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My Birthday!!

Hey everyone, How is everything going?  It's been pretty nice here in Paris.  Things are going well for me.  For my birthday, I actually had interviews with president Staheli, which was great.  President Staheli is a great person.  Anyways, since I am a zone leader now, I went on exchages with the Assistants to the President right after interviews so my day went very well.  I went to Versailles and spent the night over there.  We went running in the morning to a hill that looked out over paris and some other places.  We took so really cool pictures of La defense (the business district of paris).  This last week has been hot though.  If you've ever had to walk around in a shirt and tie in 100 degree heat, you know what I mean.  Things are cooling down though.  Hopefull it'll continue like that.  Things are going well nonetheless.  My apartment for my birthday made me a chocolate cake and we "made" sushi, which was actually really good.  We'll probably do it again in the future.  We live in a really antique apartmant here.  Wood floors, we even have two fireplaces, which is weird for a missionary to have.  Anyways, I hope all of you havea great week and I will be seeing you soon.
-Garrett

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RE: I'm being transferred!!!

Hey, it's been about a week in Paris, well a little less.  But anyways, things have been going well.  I'm now a zone leader so it's kind of hectic with all the things we have to do with the mission.  Anyways, I'm doing fine.  My new companion's name is Elder Kunz.  He's actually from Rigby Idaho.  It's about 20 min from Rexburg.  He's cool.  We do have a ward here.  It's pretty big but so many people come in and out for business or members on vacation and everything.  There was a family from New York that came to church.  I didn't have to translate for them but it was ok.  The ward building is another side of the street type place.  It's not really a building by itself.  Anyways, They are very missionary minded though, which is great to have in a ward.  I do miss Reims a little bit because of the people that I knew there and the members there.  Anyways, today was the Paris P day for the transfer.  We played football in front of the Eiffel Tower and Les Invalides again.  It was awesome playing though.  I met with the missionary I trained (Elder Messick).  We ate at Subway and talked with him and his companion.  It has been a tiring day so far.  I guess Paris P days will be different for me in the future because now I live in Paris, and I will probably finish my mission in Paris so that will be nice.  Well, that's about the update that I have for you all now.  I hope you all have a great week. 
-Love
-Elder Jex

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Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 10:23:22 -0700
From: carolquilt54@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: I'm being transferred!!!
To: jinksy_jex21@hotmail.com

Garrett
Well How did the transfer go?  Are you all settled in?  Who is you new companion? I'm guessing but you probably are in a ward right?  Was the family that was English specking from the states?  Sounds like you had a nice train ride and saw the country side to get to Troyes.  Dawnette and Terina and kids have been here for a week.  Dawnette came onbut we got there the kids had fun swimming and climbing in the tree house.  then we came back on Sunday and Terina met uas at the reunion and drove back here too.  On Tuesday we all went to the LeBrea tar pits museum because it was free Tuesday.  It was busy but they had fun, then we went over to Dad's work and ofter ate at the Panera Bread resturant.  We had a good day mostly, Andrew had a problem but we got threw it.  On Wednesday I took the kids to the Thrift store and out to McDonalds for dinner.  Terina took her kids to the beach on Thursday and Dawnette stayed home and then we went to a Dodger game Mormon night.  Dad was in charge of tickets.  We had a good game, the dodgers were down 2 in the ninth inning and Andrea got a walk off  home run which we had 2 runners on base to win the game .It was really exciting.  Dawnette left on Friday but before she left we had fun beading necklaces and bracelets.  After Terina went to Shelly's for the night it was pretty quiet around here.  Today Jaren Murph is speaking in Sacrament and Michael Slagel is also, he is going to Brazil I think.  It should be a great Sacrement meeting.  We hope all is well with you.  We have received the letter from the mission office and are trying to make plans we will tell you about them as soon as we know them.  do you have any thought of how long you would want to stay in France after we pick you up?  If so tell me so that we can plan, and maybe what, but I don't want you to make plans for places with members of anything like that okay?  Just places you want to go to.  Don't get distracted for doing the Lords work with these plans please.  WE love you.
Mom

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From: Garrett Jex <jinksy_jex21@hotmail.com>
To: carol jex <carolquilt54@yahoo.com>; Paul Jex <paul.jex@tetratech.com>
Sent: Monday, August 3, 2009 7:29:31 AM
Subject: I'm being transferred!!!

Hey mom and dad, I didn't have time to send you an email last saturday because I was in Troyes, which is another city for my companion.  He taught an investigator there and he wanted my comp to baptize him, so we went back.  Anyways, things are going well.  I am being transferred though.  I'm going to Paris again, but this time in Paris itself, not in the suburbs.  I will probably stay there for the rest of my mission but you never know.  I believe the eiffel tower is in my proselyting area.  It's kinda funny to think of that.  I'll be contacting a lot of foreigners soon.  Well, I really excited to go there.  I'll be riding nothing but metros and buses above ground.  No more train rides.  Last week had a bunch of activities.  On Thursday, we had our zone activity, which was baseball but with a tennis ball.  I didn't want to play my hardest because I thought I might hurt somebody like that one time with one of Camille's friends.  After the acitivity, we didn't make our train back to Reims so we had to spend the night in Paris with the Chinese Elders.  It wasn't to fun because we didn't have anything to change into and we didn't really have any good beds to sleep on.  Anyways, we got back to Reims the next morning fine.  Then on Saturday, we left early in the morning for Troyes, which took us about 4 hours to get to then walked around there for a while and took some pictures.  Then we had the baptism for this man, then we really had to run back to the train station to make our train back Reims.  On Sunday, we had an English family to our ward and so for most of the service, I was translating for half of the family.  It gets pretty tiring after 2 hours of translating in your head.  Anyways, I'm excited and everything is going well.  OUr main investigator is on vacation in London so we have to wait for her to get back in another week.  I won't be here though.  Well, I hope the weather has cooled down in Cali and everyone is doing well.  The weather is nice here, just a little warm with showers often.  I hope you have a great week and here is my new address:
Elder Jex/Les Missionaires
1 bis, rue Stendahl
75020, Paris
France
 
Love,
Elder Jex
 
 

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Paris here I come...

Hey everyone,
Things are going well.  I am being transferred though.  I'm going to Paris again, but this time in Paris itself, not in the suburbs.  I will probably stay there for the rest of my mission but you never know.  I believe the eiffel tower is in my proselyting area.  It's kinda funny to think of that.  I'll be contacting a lot of foreigners soon.  Well, I really excited to go there.  I'll be riding nothing but metros and buses above ground.  No more train rides.  Last week had a bunch of activities.  On Thursday, we had our zone activity, which was baseball but with a tennis ball.  I didn't want to play my hardest because I thought I might hurt somebody like that one time with one of Camille's friends.  After the acitivity, we didn't make our train back to Reims so we had to spend the night in Paris with the Chinese Elders.  It wasn't to fun because we didn't have anything to change into and we didn't really have any good beds to sleep on.  Anyways, we got back to Reims the next morning fine.  Then on Saturday, we left early in the morning for Troyes, which took us about 4 hours to get to then walked around there for a while and took some pictures.  Then we had the baptism for this man, then we really had to run back to the train station to make our train back Reims.  On Sunday, we had an English family to our ward and so for most of the service, I was translating for half of the family.  It gets pretty tiring after 2 hours of translating in your head.  Anyways, I'm excited and everything is going well.  OUr main investigator is on vacation in London so we have to wait for her to get back in another week.  I won't be here though.  Well, I hope the weather has cooled down in Cali and everyone is doing well.  The weather is nice here, just a little warm with showers often.  I hope you have a great week and here is my new address:
Elder Jex/Les Missionaires
1 bis, rue Stendahl
75020, Paris
France
 
Love,
Elder Jex

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Hey y'all

Hey,
Not much to talk about this week.  It's getting pretty hot but it rains a good amount here so it's alright.  At this moment we're teaching a good amount of student age people and Chinese people.  Also, this week we will see Elder Caussé, the only french General Authority for this region at zone conference.  Anyways, I went into Paris this last week for exchanges.  It was pretty fun because I was able to see the missionary that I trained when I was in Evry.  Anyways, I hope everyone is doing well back home.  Have a great week. 
-Elder Jex

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Sorry:( it's been a while

Hey everyone!! 
Anyways, this last week was pretty fast.  Living with three other Californians is awesome!!  Elder Wakatsuki is from Rialto. He went to Eisenhower High School.  Do you remember when you were band boosters and Eisenhower high always had a good band.  Anyways, he's from there.  And my comp. (Elder Jones), he's from a city near Temecula.  Well, this last week was ok.  We had a lot of things going on at the church.  A lot of members are going on vacation so it's petty hard to see them now.  But we did have a good amount of meetings with members for dinner.  Right now we're doing alot of finding.  That's good though because that helps my french get better.  I am still in Reims, but I think I'm leaving by the beginning of August.  Yes, the new furniture is very nice. It feels like velvet but it's fake velvet.  Anyways, this week we have planned to do a lot of contacting.  Elder Jones is a hard worker so it's good.  We are going running a couple times a week in the morning now.  This last week though was scorching hot.  well, it was really hot like 90 degrees.  It doesn't sound that hot but it's more humid here at I'm in a white shirt and tie everyday, which makes it twice as bad.  This week, the members said that it should rain everyday this week, which will be really nice.  It sounds like a bunch of stuff is going on back home as usual.  I'm not counting the days but I did just pass my 19 month mark.  But anyways, things are going well.  I'm going into Paris this week on exchanges with the zone leaders so it'll be fun because the Missionary that I trained is serving in that area also.  It will be a blast.  Well, I hope you all have a great week. -Garrett

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A new son!!

Well, her's the good news. I'm gonna have a boy!! In missionary terms that means I am going to train a new missionary straight from the MTC. I'm very very excited but a little scared at the same time. I feel like I almost need to be perfect for my son so he can learn the most from me. Things are going well nonetheless. We have 3 baptismal dates in our ward right now and it is going great. I went on exchanges with another elder in Evry and we set a baptismal date for him and he accepted. Things are just getting better and better here in Evry. The president said a couple months ago that they were reducing the amount of missionaries coming to our mission for the next couple years. So far, you can't even tell. We have more baptismal dates, the mission is working hard and things are going well. I really don't think it's the amount of missionaries that makes the difference. It's the hard working missionaries that make the difference. Anyways, this friday, Elder Dallin H. Oaks will come speak to us (the missionaries) in Versailles!! It will be awesome. I've heard that other apostles are going around europe right now as a matter of fact. I have a friend in Germany that said that Elder Bednar would be speaking to their mission around the same time as Elder Oaks. Well, whatever. It'll be cool. I just can't believe I will have a son in the mission. Anyways, have a great day and week and I will talk to you all later.
-Elder Jex

Long Time

Hey everyone, It's been a while since I've written so I'll get you up to date. I am now in a city just south of Paris called Evry. The ward here is about 150 people and that's awesome. There's some really cool people here to work with. I've been here for a little while but not to long. The work here is going very well. We just had a baptism of a young girl named Rebecca. We have a couple other people with Baptismal dates so hopefully all of those will go through. We are teaching this 25 year old man named Reginald. He has been coming to church for the last couple months and we know that he has a testimony but he doesn't want to admit it. He is right on the point of getting baptized but we just got to be patient with him and let him decide on what he wants to do. We are also working with the son of a recent convert who is about 18 years old. He has come to church a couple times and we are trying to help him understand the principle on how faith leads to action. We see him once a week but it doesn't seem like he has been doing much. I looks like we got the work cut out for us. Also, the 20th of February, Elder Dallin H. Oaks will come to our mission to speak with us about the work. I'm very excited for this opprotunity to listen to him and see him in person. Anyways, all is going well as of right now. It has snowed a couple times in the last month but hopefully it'll get warmer in the next couple weeks. Hopefully I stay here for a long time because I really like this area. Talk to you all later.
-Elder Jex

Hey everyone!!!

Hey everyone!!! It's been a little while since I've written. Things are really getting cold here in La Rochelle. Actually the last couple days it's been very clear and no rain but at the same time it is really cold. I've been sick for the last week with a cold. I just need to wait it out and get better. Despite my sickness, things are going well here. We sort of switched our focus this last week to less actives. Now two less actives will be coming to church this week, which is great. I think that one of them will be bringing a friend also. So things are really going. This last week, La Rochelle set up a bunch of lights throughout the city. It is soo beautiful during the nights. They light up all the cathedrals and the Hotel de Ville (I don't know the translation for that word). I'm going to take some pictures of it and put it up. Anyways, things are going well. I might possibly be leaving La Rochelle because there is a mini transfer because some of the missionaries that end their missions right before Christmas so they have some changes to make before Christmas. So yeah, til next time.
-Elder Jex

Cold and Rainy

Nothing but rain and cold has come down in the last month. Everyday has been that way. That's ok though because we have a car here in La Rochelle. Within the last couple weeks, things have been going pretty well. I have been to many different cities in the area because our secter covers a lot of space seeing that we have a car for our area. We were able to find a new investigator that lives about an hour and a half away from La Rochelle but it's worth it. He said he is ready to learn the Gospel and is very willing. There's just been many things that have been happening in the mission. Many things of the mission changed. OUr Preparation day has been changed, our we count investigators and so on. So it's been a new start for some things here but it's for the better. Anyways, things are going well here. I think we have hit winter already seeing the rain everyday. Gotta go
-Elder Jex

New area

Hey everyone, sorry it's been a little long since I've written but anyways, I am in a new area.  It is called La Rochelle.  It is on the coast just like my 2 other cities that I have served at.  It is just South of St Nazaire.  It is a very beautiful city with cobble stone streets, cathedrals eveywhere, old architecture.  It's really cool.  If you want the new address, just send my letters to the mission office, it is easier to send it there then they will forward it to me.  I think I am a 2 transfer missionary.  Each city I have been in, I have been there for 2 transfers.  It's crazy.  Also, I'm getting close to a year out on a mission, it doesn't feel like it but once after a year everyone says it goes 10 times faster.  I think that depends on the person but anyways.  My new companion's name is Elder Neff.  he is from Salt Lake city Area.  That's all I know about him so far.  But I gotta go, til next week mes amis.
-Love
-Elder Jex

Week 3 Transfer 6

Well, as you can see, I don't have a good title for this week because nothing that big happened.  I think I told everyone about my Paris P-day already.  I'm not sure though.  Well, this last week has just been a steady and slow one.  We always have something to do but at the same time, nothing big is happening.  I did go on Exchanges to Chartres; which is a city about an hour away from Paris.  I went there and for the whole entire day, we did service for this one family that is building a house for their parents.  They were the best though.  We had to paint inbetween the beams of wood and they asked me specifically to do that so of course I did a great job with all of my expertises as being a painter with Warren McCune.  Anyways, we painted for about 4 straight hours then they made us some dinner after I took a shower at there house.  They have about 4 dogs and I was playing around with them also.  They had a pool table and a Ping Pong table, which is always nice to have.  So that was my exchange.  Right now, We just got back from a FHE thingy that we have with a couple of members.  That was fun but what we ate wasn't.  She cooked fish with everything basically still inside.  I spooned out some big piece, not knowing what it was.  It turned out to be the head (where the least amount of meat is).  But anyways, I just had to close my eyes and hopefully I can pull out all the nasty things.  The eyeball was also still there.  Pretty nasty.  Anyways, all is well here in Antony.  No pics for this week because I'm running low on time today but anyways, à la semaine prochaine.
-Elder Jex

Zone conference

Well, this last week has been pretty cool.  Two big things have happened.  This last Friday I was able to go to Zone conference and we were able to have a guest speaker there.  His name is Elder Kopischka.  He is German and he is serving in the Quorum of the 70.  He also served a mission as a mission president in Germany before.  He talked to us about how we can really touch the lives of others out here in France.  And also that miracles will never stop.  That is something that we have discussed multiple times so far during my mission.  Along with President Staheli and Sister Staheli, It was a great zone conference and I think I have learned many things since then on teaching others the Gospel.  Then, two days later we were able to Stake Conference in Versailles, which was awesome because We were able to hear many speakers and also that the Stake President asked that the Elders in the Stake perform a couple songs for the Conference.  We sang "For the beauty of the earth" and also "Praise to the man" (in French of course).  But it was awesome!!  It was a little hard to hear because we were sitting on the stand the whole time so the echo of the speaker was kind of hard to hear.  But anyways, yesterday was our Paris P-day, when we can go around Paris and look at different sites.  This is what I did:  First we went to the eiffel tower and went up it, which was awesome.  Then, we went to le sacré coeur, which is a big church on top of a hill in Paris.  Then we went from that to the front of the Louvre and took some pics.  While being there, we met 2 members from Provo who wanted a pic with us so we took one with them.  After that, we went down to the Arc de Triomphe, which is just soo cool.  I'm gonna try to put as many pics up as I can today.  Anyways, pretty tired right now from yesterday and little sick but thats what happens.  Anyways, ciao
-Love
-Elder Jex

Back to Saint Nazaire

Well, you're probably wondering why I have this title.  Well, I heard that my titre de séjour (the document that says I'm legal) came in finally at Saint Nazaire so I got permission to go back there and pick it up.  It took practically the whole day because it took about 3 hours going there and coming back so it was pretty intense.  I got to see some of the members there because I asked to missionaries there to set something up.  I actually ended up doing to spiritual thought because the members asked that I would do it.  We had a raclette fete if anyone knows what that is.  I know Marshall and Terina do.  Anyways, Hopefully I can get those pics up this time.  I don't know but we'll see.  This last week has been just a bunch of finding.  We do have a hand full of investigators but lately we have received over 6 references of people that live in our area so basically all that my companion and I have done has been finding these new people to get a hold of and see if they would like to start taking the lessons.  So far we have been successful.  We found one person that we were able to set a rendez-vous with and hopefully we'll be able to start teaching his parents also.  Well, I got some more pics to send so I will add one to this and then add a couple others with another e-mail.
-Love
-Elder Jex

New Transfer

Well, it's a new transfer and I have another new companion. His name is Elder Mendenhall. He's from Las Vegas and he actually has a beach house on Newport beach so we have a lot in common. Plus he plays basketball. I've just met him today so we'll see how everything goes. This last week hasn't had too many things happen. We just found out one of our investigators was moving to Canada so that's a bummer but we challenged him to find the missionaries in Calgary when he gets there. I'm finally going to put a picture up. It is actually from the zone activity and one from a huge park that is right next to where we live. For our Zone activity, we had the the olympics but different events of course. Other events happening. OUr stake conference here in the Paris stake is having 2 area seventies come talk to us so that will be really cool plus they will be at our zone conference also. We, as missionaries, were invited to make a missionary choir for the stake so this friday we'll be practicing some songs. Well, thats about it for this week, here are the pics.

1st transfer in antony done

Bonjour tout le monde, I figured I could start typing a little bit in French so the people reading this can learn a little bit for themselves. Alors, cette semaine est bien passé, On a fait beaucoup de chose comme l'activité de la zone ecetera. Yeah, anyways, the zone acitivity was pretty fun, we got to do a bunch of stuff along with doing some good contacting activities around our area. This sunday, the transfer will be finished and there will be many changes in the mission (companion wise) because a lot of missionaries left early to go to school and also another group is leaving at the end of the transfer. All of us in the apartment now think that my comp will be leaving because this is his third transfer in Antony and hs thinks he is done with his time in Antony. Some cool news for the future, this next zone conference that I will be going to will have to 70's that will be there to talk to us about the work here in Paris and in the mission. I think it will be a great experience that I will have to hear from these men. Anyways, the work is going well here and sorry that I haven't posted any pics up lately on the blog, I've been transferring all my photos to a USB drive to store them so I don't have to buy more memory cards for my camera. Anyways, à plus alors.
-Elder Jex

1st Transfer practically done in Antony

Well, I haven't really written lately but honestly not to much has happened in the mission. This last couple weeks, I have had both zone conference and interviews. At zone conference, we were able to talk about strategies that help us understand what people need. We learned the mirroring method, which is basically repeating what the person just told you so that you fully understood and also by asking questions so that the investigator will be able to answer their own questions. I haven't seen to many people these last weeks. We met one man that is actually Muslim. he works at La Défence and he's pretty young. We met with him a little bit and he is interested in listening to our message so thats great!! This last couple weeks, I just realized that I have finished 1/3 of my mission already. It doesn't even feel like I've been out that long but anyways. We also received a new elder in our apartment, he isn't my comp. but he's really cool. His name is Elder Schroeder. He's actually from Germany and he's awesome. I had the proviledge to be in the same room as him in the MTC and to be in the same district. It was kind of a reunion when he came because we haven't really seen eachother for a while since the MTC but anyways. All is going well, not much more to tell. The work is going slowly here in Antony but it's going. Paris is great. It's pretty cool seeing the Eiffel tower almost everyday. See y'all next week.

-Elder Jex

Antony

So far here in Antony, everything has been going well. We have a ward here so it's a little bigger than what I have seen so far on my mission but in some cases, i'd rather still be in a Branch if it was my choice. branches are so united and are alot nicer to the missionaries. Right now we have a african investigator who in my opinion is on the verge of getting baptized. he says he knows the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith was a Prophet. So i think we just need to extend the invitation to get baptized. Other news here, I'm am living in a 4 man apartment. Now I'm living with a missionary from Belgium. he does not speak english at all but thats good, I can really improve my french by speaking with him a lot. My new Companion's name is Elder Chase. He is from West Jordan Utah, what a surprise. So I've either had a foreign comp or a comp from Utah. Oh well, hopefully I get some French person or a missionary from Spain next time. Anyways, all is going well here. Not much more to say other than Paris is awesome. I've been there about 10 times since i've been in my new area. It's cool playing sports when you can see the eiffel tower within walking distance. Anyways, gotta go
-Elder Jex