I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go: #chalkingupthestreetsofparis

Hey!

This week was pretty solid, I can't complain :) Last P Day I went and got souvenirs, so everything should be good to go for next week :) Elder Madsen's cousin Hannah, who is living in our ward, came and hung out with us for the day.

On Wednesday we had another Zone activity! This transfer it was chalk art! We set up three different stations around Paris and drew a couple of gospel related drawings then talked to everyone that came and looked at them and invited people to come check them out. It turned out really well :) I'll send some pictures, the drawings were great. Especially Elder Madsen's, he did a tree of life drawing that was super good. I also went on exchanges with Elder Nga, our new Chinese speaking Elder. He's from Malasia, and he's a pretty fun guy.

We sent in Confidentiality report on Thursday, my last one that I have to do! haha. On Saturday we did our ward service project. All they told us is that it was in northern Paris and that we were cleaning up a main street in town. So we showed up, and it was just us and the Soeurs with some ward members. Anyways, so about an hour in the Bishop says, 'hey missionaries, come take a picture over here!' Turns out, we were right in front of the Moulin Rouge! We're definitely not supposed to be in that neighborhood haha, but we got a good picture before finishing our project haha.

For lunch we went out with Wilson and some of his friends. They're finishing up their tour of Europe soon and they stopped for the day in Paris. We taught Seyed that night, he's doing really well. He is accepting everything we say, he's just really unsure about baptism. He's Iranian, and he's worried that it might be a problem for him. So we'll see what happens. We worked at the bakery again that night, it was pretty fun. I'll show you the video when I get home of us touring the creepy underground bakery part.

Church was really good on Sunday. We taught Sunday School and decided to ignore the lesson in the manual and focus on Chelly, the Mandarin Elders' recent convert. We talked about baptism and stuff, and Marco ended up participating a ton in the lesson. He's really hard to schedule stuff with, but he's so solid. He ended up buying some cool books about Paris for me, since he won't be here next week so I won't get to see him again. Also said goodbye to Zhen, who left for China on Sunday night before she leaves on her mission next month.

That afternoon in the VC, we'd only been there about 10 minutes before a guy came in wanting to know all about the church. His name is Meshac, and we sat and taught him and he said he's coming to church this week! That night we had a sleep over with the Paris Lilas Elders! I needed Elder Jouffray to work on my back a little bit, so we stayed the night over there on Sunday so that we could do Conference Call with them on Monday morning. It was a party! Yesterday was chill, we just kind of hung out since emails were down. I finished up souvenir shopping, I think, so that was about it!

It was a good week overall, we had a lot of fun :) Thanks so much for everything, I love you guys!

Love,
Elder Tyler Martin