It is hot!

Bonjour!

The Voges

This past week was incredibly hot. The french people use this word called the "canicule" to describe when an immense heat wave hits and that happened this past week. This is just bad news for a missionary because when it is hot everyone stays inside. Contacting was really hard this week. We often times returned home sweaty and empty handed. Looking on the bright side though this heat should be a good prep for returning to a Texas summer.

Other highlights of the week were when we met some tourists from Plano! That was really strange. If you ever went to the Chase bank next to Plano West you probably met the mother. She had worked there for over 25 years.

For my Swiss family, I had Rivella this week for the first time in a while! There has been a huge advertising campaign for it in Alsace so I had to go get some! It was as good as I remember it and it brought me back to the fun family reunions we had in Switzerland.

Tuesday we went into Strasbourg for a zone finding day and activity. It went really well despite the fact that the public transport shut down for the day on strike. I also got to run into Sister Walters (my cousin) again! We got to chat for a little bit more than at Zone Conference and it was great to catch up on things. Saturday we spent the day in St Die with the district doing some finding. It was a day full of door to door but we saw a ton of success in areas we usually don't. Also, St Die is in a region called the Voges which is incredibly beautiful. It just a bunch of cities on the sides of mountains. It reminded me a lot of Switzerland so needless to say I had a great time!

Have a great week. God Bless

Elder Hein