Hello,

Well, another transfer, or six weeks, has gone by and I am honestly stunned. I cannot believe how quickly these last six weeks have gone. I have no idea where they went! To add to it, Christmas is basically right around the corner, my last Christmas in France, crazy! I am sure this next transfer will fly by. I hope that you are all doing well and have had a great week as well, getting all prepared for Thanksgiving and everything. Good news, we are invited for "thanksgiving" with a family in the ward and then we are also invited for the night after for a second "thanksgiving." The members are very nice and caring towards our American holiday, and probably because they all like to eat too. Ha!

After emails last Monday, we had a good lesson with the Sinquins, we basically answered their questions and their difficulties that they were having with certain things. It was really good and they understood and the spirit was really there. Afterwards, we went and saw Irma to tell her goodbye before she left on Tuesday to go to Honduras for a month to visit her family who is there.

Tuesday was a pretty long day. In the morning we had a lesson but he didn't show up, so we had a little lesson with the member that was going to help us and then we ate and then did some contacting and then passed Frère Casale who was in the hospital still. We then did some pass-backs, door to door, lots of different things to try and find some new investigators.

Wednesday morning, we wanted to do some street meeting and so we went to go to where we do it often and the other missionaries were already there! We went to another spot, but there wasn't much going on, so we moved to another spot and in about 40 minutes we had three lessons fixed for later. It was awesome! We went in for lunch and then went out and did some contacting before seeing Frère Philibeaux, he had an appointment with his doctor so we gave a little lesson and he asked us to come back the next day. After him, we did some contacting and passing people until English class. Normally, we have at least 6 people but no one showed up! Just as we were about to leave 4 people showed up so we ended up having English Class anyway, thankfully.

Thursday we had a district meeting in the morning and then we all ate together and then we did a little bit of contacting before seeing Frère Philibeaux, and we had a good lesson with him. He talked about how much happier he is since he has come back to church and even all the people that he has been able to share the gospel with in the nursing home that he is at, it was pretty cool. We then did some pass backs before going to our meeting with our Ward Mission Leader and then we tried to pass by the daughters of Irma but they weren't there.

Friday in the morning, we met with a new investigator, Mehkat, which we had contacted a few days before. We had a good lesson with her and then we went back to the apartment to do our weekly planning. After lunch, I headed out to do an exchange in Avignon with Elder Bonnett, the "greeny" or in french we actually say that they are blue. They had some lessons fixed that didn't work out so between that and all the studies that the new missionaries do now, they have added an extra hour of studies for all new missionaries everywhere in the world, we did have much time to do other things.

Saturday I was with Elder Bonnett until about 2, when I headed back to Aix. We ended up doing some contacting, passing by a member, and then had a really good lesson with Irma's daughters. They even said that they would come to church the next day, we were really excited about that.

Sunday, in the morning, Erica, one of Irma's daughters sent us a text saying the couldn't come because someone was passing by the house at 11 and they needed to be there to sign some paperwork but they promised they would be there the next Sunday, and then we fixed a rendez-vous for that evening. Church was good but none of our investigators were able to come. After church, we gave a blessing to Frère Casale and then headed back home to eat. We then passed by a member and had a lesson with them before heading over and seeing Erica, Jennifer and also a friend of Irma. We had a nice discussion and then headed home.

Voilà, that was our week. I want you all to know how much I love you and how much I am grateful for you. With Thanksgiving this week, don't forget to think of all the blessings and all the thanks that we need to be giving. We are truly blessed in this life and I hope that you all see it every single day, not just at thanksgiving. Love you! Au revoir!

Elder Kirkpatrick