Week 29 May 18, 2015 Gelato on the Rivera and Cannes Film Festival

Week 29   May 18, 2015

Yes this week was better, I would say! I ate some gelato for you :) I will send the picture on Wednesday because I don’t have any of my picture stuff with me right now. I also bought you an official key chain of the Cannes Film Festival! I have been able to go these past few days. it is a really cool experience!! just like being in Hollywood!! so thrilling and... oh man words don’t even describe it! there is nothing else in life like it! so cool! but I haven’t personally seen any stars and I really don’t have a chance, either... we are pretty far away and there are a lot of crazies in the good spots! oh man haha but it so cool!

We have been getting a lot of sun recently and it is really great :) well halfway great. I like being darkened, but man I have a horrible tan.... right at the elbow and then half way up the neck because of the collar.... talk about ugly haha then again I am not going to be going around without a shirt, so I guess nobody will ever know! and I will come back during the winter when everyone has lost their summer tans! it will all be ok haha but gosh I am so tired.... the sun drains you, that's for sure.... 

I have found a really big project to see if I can’t work on! I want to try to get the name of the church out into the public eye, in a good way. I have a guy who has connections with the city and some nonprofit organizations here in town and I want to try to get a giant service project for us to happen. I will have to be the one to start this because the members in my sector drag their feet. I hope they will get on board, because it would work so much better if the church members here did this and continued doing this. (we have about 35 less actives and about 11 active members in my sector.) but this has excited me and I am pumped and I hope that I can get the permission from the right people to do this!!

well I really miss you though... I have thought more about you all more recently then I ever have... I even have dreamed about you guys. I really miss you... I love you a lot! I will talk to you later!!

Love

Elder Martin :)

This is me eating the gelato :)

Just some STAGED walking.

Week 2, November 11, 2014

This last week was long... we got up super early and went to the temple so the rest of the week we were falling asleep... I got sick yesterday and went back to my room and took a four hour nap which was really helpful... I can't sleep much here... idk why... just not home...

Mom I love you <3 I am thankful for you and raising me right!  Au revoir. Love Your Son

Elder Nick Martin

Me and my Companions, Elder Brown, left and Elder Landry, right.

My Zone! Half of them left yesterday. We are a lot smaller now.

One of Julia's friends from her Stake Toulouse! (Towloose) He is Elder Urbani :)

The Sister Training Leaders. Sis Ladd on the left aka Sister Sassy Skirt and Sis Delgado.

My District or aka My Class  :)

OK, I didn't think you would believe me if I said that I like these pair of skinny jeans that I'm wearing, so I took a picture of them on. I find them surprisingly comfortable! 

Start of Week 2, November 9, 2014

Oh, how I miss you! Like a lot! Sometimes not often now, I see a picture of the cat, or think of how perfect life at home was and I want to break down and just weep. But God is helping me. He truly is. This last week, I got a sore throat (like the one that I got when we came down for conference in April) and I could barely talk or speak English, let alone French! So I asked for a blessing and the next day my voice was 4x's better! And by the end of the night, my voice was almost perfect!

Today during Sacrament, Sister Newell, one of our councilors' wives, spoke about repentance. She talked about a Sister from Stockholm that taught 48 lessons a week. She told us that when she asked the Sister how she did it, the Missionary Sister said, "Everyday I wake-up and am scared. I make the choice to overcome my weakness and become more like Christ." Dad, you were right. Everyday we have the choice to become a different person. I wish I would have listened more to you and di what you said. Thank you so much for your words of love. I love you!