Saturday, January 28, 2012
Official Release Date
As you all know, Ethan is on his final 6 months or so of the mission, he has been issued an actual release date which I thought would be fun to share. He will be released on July 30, 2012 and our parents will be traveling to France to pick him up on July 31, 2012. The excitement is two-fold in our family because our Father's birthday happens to be July 30th and our Mother's is July 31st! I'm sure it will be one of their most memorable birthdays!
New Mission Blog
Ethan's Mission has a mission blog on You Tube! The video is a slideshow from their zone meetings in December. See if you can find Elder Kirkpatrick in there:
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Hello Everyone!
This has been another very busy week here in Aix, busy but good, of course! We missed quite a dew days of normal working time because of days in other cities and interviews with President, but there are still some great things happening! I hope you all are well and that you have had a great week as well.
Last Monday, after emails, we had a lesson with our investigator Nelson, it was a very tiring lesson, to say the least. He had tons of questions with no purpose and has no desire to know if everything is true or not. We left everything on a good note but there in no point in continuing to teach him because he doesn't have any desire to go any further.
Tuesday we tried to go and see Frère Soprano, a less active, but he wasn't home, so we did some contacting and actually ended up running into him in the street. He said that he would be at church on Sunday. We then ate and then headed to Institute to see Jinane. We had a good lesson with her on Alma 32 in planting the seed of faith and seeing if it will grow, etc. She liked it but closes up when anything gets to a point of engagement. She is seriously fearful of engagement. It was a pretty good lesson still and Fang Fang, a member, asked her some great direct questions of why she continues to see us but she didn't really have any answers. We then went and saw Frère Philibeaux. He was a bit down because of some pressure he was having with his kids but we were still able to have a great lesson with him and help him feel a bit happier. We then did some contacting and then ate dinner before going to pay a visit to Irma. Her daughters were going in and out and not really focused but we shared a nice message with Irma still.
Wednesday we went and took a train up to Gap in the morning to do an exchange and a baptismal interview but their investigator had a lot of opposition from her ex and some custody problems so the baptism had to be put a little on the back burner. We ended up having a good exchange in Gap on Wednesday and we even found some great families that they are going to be teaching later. Families is what President Murdock is trying to have us focus on right now, which is super awesome!
Thursday I finished my last exchanges with the Elders there and then headed back to Aix to be able to be at the chapel for interviews with President that night. I had a great interview with him and it was great to be able to talk to him one on one, as usual. We then did some contacting and such for the rest of the evening.
On Friday, we had interviews and a zone formation with President and Soeur Murdock and the Zone Leaders until about 4 and then we left to see Pilar, the friend of Irma that we started teaching. We had a really great lesson with her about the Plan of Salvation. We then went to a meeting with the Young Adults and then had a couple rendez-vous that didn't work out and then headed home for the evening.
Saturday morning, we went and saw Sero and had a great lesson with him and engaged him for baptism! It was so great that we had to go to Dominos afterwards to celebrate! Ha! We then went back and tried to do street meeting, but it was too windy, so we did some contacting and then went to a lesson with Eva. It has been forever since we were able to see her but we had a great lesson with her and she has continued to pray how we taught her since the last time we saw her. We then went in to eat and then tried to see Irma and Erica but ran into Erica on the way there and she said that her mom wasn't there, so we walked her into downtown because she didn't want to go alone, since it was dark.
Sunday morning, we went with Frère Masse, our Ward Mission Leader, to go pick up Pilar. She really enjoyed church and it was great to see how happy Irma was to see her there! After church we headed to a lesson that didn't work out and then we ended up doing our weekly planning and then did some knocking on doors to finish the week. It was a pretty good day.
The week definitely went by quick and there were a lot of great things that happened, even if we missed about three normal working days. We were truly blessed. I hope that you are doing well and see the importance of your family in your life. As we are out trying to search for families, I am constantly reminded how grateful I am for my family. It is truly in the family that we can find the most joy in life, even though there isn't a perfect family, we can still find the blessings of each other! I love you all, my family and my friends! Have a great week!
Elder Kirkpatrick
This has been another very busy week here in Aix, busy but good, of course! We missed quite a dew days of normal working time because of days in other cities and interviews with President, but there are still some great things happening! I hope you all are well and that you have had a great week as well.
Last Monday, after emails, we had a lesson with our investigator Nelson, it was a very tiring lesson, to say the least. He had tons of questions with no purpose and has no desire to know if everything is true or not. We left everything on a good note but there in no point in continuing to teach him because he doesn't have any desire to go any further.
Tuesday we tried to go and see Frère Soprano, a less active, but he wasn't home, so we did some contacting and actually ended up running into him in the street. He said that he would be at church on Sunday. We then ate and then headed to Institute to see Jinane. We had a good lesson with her on Alma 32 in planting the seed of faith and seeing if it will grow, etc. She liked it but closes up when anything gets to a point of engagement. She is seriously fearful of engagement. It was a pretty good lesson still and Fang Fang, a member, asked her some great direct questions of why she continues to see us but she didn't really have any answers. We then went and saw Frère Philibeaux. He was a bit down because of some pressure he was having with his kids but we were still able to have a great lesson with him and help him feel a bit happier. We then did some contacting and then ate dinner before going to pay a visit to Irma. Her daughters were going in and out and not really focused but we shared a nice message with Irma still.
Wednesday we went and took a train up to Gap in the morning to do an exchange and a baptismal interview but their investigator had a lot of opposition from her ex and some custody problems so the baptism had to be put a little on the back burner. We ended up having a good exchange in Gap on Wednesday and we even found some great families that they are going to be teaching later. Families is what President Murdock is trying to have us focus on right now, which is super awesome!
Thursday I finished my last exchanges with the Elders there and then headed back to Aix to be able to be at the chapel for interviews with President that night. I had a great interview with him and it was great to be able to talk to him one on one, as usual. We then did some contacting and such for the rest of the evening.
On Friday, we had interviews and a zone formation with President and Soeur Murdock and the Zone Leaders until about 4 and then we left to see Pilar, the friend of Irma that we started teaching. We had a really great lesson with her about the Plan of Salvation. We then went to a meeting with the Young Adults and then had a couple rendez-vous that didn't work out and then headed home for the evening.
Saturday morning, we went and saw Sero and had a great lesson with him and engaged him for baptism! It was so great that we had to go to Dominos afterwards to celebrate! Ha! We then went back and tried to do street meeting, but it was too windy, so we did some contacting and then went to a lesson with Eva. It has been forever since we were able to see her but we had a great lesson with her and she has continued to pray how we taught her since the last time we saw her. We then went in to eat and then tried to see Irma and Erica but ran into Erica on the way there and she said that her mom wasn't there, so we walked her into downtown because she didn't want to go alone, since it was dark.
Sunday morning, we went with Frère Masse, our Ward Mission Leader, to go pick up Pilar. She really enjoyed church and it was great to see how happy Irma was to see her there! After church we headed to a lesson that didn't work out and then we ended up doing our weekly planning and then did some knocking on doors to finish the week. It was a pretty good day.
The week definitely went by quick and there were a lot of great things that happened, even if we missed about three normal working days. We were truly blessed. I hope that you are doing well and see the importance of your family in your life. As we are out trying to search for families, I am constantly reminded how grateful I am for my family. It is truly in the family that we can find the most joy in life, even though there isn't a perfect family, we can still find the blessings of each other! I love you all, my family and my friends! Have a great week!
Elder Kirkpatrick
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Hello Everyone,
This has been quite a busy week here in Aix-en-Provence and there has been a ton of progress that has been made. We were quite busy and the week just flew by. I hope that everyone is doing well and that you all have had great weeks as well.
The first day of last week started out pretty busy, in teaching a new investigator in the morning and then in the evening we saw Erica and Irma and had a great lesson about baptism. We tried to get Erica engaged for baptism but she said she isn't ready yet. We talked about how prayer could really help her to know if she is ready and if these things are true.
On Tuesday we got stood up for a rendez-vous in the morning and then we went and saw Rueben, a new investigator that we had contacted. We had a good first lesson with him. He is very practicing Catholic but he is open and very curious to learn and know for himself. After, we ate and then headed out to do some contacting and then passed Madame Casale to see how she was doing and we did a little bit of service for her and chatted a bit so that she wasn't so lonely. We then went and did some door to door for the evening.
Wednesday, we did some "hard core" contacting in the morning and for some reason, everyone seemed to be in a bad mood, it was terrible. (We later found out that it was the first day of the big sales here in France, so I probably wouldn't want to talk to missionaries either if I was on a mission to get the best deals. Haha!) In the afternoon we went and saw Frère Philibeaux and he has been making great progress and hadn't smoked a cigarette for 5 days. It was great! We then did some more contacting but down by the university and we found a bunch of people! It definitely helped for the morale! We then ate and did English Class, which went pretty well, and then we headed to see Erica and Irma and Jennifer and read together in the Book of Mormon, it went really well.
Thursday was a little stressful because it was my first District Meeting as District Leader.... Yeah... I didn't mention that I am now district leader. The Meeting actually went really really well and I was super happy with how everybody participated. Afterwards, we wet and saw our investigator Wan Qing and she has really made some good progress with the Book of Mormon and everything since the last time that we had seen her. She still has some difficulties but it is going a lot better. We then hurried back up to see Reuben but he ended up cancelling at the last minute and so we did a bit of contacting before going to our meeting with the ward mission leader. After, we then hurried to eat with a family that live in the French Countryside in an enormous beautiful home. Can't complain with a gorgeous home in the French Provence!
Friday we left early in the morning so that we could go up to Gap so that I could do the baptismal interview for their investigator getting baptized on Sunday. The train takes 2 and a half hours just to get up there and it was cold! Gap is up in the Alpes and all of the mountains around there had tons of snow. There was even a little bit still in Gap but just mostly nasty dirty patches from the last snow storm. By the time we got up there, we ate with the Elders up there, it is a threesome. I then went with one of them to the chapel where I did the baptismal interview with their investigator Olivier. It went really well for my first baptismal interview. We then went and did some conacting and door knocking until we all had to meet back up so that my companion and I could take our train to head back to Aix. Two and a half hours later, we were home and tired.
Saturday we a busy day. In the morning, we saw the less active, Frère Soprano and then went in to eat. We were supposed to see Reuben but he didn't show up but we were able to meet some really great people on the street and even fix a rendez-vous with one of them for later that day, who is here from Brazil!! We then hurried to see Anna at the institute building and had a good lesson with her and we were able to engage her for baptism as well. After we hurried back into town to meet with Renato, the Brazilian guy. He is super great and even has a wife and a baby back in Brazil. We had a great little lesson with him, in English because he doesn't speak French too much. He actually lived in Arizona for a few months working with Honeywell, so we were able to talk about that a bit. We then went in to eat and then did a little bit of our weekly planning that we didn't have time to do during the week.
Sunday we went to church, unfortunately, no investigators came but it was still good even still. We went in to eat and then met another new investigator named Sero, who is from Benin in Africa and we had a really great first lesson with him. He is very sincere and humble. We then went and saw Rodrigo, who we hadn't seen for a few weeks and had a lesson with him, with tons of questions, as usual. It was still good though because he prayed at the end for the first time! We then went to see Irma and her daughters and she happened to have a friend there that had asked a ton of questions to Irma about the church! We were able to teach her, give her a book of mormon and then fix another rendez-vous with her. It was so incredible and unexpected!
We ended up having 5 new investigators this week!! It was so incredible, we were truly blessed. I am so grateful for all of you, for your love and support and your letters and such. I hope that all of you continue to do well and know how much I love you and that I do miss you, but it is ok, we will see each other pretty soon. Have a great week!!
Elder Kirkpatrick
This has been quite a busy week here in Aix-en-Provence and there has been a ton of progress that has been made. We were quite busy and the week just flew by. I hope that everyone is doing well and that you all have had great weeks as well.
The first day of last week started out pretty busy, in teaching a new investigator in the morning and then in the evening we saw Erica and Irma and had a great lesson about baptism. We tried to get Erica engaged for baptism but she said she isn't ready yet. We talked about how prayer could really help her to know if she is ready and if these things are true.
On Tuesday we got stood up for a rendez-vous in the morning and then we went and saw Rueben, a new investigator that we had contacted. We had a good first lesson with him. He is very practicing Catholic but he is open and very curious to learn and know for himself. After, we ate and then headed out to do some contacting and then passed Madame Casale to see how she was doing and we did a little bit of service for her and chatted a bit so that she wasn't so lonely. We then went and did some door to door for the evening.
Wednesday, we did some "hard core" contacting in the morning and for some reason, everyone seemed to be in a bad mood, it was terrible. (We later found out that it was the first day of the big sales here in France, so I probably wouldn't want to talk to missionaries either if I was on a mission to get the best deals. Haha!) In the afternoon we went and saw Frère Philibeaux and he has been making great progress and hadn't smoked a cigarette for 5 days. It was great! We then did some more contacting but down by the university and we found a bunch of people! It definitely helped for the morale! We then ate and did English Class, which went pretty well, and then we headed to see Erica and Irma and Jennifer and read together in the Book of Mormon, it went really well.
Thursday was a little stressful because it was my first District Meeting as District Leader.... Yeah... I didn't mention that I am now district leader. The Meeting actually went really really well and I was super happy with how everybody participated. Afterwards, we wet and saw our investigator Wan Qing and she has really made some good progress with the Book of Mormon and everything since the last time that we had seen her. She still has some difficulties but it is going a lot better. We then hurried back up to see Reuben but he ended up cancelling at the last minute and so we did a bit of contacting before going to our meeting with the ward mission leader. After, we then hurried to eat with a family that live in the French Countryside in an enormous beautiful home. Can't complain with a gorgeous home in the French Provence!
Friday we left early in the morning so that we could go up to Gap so that I could do the baptismal interview for their investigator getting baptized on Sunday. The train takes 2 and a half hours just to get up there and it was cold! Gap is up in the Alpes and all of the mountains around there had tons of snow. There was even a little bit still in Gap but just mostly nasty dirty patches from the last snow storm. By the time we got up there, we ate with the Elders up there, it is a threesome. I then went with one of them to the chapel where I did the baptismal interview with their investigator Olivier. It went really well for my first baptismal interview. We then went and did some conacting and door knocking until we all had to meet back up so that my companion and I could take our train to head back to Aix. Two and a half hours later, we were home and tired.
Saturday we a busy day. In the morning, we saw the less active, Frère Soprano and then went in to eat. We were supposed to see Reuben but he didn't show up but we were able to meet some really great people on the street and even fix a rendez-vous with one of them for later that day, who is here from Brazil!! We then hurried to see Anna at the institute building and had a good lesson with her and we were able to engage her for baptism as well. After we hurried back into town to meet with Renato, the Brazilian guy. He is super great and even has a wife and a baby back in Brazil. We had a great little lesson with him, in English because he doesn't speak French too much. He actually lived in Arizona for a few months working with Honeywell, so we were able to talk about that a bit. We then went in to eat and then did a little bit of our weekly planning that we didn't have time to do during the week.
Sunday we went to church, unfortunately, no investigators came but it was still good even still. We went in to eat and then met another new investigator named Sero, who is from Benin in Africa and we had a really great first lesson with him. He is very sincere and humble. We then went and saw Rodrigo, who we hadn't seen for a few weeks and had a lesson with him, with tons of questions, as usual. It was still good though because he prayed at the end for the first time! We then went to see Irma and her daughters and she happened to have a friend there that had asked a ton of questions to Irma about the church! We were able to teach her, give her a book of mormon and then fix another rendez-vous with her. It was so incredible and unexpected!
We ended up having 5 new investigators this week!! It was so incredible, we were truly blessed. I am so grateful for all of you, for your love and support and your letters and such. I hope that all of you continue to do well and know how much I love you and that I do miss you, but it is ok, we will see each other pretty soon. Have a great week!!
Elder Kirkpatrick
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Hello Everyone,
I hope that all of you have had a great week adjusting back into the swing of things with school and work and all of that stuff. Personally, I am glad that everyone is going back to school and work, there will be more people in town to teach! I hope that vacation was great and a nice moment to relax a bit. This has been a great week in Aix and I am really happy to be with Elder Hughes, things are going to go great this transfer and I can't wait to see what will happen!
So I did my email last Tuesday in the afternoon, so after that, we went and saw Irma and taught a good lesson with her and her daughters. We are really going to try to focus on her oldest daughter Erica, she has a ton of potential and asks a lot of questions, she is quite interested.
Wednesday, we started out doing some street meeting but the wind was crazy so it knocked it over twice, and almost fell on someone... ha so we had to stop that. We then hurried to teach Jinane and she told us that she has made great efforts during vacation and read and prayed everyday, it was great. She even told us that she would come to church on Sunday. Afterwards, in the afternoon, we taught a Tawainese girl that was here for vacation, so we gave her the Book of Mormon and are going to pass her information to the missionaries in Taiwan. We then did some contacting and some pass backs for the rest of the day.
Thursday, I did an exchange with Elder Heywood, from the other companionship here in Aix. We had a lesson with a "new" investigators that turned out to be a less active that we found. We had a good lesson but he has a lot of ideas from the Jehovah's Witnesses. While we were in the rendez-vous Jinane called and sent a text asking if she could have a Book of Mormon and brochures for her best friend in Montpellier. Of course we were happy to give her that and used the opportunity to have a lesson about following the prophet and how much of a blessing it is that there is a living prophet on the earth. We then hurried and saw Frère Philibeaux and had a good lesson with him about the Priesthood. We hurried to our next lesson where we were going to meet someone, but she wasn't home. We then did some contacting until our meeting with the Ward Mission Leader, finished our exchange, and then went and saw Erica and Jennifer and Irma. Erica was going to leave not long after we got there, so she told us to come back the next day, of course we were happy to do that!
Friday, we did our weekly planning and then went out to make some calls and contacting and lots of things because we didn't end up having a lot planned. We got quite a bit done and ended up doing some service at the chapel. In the evening, we saw Irma and her daughters again and had a great lesson. It was probably one of the best we have had since I have been there. It was really good!
Saturday, we had a crazy busy day planned and we were so excited. In the first rendez-vous in the morning with the less active that we found, we got two texts cancelling two of our lessons for later in the day! That ended up being a little bit of a bummer but it was ok. We did some contacting and pass backs instead until our next lesson, of course he didn't end up showing up or responding to his phone. We were able to do some contacting and then we did see our investigator Nelson. We had an interesting rendez-vous with him. He had a ton of questions about the logistics of the Book of Mormon and kept going in circles with his questions, it was a little frustrating, but it worked out.
Sunday we went and met Jinane at the bus stop and walked to church together. Church was really good and the testimonies were really good. After church we taught Jinane and tried to engage her for a baptismal date but she is scared of commitment, she even said it. She doesn't feel like she has enough of a testimony. We then walked her to the bus stop and waited with her until her bus came. By the time we went home to eat and finish our fast, we were starving! We ate, went to a rendez-vous, he didn't show up, and then went back to the apartment to eat because we didn't have a lot of time before. We then passed a member and shared a good message with her and her family and engaged them to invite her friends for a Family Home Evening that we will do at her house. We then headed back in for the evening.
We had a great week and it was a good start to the first week of the transfer. Like I said, I am really excited for all that will be happening this transfer. There is a lot of work to be done, and I can't wait!! I hope that all of you are doing well. I love you and, more importantly, know that God loves you too, even if you aren't sure he is there. I know that he cares about us and worries about each one of us. I hope you all have a great week and I hope to hear from you soon. Ciao ciao!
Elder Kirkpatrick
I hope that all of you have had a great week adjusting back into the swing of things with school and work and all of that stuff. Personally, I am glad that everyone is going back to school and work, there will be more people in town to teach! I hope that vacation was great and a nice moment to relax a bit. This has been a great week in Aix and I am really happy to be with Elder Hughes, things are going to go great this transfer and I can't wait to see what will happen!
So I did my email last Tuesday in the afternoon, so after that, we went and saw Irma and taught a good lesson with her and her daughters. We are really going to try to focus on her oldest daughter Erica, she has a ton of potential and asks a lot of questions, she is quite interested.
Wednesday, we started out doing some street meeting but the wind was crazy so it knocked it over twice, and almost fell on someone... ha so we had to stop that. We then hurried to teach Jinane and she told us that she has made great efforts during vacation and read and prayed everyday, it was great. She even told us that she would come to church on Sunday. Afterwards, in the afternoon, we taught a Tawainese girl that was here for vacation, so we gave her the Book of Mormon and are going to pass her information to the missionaries in Taiwan. We then did some contacting and some pass backs for the rest of the day.
Thursday, I did an exchange with Elder Heywood, from the other companionship here in Aix. We had a lesson with a "new" investigators that turned out to be a less active that we found. We had a good lesson but he has a lot of ideas from the Jehovah's Witnesses. While we were in the rendez-vous Jinane called and sent a text asking if she could have a Book of Mormon and brochures for her best friend in Montpellier. Of course we were happy to give her that and used the opportunity to have a lesson about following the prophet and how much of a blessing it is that there is a living prophet on the earth. We then hurried and saw Frère Philibeaux and had a good lesson with him about the Priesthood. We hurried to our next lesson where we were going to meet someone, but she wasn't home. We then did some contacting until our meeting with the Ward Mission Leader, finished our exchange, and then went and saw Erica and Jennifer and Irma. Erica was going to leave not long after we got there, so she told us to come back the next day, of course we were happy to do that!
Friday, we did our weekly planning and then went out to make some calls and contacting and lots of things because we didn't end up having a lot planned. We got quite a bit done and ended up doing some service at the chapel. In the evening, we saw Irma and her daughters again and had a great lesson. It was probably one of the best we have had since I have been there. It was really good!
Saturday, we had a crazy busy day planned and we were so excited. In the first rendez-vous in the morning with the less active that we found, we got two texts cancelling two of our lessons for later in the day! That ended up being a little bit of a bummer but it was ok. We did some contacting and pass backs instead until our next lesson, of course he didn't end up showing up or responding to his phone. We were able to do some contacting and then we did see our investigator Nelson. We had an interesting rendez-vous with him. He had a ton of questions about the logistics of the Book of Mormon and kept going in circles with his questions, it was a little frustrating, but it worked out.
Sunday we went and met Jinane at the bus stop and walked to church together. Church was really good and the testimonies were really good. After church we taught Jinane and tried to engage her for a baptismal date but she is scared of commitment, she even said it. She doesn't feel like she has enough of a testimony. We then walked her to the bus stop and waited with her until her bus came. By the time we went home to eat and finish our fast, we were starving! We ate, went to a rendez-vous, he didn't show up, and then went back to the apartment to eat because we didn't have a lot of time before. We then passed a member and shared a good message with her and her family and engaged them to invite her friends for a Family Home Evening that we will do at her house. We then headed back in for the evening.
We had a great week and it was a good start to the first week of the transfer. Like I said, I am really excited for all that will be happening this transfer. There is a lot of work to be done, and I can't wait!! I hope that all of you are doing well. I love you and, more importantly, know that God loves you too, even if you aren't sure he is there. I know that he cares about us and worries about each one of us. I hope you all have a great week and I hope to hear from you soon. Ciao ciao!
Elder Kirkpatrick
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Hello everybody,
I hope that everyone is doing well and that you have all had a great new year to start out 2012! It is a great time to make some new goals and start out the new year with a wonderful beginning. This last week was a bit slow for us since everyone went on vacation. I won't talk about every single day because, honestly, it wasn't too exciting. As you can tell, I am also late writing my letter because yesterday I waited for my new companion, Elder Hughes and he ended up being later than what was planned and so we didn't have time to be able to do our emails yesterday. I now have one more transfer in Aix, and I am stoked! There are so many things to get done and accomplished in this transfer and now I have a bit more responsibility which will make this transfer fly!
With the beginning of this new year, I want to thank each and every one of you for the love and support you have given me throughout my mission. When I started my mission, 2012 seemed like an eternity away and it flew by! I just want to tell you how grateful I am to be able to serve in the South of France as a missionary for our redeemer Jesus Christ. The experiences that I have had have been incredible and unforgetable. The miracles that I have seen can only be explained as the blessings from our Heavenly Father. As I come around the bend on, almost, my last six months on my mission, there are so many things that I want to accomplish and be able to do that I feel like there is not enough time. Being so far away has not always been easy, but I have learned so much and progressed so much and I am very grateful and humbled by this time that I have already passed as a missionary. I want you all to know that I love you all and appreciate you. Your examples to me have always been a great help for me. Have a great week and make 2012 the best year yet. The most success, accomplishments, and all the best things in love. Meilleurs Voeux et Bonne Année!
Elder Kirkpatrick
I hope that everyone is doing well and that you have all had a great new year to start out 2012! It is a great time to make some new goals and start out the new year with a wonderful beginning. This last week was a bit slow for us since everyone went on vacation. I won't talk about every single day because, honestly, it wasn't too exciting. As you can tell, I am also late writing my letter because yesterday I waited for my new companion, Elder Hughes and he ended up being later than what was planned and so we didn't have time to be able to do our emails yesterday. I now have one more transfer in Aix, and I am stoked! There are so many things to get done and accomplished in this transfer and now I have a bit more responsibility which will make this transfer fly!
With the beginning of this new year, I want to thank each and every one of you for the love and support you have given me throughout my mission. When I started my mission, 2012 seemed like an eternity away and it flew by! I just want to tell you how grateful I am to be able to serve in the South of France as a missionary for our redeemer Jesus Christ. The experiences that I have had have been incredible and unforgetable. The miracles that I have seen can only be explained as the blessings from our Heavenly Father. As I come around the bend on, almost, my last six months on my mission, there are so many things that I want to accomplish and be able to do that I feel like there is not enough time. Being so far away has not always been easy, but I have learned so much and progressed so much and I am very grateful and humbled by this time that I have already passed as a missionary. I want you all to know that I love you all and appreciate you. Your examples to me have always been a great help for me. Have a great week and make 2012 the best year yet. The most success, accomplishments, and all the best things in love. Meilleurs Voeux et Bonne Année!
Elder Kirkpatrick
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