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| Back in the summer of 1996 I was serving in the East San Jose zone. I had been on my mission for about 6 month at that point and hardly felt qualified to be a trainer.
However President Child, our new president, felt differently. During the August transfer I was assigned a new greeny missionary who was waiting for his visa to Fiji. His name was Elder Ram, I believe from the Oakland area.
Elder Ram was quite worried about forgetting the French language he had been learning the last couple of months in the MTC. He expressed his concern to me quite often those first few days, and I was helpless to aid him since I didn't know French at all.
About 3 days after he arrived in our mission we scheduled an afternoon of door to door tracting. I don't remember for certain how we picked the street we did, but as the afternoon unfolded it became obvious the Lord's hand was at work to aid my greeny.
We went house to house for an hour or so without much success. And then it happened. We knocked on a door and a little old man answered. When I gave him my door approach he just looked at us blankly, and then said something in French. I could hardly believe it as my new greeny was suddenly thrust into a position to use everything he had learned about the French language in the MTC on the spur of the moment.
He did great and over the next month until his visa came through the old man let us go over and visit with him nearly every day. The old man didn't join the church during that time but he greatly enjoyed getting to speak to somebody in his native tongue so often. We had many nice spiritual discussions with him that blessed us all.
To this day I always smile when I think about that month. The old man was the only French speaker I ever met on my mission - during the only time I had a companion who needed desperately to practice his French. |
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