I'm excited for General Conference in French!

This week we have a goal to teach 20 leçons and we are trying to get a baptism so we will see if we can make that happen this week, if not it will probably be the next week. But yeah I am super excited for General Conference cause now I get to watch and attempt to understand it in French cause I am no longer in Lyon where there are enough English speakers that they do both, it will only be in French so I might need to read them later haha.

The Romanian family is good, they are progressing but they haven't come to church again. Today is actually his birthday.  Marc, our Nigerian member said HAPPY BIRTHDAY and that he loves you as a sister in the gospel and that you have a brother in Marseille. He told me to tell you those exact words haha. He is African so his English is very African so pardon that. He is the most genuine and loving guy ever though so it was a pleasure for me to pass that message. haha My clothes are doing well. My shoes almost don't have a sole anymore so I went and got some new ones but they are French so I will have to break them in for a few days before I can fully wear them anywhere. We haven't cooked for them yet because they are STILL on vacation, but I did get the package.

Wow, so I will be coming back and having that Bishops interview with my old Deacons Quorum guy, that will be a funny experience. But I am glad someone can beat Brighton, haha even if they are still young. Brighton needs a pride check sometimes haha they get too used to winning so I like to hear that Nate's team won. Yeah my comp is a runner at BYU and he likes to wrestle and stuff. Elder Huntsman, I don't see ever. They are only here on Sunday and occasionally Mondays and he is always with the APs cause he is the driver but I did see him yesterday which was awesome. I love seeing him, he is a good guy and good missionary. Not really many funny experiences this week, more serious and trying to find people and stuff like that. I did get a caricature photo drawn of me so I will be showing you guys a picture of that next week cause I haven't taken a picture of it yet, but it is super funny!

Here is Elder Schettler's address in Marseille, use as written below! 

Les Missionnaires

Benjamin Schettler

30 Avenue de Toulon

13008

Marseille

France

Email: benjamin.schettler@myldsmail.net

I am still in Marseille!

Real quick I am still here in Marseille for another one. I am with Elder Spencer who is from Oregon and only 2 transfers older than me and Elder Cueva got transferred to Bayonnne which is 45 minutes from his house by train, so basically he got transferred to Provo from Salt Lake haha. 

But the Romanian family came to church with us this past week and they did really well there. They seemed to love it and participated a little bit in class and stuff, so that was huge! Berte accepted a baptism date from Elder Cueva at church and I guess it is for the 24th of April which is in a few weeks, but it is good to have a date that we are able to work towards. The Romanian family wants us to come over like everynight but we will see how that works out cause of our curfew and stuff, but they are super nice. 

Our ward in Marseille is a lot of less actives but the people that do come which is about 70. They are from all over there are people from Africa and islands and Scottland and America (me) and from all over Europe. But yes, I still have to translate for the Nigerian couple and one of our amis who doesn't speak much French so I translate into English for them which is helping a bit with my understanding and everything which is super good cause its more fun when you can speak the language and understand what people are saying to you. 

There are a lot of pretty things in marseille but I think the view from the cathedral or just the architecture is really cool here in France no matter where you go. the gare is actually really pretty cool too it is all outside and really French looking. You can just tell Elder Erickson that I miss him and that I haven't gotten stabbed yet, haha, and he will always be an office elder to me. He already emailed me so I have his email but thanks anyway. 

Elders Schettler, Palmer, Spencer, Montgomery and Huntsman at Vieux Port.

Some Cathedral

This one is for Dad:)

Here is Elder Schettler's address in Marseille, use as written below! 

Les Missionnaires

Benjamin Schettler

30 Avenue de Toulon

13008

Marseille

France

Email: benjamin.schettler@myldsmail.net

Loving and Serving the People

This is the last week of the transfer and I think I am gonna stay and probably Elder Cueva too but if one of us leaves it will probably be him I would think. One Christ-like characteristic of my companion is loving people. No matter who we see on the street he will say he loves them which is a good thing I guess. haha!

Things are going ok but we have only been to a few members houses. The famille DeAngeli are really nice and have had us come over a few times, and there is a Nigerian couple that are really nice and they have the cutest little black baby, they are called Marc and Rose and Joseph. But the biggest blessing is that we found a family to teach from Romania who are really cool! We saw them moving and offered to move their oven to the third floor for them so they accepted and we did and then they said we could come back. We visited them and they are really humble and open to talk about the gospel with us we share a lot of the same ideas and we are gonna go over there to teach them again this week with our DMP but I don't think he really likes them... he is really rich and he doesn't like the poor people too much, but those are the only people who are humble enough to listen to the gospel and except it. So that was who we talked to about Jesus and the blessing of the gospel in the families to this week. They have two little girls that are just the cutest things ever, so hopefully we can get them progressing and stuff.

I am surprised that Lacy knows my name even though I am not there. It has been about 20 degrees celsius here the past week and it is only supposed to keep going up. Maybe I will be able to start wearing some of my short sleeve shirts. But Nate is getting old, pretty soon he is gonna be getting that mission call haha. But yeah that will be good that Riley is getting his school stuff done, then its straight to making money... haha or trying to make money.

Here is Elder Schettler's address in Marseille, use as written below! 

Les Missionnaires

Benjamin Schettler

30 Avenue de Toulon

13008

Marseille

France

Email: benjamin.schettler@myldsmail.net