Doctor's visit

Well, Today I had to go about an hour away to Nantes and get a doctor's checkup for my titre de séjour, which is basically a thing saying that I am legal in France. Everything turned out perfect, I am in perfect condition. I'm not gonna say that I'm in perfect shape because all the muscle that I had is now gone. But it still looks like I have muscle though. This Friday is zone conference so I will be in Rennes all day. Rennes is about 2 1/2 hours away from Saint Nazaire. Not that much stuff happened this last week. I was able to talk to the new president on the phone. He sounds really nice. I have some pics to send but I can't do it now so I will send them next week. Hope everyone had a great 4th of July and is having a great summer. By the way, the beach here is definitely not the same. There are no waves whatsoever. It stinks. Even with wind they are still like 2 feet high. The transfer ends in about 2 weeks so I don't know if I'll be staying or leaving here. Anyways, til next week.
-Elder Jex

New President "Official"

So last Sunday President Staheli replaced President Pond so now we have a new president of the mission. We are told to be prepared for changes because each president works differently so we'll see what he does. That same investigator that I talked about that has the problem with stopping smoking came to Church last Sunday and that was great. We haven't had an investigator come to church in around 2 months. And especially with other people here, you have to be patient. So many people move slowly here because France is not a country to be open to Missionaries like us. More than half of the people here are atheist and the other are Catholic so it's pretty hard here. Just ask Marshall or Terina, they'll tell ya. But that doesn't mean we stop working. I have to think that I am just planting seeds in the hearts of the people that will be harvested in the future. I'm in the middle or learning how to play pétanques, which is a game with big metal balls that you through near a little ball. and the ball closest to the smallest ball get points. I'm already fairly good because I play baseball but anyways, I gotta go. Til next week.
-Elder Jex

more pics

here they are

President Pond's last weeks

Well, last week for district meeting, my mission President Pond came to speak to us. I think he went to all the other districts too because the 29th of June, he leaves and our new President arrives. So I have a picture of them with our district I'll send. Other news, This last week, a member asked me to help him give a blessing to another member and he asked to me to annoint the oil. I was really scared but I did it. We had a rendez-vous with one of our amis and we talked about the word of Wisdom. He resonded with a bunch of worries that he has because smoking cigarettes helps him have friends but we explained to him that it's not worth it to smoke but anyways. Il faut avoir de la patience. Have patience! Anyways, not much else to say. Just that the weather is getting pretty hot now. Yesterday, it was about 32°C, which in Farenheit is about in the 90s. But this morning it rained a little bit. That's just Bretagne. Oh yeah, one other story. We have this one investigator, and we had a rendez-vous with him last week to eat dinner with him. When we got to his place, he wasn't there so we waited and then he drove up in his car and asked us to forgive him. Anyways, after he took us in his car to the beach and to this really nice restaurant right on the beach while we had our rendez-vous with him. He paid around 65 euros for the three of us. I had Salmon and my companions had oysters and some other things. It was like a 3 course meal! It was awesome. And we talked alot about prayer with him because he didn't understand why we have to pray for others. So that took a while. But it was a good night. Anyways, hopefully those pics I tried to send last week will come this time.

Have a great start to Summer

Last week, I sent a couple pics and they didn't come out. This time I didn't bring my camera to upload them again but next week I will send them again. Anyways, This last week has been nice. The first week of another transfer, with an Italien. My conversation skills have improved so much within the last couple weeks because when we are in the bus, I find it alot easier to start talking to people. So far, we've gotten a couple new investigators just because we started up conversations on the bus or something like that. We are also teaching a ladt named Elizabeth. She speaks about 5 languages. And she wanted us to teach her in English so I did most of the teaching being with an Italien Companion. Anyways, we taught her the first lesson and watched the DVD The Restoration. I think we were able to help her feel the spirit then because she usually talks alot during the lesson and this time, she just sat and listened to what we had to say. It was great. Today, I found some peanut butter but I didn't buy it because I don't know if it's is good american Peanut butter or some weird tasting peanut butter that only France makes. We'll see, maybe I'll buy some next week. Yesterday, France played Italy in Soccer for the European Cup. A member invited us (missionaries) to watch it because they knew it was sooo important for my companion to see it. Italy won and so now I have a happy companion on my hands right now. Anyways, all is going well. Hope all is going well over there in the States. Have a great start to Summer.
-Elder Jex

Back up and running

Ok, This is the second time I'm writing this because all these computers are NUL. That's french for crapy. Anyways, the weather here has been good and bad just how France usually is. Rainy one day then burning hot the next day. Oh, thanks for those letters LeeElle and Brooke. :) The transfer has just ended and now but I'm not leaving and neither is my companion so it's nice and tranquille here. Right now is the European Cup of Soccer and all the Europeans are going crazy because soccer is huge here. Now I have a big flag of Italy in my room at because of Elder Petrignani. It's finally come to the point where the switch of the mission presidents will actually happen. They leave in 3 weeks, and the new one comes in the same day so my next zone conference will be with President Staheli or something like that. Here are some pics of Elder Petrignani and I on top of a submarine base and the other is a pic of the District inside our Branch building.