Bonjour, ok ready for France!
Tomorrow I'll have been here for five weeks. I remember friends telling me that five weeks was when they felt about ready to leave....yes! That's me! Unfortunately we still have 12 full days here left though. It's ok, I can do it. Lots of people I know had to be here for 12 weeks so if they did that, I can handle 7 and a half. I am SO excited for real food again though!!
Not a lot to talk about this week. We taught a native French speaker for TRC and it was hard! The woman was so nice--she lives just outside of Paris, has two daughters, and her husband is in the stake presidency (I think that's what she said, at least). Which makes it hard because this woman clearly already has her life together and so it's difficult thinking of what to teach for thirty minutes when she probably already knows the answers to life. It's ok! We'll do better tomorrow.
Our amis both came to church this week! Muriel came, even though her boyfriend couldn't, and she really felt the spirit. She's coming sooo close to baptism I can feel it! She knows Heavenly Father loves her and knows it's true, she just needs to have the support of her boyfriend to commit to anything. Unfortunately we won't be able to teach him again before we go because he's "going to Canada for a month to visit family" (really, it's Frère Call and he's getting his own district and can't sit in on our lessons anymore. So sad!). Hospice is preparing for baptism and getting closer! We still have to teach a couple commandments to him so that will be interesting haha.
Haha.....we watched this video in our class from "the District" videos about these missionaries teaching the law of chastity to this investigator, German, and it was SOOO BAD HAHAHA oh my gosh, they couldn't teach it comfortably, and they did a HORRIBLE job of explaining what it meant. 4 days later at a follow-up lesson, they asked how it's been going for him and he talked about how he's trying so hard to be good and follow the lesson and how there was this girl that used to be his sister's roommate that he thought he might be interested, but he just reallyyyy wanted to obey the law of chastity so he didn't talk to her or anything! It was the cutest thing but sooo sad! One of them said, "There's nothing wrong with going on a date" and he was like "Oh, really? Oh I'm so confused." Haha so sad! He thought he like wasn't allowed to even date anyone! Anyways, just a funny random story that I remembered. Definitely teaches us the importance of teaching doctrine clearly and simply and asking questions to ensure that they understand it haha.
Last Tuesday we had a really cool devotional! I can't remember if I mentioned it in my last letter, but we got a new MTC mission presidency this past week. So last Tuesday was the last devotional for the previous presidency. Elder Nelson came again! He's the sweetest 90 year old man. He gave us a lot great advice including the importance of looking happy. "If you look grumpy, who wants to be like you?" He also mentioned his conference talk a year or so ago when he often exclaimed, "Ask the Missionaries! They will help you." Then he pointed out....now we're the missionaries. And all of us were like....oh crap. Do we know how to answer everyone's questions?? He assured us that yes, the Lord will always give us the ability to answer any question through his Spirit. That's a relief. Elder David F. Evans of the Seventy also spoke, which is cool cause that's my friend Mike's dad! He was the one I went to conference with last April. Elder Evans is the Director of the Missionary Committee and a few other members of the committee were there too. Several special people! They said we should be getting more special people tonight for the devotional with our new presidency. I'll keep you posted.
Well MTC life is interesting because things that you never before thought were fun or funny are now fun and funny. We've found a way to entertain ourselves for the next couple weeks while we're here. For the last week or so, our district and the district that came in with us are all in a month-long game of tag. Reverent, subtle, slow motion tag. No tag-backs, and once you're tagged you have to wait an hour to tag someone else. We play all the month of January, and then whoever is the last person is it for the whole year, and then we start again in January of 2016. Also this is intended to be a lifelong game. Now I don't know how realistic this would ever be, but they want to keep it going so that we can fly across the states and even internationally to tag each other over the rest of our lives as we grow old. My companion is from Canada and one sister is from Denmark, so that will be interesting haha. It would be pretty cool if we did actually keep it going though. We're pretty much all family now so why not?
Well I hope all of you have been doing well! Chrissy, mom says you got your braces off! Send me a pic in the mail! Also, have Julianna show you the pictures she gave to Sarah to print off for me of you and Stephen--hahahah now you can know what pictures I can show everyone of my family. Thank you, Dad, for the French tips! I haven't read them yet but I know they will come in handy. The subjonctif and conditionnel are KILLING me right now. I can do everything written fine, but then I start to say things in a lesson or a prayer and have to conjugate verbs in my head and I'm just so slow. It will come though.
An elder in zone says to check out his blog cause he has lots of stuff on there and pics of a lot of us if you want to check it out. Elder Acheson from Provo. RacetoLyon.blogspot.com
Je vous aime beaucoup!!
Sister Hurd
From the first Sunday
IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL THIS SUNDAY
If you don't have MTC pictures at the world map did you even serve a mission?
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