Elder Bake in Lyon France: Week 80 Agen and Bordeaux

Streets of Agen

Bonjour!

I just finished doing an interview with the mission president on Skype! We have a general authority visiting our mission so president Brown will not have time to do interviews with us like normal but did them on Skype this time. It was a little different but pretty good. I really like president Brown and his wife. They are doing a great job here.

They gave us a little shout out in the weekly news letter that goes out to all the missionaries. I will explain. So last week, at the conference for the new missionaries, President Brown had the idea that it would be good if we could figure out a way to get people's names engraved on a Book of Mormon that we give them. This way the book will have a more personal meaning to them. Then he gave the challenge to us to try to see if we could do this and said once you have a Book of Mormon in your hands with your ami's name on it call me. So last Monday we found an engraver and did it. The guy was very nice and said that he would do it for free. When we got the books we told president. We also wrote our testimonies in the books and gave them to Kim and Nasser on Saturday. They where very happy to get them. We are also gong to do this with our ami Nicolas. I think I learned from all this how important the Book of Mormon is. It is really the most valuable thing that anyone can have and can do so much for us if we read it, pray about it, and apply what we learn from the Holy Ghost.

This week we also went to Bordeaux again for a Missionary meeting. It was fun to see some people that I have not seen in a long time. We also went to Mezin and visited the Somsons. We did a family home evening with them and then we went with Mr. Somson and his little girl to a community garden/orchard and picked a bunch of grapes, apples, and prunes. I think I have already talked about how Agen in famous for prunes. They are so good!

Miracle of the week: This week Kim accepted to be baptized! She has a long ways to go but they are very exited. We had a new member move in and the first thing she said to him was, "I am going to get baptized soon!"

I hope you all have a great week and good luck with school.

Frère Bake

FFF of the week: The French countryside is very pretty. Here in the southwest they have all kinds of fruit.

These Elders have been in this zone with me for 4 transfers now: Elder Walker, Elder Swanson and Elder Herdt

Elder Bake and Elder Herdt

Elder Walker and Elder Swanson

There are four of us Elders who got to France at the same time and who are now all serving in the same zone; Elder Garside, Elder Joly and Elder Allen

District Meeting

All these Elders - Elder Pien, Elder Whiting, Elder Walters and Elder Taylor have served with me as companions. They happened to all be together and sent me this picture. I love these guys!