Ha, yeah, oops. Totes forgot to answer that question. If they're not at home, they're probably at Bobby's house, cuz we had a throwback party a little before I left, playin' N64 and SEGA, and I probably left all the games n stuff there, but I think that was before he moved.......but it's probably still at his new house then...............unless it's hidden in the van and you SOLD IT!!!!
I loved GC. I watched Saturday morning, priesthood, and saturday evening in english, but sunday morning in french. And yes, it was interesting that president Monson only spoke a couple times! But his talk in priesthood session was absolutely HILARIOUS. I don't know if you heard about it or what, but it was seriously one of the funniest things I've seen in conference. He nailed it.
What the. I had no idea that Trey and Mickey were dating. That's news! Cool.
Let me tell you how it happened this week.
So I already told you about lundi, so that's that.
MARDI. We actually had an exchange with the assistants, and that was fun! We were with Elder Montgomery, my good pal that I spent, like, a week with in Lyon while waiting for our bleus to come in, so it was cool to see him again. We got to see Etienne, watched the video about Thomas S. Monson and his life. He was so into it, and he retained a lot, cuz he shared all his favorite parts afterwards, which was, like, all the parts, but he was droppin' them with details n stuff, so that was neat. Then that evening we went to the Farinas, talked about General conference with them. We also ate hotdogs. Then that night was a crazy mix of missing trains, running a lot, riding in the trunk of the assistants car, and definitely not enough selfie stick.
The next day was just as interesting. We went out to Pernes-Les-Fontaines to pass by our friends and some less active members. Found a less active who was too sleepy to meet, a cool lady who said we could come back, and then no one else was home. It was a looooooot of walking, my legs actually killed the next day, but it was very fun and very sunny and very windy, and I got a lot of time to talk with Elder Kimbergt, so that was nice. We also walked down this dusty road for, like, miles, and there ended up not even bein' the house we were looking for, but we did find a house with a family named Lafargue, kinda like that PE guy at Lone Peak. Neat.
Jeudi I was all up in Aix-en-Provence. That was fun. One of the best parts was that we went to visit a member who was called to be the Mission President in the Congo this coming June, and practice teaching for him. We had a really good rdv doing the Project Elijah with them, and he loved it too, because it turns out their working on building a new temple in the Congo and they're gonna be really focusing on family history work (and also three new temples announced! woooo! and one in french Ivory Coast! woooo!). After the rdv, we had to sprint for our bus, and the guy was nice enough to stop half way down the road for us, which normally doesn't happen, so that was a miracle. Then we visited a recent convert that had some big problem this last sunday and was in the hospital, he's doin' lots better now. Then we saw the Blondelles, the wife just got baptized a couple weeks ago, and the husband actually got baptized the day after I was there. They're a real cool couple. And that was about the stay in Aix.
Then on the way back on vendredi, I met this dude who plays the trombone. He was cool. Well, about as cool as you can get and still play the trombone. Then we got back, weekly planned, and then we actually had to take a train BACK to Aix for zone conference the next day. Kinda a lame day, but we had some good kebabs, and met some cool chinese people in Aix. Because Elder Bleak speaks chinese. And most chinese people speak english, too.
Then samedi was zone conference! Awesome. For lunch we had lamb and delicious mashed potatoes, so that was kinda our easter meal :) we learned a boat load about putting more trust in the Lord. When he asks us to do kinda weird stuff, like to fish for a fish with a coin in its mouth so we can pay taxes (it happened in the Bible btw I didn't just make that up), all He wants us to do is trust Him! Then we had interviews with Prez, that was sweet. Then on the way home, we had foreeeeeever in the gare, so we were playing piano trying to attract strangers, and we met this guy with the biggest most cuddly dogs. You would scratch them, and when you stopped, they'd move their head towards you cuz they're like Monty and just wanna be SCRATCHED. Then these two really cool people, this lady from italy and this dude from Corsica, on their way to a concert in Paris, actually. Both incredible at the piano and singing. The lady sat down and started playing that one song everyone knows by Eminem "you gotta lose yourself in them music" ladidadida, but she jazzed it up and it was SICK and I regret not recording it. Then the corsican guy, lookin' like one of those classic kinda creepy smile, top hat, tail coat piano players, made it happen on the piano. It was sweet. They were awesome. Then we got back, headed to the church, got there a half hour late cuz they bought us lame tickets, no one was there, so we had to figure out how to turn on the screens n stuff (turns out all you had to do was hit the power button), and then watched the last hour of the saturday morning session. Awesome talks deja, started with Dallin H. Oaks goin' hard about kids cuttin' it out with the video games during sacrament meeting. Nice.
Then was dimanche. More people were at the church this time, luckily. We watched the first session, then had branch council, then rushed to grab some food the members had brought to eat during the first MoTab song, then enjoyed the second session of conference, then tried to calm down the energy balls we call little kids before the last session, and then it was just us 4 missionaries and Halima, the other equipe's ami, for the last session. In french. It's actually interestin', cuz Fr. Caussé did, like, the opposite of what all the people had been doin'. Cuz he spoke in english normally, but he had already recorded his talk in french, so it wasn't some random dude reading his talk in french, it was HIMSELF. It was silly. I don't know how the members reacted, cuz no one was THERE. It was a stellar conference.
And now today is actually the real holiday in france. They do easter, but they do easter monday, too, cuz that way they can have work off, because most of 'em already have work off on sunday. Ha. Silly french. so there're, like, no busses and all the stores are closed, so this is gonna be a slow pday. So far we just kinda chilled in the apartment and played that one stick game where you try to pick 'em up without moving the others. Yup.
Beautiful weather, lately. Conference made it look like it was a beautiful day in SLC, too. True or false?
I love you lots. Lots lots lots.
Love,
Elder Max Liechty
xxooxXXooOx (Nacho Libre style)
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