July 26, 2024 


Bonjour everybody!

This week was amazing and we started full french lessons. This past week the language fully hit me French is a lot different than what I thought it would be! Our teacher Brother Forward doesn't speak any english to us during the lesson. He's a super amazing guy (there's a photo of him at the bottom). 

All the candy is absolutely wild in the United Kingdom. The skittles taste like starbursts and the red doritos are actually called chili heatwave and they are actually pretty good. But the best thing is a boost bar! A boost bar is a mash up of of milky way and a twix it is genuinely incredible! 

The mtc as a whole is actually pretty fun. (The food is ok). The other missionaries are from everywhere in the world. There's kids from Luxembourg, New Zealand, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, Austria, Pakistan, Switzerland, Sweden, Australia, Slovakia, Brazil, South Africa, Ireland, Tahiti, Thailand, Philippines, Poland, UK, United States and Germany. But it truly makes it so fun to talk to everybody and find out what they love and talk about. 

   This week was a lot of French, but during our personal study I was able to read the miracles that Christ performed on the earth and they all tie into "Aime" which is the french word for love! So I did some digging on the church website and found this: "We solemnly proclaim that God loves His children in every nation of the world."  My eyes have been opened to the grandeur of this world these past two weeks and to the love of our Heavenly Father. Not just in my own life, but in the lives of my friends from around the world. He cares for each and every one of us and loves us perfectly.

au revior - Elder Smith



                                                                Brother Forward, my MTC teacher

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