Hello our dear friends!  Yes, we made it home safe and sound...thank you JAH!  After we left Montpellier, we were in Paris for 3 days.  And it rained so that was a little disappointing.  But we were able to go to Versailles, the Louvre, Eiffel Tower and visit Bethel.  We are really going to miss France.  

When we got back home the weather was perfect!  We were real surprised to see the weather so nice here in May but we are not complaining.  We got right back out in the ministry.  Our district convention is this weekend so we are distributing the invitation tract.  It has been so weird to go to every door to find english.  But it's nice that we are doing the tract work cause it means a lot of walking like we did in France and not a lot of driving.   We really miss the informal witnessing in France so yesterday, I went out early service and we did bus stops and parking lot witnessing and that was fun.  

I've included some pictures of us in the ministry.  I will post more pictures later of our convention and our area and where we live once we move back in our house.  Right now we are staying with my sister, Lillian, for a week or so.  

Please keep in touch and let us know how you are all doing.  We miss you and appreciate you all for being our family while we were away from home.  And you still are our family...If anyone wants to come visit us here, please come anytime!  We would love to welcome you.  

Take care and let us know how you are doing.  We love you....Chris et Julia

Louvier Bethel

Look - there is your assembly hall in Marignane 

This is cute...for the alteration department

The alteration department

Guess who we had lunch with?  Erik & Gemma!!!

Can't believe we are having wine at lunch in Bethel - LOVE IT!!!

Versailles

The grounds are absolutely gorgeous!

We are so happy to NEVER pay for toilets again!

Museé du Louvre

Eiffel Tower

At night...beautiful!

We just arrived home and this is all of our luggage!  When we were in France, it took 2 cars to take us to the airport....

Soooo...when we got here, we had my sister, Lillian pick us up in her BIG truck.  Crazy i know...

These are pics out in service...

Yep...in the car and with Starbucks!  I told you..

My sister, Lillian at door - we go single person to door when we have campaigns so we can cover more territory.

Tess at door (remember she came to visit in February with her husband)

Yes we actually do have bakeries for fresh bread but EXPENSIVE!

With my sister, Melita (she visited for one day on their way to Africa).  We are showing off the rings I got in Murano, Italy.

Most of my family after meeting.  From L-R:  Melita; her husband Jake; my nephew Dominique, my brother Dan; my neice Alexxa, Chris, Me and Lillian (she visited in March)