Bonjour!

Well Hello!

DAD happy 46th Birthday!!!!!!!  I was really thinking about you on friday and i hope that you had a great day!  You are getting older and older by the year LOL!  Ha Thanks for being so great and for all you do for me! Next thing, Mom thank you for all of the pictures!  they are so great!  I couldn't even recognize the babies honestly!  It has been so long! They are so cute!  Oh man well that'll be nice to see them in now less than a year!  Nice!  So i am also so happy to hear that Dad and Hunter had a fun time freezing in the mountains.  to bad you cant come hunting up here in Compiègne We see dear really often while driving at night.  Hunter looks great with Erica too!  Ummm Oh and mom that is so funny that you saw Frère Howell.  He is such an awesome guy and is one of the reasons i survived the MTC.  He is such a great instructer!  I am glad you were able to meet him. Such a small world. Also so Pascals Painting.  He painted that for me and Elder Awerkamp and we decided that i could just hold onto it.  So yeah ha and i was the one who sent it home too.  But it was so nice of him.  I don't even know what it's about.  I just know that he took time to paint us that!  Such a special person to me. Next thing of business, thank you for adding some money to my account.  Thank you for sending my gloves, i haven't bought any yet :) And as far as being sick it just kinda came and went.  When i feel sick i just eat fruits and vegetables and drink lots of water and it gets better.  On the plus side i sound more french when i'm sick.  Deeper Voice.  Everything sounds like it is going really good back home and just know that i miss you all so much and hope that you are doing really good.  Hearing that the brothers are gaining and bearing testimonies is one of the best parts of being an older brother! Must have good parents ;) And also jumping from subject to subject i am so excited to know about Leyla's baby!  Tell her that i am thinking about her and her margot and cody are in my thoughts and prayers.

So going onto to missionary work.  This week was really good. The Lord really helped us out.  It seemed like that in each negative situation, he provided someway so that we could accomplish what we had planned to do in the first place.  This week as far as numbers goes, we saw more lessons this week than any other week before this year.  That was cool.  We really just pushed the pedal to the metal and tried to find people to teach and God blessed us with people.  Joana and Vanessa are doing really good at the moment! Ha it was funny this sunday we were planning on her coming to church but we discouraged when she wasn't there.  So about 15 mintues into the first hour we called her to see what she was doing, if she was coming, the gists of everything.  so we call her and she hangs up on us.  We're like.....man.....this stinks.....So we just went back into class and just and went on like normal.  We get out of class and one of the sisters comes out and says hey Your friend Joana is in class! Haha we were so relieved!  Turns out she hung up on me because she was already in class!  Haha so funny!  So yeah she came to church Vanessa didn't :| Oh well.... But she came and was well recieved and even sat next to a family there! They just called her over and said do you want to sit by us and she just gave us a big smile and sat next to them.  That was so good.  Honestly just things were clicking a lot better this week than last and i am feeling a lot more confident in my comp, my district and myself.

So Yeah that is about it for the moment.  Thank you again for all the great pictures! If they are to big to send here just send them to my other email and i can look at them there!  I love you all and am so thankful for all of you!

Love Elder Hoopes