Dear Family,
Another week that seemed like there was so much
included in it. We literally went all over and it was incredibly stressful.
We came back to Marseille Tuesday and packed up all our stuff and
headed to Toulon that night, waiting to board the ship to Corsica only to
discover that there had been a mix up with our tickets and we would have to wait
until Wednesday night to go. It was a major bummer.
We wake up
wednesday morning in Marseille only to find out that our car had been towed
because it was parked in a poorly marked area, next to a outdoor market. bummer
again. Wednesday after several trials of faith haha we made it on to the boat to
Corsica. They often say ferry when describing the boat to Corsica, but it was
definitely a full on cruise ship. We boarded wed night at 8 and slept on the
boat and disembarked thursday morning at 7am. It was so pretty, and a really fun
experience. I've got plenty of pictures for you don't worry :)
We
spent all of Thursday in Corsica. Really, really pretty. It has beaches like
Florida and ski resorts like Utah going all at the same time. Its incredible. We
only got to do an exchange with one of the two equipes there because of our
ticket mix up. There is one equipe on the southern side in Ajaccio and the
northern side in the city of Bastia. We spent our day in Ajaccio. Elder Huntsman
had just been serving here last transfer so it was a fun return for him. We
spent our time with Elder Powell, who was one of the elders who picked me up at
the curb at the MTC. He's the man and our exchange was really
fun.
We got back Friday morning and made our way up to Lyon by
Friday evening to meet the entire mission at the Ecully Chapel. It was a blast
to see everyone.
Saturday was the day of the big mission
conference. Elder and Sister Kearon of the 70 came along with Elder and Sister
Neilson of the 70 (who just spoke in GenConf). They unrolled the ipad doctrine
and vision and it was really neat and there was an awesome spirit there. And it
will be really neat to get work on the ipads in our everyday missionary work. We
will have facebook to do missionary work on. However we have yet to actually
receive them. So we'll see when they actually get here.
Saturday was
the end of the transfer. I went home with Elder Mauss that night and we went to
church in the Confluence ward yesterday. Really interesting transition, felt odd
mostly because of the abrupt transition from car life and exchanges to settling
down and working in one ward. However a familiar flame returned that reminded me
of how much I like taking on these challenges that the Lord asks us to face. I'm
super excited to go to work with this ward. And I'll be a district leader for
the first time ever and after calling every district member last night, I'm
feeling really blessed. I'll be working with 4 équipes outside of ours, 3 Elders
and one Sisters. They are all awesome and I'm excited to help them all. I'm
working on strategies to use to create a sense of team and team effort and such.
Even more so I want our team to be special, I feel like that always gives a fun
motivation to work harder. Thats something I have on the to-do
list.
Today also E. Castillo returns home which is sad. It was sad
to say goodbye to him on Saturday.
A brief bio on Elder Mauss- He
is hilarious. He is from Cypres CA and is the youngest of 3. My age. Has been
out for about 10 months. Good man and good heart. I'm excited to push us this
transfer to see what we can accomplish.
Moving back to the
grind!
I love you all!
Elder Montgomery
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| Pics from The trip to Corsica! |
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| Pics from The trip to Corsica! |
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| Pics from The trip to Corsica! |
