Today we went to church. It was a wonderful experience. This is a truly international branch, a collection of Lebanese, Americans, French and Armenians. The opening and closing prayers were in Armenian, a sacrament prayer in French, and the speakers (Karma, me and the branch president) spoke English, except for one phrase which I spoke in French. They are all great people, and were very kind to us.
Of particular interest was the French missionary couple who, as it turned out, lived in my mission. Fr̬re Marie, as I knew him, was the district president during the last year of my mission. He moved to Arras shortly after I left there, and was able to give me news on many of the people I knew as a missionary but of whom I had had no news for 30 Р40 years.
After church, we returned to Jessica’s apartment where we called Michael on Skype to wish him happy birthday, and worked on getting caught up on our journals. Then, Karma and Jessica made us a tasty dinner of Quiche Lorraine for dinner, and a couple of small fruit tarts.
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