September 10, 2010

Salut!

So. Really boring week. Not much happening at all. Except the swine flu is spreading around really quickly. They've got at least 4 elders quarantined - including Elder Allen. I never thought getting the swine flu earlier on in life would help me prepare for a mission. Crazy. We got a whole new bunch of missionaries on Wednesday, one of the most exciting things in the world right now. Also, the hour of free time we have at the end of the day, every able bodied elder is training for the "Falconbury challenge". The challenge is this - whoever can do a pull up with Elder Falconbury on their backs, wins. Falconbury is this really skinny elder from Alabama, weighs 126. Elder Bagnall has gotten the closest.

This week in the TRC was the second week of teaching fully in French. We're really picking it up, except when talking about prophets; I struggled a little with that principle. I ended up telling our "investigator" that E. Mendoza and I were prophets. She looked confused for a second...and asked "Vous AVEZ prophets?" I thought I knew what I was talking about, so I corrected her "No no, Nous SOMMES prophets!" The E. Mendoza looked at me and said in english "Elder Holm we aren't prophets." Embarrassing.

So yeah, it's good to finally get a camera! And I'm dyin to see some pictures of the wedding! How was everyone's labor day weekend? Ours here was the exact same... kind of boring, but good for us.

What else is there to say? Ah.... 16 days left until we hit the field. It's good to hear that Chandler and Noah are getting back into swimming/whatever Noah ends up doing. Carter sounds like he's doing good, and Hayden sounds just peachy, living the dream and whatnot. It's too bad to hear about Kelsey, that's really unfortunate. Yet we all have our purpose here in life, and whatever happens to us, we must know that God is in it. ---I think that's a movie quote from somewhere.... I'll be sending some pictures soon! That sounds hilarious that Kyra is having a family council with her roommates....that'll be fun to hear about! Ha ha. Okay well I don't have much else to say, except send pictures whenever you want; I never get tired of pictures!

Peace be the journey,

Elder Holm