The Long and Winding Road....to Paris

Hey Everyone,

Not a whole not new here at the good old MTC. We got a bunch of new
Frenchies or French speaking missionaries this last Wednesday. They are
all pretty nice and I have really enjoyed getting to meet them and see
what they are like. Its amazing to think that, that was me 7 weeks
ago. Time here goes so slow for days and so fast for weeks. One thing
that is cool is tomorrow i get to be a host missionary. It will be
kind of odd but i am really looking forward to it.

this last week was pretty normal we taught the usual amount of lessons
and I actually found that the commandments like law of chastity and
word of wisdom are not that hard to teach. my one teacher told me I am
very blunt and to the point when it came to the commandments and that
it was a good thing. The highlight of the week was definitely one of
two things. One they opened the field outside for us to use during gym
time. Sand volleyball is my new favorite thing because its feels so
good to have no shoes on in the sand and the sun is awesome. the other
highlight is my zone started to get travel plans. We have elders
leaving on the 3rd 4th 7th and 8th. i leave on the 7th but don't have
travel plans yet. I am hoping that today is the day.

It has been super hard to focus on studying and what not because we
leave soon but a quote by one of our speakers has stuck with me. "are
you waiting to leave or are you preparing to go" It has really stuck
with me. I think it applies to all the pre-missionaries as well ahem
Tanner and Brady ... Anyways I am doing my best to study hard and
learn this language and its crazy past participles and imperfect past.
Who new that learning french would make me understand English better.

Well that's all for this week Things are going well and I can't wait to
get out there are start talking to the people of France.

Love you all,  Elder Lerdahl