Hello Everyone,

Wow, what a week! Again, things continue to progress and work is moving along, I love it here in Aix, I never want to leave! Ha! Unfortunately, at one time or another, I am going to have to leave. I just need to continue to make the best of the time that I have here.

Last Monday, after preparation day, we went and did Family Home Evening for the Young adults and talked about the Book of Mormon, and gave each one a Book of Mormon to dedicate for a friend, it was really good.

On Tuesday, we did some contacting in the morning and then in the afternoon, we had a lesson with Jinane and it was one of the most incredible lessons we have ever had with her. The spirit was so strong and she actually accepted a baptismal date. She isn't sure how she is going to tell her mother about it but she has one, the lesson was simply incredible! We then went in to eat quickly and then headed out to see Pilar and we had a good lesson with her as well. She is doing well, still have some difficulties but doing well. She has some great contact with members. We then went and visited Erica and Irma and Jennifer and had a nice spiritual thought that we shared with Irma, she is doing quite well.

Wednesday we did a bit of contacting in the morning and then went and saw our investigator Antonio, he was really in a lot of distress with his moving to get out of his apartment and it was a complete mess! We had a rendez-vous later but told him that we could help him later in the day if he wanted with some members. So we left to eat and then did a bit of contacting before going to see Sero. We had a really good lesson with him and he said that he was going to come to church on Sunday and fast with us! We then hurried, changed our clothes and went to help Antonio with 3 members of the church. We got a lot done but it was such a mess that it still looked like barely anything was accomplished.

Thursday we helped him again early in the morning for awhile and then came back and did some studies, ate, and then did some contacting and such until our missionary meeting with the ward and then did some contacting and headed home, it wasn't too exciting but it was still a good day.

Friday was Zone Conference and it was so great to see all of the missionaries. They have changed the format of Zone Meetings a little now and it is actually really cool. It was a really good conference. I then left with Elder Wulfenstein to go to Vitrolles to do a baptismal interview. The baptismal interview went really well and their investigator is really quite cool. We then did some porting until going in for the evening.

Saturday we did studies in the morning and then finished our exchange. We had a lesson with a new investigator Claire, who is catholic but having a lot of doubts, she is very intelligent, and that actually gives her a hard time to believe completely. We then hurried and went to a rendez-vous with Jinane where she already started to address some concerns that she is having about the baptismal date. Sometimes it is like a roller coaster with that girl. We normally would have had a new investigator cater too but it got pushed to Sunday which was alright because we were rushed to get a dessert before meeting the ZOne leaders to go and eat with a family. It was a busy but great day!

Sunday was great. Jinane was at church, as well as Pilar. Normally Sero was supposed to come but didn't show up. Not entirely sure why. After church, we went with Jinane to the Baehrel's house and had a nice meal and had a nice lesson with her about Joseph Smith. She is still not at all sure and has a lot of doubts. After that we went to meet the new investigator we missed on Saturday. Her name is Irina and here for an internship, she is from Romania. We had an awesome lesson with her!! We then went home and planned and then I did some district calls. It really was a great week.

I love you all and appreciate all of you. Have a great week and remember that I love you! Au revoir!

Elder Kirkpatrick