Havre. I had to go through Paris and try to find where I was going because I was by myself half of the time. It's really hard but it was fun. As for St Nazaire, I don't like as much as Le Havre. It's hard to leave cities after you have served there for a couple months. And now I have a Italian Companion that cannot speak english that well so I have to speak french to understand each other sometimes. My new address is:

Elder Garrett Paul Jex
Les Missionaires
4, rue Mendès-France
44600 St Nazaire

So send everything here and if you're not sure, send it to the Mission office.
So another city right next to the beach. It is a much nicer beach but I still liked the beach in Le Havre even though it is rocky everywhere. So I don't have much time, so til next week.