Au Revoir Amérique! - Sanford, Maine

 Je pars en Côte d'Ivoire cette semaine! 

Well, this is it. My final week in New England. Next time y'all hear from me I'll be in Côte d'Ivoire!

This week was pretty good! We did a lot of service and I said goodbye to many of the people who we regularly serve with throughout the week. I'm sure I'll have a lot more of those goodbyes over the next few days. 

On Tuesday I went to my first and only Zone Conference here in New England. It was awesome to get to see so many other missionaries in person for once.

I've already had many of my final lessons with our friends. It's hard to say goodbye so soon but I'm so beyond excited to finally get out to Côte d'Ivoire.

Yesterday Elder Greene and I both spoke in Sacrament Meeting! We were asked to talk about Loving Thy Neighbor, the Second Great Commandment. I pulled from many examples of the Savior to talk about how we need a combination of service and forgiveness to follow this commandment. I also got to talk a lot about the early latter-day saints and how their example shows us how to serve and forgive one another. 

At the end of my talk, I was asked to bear my testimony in French. Which is usually an end-of-mission thing but, oh well. So I did my best with my very broken language skills. I'm excited to get out there and really be surrounded by the language. 

This week I finished reading the second volume of Saints. It goes through church history up to the point where the Salt Lake Temple was dedicated. As I said when I finished the first volume, I implore any of you who have not already read them to read them. And any of you who have, reread. There is so much good in knowing the good and the bad of church history. All of the great triumphs and, occasionally, brutal missteps throughout church history have something different and important to teach us.

Today we had district pday and held a little funeral for me and Sister Spencer, who's going home next week. I'm really gonna miss this district. 

Well, I suppose that's all. A week from now I'll be writing y'all from Africa which is, for lack of a better phrase, mind-boggling. I'm so excited to get out there. I'll need all of your prayers for sure. 

Until then! 

Elder Farr :)