Well hey everybody!

I hope everything is going good.  things here are still going!  Hahaha in France most people have 5 weeks of for vacation and it is called vacanes and it is in large part why things are so slow!  Ugh But it is ok. President has said now would be an excellent time to search for those families who are young and don't have all the money possible to go out on vacation.  So we have put that into action and this last week we found a super awesome mother of 4 and she is so incredible.  she has got so many incredible questions and when she asks them she reminds me a lot of joseph smith.  She asks like how can i know if this is all true, who of all of the churchs is right, i want my family to be together what can i do?  HAHA  She poses great questions as you can see! So we are really excited about her.  Her name is Fani and from tahiti!  So yeah also our good friend Sharon is doing well also, same with annette and the others.  Qiong-Ji comes back today and i can not tell you how excited i am!!!!! She is so good!  I really want her to get baptized and i think she may take a little bit of time but she will be a member her whole life!  I love her and she is seriously one of the biggest reasons i don't mind it here in Limoges.  It has been a while here.  That is for certain.  BUT in a week from friday i will know if i am moving or staying.  I think that i will be most likely leaving however you never know.  But i think i will be gone. So yeah but things are still good here in Limoges with good old awerkamp!  He rocks still.  Honestly it would be like serving with Patrick or Hayden you just like any of ly best friends.  He really is going to be a lifetime friend.

So yes that is life here.  Do you want to hear a miracle?!  So today we get on the computer and guess what we found.  We received 6 referrals from headquarters!  How awesome is that.  I have gotten only 6 referrals over the course of my mission.  So that is really awesome.  Next cool thing.  so over the past month i gained 9 pounds.  Yes it was horrible i was eating to much bread and not doing enough physical exercise, so i started doing P90X ab ripper every monday wednesday and friday and on the other days i do Perfect Push-Ups.  We are also walking more to get in a bit of minor low heart rate cardio.  I've lost 6 in two weeks.  Oh and yes i have been eating a ton of vegetables daily!  I found out some cool ways to cook them healthily but not plain!  So yes that is me.  I really hate that i have to worry and watch my weight so much.  I really want to get in shape so i don't have to worry about it AS much!  But anyway that is erally it for us here in Limoges.  This next week we will be going to Angers for our Zone conference so some more travel will be nice.  I love taking trains through the countryside here.  But other that this wek will be pretty chill.  Thank you for sending me the hard drive and all that.  That will be so nice to have because i send you pictures alot but still i have a lot more and i need to store them better.  So thank you so much and Dad i really have been thinking about you a ton this week just to le you know.  I have been talking to Elder Awerkamp bout all the little things that you would used to do like every time you would go "run errands" and you would come back with burritos, or that time you bought us that MLB Baseball game and all the spring training games and all that jazz.  Honestly thank you so much for everything and sorry for being everything you said i was because you were right. Anyway i appreciate you all and am so grateful to have great parents like you guys.  I also so thankful for my brothers.  I miss them a ton and wish i could see them.  So i hope you all are happy even though school just starting back up.  That is so crazy.  Just think i will be home right before the next school year.  Not to long when you think of how fast things went by!  Hahaha i can't wait to see you all.  Oh yes and just some other little news Elder Reuckert and Easton both are home now.  It is so crazy that my two fathers are done.  (Fathers=First two comps. Reuckert is my father and Easton is my stepfather)  So yeah that is that.  I will talk to you guys next week if you need anything let me know d'accord? Love you all!

Elder Hoopes