May the Force Be With You

ASK the missionaries!

French fact-They are wonderful at preparing for church. They all bring their own manuals and read and study the lessons in advance. Step it up, America.

Jedi Council this week. Elder Dean was there-I'd met him once, but I've heard lots of stories. He's really intense I guess is the only way to word it. He talks like a basketball game announcer? That one. Well last Jedi Council he saw my basketball scripture case and we talked a little bit about it. Apparently all you need to do to be friends with him is to be intense about the game. Which I am. As Soeur Hulmes put it, Congrats. You are the only sister in the mission that Elder Dean respects. Sweet. Speaking of basketball, the Assistants also play and organized their part of the meeting like a game. We had two teams of missionaries and we had hour long sessions of practice with the new questionnaire we are using to contact. The two hour sessions were separated by a half time where we talked about it, calculated points, etc. It was awesome. And my team creamed Elder Dean's. Then we all went out for pizza. That was well deserved. If you don't understand, just imagine a crazy girl in a yellow raincoat sprinting from person to person, high energy and full of the spirit for two straight hours. Then we were going to be late getting back, so we sprinted for ten minutes all the way back to the office. I did it in a skirt and 1.5inch heels. By the end of the first ten minutes, you're exhausted. Virtue literally parts from your body. So that was fun.

We're still teaching Zhifan and he has a baptismal date and is wonderful. One day we asked if he had any questions and he didn't. He said maybe Chinese people are just really bad at thinking profoundly about things. He came to church and he and Frere Vincent HIT. IT. OFF. Like they're going out to dinner this week hit it off. Who'da thunk? Not I said the Little Red Hen. Speaking of hens, on our exchange we were running around like chickens with their heads cut off. We barely made every train. We saw the whole Voisin family (and Fr Voisin came to church!) and also the Ayogas, who are apparently preparing for the temple. Then we saw Fr Galibourg for dinner. 

We had raclette. This is a wonderful French tradition. I got back with my colleague just in time to teach Zone Training together. Planned it in five minutes beforehand and it went really well. Essentially we were the only ones who taught (normally it's the ZLs) but they were teaching about the questionnaire and so they did a five minute presentation and then told everyone to go practice. Another hour of contacting. Which would be great if we had time to meet with these people. This questionnaire is literally magic. If you are a missionary, use this. Contacting efficiency is increased a thousand percent. Shoutout to Papa Bentley who probably found and is reading my blog by now. Welcome. 

We met with a cool guy named Laurent this week. His hair is kind of weird, but he is really interested and really smart. So that's fun. I'm reading Genesis right now. If you want a fast paced read full of deception, adventure, love, and religion, this is the book for you. In other news, Soeur Bentley brought her Jillian Michaels workout here. There are three levels. For those who know Jillian Michaels, she has a 3-2-1 program (3m strength, 2m cardio, 1m abs and repeat). I made my own program called Jillian Michaels 1-2-3, where I increase the level every day and repeat. It's awesome. We helped the assistants make a movie for the mission on how to use the questionnaire so that they can regard it at Zone Conference in a few weeks. So that about wraps it up. Love.