Well Hi!

So i am so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My comp is so legit and absolutely
hilarious! He knows so many people i know and he loves like all the same
things as me just not as annoying as some as my past comps! He is so cool!
He is so happy to be in limoges and he wants to get working and so that is
fun! This transfer is going to fly by! He is so fun! It was nice to go
into Paris and to pick him up! Paris is so nice! Also i Got Smart PERSON
GLASSES! 9 Bucks at CHATELET!!!!! LOL so the pick up went well with him
but the funny thing is that he actually grabbed someone elses luggage so we
then had to go to Orleans to drop off that other Elder's bag and then we
will be going to Tours tommorrow after District meeting in Potiers to get
his bag! So yeah it was a funny mix up! It has made for a lot of
travelling! But it is fun also! Then this Weekend end we are going to
Angers for our Zone Conference! So yeah that is that!

Ha we are doing good work already and he speaks a good amount for someone in
there fourth transfer. Last week since the time he got in we taught 9
lessons. That was more lessons than all the lessons he had taught in his
last area in two transfers! We are being so blessed and having him is
really opening my eyes to how incredibly blessed we are. WE are teaching so
many lessons and are finding people left and right and they are all so
cool. The people here are really open and the members liked me more than i
thought they did. It can be tough just walking into a ward who just came
from having bad elders. So things are going good. We are having a good
time. It is crazy to think that we are already in May. Can you believe
it!? I am still trying to wrap my head around it! I hit my 9 month mark
last week and it was a pretty cool moment i must say. I hit my year mark
not to far according to missionary time which i am convinced moves at an
incredible rate! Ha so good.

We just got done teaching two lessons before coming to do emails. We are so
tired. It is our P-day! We want some rest but its ok! I would rather have
this area on fire than to have it struggling to breath like when i first
came here. We are so grateful for these blessings. I can't even explain
it. I dont want to sound prideful because lets face it we still dont have
any baptismal dates or anything like that but we are definately trying to
help our amis get to that point. But just the fact of finding people and
having a chance to teach these people is so incredible to me i must admit.
WE are the busiest i have been so far on my mission and even though i am
young and still trying to figure everything that we need to do i am loving
it! WE are having to organize people by priority! Before we just searched
and searched and would teach anyone and i mean anyone! I have walked into
homes so ignorantly having no idea what to expect so many times. I'd say
here in limoges only 40 percent of the time they are crazy or Pyshcotic. Oh
how the Lord watches over us! LOL!

Not much has changed with us and our amis except that Dieu-Merci-Michel
loves me so much! Ha he is so funny! Late to all our rendez-vous but
funny! I asked him if he had read the introduction and testimonies in the
book of mormon and he just goes "Jonathan.......i'm sorry......but i can't
lie to you.....you are my brother and a servant of God....and i'm sorry. I
didn't read" LOL!!!! I thought it was hilarious! He was about to cry! Ha
oh Dieu-Merci! He is so humble and tries so hard to follow the
commandments! He is so good. Ha we were just like dude its cool like
seriously you are just about the same as everyone we teach! Oh this guy! So
yeah! We also Found two new people Jeff and Pascal. They are both french
which is a change! ha but yeah things are going good! We also just got a
referral from salt lake! How cool! So yeah good things are happening!

So yeah that is my week! I will try calling around 11:15 your time. I
might figure something else out possibly Skpe but i don't know. We will
figure it out. It dad wants to call through skpe and everything if he is
out of town our number without the Country code is 06.71.00.26.07. I hope
that works you can call me for free but if i call you i have to pay money
for a phone card. So how about this! Call ME AT 11:15 YOUR TIME. THAT WILL
BE AROUND 8:15p.m here! I will try to find a place to skpe but if we can't
we will just have to settle for a phone call. We'll see. I am going to
email a little later in the week to find out if i can skpe! Sorry Mom i
know you have to sleep....

So ok! Thank you dad for sending all the videos of everyone! I loved
them! and hunter your pics are so sick....not tacos....haha JK! Also mom
for dinners members feed us occasionally. Every tuesday we eat with a
british family in the ward, who we teach french to. So yeah and also about
the Package i sent i went to go see where it was and the stupid french gave
me the wrong post info so it returned back to Cherbourg. Elder Paul sent it
to you guys for me last Wednesday! I hope you get it soon! Well i love
you all so much and i'll talk to you this weekend! Love YOu!

Elder Hoopes