Sorry this letter is late.....


Hello!
Well I hope that everyone is doing well and enjoyed Easter. We had a fairly calm one with quite a bit of rain but it was still nice. Thankfully it is warming up today and I am looking forward to a bit of warm weather.

Tuesday started the rain and we did some passbacks in the morning and then in the afternoon went and saw our investigator Domonique until it started raining too much outside and she went back in and we had to head to Biarritz, a city next to Bayonne, to see another investigator, Maria. We had a nice lesson with her before heading back into Bayonne to see the Ousdale family, which is a less active family. The kids really seemed to like my accent, maybe even making fun of it a bit. Ha! Not entirely sure why but whatever. We had a nice lesson with them and then passed some people in going home.

Wednesday morning we went and saw Sister Konè and her son and had a nice little lesson with them. In the afternoon we had a rendez-vous fixed but he wasn't there so we passed a less active and her and her family was there and we were able to have a nice lesson with them. We then headed back into Bayonne to the church to see Jean-Jouis. We had an awesome lesson with him and engaged him for baptism!

Thursday we headed into Pau and had our District Meeting. It was really good and afterward the older couple had fixed lunch for us and it was so delicious!!! In the afternoon I went on an exchange with Elder Gubbay in Bordeaux and so we spent a good 2 and a half hours driving up there. We did some contacting and had some lessons, it was a good day.

Friday morning we re-exchanged and spent a significant time in the train... the entire morning, heading back to Bayonne. In the afternoon we had our meeting with the mission leader and then a lesson with our investigator Stephane and had a good lesson with him. We then went and saw Domonique again and had a pretty good lesson with her about the restoration. We then went to the church to make some calls since it was raining so hard.

Saturday we went for English class... but no one showed up. So we headed in for lunch and then did some pass backs and some contacting and then visited a member for a bit and then headed out to do some door to door until we went to another member's house to eat. We then headed in.

Sunday was great, of course because it was Easter and we had a few investigators that came to church. We came in and Elder Peart wasn't feeling good so he slept for a little bit and then we headed out and passed some people, fixed a couple lessons for next week and then we came back in to do our weekly planning.

In all, it was quite a good week. We didn't have quite as many lessons as we wanted but we were able to fix already quite a few for this next week, so it is looking pretty good. I hope that you are all doing well. I love you and know that our Savior Jesus Christ also loves each and everyone one of you. Have a great week!

Elder Kirkpatrick