I'm sure that's what all you Frenchies out there will be thinking about this email.
[Title may reference this Gravity Falls clip.]
17 March 2025
大家好!Hello Friends!
Imma be honest, I've been pretty cooked
today due to a fabulous experience throwing up and dry heaving all of
yesterday evening & last night. So I don't feel like writing a ton
this week. Here's the highlights tho:
I had the noodle dream this
week! ...almost. I dreamt that I had to conduct the Mandarin Ward's
Fast Sunday meeting, and I remember speaking a lot of real Mandarin in
the dream! Crazy.
Sundays have been wild. See above for exhibit A. Exhibit B happened the week before when Sunday included the following:
- meeting a bunch of new members
- giving an impromptu 15 min talk about the Book of Mormon at the Assisted Living Center
- trying to call everyone in the ward to help a non-member youth get a ride to the Stake Youth Activity
- stopping by a family in-person to see if we were supposed to have dinner with them in an hour, because they had no phone number
- being asked to play piano for the Spanish ward baptism taking place 90 minutes later
- going to said dinner
- attending said baptism
- getting called by confused youth who got the wrong address to give a ride to the non-member
- going to the the Stake Youth Activity to apologize to the confused youth
- getting an anxious call asking why I wasn't on the mission Zoom call giving the presentation on D&C 19 that I did not prepare.
- my phone dying in the middle of said Zoom call
And all of this made me ask the old philosophical question: "Who's driving this flying umbrella?"
We
saw Elder Gary E. Stevenson and others at a REAL mission meeting on
Friday. . . . I really wish I had more to say here; it was a good
experience, but I can't quite say what was marvelous about it. Maybe it
was the fact that they gave profound and helpful answers covering many
topics in response to more specific and less helpful questions.
Read
2 Nephi 2! It's super good. I found a cool parallel in verse 11 where
misery is the opposite paired with both "holiness" and "happiness." Does
that mean they have the same meaning? Or the same result? Is the
secret that by becoming holier, we naturally become happier? Read!!
Thanks everyone! See you next time.
Stay Warm Everyone! Love you all!
Elder Baer 熊长老
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Random experiences while knocking on doors
Super good Chinese food with a 87 year old Gangster of a member
Marlinspike Hall?!? [Captain Haddock's country house and family estate in "The Adventures of Tintin," based on the Château de Cheverny]