So this week the rain let up a little bit at the end of the week, but the beginning was crazy! First off, Thursday
was a holiday, so there was no public transportation. Period. We had a
rendevous with Just, which is ALL the way across town. So we got to take a
nice walk in the pouring rain for 45 minutes! But, it was a lot of fun, I
love the rain!
For my MSF card, what usually happens is the mission
just puts that much money back on my MSF, so I can't put it back on my
personal debit card. That's usually what I use if I need to buy clothes
or something. So it all evens out, and it's not a huge deal.
They're doing like a mid-season Soldes in some stores right now, so I'm trying hard to restrain myself haha. I know the deals will be better in like 2 months, so it's not too bad. Were you able to find my shoes? Just want to make sure, you didn't mention it on the list in your email, but those are like the biggest part for me haha :) If not no worries, I could get some at Soldes, I'd just prefer not to. My old ones have history haha!
They're doing like a mid-season Soldes in some stores right now, so I'm trying hard to restrain myself haha. I know the deals will be better in like 2 months, so it's not too bad. Were you able to find my shoes? Just want to make sure, you didn't mention it on the list in your email, but those are like the biggest part for me haha :) If not no worries, I could get some at Soldes, I'd just prefer not to. My old ones have history haha!
Don't worry about me getting frooged, that's just a
part of missionary life. I'm used to it. It's nice because now if I ever
get stood up on a date later in life, I'll just shrug it off like I got
frooged ;)
So this week I got to go on an exchange with Elder
Bates, from Syracuse UT. He's a super cool ginger elder haha. We had a
blast! FYI, being the District Leader's companion is a really sweet gig.
Exchanges all the time and not having the responsibility part haha!
I've been DL's comp for 5 of my transfers haha! That's a really long
time!
With Frank we have some half sad, half really happy
news! So he moved away this week, to a ville just outside of our area.
But the good news is, it's in the area of Alençon, where Elder Bates and
his comp, Elder Allen are serving. They've been having a rough time
finding people to teach, and it's a tiny branch (they're the branch
councilors). So they now have a really awesome, solid ami that's getting
ready for baptism! Also, they don't have a font there, so he'll have to
come here for his baptism anyways! That should be way fun!
Other than that the week was a little slow. We now
have an awesome Muslim surrogate family though! So we ported into this
lady named Yesmina (Jasmine in Arabic) and she was super nice but said
she wasn't really interested. But, she gave us sodas for the road! The
next week we were porting across the street and her and her husband,
Rashid, pulled up and told us no one was at the house we had knocked.
Then she said she had thought a lot about what we said and was really
curious, and the two of them invited us in to chill and drink sodas. We
shared part of our message and talked about us and them. They aren't
really practicing in their religion, and they're super open. They love
Americans! Then the other day we got frooged by Just so we hopped the
tram and went out to their house. We knocked on the door and Rashid
answered and said "We knew it was you, I'm so glad you're here!" They
invited us in, fed us dinner, and we gave them the Book of Mormon! They
were pretty excited, and Yesmina even said (only kind of jokingly)
"Maybe someday I'll be a Mormon, you guys are awesome!" Then they
invited us over for couscous, which is an Algerian dish. They're like
our Muslim parents!
Anyways, that's about it for this week! Elder
Mattson and I are super tight now! We got along really well last
transfer, and staying together for a second one has made us really good
friends haha. Have a great week, I love you all so much! Mom, Happy
Mother's Day next week!
Love,
Elder Tyler Martin
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