MTC Letter #7

Hey, what's up? Lots of stuff has been goin on here! I have a really good story. OK, it all starts Monday at the lgm or large group meeting. We go once a week with like 100 kids and the same old guy teaches us pretty much straight out of preach my gospel. We normally end up falling asleep cause it's right after we eat breakfast. So right after it starts Elder Scott, our district leader is all of a sudden crouched behind my chair tapping on my shoulder. The meeting is going so we're tryin to be quiet and he sais "y'all (me and davis) have to leave right now go back to the residence and change into the most conservative ties you have and gel your hair and just look really nice- then meet the rest of us back in the class to clean the room spottless." We were like 'what the heck'! He had been called to the front desk and he got like this huge lecture on what our district needed to do because the French Ambassador is "gonna be in your classroom in one hour"! We were freaking out. We were all way excited when we got back to the classroom. We were all cleaning. We had to take down our no loafing signs (pas de flannage dans le coullour) and stuff like that. We were all lookin sharp. The main travel guy from the MTC was sticking his head in every 5 minutes completley nervous telling us what to do and what not to do. He was explaining how important this was because the reason he was coming is because of all the visas we need for the missionaries. He said that they come like every 10 years maybe so this is huge! They kept saying that he was gonna be later and later and our teacher was out of town for the first time since we have been here so we had another teacher with a fake lesson all written on the chalk board so when he came it would look like he interruped some serious learning. They had all the other missionaries go to their rooms and stay there. They couldn't even come out to go to the bathroom or anything cause he was only coming to our room. Finally they travel director person came in and said he was too late and not coming. We were so bummed. We went and ate and stuff but after lunch the same guy stuck his head back in and said "the plot thickens". He said he was coming back. We were all so excited so we have the same all over again getting ready and stuff. By now it was almost time for Frere Collette to be there so someone called him and told him to run and he RAN from his class at byu. It was so funny. He was all out of breath but he was so excited. We hadreally felt bad when we thought he wasn't gonna be there. So that worked out and we go a real lesson this time instead of the fake one. He finally came. It was awesome. He looked so French and he had all of his people with him- like 5 guys. He was the perfect french guy. He had gray wavy long hair. We all stood up when he came in. It was very formal and his wife came, too. She was also very French looking. She had on like these green pants and a bright red suit top with this huge scarf with it tied in some huge complex boy scout knot. It was funny. I could actually understand what he said but our teacher said he slowed down alot when he talked for us. It was so cool. We all introduced ourselves in french and said where we're from and going. That was cool then we all had some questions we could ask him but he didn't have that much time. So we asked him were we should go for good sight seeing and asked about the people and his favorite city. Then he had to leave and this is the best part. I had my question I hadn't asked yet so before he leaves I say, " J'ai une question pour vous tres vit Quel fromage est votre prefere"- what's your favorite cheese? He laughed and said it was a hard question. He said that their president or whatever they have said to him once," How are you supposed to rule a country that has a type of cheese for every day of the year?" So we all laughed of course cause he kind of chuckeled. He finally decided that goat cheese from the south of france was his favorite but what he said next was the best. He continued, "the real problem is finding the right wine to go with the cheese". It was awesome but kind of awkward. The thing was is that it was my question so he is still looking at me! So I just nodded my head and said "oui". hahaha it was so funny. I wasn't about to say anything. The thing is that day he met with the Governor of Utah, the first presidency of the church and the presidency of BYU. I figued if Monson didn't take the time to say anything about how we don't drink wine, I wasn't about to say anything. So i just nodded my head. It was so funny we all laughed after he left with his group of very important looking guys. So that's my story. All the other districts were jealous . Oh yeah i got your thing in the mail-the ties were very ugly but in here ugly is good. Thanks keep lookin for more. That's cool that y'all had fun on vacation. oh...I got my flight plans so that was really awesome and exciting. We leave the 9th at 6:00 in the morning then get there at 11:45 the 10th. That's a long time on the plane. We go to Salt Lake then Atlanta then Paris then Toulouse. I'll probably send y'all back some stuff before I go. I'm getting that shot soon i think. Everything is good. I hope you get this ok it's a long email. Tell everyone I said hey! I'm excited to leave! Taylor