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Hey Everyone!!! Hopefully everything at the home front is going well. It's been pretty hectic out here since I got here. I think the people sent me in at this time because most of my district has at least a couple years of french under our belt so we're way ahead of most of the other districts in our zone. But even at that, my french is coming a long very well. I already know how to pray, bear my testimony, teach the first lesson and a couple other things in french. We are teaching the Plan of Salvation right now but in english. I think I'm ready for all the french that will be going on. My district made a goal within the first week I got here that we would speak french for a whole day and we did it. My head was hurting pretty bad after but I did do it. Today is my P-Day and I'm doing my laundry right now but I got a bunch of other things to do today. For our temple time today, we were asked to go clean from 12:50 til about 4pm today so that will be great. I've never worked in the temple before. I have gone to a couple sessions already. I forgot to talk about my companion. His name is Elder Scrobotovici!! He's from Romania but he speaks perfect english! Maybe better than me. Anyways, He hadn't been able to get his endowments out so the first time he could go into the temple was here in Provo for the first time. So I was able to be his escort as he went through. It was a great experience. But the Provo temple is nothing like the LA or Salt Lake temples. But it was still good. The other two elders in my room are Elder Hess, who is from American Fork and the other is Elder Schroeder, and he's from Germany!! But he speaks pretty good english so we have no problems with communicating with them. Both of them are really cool to be around. Just a couple days ago, most of the older elders left and now in the living quarters, it seems like a ghost town. Most of them were really cool. Some were going to the West Indies and one of them is going to the Congo speaking French obviously. There were three italiens that were going to the France Paris Mission. Two of them couldn't speak much english but they are really fun to be around. One of them was one of the best break dancers in all of Italy, I asked him once I see him out in the Mission field that he will teach me how to break dance. Anyways, overall, everything is going great and I am doing great!! Still need to learn a lot but I have learned so much already. I hope everyone had a great Christmas!! I know I did. We had Elder L. Tom Perry spoke on Christmas day and that was GREAT!!! I got som much out of his talk. The MTC gave us a couple cd's that we could listen to. It snowed a lot on Christmas Eve so we truly had a White Christmas. Well, Until next week everyone. :)-Elder JexI don't think I can attach pics but I'm gonna find out how I can.Aurevoir!!!

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I've seen Nick a couple times since he's been here on Wednesday. I have yet to see anyone from our stake though. It's gotten easier since the first week here though. Cause the first couple days are so hard cause you have no time to rest or sleep other then at the specified time. I'm going to the provo temple later today for a seesion. Anyways, I already can bear my testimony in french along with praying in french and giving a couple talks in french. Mostly everyone in my district has a good background in french so we're going pretty fast compared to other people that don't know anything. Well, Have a fun time with the wedding and Christmas and all. I won't be doing much though. And tell mom that her dear elder letters that she writes do get to me so she can still write me using that. It's alot easier then mailing and using stamps and all. I've seen Dustin and Evan (Marshall's friends) a couple times since I've been here. Evan's class room is in the second level of my building that i go to. Alrighty, gotta go--Elder Jex