September 9, 2024

Hello everyone!
This week was amazing. We had a ton of miracles happen this last week. One of them was that we had 6 amis (Friends) at church yesterday! Absolutely amazing and super cool. We also were able to see Elder Baldi (from our branch in Chartres) be set apart yesterday. He will be serving in Australia. We keep joking that now we have a trio in Charte for a week hahaha. 

The fact that I'm in France still hasn't fully hit me. Like on Wednesday we popped over to Paris for a day exchange. We had to sprint through a metro to catch our train. Super fun! Also the bakeries here are no joke! My favorite thing to get is called a pain suisse (swiss bread).  

Parts of France are alot like in the States, other parts are not. On Friday was the 80th anniversary of the Chartres liberation from Germany and Chartes threw a big party in the City Center. So me and my comp get off the train and we were so confused by the fact that there were American Flags flying everywhere. Super dope! I've realized that people in France love American Rap music and the NBA. We will be walking through a park and there will be guys playing Drake, Eminem or a Kendrick Lamar song and they have no idea what the song is saying. I find it pretty funny. 

Spiritual thought :
This Sunday in our priesthood meeting we talked about Dallin H. Oaks talk "Covenants and Responsibilities". If you guys have 5 minutes it's a really good talk. A passage from it is:

"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is constructing temples all over the world. Their purpose is to bless the covenant children of God with temple worship and with the sacred responsibilities and powers and unique blessings of being bound to Christ they receive by covenant."

I am very blessed to have a temple in my mission but I definitely didn't take advantage of the fact that I lived 5 minutes away from one. If you have time this week, try and go to the temple. The temple is truly a blessing! The church is growing on the earth today and at a very rapid rate I see it in France already.
 
love yall - Elder Smith     


                                            My trainer, Elder Rowley from Cedar City, Utah.

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