The Fellowship

Soeur Carter and Hutchins

French people all tell Soeur Carter and I that we look really tired. There's your French factoid of the day. Then I respond with What are you talking about? Like I do anytime I don't want to admit something. Haha.

 Last Monday we were uninvited to President's house because he wanted to go on vacation. To paraphrase Elder Zenger, All we want is to come over to your house, eat food that you have painstakingly prepared for us, at a time and day that we specify-Is that too much to ask? Je riggole. So instead, we went to the zoo again and Elder Schneider and I played Dance/Star Wars/Eye contact frisbee while my companion was contacting a Chinese man, and the other missionaries were having a picnic. Then, the moment arrived. The jump roping competition that we've been waiting for all transfer. We did it on the grass and it was really rough. But it turns out Elder Johnson and Elder Schneider have been practicing every day all transfer to prepare! That, my friends, is real love. They beat us by a landslide. Elder Johnson came out with a shocking 24 crisscrosses in a row! Oh la. 

We then took a train to Chalon for an exchange. That was a bizarre experience. But also wonderful. Soeur Durante is a new missionary and just afraid to contact, but really wants to. I said I could help with that. Hehe. We practiced in the morning and then all day, I stopped people by saying BONJOUR and smiling expectantly at them so that they had to stop and Soeur Durante had to speak to them before it got too awkward. Funnest day ever. Hahaha. It works better than I expected. We also had a super lesson zero with a guy and our recent convert, Laurent. It was so fun. There are certain people you can be really bold with and it's wonderful. Laurent's mouth dropped open when I asked Arnold to be baptized. It was also Carnival in Chalon, so I bought Soeur Carter a gauffre. We returned and taught Zhifan, our new Chinese ami from the park on Monday.

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Wednesday we spent a good portion of our day watching Plemodie Ayoga braid the bishop's daughter's hair because her mom is white and doesn't know how to do it. We also eased some contention of the family, so that was really good. We met with Zhifan again and also a man named Daniel Francois. He's a philosophy student who is debating about starting his own church some day. We're working on it. We also had a wonderful district meeting with Elder Schneider. He is great. He does so much to prepare to make it the most spiritual experience ever. After, we were crowned the Queens of Lyon, since we won the Olympics. We met with a self-referral named Rebeckah and she is great. Then we taught english class which turned out really good. We taught them commands, played Simon says, and had a few skills presented to us.                                                                                                      One was karate, the other was a chilean dance in which the men "use all of their charm to seduce the ladies". YIKES! We did not teach them those words. The rest of the week was spent in preparation for our Genealogy activity Saturday. Turns out the weather was terrible, so it was kind of a let down. Much better organized, but turned into just a big streetboarding event. Ah well. 

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Here's the news of the transfer-I'm staying in Lyon with Soeur Bentley who is older than me in the mission, and almost as tall as my knees. Haha. She's great. Soeur Carter is starting a new STL equip in Ecully (still in Lyon). But we decided to be in cahoots about everything. Welcome to the Fellowship, Soeur Bentley and Soeur Luthi