Life in Lyon: People in Corsica!

October 19, 2015

Mom's letter:

Yeah things are going well with our Amis they are still more or less interested in what we have to teach, but the thing is here in France is a a lot of bad publicity that comes out against Mormons and it

seems like everyone we talk to has seen something about polygamy or about us not having electricity or just weird stuff and so we run into those questions a lot even with people we have known for a long time! Sabrina is doing well after her baptism though! She has been to church and just got confirmed this past week! We went to the beach and played football with her today along with her little siblings and one of our other Amis and it was super fun! We had to teach everyone how to throw a football cause nobody here knows how to do it haha it's super entertaining!

We have a member here named Karin, and her husband is not a member and he is in the military and he is actually in Marseille right now working and I guess right before he left Karin gave him a Book of Mormon and this week when we went over to her house, he called her just randomly and so us being the missionaries asked him if he had read in the Book of Mormon and he said yes! And he actually really liked it, so we started talking about it and shared a couple scriptures and Karin shared her favorite scripture that is about captain Moroni and his soldiers and stuff and he was super sparked by it! He then asked us where the church in Marseille was and so I explained to him how to get there and he went! He met with the missionaries there and I guess he is gonna start meeting with them

regularly! This is a man that we NEVER thought would be interested but literally God gave him to us like a gift this week... 😳 literally insane! Tell the missionaries I say hi! Haha all the way from the

Bastia branch of 12 members 😊 haha

Love you mom

Dad's Letter:

That's cool to hear Josh Kirk is almost on his mission., it is really weird to see all the younger generation people starting to come into the mission field, cause it feels like just yesterday or a couple weeks ago I was in exactly their spot. And now I am in the little bit older group of people and getting older everyday! I just realized how long I really have been gone... Haha and I don't even have 10 months left... I have about 9 months supposedly... So time is flying by! But I really like that quote hat it is the best two years for your life, it is so true that you learn things on your mission that you wouldn't be able to learn otherwise in such a short period of time. Like a language, how to deal with your money, be away from family and just things we do everyday as missionaries that we forget about because they seem normal to us. But it's true if we are keeping the commandments we will never have those big consequences that come with making those big mistakes. They are just that net out in he water protecting us from sharks that are lurking in the farther waters.

That's super awesome for Jeremy! And yeah he is in Valance with Elder Woodward who came in with me. I don't know him too well because I have never served around him but I am sure Palani is gonna love it! His zone leader is Elder Haws and his district Leader is Elder Sorenson my two favorite people from Lyon! So Palani or Elder Thangaraj is in good hands.

That's toooo sick that Utah is number 3 I am gonna rub that in so many peoples faces... Haha jk. But really I am so stoked to hear that Utah is finally getting the year that we were all waiting for! They always have a really good defense and from the looks of the score our offense is figuring it out a little bit more than they have in the past! Yeah I love seeing those highlights on the cloud too!

So the things that are new this week are that we were in Nice for a couple days like I already told you I think last week! But we went up there to get my legality done so I would be able to stay here and then leave France with no problems so we got all that figured out and it is always a nightmare haha the French government is just funny and complicated... But yeah we came back this week ready to do do a lot of work and get everything going for the new transfer, so we got to work and we went out finding one night in a little village not to far from Bastia, sorta by murato where one of our Amis lives and went to try and find another one so that way our ami could have someone to come to church with hopefully! But no one was willing to listen to us haha I guess the jehovah witnesses went through last week and ported the whole place out! So everyone would open the door and say "oh your people passed last week and it doesn't interest me" and then just shut the door in our faces haha so after a couple hours of that we were walking back near our car and there was a guy who leans out his window so we started talking to him just friendly and he came down and actually talked to us! Wow... Haha we are gonna go back next week to teach him a little bit more but he was mostly interested in talking about America and Obama.. But we will turn the subject on him real quick once we go back next time. People on Corsica are so funny, you can change the subject in the middle of the conversation and they won't even miss a beat. They will just hop right on board and continue down the new road of conversation which you have presented them. But that was just one of the experiences we had this week that was pretty cool!

Anyway love you all!

October 24, 2015
Yeah I saw those pictures and they were super cool! The beauty of southern Utah is so different than anything here in France and to be honest I kinda miss it a lot. The beauty here is super cool though don't get me wrong but nothing like your own home land.. I would love to go be able to do all those fun things with you guys when I get back! I see you bought the whole outfit too! You are getting pretty stylish with it though so that's good news!

That's too bad about Utah, do you think they will have the chance to get back into the top 5 or is it basically over for them now that they lost? I would still love to see Utah win the PAC12 finally! Or maybe next year they will get it! But I went on each exchange this week with Elder Jesse Wade, you'll need to look him up. Haha he is going to Gonzaga on a basketball scholarship when he gets home and he is such a baller. We got along really well and had a lot of fun down in Ajaccio.

We went and saw one of their amies and then went and did some contacting then the day was over. We spent most of the day driving in between Bastia and Ajaccio cause it's like 2.5 hours. When I get back the drive to Powell will be like nothing. Haha

At least you have a lot of trips though! That right there is a blessing, especially with family! That is what I miss the most probably. Just good ole family time.

Things are going good here in Bastia more or less, we had a couple members who aren't allowed to come anymore because their family is opposing it and so we lost a couple meme beds who were coming regularly so this past week we had a couple less people than normal.

We were looking at about 9 I think, counting us. It was unusually slow this week at church. But normally we do a lot to keep things going here. We give talks and lead the music and give the prayers and give lessons and council with members. There are serval families that are struggling in the branch, all relating to people just not being on the same page or communicating with each other. That is gonna be something I am gonna have with my family, open communication haha I think you and mom have done a pretty good job of that with us kids. But yeah Karin's husband didn't make it to church this week which was too bad but I think he will be able to come next week. Church here is very particular though the French people are just very talkative so there is never a dry moment.

This week we had a lot of ups and downs, our elevator broke for a couple days and we live on the seventh floor so it was a hike up the stairs for us all week, we lost contact with a super cool family, but we found a bunch of really nice people who might be interested in taking an English class from us or we also have started teaching a Portuguese family, his name is Sosa and he is about 50 years old I think. He downloaded the gospel library app and has been reading from that! We should be seeing him this week so yeah! Things are going well!

Anyway! Love you all!

Have fun on Halloween!

Elder Schettler