the friendzone and a word of wisdom (September 30, 2019)

bon-flippin-jour mes homies ,

as you can tell I am writing from a computer and am incredibly bored. as you can see from the new font and the weird text sizes. I apologize in advanced for any spelling errors because the computer is trying to auto correct my english into French. 

This week was okay. a couple funny things happened. 

I have been not satisfied with life the way it currently is so instead of showering with the lights on I have been experimenting by either just showering in pitch blackness (really trying to become a well rounded person, side note: working on developing the skill of echo location. so If you get any weird letters about me screeching. chill it is for science) but also the other thing I have been doing is lighting off all of the birthday candles from Elder Fund's birthday as a source of light. Showering in candle light is pretty cool. keeping life moving. 

We visited a less active member this week and the lesson was really good we just shared this chart about the atonement and the fall. however the funny/sad part of the story is after our lesson, she leans over to me and asks a question. She said in french 

"Elder Bélanger, are we allowed to eat porc?" 

Then I look hecka confused, as I am sure that you all would... then I answered 

"uhm yes Sœur Cardon we can eat porc?" 

so then we go into this like tangent discussion about the word of wisdom and the law of moses. and to make the long story short. One of the missionaries who taught and baptized her (in '86) had told her that a part of the word of wisdom was to keep the law of moses and not eating pork. she was very happy to learn that she can actually have ham sandwiches which are a staple of french culture. That was such a sad yet funny part of the week.

the other really funny part of the week was when one of our Ami's friendzoned her guy friend, during our lesson. I was dying on the inside. We welcomed them to the chapel and we had Gilles with us as our member because we didn't expect there to be another male with us. So when she showed up with another male we were all surprised and so Elder Hill asked " is this your boyfriend?" and then she goes "No just a friend. just a friend..." it was pretty awkward and funny.

Uhm. I wrecked on my bike yesterday. it was wet and I was bombing a master hill, I was going into a round about and there were two cars coming and so I hit my brakes. and my back brakes weren't working SUPER well and so I slightly apply my front breaks (the proper application, I didn't go flying over the handle bars.). Then my back tire slides out from under me and I am laying in a round about with my bike on top of me and two cars are just looking at me. I tore up my shirt and am all broken. I broke my phone screen as I tumbled. yeah. :(

anyways hope everyone had a good week. remember that we aren't expected to follow the law of moses. you can eat ham. please don't friendzone your guy friends in front of me. I will not be able to hold it together. love you all

avec amour ,

ab