Quo de nouf fils! (qwa de nouf feece)
It means 'What up Son?!' That's the phrase floating around here nowadays. It's great to have the first week under my belt. Time begins to fly once you start doing the exact same thing...every day...every week... No, it's good. Thanks to Carter and Noah for the cranes, they were most inspiring. Speaking of cranes, I've evolved into slipping cranes into people's pockets as they WALK. I've gotten a total of 13 cranes planted, them all bearing the message LIGHT UP THE DARKNESS. I figured it was appropriate.
I have some good quotes from one of the devotionals here -- Elder Kendrick, emeritus of the seventy, said that "selective obedience is a mockery of the law of obedience. Selective obedience is to pretend to be obedient when it's convenient." It's true, and let me tell you folks, obedience pays off. I have been having the hardest time sleeping here, until we had that devotional, and our room decided to get to bed on time that night. By simply obeying the curfew I have slept through the entire night and continue to do so, but only when I am in bed on time. Romans 5:19 better describes our need for obedience.
In one of our meetings a man spoke to us about planning, and he looked, walked, even sounded EXACTLY like Bill Murray. Imagine Bill Murray talking about baptism and people answering his questions "Well THERE you GO! NOW we're TALKING!" It was outstanding.
Another great quote, "Fear can make mountains out of molehills, faith can make molehills out of mountains." Don't let our home become a new Wasatch front, keep the molehills small everyone.
I have a humorous story to tell you. We were practicing teaching and Elder Stanley and Elder Bagnell went in for a ten minute session but came out two minutes early. "We panicked and cut the lesson short before we went in... then we ended too early" they said, so they just sat there, in silence. Then elder Bagnell said "what do you think about families, elder Stanley?" and Elder Stanley said, "I like families very much," and the silence continued. The volunteer broke the silence by asking them if they wanted watermelon, then she pretended to cut watermelon and offered some to them and they sat on the couch and pretended to eat it. Now the phrase has caught on. Whenever you bomb a testimony or lesson, it's called "eating watermelon."
I have discovered that Elder Erickson, from my district, looks just like the hedgehog from Toy Story 3. Incredibly so. I'm sending some pictures soon. There is another elder here who is Finnish, learning french, and he has a rockin accent. He sounds just like the Pinky, from Pinky and the Brain, and he's super short, it's hilarious. It doesn't help that his companion is English. People love to be contacted by them, they are fun to just hear.
Contacting in french has been rough. I have note cards so I can ask questions, but if they don't give me the exact response I'm planning on -- well, they get my testimony anyways. I'm getting better though.
I talked to my branch president, and we discussed my musical talent. He, as well as myself, have found the impression that I need to improve my musical talent through the learning of instruments. So I was wondering if Brooke Watson still has her flute? Is she still using it? Could someone mail it to me, if she does? I've been checking out the flutes here, and have made some progress, but they changed the office schedule and now I won't be able to check them out anymore.
How is the wedding coming along? I hear everything is falling into place, which is good. I know everyone is super busy, but I really could use some short sleeve shirts, and maybe a collapsible hamper, if that's at all possible.
Mon francais est tres bien! Je pleasant, c'est mal. Je suis que le Dieu est en Dieu du paix, et Joseph Smith est un prophete, aussi Thomas S. Monson, prophete moderne.
I'm preparing a talk for Sunday, all in French! It's crazy how hard they push you.
Good luck with everything.
Je t'aime,
Elder Holm
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