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