Here's part of Elder Lyman's email from this week:
Hey everybody. So I guess the news for this week is transfers. We got the e-mail on Saturday and I'm leaving and going to a city called Cherbourg which is in Normandie. My companion is Elder Lee who was in the apartment with me in Nogent for a couple transfers and is probably my best friend in the mission. We've been talking about serving together since Nogent and we were actually talking on the phone a couple days before the transfer e-mail and he said that I would be coming up there, then he called Saturday morning before I had seen the e-mail and said I really was but I thought he was lying. It turned out the be true which is awesome. It's a small city on the coast with a small branch but I'm excited. We'll be able to go to the D-Day Beaches and Mont St Michel on p-days. It will take me about 8 hours total to get up there on Wednesday, with a 2 hour layover in Paris included. It'll be a good change I think, even though the work situation is pretty comparable to here I think. I'm gonna miss the ward here more than I think I anticipated, it was kind of sad saying goodbyes yesterday at church. They were all pretty surprised that I was already leaving because it was shorter than normal. Tomorrow night I'll be eating at the bishop's house before I leave which I'm excited for, they're Spanish and make really good stuff.
