Bonjour tout le monde!
This week was great! Especially this weekend!
Before that, we've been preparing our "amis" Victor and Patience for
baptism and right now we're teaching them the commandments. It's so
hard to teach commandments! And it's kind of a rush to teach them as
much as we can before we leave. I wish we could teach our teachers
forever! One funny thing that happened this week in one of our lessons
was with Victor. Victor is played by our teaching Fr. Dicou. Just
before our lesson he taught us the word "boîter" which means to limp
because he got hurt in a soccer game last night. Then in our lesson
one of the things Victor said was "sorry I'm limping (je boîte) I was
playing soccer..." or something just as a joke. Then Elder Paredes,
who I guess was kind of confused, said "oh you said you drink?" which
in French is "je bois". Sister Calderon and I looked at each other
like uhhh. And then Victor said something like "haha no but I drink
water...and sometimes on the weekend I drink alcohol just for fun."
Sister Calderon and I just started laughing. Ok that doesn't sound
very funny or doesn't make any sense but I thought it was funny
hearing our teacher say he drinks on the weekend for fun. Alright, I
need to get better at telling funny stories, sorry everyone. Hopefully
I'll have some funnier stories in the real world.
Anyways! We got a new district in our zone this week. It consists of
Sister Winter, from Cypress, CA going to the West Indies French
speaking, Sister Driggs, from Scottsdale, AZ going to the same
mission, and Sister Davies from Montreal (!) going to St. George
French speaking! She'll work in the visitor's center there. Sister
Davies has taught us a bit about Montreal which has been helpful!
Mostly about how to withstand the cold... :( ça va... They're all
great though. I don't know why the church doesn't just send sisters,
they're always so much better prepared then Elders it seems haha...
Conference this weekend was awesome!! So many great talks and counsel.
Here are my very favorite talks:
President Eyring's first talk. The story of the Sierra Leonean woman
paying her fast offering for those who are "truly poor". Wow. I have
so much stuff and I can give so much more than I do! Really humbling
hearing the stories he told.
L. Whitney Clayton's talk about getting through the spiritual
wilderness by following the "Light".
Elder Christofferson's talk about the Plan of Salvation. Really put
things in perspective. Also made me feel like I should get married and
not serve a mission! Just kidding but a couple talks kind of made me
feel that haha...
Elder Wilford W. Anderson. What a great metaphor!
President Monson's priesthood session talk about knowing the power of
the priesthood. I wish he had talked more!
Bishop Caussé's talk about finding joy in the gospel and not tiring of
it. I wish he spoke in French!
Elder Brent H. Nielson's talk about his less active sister and how we
are all like the prodigal son, lost and needing to be found!
Elder Holland. We're meant to be happy in this life, not suffer! We
can always changer and get better! Those three talks in a row were
great!!
Elder Anderson about the saints in those areas that temples were
announced. There's so much more I can do!! Really inspiring. Cool that
those places are getting temples. And two French speaking (or close)
temples
I love conference so much. So much inspiration and counsel that
applies to me despite the fact that the speakers messages are to the
whole world! The Spirit really testifies to us! I could go on for a
long time about it!
Easter Sunday was great! Nothing really special (no easter egg hunt :(
) here at the MTC but there doesn't need to be. Listening to
Conference and having time to think was enough! They did have a Vocal
Point concert in lieu of a devotional which was good but I can't
really take a capella music very seriously. Also it was awkward
because we weren't sure whether to clap. Still nice though!
My only complaint on the weekend. Why was there no MTC choir! What are
the odds of being in the MTC on conference weekend and there not being
an MTC choir! Seriously could someone do the math. I don't know if
they release data on number of missionaries in the MTC at certain
times but this is the slow season. Oh well!! I probably would have
done something embarrassing if I was on camera.
I leave to Canada on Monday!!! Crazy! Next email I send will be there!
I'm pretty excited!
Je vous aime!
Elder Rosenlof
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