3,000 Onions

Hello everyone,

This week on Monday, I was sitting on the beach and I watched a wave come in that dropped off a beautiful shell. I've never ran so fast to get something. I got it.

Tuesday was a really good day because we went up into the mountains to help one of our friends plant onions! There were 10 people there and 30,000 onions to plant for the day. It was fun! Basically imagine 10 people sitting on horses but then take away the horses and make them stand like that for hours while bending down to plant onions. There were a couple girls there and one of them was flirting with me with her eyes and it was a weird moment because sometimes I forget that normal people do that kind of thing. I just went back to planting onions and destroying my hamstrings. That not, we taught a guy named Emmanuel that told us to come back. He's a professional guitarist. The lesson went great and then afterwards he played for us!

Wednesday was a good day and we got on the boat to leave to the continent. It got windy outside and so we all went in. Sister Vendassi asked if we are allowed to proselyte on the boat and we told her no so she was sad. I wanted to see Corsica so I went outside on the deck. Brother Vendassi stood there explaining it. We saw a lady walk by and she did a 180 and headed straight for us. She asked if we were pilots and I said "no, we are missionaries, he's just explaining a little bit of the island to me." She went o to explain that her son just finished his pilot training and they were heading home. We talked a little bit more about that and a little more about what we were doing there and it was nice. The conversation then got to a point where I expected them to say have a good night and walk away. But then, taking me by surprise, elder Vendassi said "he holds the priesthood, I hold the priesthood, we can bless you." They said that would be cool and he replied, "now?" Before I knew it I was leading her and her son inside to receive a priesthood blessing. It was an amazing experience and they really felt blessed to have met us.

Thursday was spent in aix kinda getting ready for the conference and doing some other missionary stuff. Really not big stuff. Except elder Hansen ate two giant. Burritos and it was remarkable.

Friday was a zone conference. It was really fun to see a lot of people that I didn't think I would see again and also president brown. It's amazing to me the love that missionaries have for their mission president. They always hold a big spot in their hearts. We didn't get any pictures because he conference went a little long and people had to leave but that's okay. Elder Hansen gave his final testimony and it was really good. I also heart elder Quinn who was in the Bordeaux zone with me bear testimony and it made me cry a little bit. We drove back to our boat and instead of leaving at nine, it left at midnight. Oh well.

Saturday was memorable because a lady told us to go..... Hmm. Those aren't appropriate words. If you translate what she said to us from French, it's really close to "go make yourselves lightning" but that's with changing one letter in the French sentence. Oh well I think you probably get the point, but if you don't I'm sorry.

Sunday was a beautiful day of knocking on doors in the rain. It is such a foreign concept to me now that people can just cancel plans because of bad weather.

Love bunches,
Elder Marshall Underwood

The sunset in Toulouse

 Sleeping quarters on the ferry

 Monday emails

Gets a little cold outside