2000 July 9 Sunday

Blessed and lucky!

I'll sleep tonight at the Hotel Beacon with Mom and my sisters and a few of our friends. I always end up as the only guy among a lot of girls, and I love it!

I just receive a pillow, a towel, a bar of soap and a bottle of shampoo. Now all I need is sleep.

I attend the Manhattan 1st Ward's sacrament meeting and encounter a couple from the Paris Ward. Our conversation comes to me in fluent French after I leave the building.

My French host mother Sylvie de Martene writes a letter to my American parents. Je suis emu.

Thanks to my advertising gig, the Guggenheim Museum is free for me.

My mom buys me a baguette.

I watch Friends.

I have good talks with my father and my Heavenly Father.

Blessed and lucky and grateful!