Letter 09/20/14

Hey!

T'as raison, maman! Google translate gave you a pretty good translation this time haha. Don't worry, you didn't swear :) Really, I'm doing great, just a little stressed out right now. You guessed it right, I definitely did not catch up on any sleep this week, it's been a little bit of chaos in the bureau :)

So first off, we don't know where Elder Platt is headed yet. They haven't made transfer decisions yet, the only one that has already been made is Elder Bates. This week we had a pretty low key Monday, we just stayed in the office all day. Tuesday we went out to eat with the Bousseaus again, and this time they brought Manon Poznanski with us, because she stayed with them for the week while getting her driver's license. So that was fun! After that, we hopped in the van and had Elder Bates drive us to Charleroi, in Belgium! We had to close out the apartment for the Soeurs, because Président doesn't plan on putting Soeurs back in there. It's actually super ghetto, it was awesome. It's just straight up industrial everywhere, and it was nuts. We got the apartment all emptied out and stopped at the dump, so we only came home with a washer, a dryer, a fridge, and some bookshelves. It was probably the easiest apartment emptying we've done. 

Thursday we were in charge of OFII! That's the trip where all the bleus come into Paris for their legality. We're doing it in 2 groups, so this week we only had 5 bleus, but next week we have 24. So this one was just a practice run really. We both gave trainings then took the bleus across Paris to the préfecture where they did their medical checks and everything. We headed back then did office work all evening. 

Friday we had a meeting with Président to give him an update on what we did this month, and it didn't go super well. We gave him a lowdown on everything, and we brainstormed about things to do for transfers in a week and a half. But at the end he sprung the news on me that he expects to put missionaries in a little town in Belgium in 2 weeks, and I have to have an apartment ready and waiting for them. He kind of got mad at me about it because he wanted it done earlier, but he never told me he wanted that apartment. So now I'm super stressed trying to get an apartment checked out, rented, and stocked full of stuff in 2 weeks. So that's kind of rocking my world right now. But, it'll work out, we'll figure out a way to get them taken care of :)  

Last night we taught the Marques Family! It was so great, we talked about the Plan of Salvation and they just ate it up. 

Answers to questions :)

The sushi here is pretty similar, there's nothing too different about it. Don't worry about ACT stuff, I've finally come down to a decision... I'm gonna go to BYU. So I don't need to apply since I've already applied and everything, I'll just need to get in touch with a counselor :)

Tell Tristan I'm praying for him, it sounds like it was a pretty crappy week! 

Congrats to C-Mack, I'm glad his knee is better! Tears are no fun, so I'm glad he won't have to go through that. Tell him to take good care of himself! 

Tell the Lears that they're in my prayers! That's such a great family and Aidan made such a difference in my life. 

I think we're good on stuff for the package, thanks though! I love you so much, have a great week!

Love,

Elder Tyler Martin

 Elder Alfaro, Elder Nelson, and Elder Christiansen
We were all at the MTC together and ended up at the same Zone Conference together, so we took a picture