Hey!!!!

This week once again has been great.  Things are still clicking.  As expected, we kinda hit a slump where we just weren't superr focused but i think i am getting used to satan trying to pull down the work we do here.  He is not happy at all and it is quite noticable.  So yes this week we had to kinda get over some rough spots make some changes and just keep on going.  Things with Elder Awerkamp and I are going immaculate!  he is so cool and i love working with him.  He is so humble and suseptable to me being the first companion and i can just do this ville the way i want to work it.  He is such and incredible blessing to Limoges also.  So yeah things are going really well. One thing that i love about Elder Awerkamp is that he loves everything i cook.  I have been working alot on my cooking and i have been getting really good.  Wait until you taste my crepes, Ils sont trop bon! Hahaha anyway yeah he is great.  So yeah par rapport l'oeuvre missionnaire,

So things like i said are good.  Dieu Merci Michel is still "JarJarBinksing it up."  It is ridiculous how someone who has no home, job, or girlfriend could be so incredibly occupied.  He is interesting.  like i said i would never take him into battle with me.  Annette is good.  Last week she was verbally attacked by her parents because she was investigating the church and it blows my mind the absolute close mindedness of some french people but yeah her father just tore into her telling her that we were a cult and that we did all these horrible things.  She rebuttalled by defending the Church defending what she had learded and telling them that we were helping her find more peace than the Church of her parents.  She is so good and i really have great hopes for her.  Also we had a rendez-vous with a man named Jeff today and already things are going great with him.  Also you know Frederic well We are cleaning his apartment today!  It may be the most disgusting habitat i have ever ventured but oh well.  We will do work.  We took down all the prono, scrubbed the windows, and i cleaned the bathroom......OH MY....... So yes our goal is to invite a better spirit.  Um We have a number of other amis but not a ton of things have happened with them so we will just wait til next week for updates.

My Birthday!!!! I want to thank you guys so so so much for the videos you sent me they sere so much fun.  Hunter is such a goof and if he is really as big as he was pretending to be i am extremely impressed!  thank you so much they were so special to me.  For my birthday i was able to each breakfast with Lucas and Rachel and also Lunch with them.  Annette was doing a little something for me but unfortunately the day we went over was when her parents were there.  But still the thought that counts.  The Cherbourg Football team wished me a happy birthday as well.  It was great i must say.  What a day. 20 YEARS OLD IS SO CRAZY!!!!  My first events being 20 consist of......

1. Starting an intensive work out routine.

2. We do Tai-Kwan-Do with Frederic. (he is the instructor)

3. As i passed a gay man on the street he stroked my stomach.  I'm not joking....CREEPY GYPSY.

4. Had the biggest thunderstorm i have seen in France.

5. Passed the Creepy New Caledonia Chick 6 Times.  Luckily no contact

6. Ate Three rolls of Cheese in 28 hours..... Ouch

I think those are all the big things but yeah it was super fun.  Anyway i need to go so i will talk to you all next week.  Love YOU ALL!!!!!!

Elder Hoopes