The FAM
Twenty twenty twenty twenty FOURTEEN. Nuts. In French, we say deux mille quatorze. They say every year like a normal number. Sometimes it's really hard, but the two I'm really good at are 1820 (mille huit cent vingt) and 1995 (mille neuf cent quatre-vingt quinze). Years and phone numbers are hard, because French numbers are dumb. 1 through 69 are fine, but at 70 things get nuts, and they start having to say numbers like "sixty and (other number)" and then after 80 it is "four twentys and (other number)" because aparrantly Napoleon had like 69 victories or something so they can't have numbers higher than that. Except in Suisse and Belguim. NUMBERS. That is the French fun fact for the week.
The names of the senior missionnaires are Elder and Soeur Dickenson, from England, very English.
Have not gotten the package, or the letter you said, so, uh, hope those come soon n whatnot.
Investigators: André, he's gonna get baptized, we just have to finish teaching him. He could use more support and less opposition from his dad, though.
Kéziah (Kay-zee-ah), she needs to have a more solid idea if baptism is something she wants to do
Alain (said kind of like Alan, but more French), he's an old ami that we just picked up again, he needs to have a desire to pray to know the truth
These are awesome people and I love them, it's cool. Strangers that I love.
Shoes and clothes are totes fine, some of the shirts may have stains...from the MTC...ha...but, I wear those guys under sweaters or my coat so no big deal. Still got plenty.
I would LOVE some recipes. Like no bake cookies. And maybe that chicken casserole thing you know I love. And other recipes you can think of that would be easy.
I'll be fine without long johns out here. The weather is pretty fair, gets colder at night, but I got my nifty scarf and mittens for that.
The face cream, I think I gave you the exact name in one of the last emails. It was the little one, I think it was really pretty expensive, had yellow on the label, in a tube kinda thing. If you can find it again, think we got it at Alpine Dermatology, I would love to have that again.
The weeK!
Lundi was p-day, got haircuts, all that, sent emails. Then we went to this famille's house, la famille Burri. Their daughter is very less active, as is their son. They both smoke. The prayed for them to stop smoking, then prayed that maybe they would get sick and realize they shouldn't smoke, but then one got really sick but didn't stop smoking...But they're an awesome famille. We shared a message when just the parents were there, then the daughter walked in, and the dad said "oh good, we were just about to start the spiritual message" NICE. so we shared one with her there, she just had something against the fact that we say "I know this to be true" because she says there is no way to know something like that perfectly. So that was alright, tried to explain, didn't go so far. Then it cooled down, and then we played UNO all together, and she was happy again. I think she was really defensive cuz it was kinda like all four of us with this opinion and her the only one with hers, so it felt like four against one. We'll try better next time, they said they want to invite us over again.
Mardi we went and delivered some notes to membres that have been cool, and then tried to find some less actives, no luck. then we had the fête, it was very fun, sat next to a membre named Patrick Jean-Charles, from Guadeloupe. He's pretty quiet, but very cool, and we set something up with him the next day. Good food at the fête. The thing is, I don't know the proper translation for fête, because it means so many things. So I'll probably keep saying fête. Also, that morning, first contact of the day, gave the lady a LdM, she was pretty cool, her daughter was five years old and adorable. We'll see where this goes.
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We had Frère Jean-Charles this day, very fun. We are his friends. We forced him to be our friend by talking to him at the fête. Also I just remembered that this was the day that Elder Smith was sick and had to stay in, but the zone leaders had to take care of bus tickets for this new year, so I had to stay and do NOTHING with Elder Smith while Elders Foote and Cardall went out and got the bus stuff and also had a lesson with Tommy and Kéziah. But Elder Smith and I did clean the appartement nice n good.
District meeting jeudi matin, very fun. Soeur Dickenson makes really good food, and made flapjacks, which aparantly aren't pancakes. English, man. anyway, then we went to visit Frère Handy, had a cool little RDV with him. We went out contacting, then found ourselves close to Tommy's house, kept contacting, saw him hanging out the window, shouted just to say hey, then he invited us in, and Kéziah was there, so we chatted for a second then shared a spiritual thought about testimonies. It was cool to hear Tommy's Recent convert testimony. Those are always cool. Also had two lessons with them two days in a row. Neat.
Did LOTS of contacting vendredi, unsuccessfuly tried to contact some less actives. but we did get this one contact with this lady who I may or may not have accidentally called a man at the beginning.........but then we laughed it off and had a good ten minute contact, but then that was it. CONTACTING!!! I actually have to admit that I do enjoy it.
Ha. Samedi. We had plans to go out to Pauillac and do some service for the famille Boulie, but we showed up and they had no service so we just ate at there house....And we had nothing to do because they live literally in the middle of nowhere and we had to catch a train in a little, so we just kind of ate and got to know them. It was all the missionnaires here in Bordeaux. And Soeur Boulie showed us this MoTab video from Christmas, I think it's called "What Shall We Give" it's really good, and one of the guys from Kid History is in it. And then she showed us this CD from a certain Joseph Smith movie, turns out it's the same one we used to listen to a long long long long time ago, and the memories came back, it was nuts. The one about Emma "When you lost your husband, when you burried your children..." and the one about Porter, the modern day Samson. Yeah. Good stuff. Then we went home and had a RDV with our Elder's quorum leader, talked about less active or part active familles that we could go try to visit.
Dimanche, church changed hours, now it's at 11h, so, we don't have much time in the day anymore...But we went out to church, had a little meeting after with the secretary talking about more familles we can work with, then sprinted home (took the bus, actually) grabbed our sandwiches we made that morning (because it was fast Sunday) and ran again to go catch a bus to take us to a membres house a little far away. Lots of running. Fun day.
I HAVE been doing the 50 push-ups in the morning, haven't quite advanced to sit ups yet, hold your horses. But also we are gonna start running some of the days, and we started last week, and my legs are so sore. The day after was fine, just a little tired, but then we also decided we weren't going to miss any more busses, so we started running for them if we were late, so that was a lot of running, with our bags n all. So hopefully by the time I stop hurting, my buns will be toned. But we haven't been late to stuff, so I'd say it's worth it.
Fun facts I learned about Richard G Scott: he plays the clarinet and was married in the Manti Temple. Sounds like someone I know...
And yes, there are times where I forget about home...But I always pray for you all every night, so I don't know if that counts...
And I do enjoy that quote. It's true that even after several weeks of hard work and limited success, we gotta keep working, because some day everything will fall in to place. Or at least we gotta have faith it will.
New interesting thing I learned:
How Great the Plan of God. Something Néphi says a bunch in 2 Néphi 9, I think. Or maybe it's Jacob talking. But anyway, it's true. And it got me thinking, without Heavenly Father sending Jésus, we would miss out on a lot. Had Lucifer been chosen, oh man oh man, lots woulda gone wrong. And I realized: Had Satan been chosen, there would have been no need for the Atonement, therefore no resurrection, therefore we would not have eternal life. Not only was Satan's plan totally selfish, but it just wouldn't have worked. We never would be resurrected, never gone through judgement, and never given the chance for exhaltation and eternal progression. How Great the Plan of our God.
"Be who you are and say what you think, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind"
That quote was something Elder Cardall just told me to tell you all ("be who...don't mind"). No reason in particular, he's just a funny guy. I really like Bordeaux.
I really like my famille.
Love you all,
Elder Liechty
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