Journal January 12, 1964
January 12 (continued)—We’re clearly not expected to bear up under primitive or adverse conditions here. I replace an excellent missionary, Elder Max Jones, who was the supervising elder, and we inherit a dozen investigators, of whom a couple should be baptized at the end of the month. Our apartment is impeccable, our landlord ideal, and my companions very companionable. We share the apartment (in which my room isn’t much smaller than our living room in San Bernardino) with Elder Gregory Berthelson (from Colorado) and his Canadian gros champignon Elder Wayne Smith. The sister missionaries at Tours are Suzanne Hulbert (formerly a Seminary student in our stake) and Janice Olsen. Chic, non?
The whole district (Le Mans and Tours missionaries; I’m behind the camera)
at Chenonceaux: Suzanne Hulbert, Gregory Berthelson, Elaine McMeen
(transferred from the Mission Staff to Le Mans), Preston Parker, Diane Stuckey, ?, Wayne Smith, ?, ?, Lynn Hart (Supervising), Janice Olsen

Janice Olsen, Preston Parker, Diane Stuckey

We’ve already tubed out a certain Mme Kovac, who received the first discussion that we have presented together. She didn’t give us much trouble on the first discussion, except that [269] she wouldn’t stop cussing the Catholic Church in a very uncharitable manner. At the second discussion yesterday, she was even worse, and we found it necessary to call her to repentance and depart.

The bright spots in our work thus far have been the Castre and Aviron families. The Castres were Protestant; they’re a family of 14, but the kids are all boarding near Rennes. The parents ought to be baptized in a couple of weeks, unless he hasn’t been able to stop smoking by then.
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