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July 10: Week 2 (1.5 really) avec le Tour de France. Ooooooooo

This week was good, we had several appointments with members and amis and stuff like that, which meant more opporunities to teach and share experiences, and also more opportunites to speak and hear legitimate French. I get lost frequently, but I can already feel myself improving, being able to understand more of what people say. Each of our visits have been quite spiritually uplifting, the people have responded with hope and gratitude, and several have shared unique and personal experiences from their lives. It'd be great if I could understand those experiences haha, but they were sincere and crying sooooo hopefully that's good. I understand bits and pieces and words and feelings.  We we leaving a members home, and she asked if we wanted any onions to take home. I meant to say "no thank you, we have some onions" (non merci, on a des oignons), but instead I said "no thank you, we are some onions" (non merci, on est des oignons). They thought that was pret...

July 3: Je suis arrivé en France

Well a ton has happened. We flew into Paris, had some fun with a Sister's lost passport, and were greeted by President and Sister Babin, who are no longer the president of the mission. So it was good to at least meet them. First thing in Paris, they broke us in with some contacting in Paris--they paired us with a more senior missionary and sent us out. That was weird at first, but was good overall. I was expecting more of a negative response. The French people I'm met so far are quite surprised when a stranger stops them to talk, but once the French people get talking, they get taaaaallllkking. It'd be great if I could understand haha. At the MTC I felt pretty confident with the language, but I got here and couldn't understand a word. The accent, the speed, the phrasing is all different, which I was kind of expecting, but not to the same degree. They can understand when I speek, but I miss a lot when they speek. For example, we knocked on this lady's door and I unde...