Food Coma

Bonjour! 

Tuesday we went out to the city Argentiers to help a member with her garden. It is the same one that we stacked wood for last week. This week she had us cleaning out a garage area and then setting up a play set. It went pretty well. That evening we had a dinner appointment with some Congolese members. It is sad that a majority of you reading this will not have the opportunity to ever attend one of these because they are something else. They make a ton of food and tell you to eat it all. They just keep serving you and there is no stopping them. Incredible. Additionally there are no forks or knives. According to frere Kabongo you should only ever be using your "fourchette naturelle" (natural fork) or in other words, your hands. We had foo foo (I have no idea how to spell that), vegetables, potatoes, chicken, and bean stew. The only way to survive an african dinner appointment is to not think, frere Kabongo says "il faut pas le calculs, il faut manger" (it isn't necessary to calculate, its necessary to eat). 

Wednesday I was still trying get over the food coma I was in because we had exchanges with the Calais elders followed by Valenciennes on Thursday. Both exchanges went pretty well.

Friday we were in Dunkirk for a finding day. I was able to find a french family (which out here is a miracle) that was interested while going door to door with Elder Wagner. 

Saturday we were in Valenciennes for another finding day. The best part of the day was when they took us to an American candy store for one of the breaks throughout the day. It was incredibly good. 

Sunday we had church and then I skyped home. For those of you not in contact with my family, they are doing great and you have to check out James's hair. It is some of the best flow I have ever seen. Haha. 

The work is still focused on finding. I will let you know when we have some solid people.  

Have a great week. God bless

Elder Hein