French Throat

Good morning!

It's a cloudy day here in Bastia and I'm happy to be able to communicate with you all!

This Tuesday started as normal with a meeting with the Vendassi couple. I usually get a little bored in these meetings so my "notes" section in my planner turns into a giant doodle. In this meeting though, Elder Vendassi said that I am getting a really good accent and that my throat is turning French. The secret is to eat so many baguettes that your throat gets confused and thinks that it is French. Just kidding, the real secret is to say the word 'arbre' about a billion times and annoy the heck out your companions. We bounced from that meeting and helped someone move but we were in our church clothes. Elder Hansen ended up spilling sunflower seed oil all over his pants. The game for the rest of the evening was "hide Hansens crotch so it doesn't look like he peed his pants." We totally succeeded I believe and it was quite an accomplishment. After some missionary work, we went home and made cookies for some investigators and finished around 10.

We had a district meeting on Wednesday and the assistants were there. They were a little late and Frère Pesnell decided to do a role play. Basically, when they came in, no one really acknowledged them and we started singing. They were so confused and it was hilarious. Pesnell then got up and talked to everyone in the room except the assistants and then explained that this is exactly not what we should do when we invite people to church. They then realized that it was a joke and we had a good time. I got to go on an exchange with Elder Huntsman and it was fun. He's a great teacher and he had a good time together. I also got to see elder Menzel who was over in Bergerac when I was in Périgueux. It was a good day.

On Thursday we played soccer with some kids. They were nice but kind of scared of religion. We went to visit a less active. Every time we go over, she gives us a yogurt drink. So we each have a cup. But this time, Hansen drank all three cups and it was really  impressive. This night we took cookies to someone and they totally denied them and it made me sad. That's okay though. More cookies for me.

Friday we had a branch movie night at the church. They watched brave but we did our weekly planning.

Saturday we visited one of our Amis. She gave me a drum. It's from Africa.

On Sunday we had 3 of our Amis (literally friends but in missionary terms, investigators) at church and that was an insane miracle. We got to have a class specifically with them! One of them started going off on the most random of topics. I whipped our scriptures that answered her questions very simply but once she got an answer, she asked a different question. I feel like she is one of those people that just wants others to think that she is smart and philosophical. I'll just keep answering her questions with the scriptures until she runs out of them I guess. On Sunday night, elder Pesnell made me feel really good by telling me that I have this facial expression when I teach that immediately makes him feel the spirit. What a guy. I'm having a blast down here. Hansen will go home at the end of the transfer and I think my plan is to just run him into the ground with missionary work before he's released.

That's all folks,
Love,
Elder Marshall Underwood