November 22, 2010

Cher tout le monde,
Allo! This week just flew by. Wow. I've only got a few minutes to write, sorry! We went to Monaco last monday. It was so sweet! We ate at the Bishop's pizza place that he owns there. Super good! And we all ate for free. I had a pizza covered in ham and eggs. Haha you don't see that in America. Monaco is pretty ridiculous. Within the first five minutes, we saw probably 6 ferraris, a few aston martin's, and a Mercedes Mclaren. It's a beautiful city, and everyone there is way too rich haha. I'll send some pictures next week, but we looked in some store windows at some of the crazy stuff for sale. For example, there was a diamonded crusted flashdrive and iPod shuffle. "Look honey! Now all your files can be encased in diamonds!" Haha, I don't get it. But anyways, Monaco was cool, and we got to walk around the casino (not the gambling floor though, haha). We talked to the guy at the door to the gambling room, and he told us all the famous people he had seen in his 20 years there. Including President Reagen, Bush, a few of the James Bonds, famous athletes, he just kept going on and on. This week, one of the members is putting on a Thanksgiving dinner for us Americans and we're all inviting an investigator. I'm stoked! It will be interesting to see how the French interpret a Thanksgiving dinner. But anyways, the work went pretty well this week. We weren't able to find as many new investigators as we wanted, but we've got a lot of 1st lessons set up for this week so we're pretty excited about that. And our investigator Edvin is progressing like crazy! He comes to all the church activities and meetings and just loves it. He's been to institute the last two weeks, and he read the institute manual on eternal marriage and told us he read about the law of chastity and that he was willing to follow it if it's necessary for baptism. I love that guy! Everything is going well for him to be baptized the 11th. We're so blessed that Heavenly Father has entrusted us with one of his elect. I'm so excited to continue to see him progress and learn and receive all the blessings that are in store for him! We had the opportunity to hear from Elder Teixeira, a 70, this week in Aix. It was pretty awesome to be taught by a General Authority. I swear he was just making up his lesson as he went, but it was some of the best instruction I've ever received! He had time to interview a few Elders at the end, but unfortunately I didn't get an interview with him. That would have been sweet! Well I gotta go. Sorry about the short email. I'll save more time next week. Love you all!

Much love,
Elder Tudor