Stanky Leg

Well, on Monday we caught the boat back to Bastia and it was fun. Some guy on the boat got mad at us because we don't give our money to the poor instead of using it on a plane ticket to Europe. He didn't realize that missionaries are not rich. But that's okay. We got into our room and I ran into the bathroom. When I came out I said, "I hope you didn't have to use the bathroom elder Wilkey. You can only flush once." He didn't believe me and just went anyway.

Since elder Pesnell is in the branch presidency, he got stuck at church all day Tuesday and elder Wilkey and I went and knocked on some doors. We ended up teaching some people so it was a good time.

At zone training last transfer, president promised us that if we role played using the Book of Mormon in our contacts, we would have opportunities to use them during the day. This week it totally worked! I got to share Alma 32 with a lady but she didn't end up inviting us in but it was still a good time. That same day we knocked a door and watched a bear walk around the corner making the lowest growl I've ever heard that shook me to the core. The man answered the door confused and said "the dog let you in? That's surprising!" And then all of the sudden the dog turned into a giant teddy bear and just wanted us to pet it. This further confused the man and he left. The next door, a lady answered and jumped out of her socks. She yelled "what happened?" Like we Erie the police coming to tell her a loved one had died. That conversation didn't go anywhere. Later it started to rain really hard and elder Pesnell said "I'm staying here until I get one more conversation!" We didn't. All we got was really wet.

Elder Pesnell lost the phone and we had to look for it for a long time. Someone ended up finding it and they stuck it in our mailbox.

On Saturday we went to a catholic mass because someone that we knew was getting confirmed. It was a great experience but I was so confused for the most part. I can't believe that I haven't been to a catholic mass before my mission.

We saw the Hansen family who came back to visit and they are awesome. I forgot how much I love to hear little kids pray. I haven't heard it for a long time. Papa Hansen gave a talk in church and it was really powerful. It's hard for me to connect emotion to French because sometimes the words just don't mean anything.

On Sunday I was really determined to find someone. I ran up the stairs to to ladies house and knocked on the door. She came out and I just said "are you sylvie" because I had seen her name on the door and she said yes. After some other random elder underwood phrases, I made her laugh and she said "do you want to come in?" And then we taught her and we will go back again next week. She's really nice and she committed to start praying again. Little miracles like this happen all of the time.

Love you very much,
Elder Marshall Underwood

 Elder Underwood, church member, Elder Hanson, Elder Pesnell, Elder Wilkey

Hansen family picking up their son and visiting the mission

 ALL WET!