Well Hello, So I have been requested to think about and write ten things that I have learned during my mission.... I have not finalized the list yet, but be expecting it at some point. This last week, unfortunately, was another very very wet one!! Once again, I am hoping for less rain.... But it was still a good week. Busy, but good.

 Tuesday we did some contacting in the morning and found some new people and then in the afternoon we saw Domonique and had a good lesson with her. She has a hard time always remembering everything but she is progressing slowly. In the evening we headed out to a little village called Urt where we went and visited a family that is partially active. We had a nice time with them and were able to share a good message with them.

 Wednesday we had to wake up really early and we headed to do an exchange with Tarbes. I went to Tarbes with Elder Miller and Elder Tulley came to Bayonne with Elder Peart. We had a couple lessons in Tarbes, one with a family that they found the week before and they are awesome. Really looking for some serious answers in their life, it is great!

 Thursday we headed to Pau for our District Meeting. It went really well and everyone participated. After the District Meeting we headed to catch our train but missed it by 2 minutes. We were in big trouble because it was the last train for hours and we had a rendez-vous in another city that is far away from Bayonne. We called the senior couple in Mont-de-Marsan that so kindly picked us up and drove us all the way out to Saint-Jean-de-Luz. Thanks Elder and Sister Johnston!!! We made it to our lesson with the family out there and had a really great lesson. Afterwards heading to the train station we got drenched in the crazy rain!!!! We were soaked.

 Friday was pretty busy. We were supposed to see Jean Louis but he cancelled. In the afternoon we had our missionary meeting with the ward leaders and then saw Stephane at the church and had a pretty good lesson with him, he is going through a difficult time for the moment. We then went and saw Domonique and had another pretty good lesson with her. In the evening we went and finished some pass backs and had a lesson with Soeur Koné.

 Saturday we had English class in the morning and then in the afternoon we had a lesson with a Polish guy that we had met earlier in the work and then fixed a lesson to see his wife and saw for the next week, yay a family! We then did a bunch of pass backs and stopped by and saw Madam Desclos. We then headed to Biarritz to see Frère Vierrat and his sons and we had a good lesson with them and ate way too many crêpes!

 Sunday was a great day at church and we had three people come. We then went home and did our weekly planning and then headed out to Biarritz to see Maria and Ramond. We had a fairly good lesson with them and then went and passed some less active there but couldn't find any of them. We headed back to Bayonne and passed some other people before coming in for the evening. It was a good week. We seemed to spend a lot of time in trains and such but it all worked out well. I hope everything is going well for all of you. Know that I love you. Have a great week!

Elder Kirkpatrick