It's super cool here and I had a good week. I'm speaking French with people a lot (not as much as I should but it'll come) and understanding a lot more. The language is coming slowly but surely, and it's so cool to converse with people in another language!
I'm learning how to intelligently pretend like I know what's going on, and understand the general drift of the conversations. Haha, but I can actually carry on! It's cool, and it's coming more and way better all the time.
It's fun here in Tarbes, it's a pretty small town with not a ton of people, and we walk everywhere. My feet kill me at the end of each day, but I'm getting some killer calves in the process :)
I've seen a lot of cool buildings here and a park with tons of ducks and peacocks and geese (Jardin Massey is the park), and have been trying some French pastries. The cookies here are amazing, they're so full of butter and glazed and I'm in heaven. My favorite treat so far is the Pain au Chocolat, which is just a flaky bread with chocolate in it.
So good! Haha, anyways, we've been teaching a lot of our less active members and it's been really cool to get to know all of them. They are all super friendly and cool and have us over, and we've actually been over to member and less active's houses like every couple days which is awesome. Normally in France you don't get a lot of meals, but we've seen lots and I'm told I'm very lucky :)
To share an experience, I'll just talk about teaching in church. We had a good amount of members at church, about 25 (our branch is really tiny, so 25's a good #!) and we got to coteach the lesson. It was cool, b/c I've learned a lot in my personal studies here that keep getting confirmed with other goals I have, and I got to share some of the things I found out with worked perfectly with the lesson. I bore my testimony in the lesson as well as in sacrament meeting, our main meeting in church(once a month people are allowed to come up and bear their testimonies and share experiences at church, it's always a really cool experience). I feel like my testimony's grown so much since I got here, and is growing more all the time.
Love you all and hope that the next week is amazing!
Glad to hear the boy is eating! Uncle David had to have Omar the tent maker make his next suit after three months in the field !
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