Another Letter!

Bonjour ma famille!

Another week has come and gone. I still don't understand how it can feel like the days last forever but the weeks fly by. But here i am starting my third week. so i guess i'll start off by talking about thanksgiving  It was a super relaxing day because we didn't have class. Elder Holland came and spoke at the devotional. He brought his family and made some of his grandchildren do musical numbers and bear testimonies. I'm glad that my grandpa isn't an apostle who would make me speak in front of the whole mtc. Elder Holland gave a great talk on being thankful about the blessing of living at this time on the earth and how we have so much and that the gospel wont be taken away again. We had a big thanksgiving dinner (at lunch) and then we did a service project where we put together health and school kits for kids in Africa. Later that night we had a weird thanksgiving program thing. It was pretty bizarre  i'm not gonna lie. After that we ate popcorn and watched the movie 17 Miracles. On Sunday Stephen B. Allen (not a general authority  I think he helped put together preach my gospel or something) came and talked to us. He showed us a bunch of old Mormon commercials. We watched Andy's favorite one with the sad little kid eating cereal (ask ash or Andy and they will show/ explain it to you.)

We've been teaching alot more and I can finally pray, bear testimony, and teach basic principles in french without using notes. i feel like i've learned way more in these past 2 weeks than i did in 2 years of highschool french. I love how you learn so much and constanltly feel the spirit at the mtc. I still see more and more elders and sisters from PG. I think i've seen like 20-25 people i know. Crazy. We finally found the alarm clock that was hidden in the celing and going off at 3:00 every morning. I climbed up on the ironing board and looked around in the celing with a flashlight. Oh the joys of the mtc. They still haven't told us when we are glying out to the consulate but i think it should be sometime next week.

Anyway, I love you all and hope all is going well. Thanks for all of the letters. I was going to pick up some envelopes and stamps at the store but i decided to sleep instead. You're constantly tired here and it can be especially hard during the sunday meetings. Anyway, until next week.

L'amour, Elder Swenson