To Paris With Love

Week # 25

Auxerre, France

Hello everyone! Sorry I didn't email you guys yesterday. I will explain what happened later. Let's start on Tuesday shall we... Ok that was my last day in Charleroi ;(..  Bitter sweet kinda. So we started off the day by eating with a family in the ward they were really nice to us and made us really good food. Then I kinda started to pack after that. I up ended having to give away like half of my stuff to Elder Guymon because nothing would fit haha. It made his day though, he goes home in 20 days! Then we went to another families house for dinner. They were probably my favorite family. It was the Hoffman family. Then made us a super good dinner! After that we had a family home evening and talked about Easter. They showed us a super good video on LDS.org. It was called "Because of Him" it was suuuuper good!! I hope you all watch it! When we came home people from the ward were waiting at our house and they gave me a present, they are super nice! Wednesday was nuts! It was TRANSFERS. I had no idea that they were this crazy! Lugging around those two giant suit cases through Paris and subways was like the hardest thing I've had to do haha. But on a good note, on the way to Paris we get on the train and people were sitting in our spot and we were like "yo that's our spot" and they guy who was in charge of seating people was like "it's all good just follow me" then he sat us all (like 10 missionaries) in 1st class!!! We got free breakfast and everything it was awesome! When we got to Paris I met my new companion his name is Elder Bayer. He is a really cool kid. We just chilled in the Metro in Chatlet with like 50 other missionaries. I met a lot of cool people. When we got to Auxerre I was so happy to see our sweet car waiting for us! Ya that's right I have car now! Its a 2014 with a built in GPS. Pretty cool. When we got to the room we left immediately because we had a lesson lined up with some people that were visiting from Belgium. They were super cool and they loved me because I just came from Charleroi. Funny story on the way home Elder Bayer was driving.. and.. he got a ticket haha. He was accidentally going like 5 over and a radar took a picture of our license plate. Oops. Good first day. Thursday was a pretty good day. We started off the day by visiting a super old ami.  Then we visited a less active dude named Mark. He seemed really cool, but he smokes like none other so that's kind of a bummer. He worships 2pac so that made me happy haha! Then we taught a guy named Joseph he rolled up 30 minutes late. But we had a good lesson with him. Then we drove 40 minutes out to go visit a recent convert to get the baptismal sheet singed. Then just went and did contacting. Friday was really busy. We taught that Joseph guy again. We taught him the Restoration and he told us that he gave his buddy his Book of Mormon and asked for more so he can give them to his other friends so that made me happy. Then we did Weekly Planning and got flaked on 2 times. We then went contacting for about 2 hrs and only found 2 people to talk to. Auxerre is kind of a slower city. Saturday we taught a guy named Daramdass he is pretty cool. We almost fixed a baptismal date with him, but he wants a little more time. Then we just went contacting and porting. Sunday was Easter!!! And my first Sunday in Auxerre. I met the branch. There are only 8 members. It's pretty slow! The branch president is a really cool guy, but his daughter is getting married in Utah so he is leaving for a month.  I will only see him 2 times this whole transfer haha. So there goes 40 percent of the ward. The branch is really nice though they are all really old. No amis came to church so that was a huge bummer. I blessed the water in French for the first time. And it was on the spot so I was kinda scared! Then we came home I kinda started feeling sick so we called people in the Area Book. There were only like 5 people though. Then we went and did some porting, but no one let us in. Then I just came home and passed out because I felt so bad.  When I woke up on Monday I was soooo sick I couldn't even get out of bed! So I slept in for a little. But we had stuff to do so I got ready to find that every store was closed because it's Easter. We just came home and slept and that's why I didn't get to email yesterday - I'm not feeling good at all! We later tried to go to some RDVs, but they bailed on us. Then we went contacting just for 30 minutes because thats all i could do. We came home and i watched 17 Miracles for the first time it was really good. I'm still sick,but i'm doing better today. Thanks for all your emails guys! Love you hope you all had a good Easter!

-Elder Beck

New Address:

Elder Beck
18 rue Louis Richard °219
89000 Auxerre France

Pictures.
--Me kinda by the Center of Town

--Took this from the car it was just a random pretty ville. 

--This is our church haha. We are the second floor. The one with the fist on it!