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Show French LDS Converts find new home l- IF! Referring occasionally to her English-French dictionary, Mrs. Matagne said she hopes to stay permanently because, for one thing, she feels better about the government of the United States than that of France. She said the present French government was turning "pink", halfway between white (Democratic) and red (Communisitic). Tina was a school teacher in her native country, as well as in Viet Nam and Tunisia. She taught her native language as a specialty. Nathalie was born in Viet Nam, where the family stayed from the years 1959 to 1965. Both new residents will be students this fall. Mrs. Matagne will attend SUSC in an effort to obtain a teacher's certificate, enabling her to teach French in Utah. Nathalie will attend Cedar City High. She said she expects school here to be a lot different. "AH the classes will be in English," Nathalie said. "It will be a great change. The school system is different here. Students may study what they like, but in France it is math and science and math and science." Nathalie said she hopes to be a nurse, someday, because "Utah needs nurses and they don't need a French teacher." The Matagnes said they will not be homesick, because they have no relatives in France and they have such good friends in Cedar City. "The Felix Family are so nice to us, they have given us a lot of help. Joseph Felix is Bishop of the LDS 9th Ward, where Mrs. Matagne and Nathalie reside. ' HOPE TO STAY IN CEDAR. Tina and Nathalie Matagne are living in Cedar City after leaving their native France. They are hoping to get permanent residency. It is said that Alexander the Great, in order to inspire his men , to greater efforts, always burned the ships that transported his i soldiers to foreign shores and he always made sure the men saw the burning. Tina and Nathalie Matagne must understand this process of inspiration. Mrs. Matagne and her 15 year old daughter were baptized into the Church of Jesus Qhrist of . Latter-day Saints near Calais, France, in the channel of the ; North Sea, in September of last year. . Earlier this summer they Jfcame to Cedar to visit a sister missionary they had grown close to in their conversions, Rozan Felix. After a few weeks in Utah, they returned to France, whereupon they began to "burn a few bridges." Mrs. Matagne sold her car, all her furniture, everything of value she could fine and she sold it in two days. She then returned to Cedar, arriving August 10th. What did she like so much about Cedar City? "The mountains," Mrs. Matagne confessed. "In France, it was just the sea and the plain." Mrs. Matagne also said she feels a great "security here, different than France." 1 |