Yo, Elder~
Yay for cooler weather!!! We are really appreciating Ohio's weather and beautiful green terrain here in Texas! Tova's a/c in her apartment is not working, so we also really appreciate our hotel room 5 minutes away where the air conditioning DOES work as well as the pool at her complex. Fortunately she said that the maintenance people at her apartment complex are quick to fix those. Penelope especially loves the pool and apparently doesn't know the difference between swimming with a floatation device and not. She catapults herself off the sides just like she does with the floatie on...and doesn't float. Fortunately, we are all hyper-aware of her, so she was safe!
The grasshopper was not so lucky. He forgot his floatation device and had no one to look out for him, poor chap.
Howdy Y'all!It finally cooled down for a half a day this week, which was pretty gnarly! I was able to do street contacting, and studies, and meetings, and everything else in a missionary's day without dropping in sweat. It was pretty nice :).
Street contacting, study, meeting, repeat...does that about sum it up? :P I bet you're just soaking it all it! This is sooooo like an intense Olympic training schedule! Sure, you might get to invite a person or two to really feel the Spirit, really convert to Christ, but think of the training you are going through! I can't remember which kid it was--Piper, I think--who noticed what a difference they are seeing in you. So much more relaxed and happy. (Probably main because you are out from under my hyper-jurisdiction, ROFL.)
This week went by really fast, but it started with a groovy exchange with the Zone Leaders. I had a baguette and some meat paste (It had a cool name, and tasted really good) that made my breath absolutely lethal! I swear, I could exhale and you could hear sizzling as everything died!!! After that we did a lot of contacting, and the elder I went with was already fluent in French because his dad was French. It was really cool to hear the French from the MTC for the first time since I got here...
Yay for new foods! Love it. And I love the intense language training program you are immersed in! What a fun experience to be living there and learning so much! I am sure your brain is on overload.
...But the Quebecois is becoming my favorite language!! There was this awesome talk from a member on Sunday, and they were dropping so many québécois words like the "le" and the "fekah (It sounds like it looks. I don't know the proper spelling, but they fill every single pause with one of these). But the best part was hearing them say "Ronald Rasband" with two hard R's, which isn't something that seems to exist in the french language. It sounding like (T.W ) she was about to spit a fat one at the audience (My apologies for the graphic story, I did give a trigger warning). I love French!
I bet Xai would have had an absolute heifer sitting in that audience!! Germ-a-phobe testing site, eh? I would love to hear your version over the video chat in a couple days!
French of the Week"Tu es une couverture mouillée"Meaning: "You are a wet blanket".This is very applicable day to day.
So applicable. Thanks!
It was a good week. We meet with this awesome family, and somehow, somehow? (you were in a trance and wandered into one of their rooms, grabbing the cards, and then you got back and woke up from the trance....problem solved!!!) we obtained a few gnarly Pokémon cards. And I even got an extra french one, because I might find someone who really, really, really, really wants one... I'll have to keep an eye out. Who knows.
Way to dangle the bait...
But that's everything for this week. Y'all get some pictures today.
EPIC! (lol, had to...) Huzzah!
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