A second letter!!

We got home from Bear Lake Sunday evening and found ANOTHER letter in the mail!  I'm one happy mom!


Bonjour Ma Famille!                                                                            7/11/2013

Sorry if my last letter got to you later than my first day mom.  I can not find time to drop off letters.  Also I haven't been able to receive any mail because it has to be picked up by a District Leader, which we didn't get until tonight.

Which brings me to now...On the second day I have already been made senior companion (because my name starts with a C)  AND I became the District Leader!  So tomorrow I'll be able to get the mail along with all the other Elders' in my district.  Hopefully my wallet is in there somewhere??

Branch counselor Barker was telling me everything to do as a DL and there's so much that I've already forgotten it all.

Elder Lewis and I are supposed to teach our first investigator tomorrow!  ALL in French!  I'm super nervous but I think we can do it!  Learning French is amazing and I'm catching on pretty well.  Elder Lewis and I are going to our first companionship prayer. (en francais!)

Everything is kinda hitting me square in the face still.  There's so much stuff that it's hard, well, impossible to take it all in.  But I'm loving every second of it.

It's incredible how little time I actually have so I'm rushing a lot.  I can write in my journal today, I didn't have time yesterday.

Je vous aime ma famille!
Avec Amour,
Elder Call

The first letter!!!

I told Braden that I wanted him to send me a letter giving me at least a little bit of info if he could the first day.  What a sweet boy!  He did it!  I got his first letter today and it's all the good things a mother wants to hear!


Dear Famille! (Mom)

Wow...This place is so cool!  I'm already having an amazing time!  Also I found Elder Lewis, he's my companion!  We are already best of friends.  I have 6 Elders in my district and they are all in my room so we are all together all the time.  Elder Ashiet from North Carolina, going to D.C., Elder Erickson from SLC, going to Canada, Elder Frosley, Elder Lever, and Elder Lewis and I, all going to Les Antilles.

Our ZL's are awesome!  They were showing us all the cool things around our dorm.  (Including the bouncy ball catapult they built)  They have been here for 12 weeks and are leaving Monday, which is my P-day.

In our major class we had this group teaching of an investigator and Elder Lewis and I were picked to be the examples to teach.  We actually did pretty good!

Our French teacher is Soeur Wilson.  I was the first one in the room and she was talking to me, trying to tell me where to go and I didn't think she could speak English!  So I thought she was taking me the wrong way, but I didn't know how to tell her.  I could understand what she was saying, but I couldn't figure out how to tell her. haha!  When I got to the room after sometime Elder Lewis came in and we became companions.  Then Soeur Wilson started talking in English and I chuckled to myself.

Already I know learning French is going to be awesome!  Those 5 years are already coming in handy.

There's so much stuff to talk about but it's past lights out so it'll have to wait.

...and I think I forgot my wallet, at least I hope I did, but if you see it please send it...haha.  At least it wasn't scriptures right?...right?

I love you so much!
Avec Amor!
Elder Call

MTC Dropoff

It was a hard day, but Braden was ready to go.  We ran into Tyler Child on the way in so they got to walk in together.  Now we just have to wait to hear from him!

Of course we couldn't have some sort of story to tell...When we got to Salt Lake Brianna asked, "Why is Braden's wallet on the seat?"  Nice.  At least he didn't leave his scriptures like Jordan did!  I guess they let him in without ID because we didn't get a call to come and pick up an imposter!

                                               
                                           

The farewell...June 23, 2013