Nope this is not what he was referring to in his title.
Ma
cher famille et mes amis,
This
week has been better than the last! Which wasn't hard for that to be but still,
it was better! :)
So,
for this week! What has happened? I ate something that is very expensive... but
that is for later!
NOS
AMIS
Our
friends of the church (amis) are still being a little hard to see so we have
really been trying to find people like crazy to expand our teaching pool to
people who are more serious. We have had some great success finding genuine
people! This week is looking good :)
This
week we had a lot of appointments fall through but they turned into
opportunities to find people and to uplift the members! One appointment we had
arranged a Frere Girard (another church member) to come with us because our
amie was a girl... She called us and told us she wasn't going to come so we
went to the boulangerie and bought pastries and ate it with him and talked
about his family.
Our
ami that was supposed to be baptized this week couldn't be baptized because he
hasn't come to church consistently enough. But I think he will eventually get
baptized. It's just that his darn job is during church. But! I think everything
will work out.
We
also went over to Yoyo's on Monday for dinner and ate something pretty
exotic!
FRENCH
OOPSIES
Well,
let's just say I'm not an expert in French yet. That was manifested when after
teaching this man for about thirty minutes I asked him if it would be easier to
meet with him at his house and he replied in English "I don’t have a
house." Which was rather awkward because apparently he told us three times
he didn't have a house... so, trying to change the subject I asked how long he
had been married to find out that he has been divorced for several years...
which apparently he told us several times. Honestly, speaking French and
understanding French are two completely different things.
So!
As a goal, we have as a companionship have decided it would be good to have
days that are completely in French. Which has been great for me but somehow I
say a bunch of bad words really loud. I think it is a gift of mine. But really,
it isn't my fault. If you put too much emphasis on certain continents of words
you say a bad word instead of a perfectly normal word. I was trying to say cat
and said something not so nice... Who knew?
I
bet you want to know what I ate…
LES
CHOSES BIZARRE
Nothing
much has happened this week (just a LOT of contacting), so I will just tell you
some weird things about France!
-When
you start talking to someone on the street they literally jump back in fear, as
if you are a ghost or something like that.
-The
Toilets are fancy here. I'm pretty sure its like everywhere else in Europe but
you have two options of flushing... the little flush for things liquid and the
big flush for things solid. hahaha
-You
know how at the end of the meeting when there is an apostle or prophet there
you wait to stand up until the presiding authority does. Well! They do the
exact same thing here with the bishop (a bishop is like your pastor for the
Mormon congregation in that area)! No one stands up after church until he does!
It is pretty cool. Sometimes I forget though and I awkwardly walk two steps and
hurry and sit down when I realize what I have done.
-The
French love to use filler words. There are a billion of them too. Completely
useless. It's like saying like every like five like minutes. But in French they
say "quoi" at the end of things... Just because they feel like it.
haha
OH!
I ate something weird... I almost forgot about it. Hahaha. So, I ate African
Tree Maggots with rice! They were actually good too! My favorite part was the
head. They tasted sweet. It was really scary at first but after the first one I
dug into them. Hahaha. Apparently they are super expensive, 1000 Euros for a
kilo... which, is about 2.2 lbs. It was a great honor to eat them... No sarcasm
at all! Seriously.
That
is it for this week! As weird and hard as France can be sometimes, I couldn't
be happier. I know I am where the Lord wants me and I am doing what he wants me
to be doing. How can I not be happy knowing that?
I
love you alllll! You're the best!
Avec
Amour,
Elder
Johnson
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