5 miles, 3 easy and a 2 mile tempo in 10:57.
Also for everyone who wants here is Elder Arnell's weekly email!
Bonjour mes amis, everything is still going good. This week went by fast. I just got done playing soccer with our zone and it was really fun. Temple this morning awesome as usual. On Sunday I had a cool experience. At the temple walk I sang with our zone and it was cool but I didn't get to see any of my friends like last week. We were walking back from the temple walk and I had remembered that my homie Ethan Field was leaving the next day to Sacramento. I said a prayer that I could see him during dinner or something before he left. Two minutes after that, we were standing outside our class room and Ethan walks by and yells baller at me. It was so cool. I got another pic with him and we talked about sitting by each other at the devo and seeing the same movie afterwards. I ended up not seeing him at the devo and he went to 17 miracles and I hadn't seen Character of Christ yet and I really wanted to go to that so it ended up being the last time I saw him. I know it was just a little thing wanting to see one of my friends before he left but I'm thankful that God hears our prayers and blesses us with tender mercies. And Character of Christ by David A Bednar was amazing so if you haven't seen it yet I want you to watch it for FHE or something.
On Tuesday for the devo Bonnie L Oscarson came and she shared some awesome scriptures. Genesis 18:14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? Alma 26:27 Bear thy afflictions and I will give unto thee success. We watched the video of the currant bush and the Gardner by D Todd Christofferson and it talked about he sometimes we need to be cut down even if we don't think so.
This week we taught our new teacher Frere Call, or "Jose" twice and our teacher Soeur Hafen or "Celine" once and they were really good. Our French still isn't anywhere near fluent but we are getting a lot better.
Running since last email: Saturday 5.25, Monday 6, Tuesday 5.5, Wednesday7, Thursday 4.75. This morning after the temple Elder Frostad and I did a two mile tempo around the field. We said to be sub 6 the first mile and then go faster the second mile. Well I got the jitters from not running fast in a while and did a 5:29 first mile, then tried my best to negative split and got 5:27 the second mile, for a 10:57 lol I know its not that great but for no speed and trainers and grass I think its pretty good. I dont know if I said but the mile record was 4:39 and then Ethan shattered it and got 4:24! I dont even know how! Its .96 but still! I gotta attempt to beat it but its gonna be tough.
If any of you want to send me a letter my address is Elder Connor Arnell SEP 12 FRA-PAR 2005 N. 900 E. Unit 114 Provo, UT 84602. I'll be here for a few more weeks.
Love you guys have a great week! -Elder Arnell
Sorry for another email. I forgot to mention that we had our first TRC'S this week. You teach a volunteer that is a member so it's not as big and informative, more like a thought. Well Elder Ho and I didn't have that much planned and sometimes we don't communicate the best so we got into our first fight you could say but it wasn't that much of a fight just some frustration. In our first of two, we were teaching a couple and it was going OK, not great. We were talking about the BOM and then Elder Ho switched over to talking about the plan of salvation. He told them that his mom passed away when he was 7 which he hadn't even told me that before! And that because of the plan of salvation he knows she can be saved and he started crying hard core. Because of that I started tearing up a little bit. We were talking mostly in English by then but we didn't care cuz it was awesome. Our thought was all over kinda but it was OK. So I learned that Elder Ho's dad was a single parent while he was growing up. Crazy stuff. He's so cool. K peace out
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