To Paris With Love

Week #41 The flood Changing it up a bit - so just a warning... this computer has no spell check whatsoever! Ok let's start on Tuesday. It was my last day in Auxerre and it feels like forever ago! We just went finding all day until night time. We got a call from a potential ami and he asked if we could play soccer tonight? I was like YES!!! So we did and he became an ami and our most solid ami. After he invited us back to his apartment, we ate diner and played guitar. Super fun way to end. Wednesday was crazy! Transfer day! Nuts as ever. We got into Paris at like 9h and my companion didn't get in until about 2h.. so I had a lot of time to wait.There were a lot of missionaries there, so I was lucky and got to talk to some friends! Finally met Elder Rodriguez. We are in trouble, come to find out he is from Virginia - 10 mins away from the beach! He isn't Hispanic and doesn't speak any Spanish...and our companionship is supposed to be a spanish speaking one as well as French...President thought he could speak spanish... nope... so this will be an interesting transfer. He is actually half Korean. We met up with Elder Perry a crazy awesome Tahitian. Love that kid to death and he took us back home. Carried all our stuff by ourselves throughout Paris, was a NIGHTMARE. I'm still sore. We get there and Perry says "don't use the bathroom...it has been having some problems lately.." (this will become very important later) Thursday/Friday rolls around we wake up and the apartment is completely flooded. And guess what kinda water it is!!! Drum roll...toilet water. Our apartment STILL smells like death. So we call the people who are in-charge of that stuff and I'm like "hey we got a serious problem here...no toilet seat, and no toilet...and we are flooding" We were cleaning it up the whole day! We had a DMP meeting. We just got a DMP but our meeting wasn't with our real DMP, it was just with a guy in the ward because he was out of town. Then we were on toilet duty again. Thursday still trying to un-flood the apartment. Finally they get a plumber over. It was super expensive. We had about 4 inches of water in the bathroom! Then we had a RDV with a guy we found named Moosa. It was good we taught him in a mall. He didn't come to church thought so that was a bummer. Then Elder Karl stayed the night and we just ended up talking allllllllllllllll night long haha. Saturday we dropped off Elder Karl then did a thing called Samedi Sports! It's where the ward gets together and we all play soccer it's the best! We went so hard! We played till 2h. After soccer we weekly planned. Sunday went to church. Almost late haha. The ward is huge like 100 plus active! No amis came...super annoying because we were suppose to have 3. The Souers (sisters) had a baptism! So that was rad. After we ate then went contacting around the Grand Arch (located in the Modern Business District of Paris). Talked to a member for a while, it was chill. TODAY. that's a new one huh? It was a REAL p-day meaning we actually DID SOMETHING!!! We saw the Arch of Triumph! And went to the very top. It was free for us because we have french Visas!!! It was so epic! We then shopped on the Champs-Elysees. I got a coat:) Now we are doing emails. Good week! Love you guys thanks for the emails!!! Love - Elder Beck Pics: At the Arch or Triumph (base), on top of the Arch of Triumph, at the Grand Arch of Defense (twice as big as the Arch of Triumph)