Week Five

Bonjour ma famille et toute le monde!!

I have a lot to say this about this week so lets get started. I leave the MTC and 3:30 a.m next Monday. Basically my flight is SLC to NYC (JFK airport) apres que NYC to Paris and Paris to Lyon. All and all it is like over 30 hours of traveling with the layovers. I'm looking forward to it. 

So funny story for the week. So last week on like Wednesday it was quiet time at the MTC. Which is 10:15 and 10:30 pm right before bed. During this time you write in the journal and comp prayer, etc. It was almost lights out which is 10:30 and all of a sudden I hear my companion, Elder Mckee, loudly say "gross". So everyone got out of bed to see what it was. Elder Mckee had seen something and it happened to be bed bugs:) For the 1st month at the MTC we never even noticed. (Gladly I didn't have any that I am aware of.) Some people in our dorm had random blood stains on their mattress that they didn't know what they were coming from. So I guess that the bugs bite and and then you rolled over and they popped. So that night we called someone on the red phone which is in the residence which goes straight to the front desk and told them what was up. They said they couldn't really help us tonight because everyone had left so they sent a police guy down to check it out. When he came he basically told us he would get us other blankets and stuff but that we had to stay in this room and not let anything leave. So my companion and Elder Loveland slept on the floor. Because they were the primary people that had them. After that night we went to the health clinic the next morning and they basically told us we have a P-Day today and that we need to clean everything out of our room and disinfect it with this spray after that we had to shower and just clean everything off and then we would get a new room. So it was kind of crazy. But on the bright side I got to talk with the MTC President for like 5 minutes at the front desk so that was fun. So now that bed bug problem is gone and we are in a new room. I think it is actually a blessing in disguise because we got a bigger room and we packed up everything so it will be really easy when we leave Monday morning.

Well that is the story for the week! My next email will be from FRANCE. I am so excited to go and get immersed in the culture and spread the gospel.

Teaching is coming. It is hard to become a master at teaching but I feel I am learning a lot of good techniques.

Wearing church clothes is the best! They are super comfy and all you have to worry about in the morning is what tie you are going to wear:)

Love you all and next pictures and email will be moi dans France!!!!!

Avec l’amour, Elder Duffy