4/29/13
Hey everyone,
This past week was crazy! On Tuesday I
went on my first "blue exchange" which means I went on an exchange
with a brand new missionary. Elder Allen from Spring, Texas has only been in
the mission for a couple weeks so he is about as new as it gets. He came to St.
Brieuc and we worked together for a day and a half. It was a good experience
and I definitely learned a lot. Since he is so new and since we were in my city
I had to take charge so that was fun. That definitely put my French skills and
everything else to the test. We worked hard and had a lot of cool experiences.
This week me and 30 (ish) other
missionaries from my MTC group had to go to Belgium to get our legality all
figured out. So from Thursday evening to Saturday morning we were away from Saint
Brieuc doing that.
Thursday evening Elder Adams and I took
a train from Saint Brieuc to Rennes where we met Elder Cox and Elder Gunter. In
the Rennes train station we had to wait about an hour until we could catch our
train from Rennes to Paris. In the Rennes train station there is a piano where
anyone could just go up and play. Elder Adams and the other missionaries who
know I can play the piano kept telling me to go play haha. Eventually I gave in
to the peer pressure and played some things I know how to play. It was crazy
because everyone in the entire Train station (train stations are big and always
packed with people in France) could hear me play. When I finished I had a guy
who wanted to take a picture with me and everything haha it was pretty funny.
Elder Lerdahl, one of our zone leaders who was there took a video of it so
hopefully I'll be able to get that from him soon.
Anyways, after that little piano
adventure in the Rennes train station, Elder Cox and I took our train to Paris
(Elder Adams and Elder Gunter didn't need to do legality so they stayed in
Rennes to work). We spent the night with 6 other missionaries in Paris, then
early the next morning we went to go catch one of the fastest trains in the
world to Brussels, Belgium. It was awesome, we got to sit first class and
everything. After we signed some paperwork in Belgium we had a little extra
time to get some lunch and look at the famous stuff in Brussels. I sent
pictures of that; definitely a cool experience!
I'm convinced I have the coolest mission
in the world. How many other people can say they woke up in Paris, had lunch in
Brussels and then went to bed in Rennes? We definitely do a lot of cool
traveling.
Traveling is lots of fun, and seeing my
fellow missionaries always pumps me up, but unfortunately that made it a slow
week for missionary work. Next week is going to be awesome though! We have lots
of lessons lined up and lots of our investigators are going to be back in town
from vacation. Oh plus, Elder Adams' bishop from home is going to be in France
this week so I think he is going to take us to lunch and everything; that'll be
cool.
Thank you everyone for your prayers!
Talk to you all next week!
Elder Davis
Pictures!
1. Me with my 3 euro waffle, delissssshhhhh
2. Me with some of the other missionaries in my group. It was so good to see them. This is in a famous square or plaza type thing in Brussels.
3. Me in Grande Place in front of the main building. The guys in the left corner of the picture came up to me and Elder Johnson right after and asked if they could take pictures with us. They thought we were cool because we're American!
4. Same building
5. This is called a meat triad. Its kind of like a Kebab but bigger and spicier. Plus, it is covered in Belgium fries. Belgium is famous for its amazing frites!
6. Everywhere you look in France/ Belgium there are super old/historic buildings covered with naked statues like this one
7. Last pday right before playing some ping pong in the church
8. Belgium Waffles!
9. This is a very famous fountain of a peeing kid. There is a story behind the peeing kid and why he is important/famous but I don't have time to tell the story. Google it!
10. Me just hanging out in first class on one of the fastest trains in the world on my way from Paris to Brussels
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