| As a new missionary serving in the old Rue de Lota Mission Home (as mission bookkeeper, 1956), I tried to comfort the caretakers, brother and sister Fargier. (This is the same famous brother Fargier who helped keep the Church alive in France during the Second World War.) In their sing-song midi accent, this older couple recounted their sorrows and difficulties to me. In my broken French, I told them that their efforts were truly appreciated and that they "needed love." Upon hearing the latter, they broke down sobbing. You see, in my broad American accent, it sounded to them like I had told them, "Vous avez besoin de la mort!" Obviously, I had to do some fancy foot stepping to get out of that one. Elder M. Gary Hadfield, submitted to the former site |
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