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wow, thanks for the blois update everyone...i'm glad to hear the church is still there. hopefully missionaries too. thought i'd weigh in on some of the comments so far:
ferreras--great family. did any of you ever go driving with him, as in when HE drove the car? man, that was freaky. all kinds of levers and gizmos to accomodate his condition. also, their two cute little girls must be...what, college age by now? i guess i'm dating myself here, but when blanchard and i were there they were around 4 and 6.
poznanskis--also a great family. i'm just wondering if anyone happens to have soeur p.'s recipe for the bread she used to make...have been craving it fortnightly for the better part of a decade.
and finally, to elder blanchard, who used to make me hand-cut fries from actual potatoes, because i was too stupid to know that the pre-cut variety was cheaply available in supermarches...don't think i've forgotten about that. i'm coming for you. haha!
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Is the Ferera family still there? I may be off a little on the spelling. If anyone has an address for the family, I would really appreciate having it.
Spending time with that family was one of the truly great times of my mission.
Thanks for any info that you can pass along.
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I believe the name that escapes sister Gilchrist was the family Ferrera from Portugal. the only baptism that took place was a quiet gentlmen named Frere Patrick Decaux who ended up marrying the Patriarch's daughter who had two kids from her previous marriage. Sister Capell or Capel or singe whatever his name is found him but the incomprehensible blessing administered to him by yours truly (because the first counselor was too scared) was the icing and the branch has since seen endless blessings, though I know of none of them. Godbless. Elder Adams, Brive was eaten by mormon cricketts.
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There was talk of building a building for the Saints of Brive. Does any one know if that happened? And is Sister Brignard still living there?
Does any body know any good place to find phone numbers of the missionaries, mission home or members of the old Bordeaux mission?
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No doubt they were the best in all of the land. It was the sauce that made 'em good. You lika da sauce? I lika da sauce!
Actually, before we left, we had him put some in a jar for us to take home, but I don't think it lasted too long. Tant pis.
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Hello fellow Blois-lovers/reminiscers...
Well, though it's been a few years (2001) since I was banished and stationed in Blois, I thought that I might be able to give somewhat of an update, though dated as it is.
I was there when the Bordeaux mission was consolidated, and we became part of the Paris mission. During the entire time we were there, there were 4 Elders in the city.
The church was located, as described, in the first floor of an apartment building/office space, located on the right just after going over the overpass that went above the railroad tracks.
It was a pretty small branch, with no convert baptisms while we were there, in my four months of spring/summer, though we almost had one baptism, which would have been the brother of one of the members, the name of the member escapes me, though for anyone who was in Blois for any period of time would know who I'm talking about if I said the member couple fought A LOT, and I believe the wife was the sister of the Branch President, who was in a wheelchair, and consequently, played wheelchair basketball pretty competatively.
Perhaps we were some of the last missionaries to live in the aforementioned dead-end apartment, one of the nicest missionary apartments I had ever lived in. Well, though the apartment itself was nice, it was really more the location. Very quiet, very nice, very French, and right around the corner from a Socialist Party Blois Headquarters.
I loved that ville, probably one of the most beautiful I had the pleasure serving in.
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As a Blois-lover, I had to respond, though I don't have really recent info. As of 2000, the Blois branch was going strong and had baptised some new members. I have no doubt that they are still going strong. And according to the church website, they are still meeting in the office/apartment near the gare. However, there are no more missionaries in the little apartment on Rampes Grain d'Or...the little dead end street where all the cute little old ladies would try to mother us. I met a missionary from the Paris mission who closed the apartment when he was the greffier.
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The Blois chapel was moved in 1998 from the little old house across the river to a space on the ground floor of an apartment/office complex just on the right as you cross over the train tracks away from the train station.
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Well, as far as Blois is concerned, I don't know what's going up. The France Bordeaux Mission was consolidated on July 1, 2001. Most everything north of Bordeaux went to the Paris Mission and most everything from Bordeaux south went to the newly formed Toulouse Mission (which also included the old Marseille Mission).
As far as the missionary work, I heard reports from my good friend (Elder Nikolaus - became Bordeaux AP embassador for Paris) when the merger happened. He said the work was exploding since the change. Since then, the number of missionaries in France has drastically decreased. Where as before a branch might have 4-8 missionaries, now there is only 2-4 missionaries. This has actually been a great blessing. A good friend of mine recently returned from the Paris Mission and her report of how the work is going truly blows me away. I know this is truly the Lord's work.
Sorry I don't know anything on Blois. Hope you enjoyed the brief and condensed history of the last 4 some years in France.
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I was there for that beating in Blois. The guy was probably too drunk to know he was being pummeled.
Has the branch really died. If so, that would be too bad.
For that matter, has the entire Bordeaux mission been dissolved?
Thanks for any info you have.
D
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