May 17th: Calgary Temple

July 17 - Week 3 Phone Miracle and Killer Demons

We had some interesting experiences this week. On Tuesday I had a big boost of energy and spirit that definitely did not come from me, so whoever was praying for me on the morning of Tuesday, July 11 France time, thank you. We had a couple language studies with a member in the ward. He's a native French speaker who's fluent in English and a really great teacher, so he's been a big help with specific questions we have, and also about correcting our accents. Those have been awesome. We had a small miracle with our phone. First off, our phone is oldest, tiniest, most inefficient thing I think I've ever seen. Getting used to that is just about my biggest challange here haha. Anyhow, It has a very small amount of space to store messages and other information. One afternoon, the memory was full, but it was also trying to receive a new message. When we deleted other messages to make space, the incoming message was lost. We had sent a number of messages to many peo...

July 31 - I'm legal, Zone Conference, La Classe

This week we had our first zone conference with the new mission president, President Sorensen. He said a lot of great things, one of them being "don't count the days, make the days count." He was referring to photos missionaries would take of themselves holding a number corresponding with the number of transfers they've had, but that I took that to heart, so I won't be putting the week number on my emails. I was also counting the days each night in my journal (mostly just for memoirs and hitting big landmarks like 100 or 500 or whatever), but I'm not doing any of that anymore. Make the days count. The first entire hour of the conference was solely focused on repentance. He shared a lot of quotes and yadee ya, but my favourite takeaway was when he had us listen to the song "Oh Divine Redeemer," sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He pointed out that it was originally written by a frenchman, Charles Gounod, and it was originally titled simply, ...

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