Celebrating the 4th of July in France

Here is part of Elder Lyman's email:

Well monday again. It sounds like it was a fairly eventful week there, it wasn't especially eventful here. It was a little difficult to realize that the 4th was happening there and I was missing it. We didn't do a whole lot to celebrate, though we did wake up first thing and listen to the national anthem sung by Jericho Road and waved around little American flags, which were provided by my Scottish companion, and that night we made hamburgers.

We did have somebody we hadn't even met just walk in to church this week, which makes 2 weeks in a row. A lady came who I believe was catholic but was too far away from a catholic church or something so she just brought her 2 kids to see what our church was. A member came and got us out of sunday school to tell us she was out there so we just went with here and her kids to primary and I think she really seemed to like it, then we went to sacrament meeting and I believe she seemed happy with that too. She wasn't way big on the idea of giving us her number and being taught just yet but she has ours and I think she might come again next week. And the week before we just had a chinese guy and girl come who had just heard about the church from a friend who we have taught before and we are now teaching them so that is cool. Then yesterday we went to another member family's house for lunch. They live rather far and since we don't have a car we had to just have them drive us and when we do that we are just kind of at their mercy as far as when we come back so we were there for about seven hours. They are a rather crazy family and it's always interesting with them so it was quite a day. This time they spent they whole day planning a wedding for a son and an adopted daughter, that's one wedding, not one for each of them. But it was really fun, though their lasagna made us all a little sick today. But there isn't really a ton else going on here. love you and miss you all.