6 weeks down, four to go!

This week has been pretty good, nothing too exciteding has happened
except for had President Packer come and talk to us on Easter Sunday.
It was great to hear him talk about the Savior and his love and
sacrifice for us and how we can best be representatives of him.

I had a good Easter Sunday we went to an MTC wide sacrament meeting
where president Packer spoke and then had a Testimony with our
branches afterwords. It is amazing how much I love all the people in
our zone. We for sure have the best zone we are all so close and have
such a great time together. We also got to hear the Byu Mens Chorus on
Sunday they did a great job singing and inviting the spirit. Every
sunday night we get to watch a video so I watched the First Vision and
the Vision of Kirkland. Its so nice to get to just sit back and relax
for a little bit while watching the videos.

My french is still slowly getting better. I find that I am getting
better and speaking about the gospel but still have a really hard time
in regular conversation. I know that it is because we are always
talking about the gospel and that the other will come when I get to
France which is 4 weeks from yesterday. I am so excited but scared to
go all at the same time.

Today at the temple elder burningham and I had the opportunity to go
and be a part of sealings. We are allowed to be witnesses and sons in
the sealings and it was such a great experience and I really enjoyed
hearing the promises we receive when we are sealed as families. What a
wonderful gift. We also ate at the cafeteria today in the Provo
temple. It sure was nice to get outside food. I am getting so sick of
the mtc food that I am losing weight which i guess is a good thing.

Another exciting thing that happened is we are now investigators so
one of the companionships in our district will teach us and we are
supposed to pick someone we know who is not active and base our
character off this person. I am excited to be the investigator and be
able to learn all about the way other missionarys teach. I hope I
learn something and that this will help me improve my french.

Well things are good and I hope all of you are doing well.

Here is a portion of my testimony in french:

Mon témoignage:

Je sais que l'évangile de Jésus-Christ est vrai et que le prophete
Josheph Smith retabli l'evangile par la pouvoir de Dieu. Je sais que
Jésus-Christ est notre sauver et rédempter et que il a souffert pour
nos péché alor nous pouvon retourner a vivre avec Dieu. Dieu est notre
Père Cèleste et il nous aime. Je sais que nous pouvon par the
expiation et le plan de salut, retourner avec notre famille a Dieu et
recevoir vie éternelle. Je sais que L'eglise de Jésus-Christ de saint
de dernier jour est vrai.


Love, Elder Lerdahl