Here's a part of Elder Lyman's email from last week:
So yesterday P-Day was pretty cool, the missionary couple here has a car and had told us that if we wanted to visit something to let them know and they would probably take us so we decided to go to the D-Day Beaches and cemetery. It was really cool obviously. I think I maybe appreciated it more this time than last time. I guess one of the last times the McMullins, the couple here, went they met the deputy director of the place and so they asked a worker if he was there right when we got there and he came out and talked to us for a while. He's actually now been promoted to director. It was cool he was a nice guy and asked us if we wanted to help them take down the flags later if we were there, which is something the missionaries have done a couple times since the McMullins met him. So that was cool, when they were taking down the flags me and my comp folded one of them, kind of took me back to scouting days. Probably not a whole lot of people can say they took down the flags at the D-Day cemetary. So that was cool. Also while we were walking through the museum part the director came and found us and said, "who was your last prophet?" So we said President Hinckley of course, then he pulled out a paper he had printed off with the name Stanford Hinckley and the information for where his grave was located, in a cemetary in Paris, and he told us it was President Hinckley's brother. He told us how President Hinckley used to come every year to visit his brother until he was 94 and told them it would be his last time probably. So that was pretty cool that that guy went and looked that up for us and stuff, he was a cool guy and thought it was really good what we're doing. I guess the other thing worth mentioning from the past week would have to be the big zone conference in Paris with Elder Teixeira. I'll spare you all the details of how ridiculous it was getting there and back because of trains strikes and things but it was definitely ridiculous and included us speeding in a car to get to a train in Le Mans and seriously parking and sprinting to the train and diving on. I am still blown away that we caught that train and we really probably shouldn't have. But I'm glad we did because the conference was really good. I decided I'm a big Elder Teixeira fan. For one his English blows me away, it is crazy how good it is. And more than that he is just awesome. He just talked to us for a few hours and gave us training and stuff and it was just cool. I think he did a good job of motivating the mission.
Elder Teixeira
