15 avril 2010 (Day 227)
Today was a lovely morning. The Garon’s dinner table faces their backyard in which there is a gorgeous blossoming cherry tree. I ate by myself this morning (possibly a good thing since my hot chocolate boiled over in the microwave) and had toasted baguette again. I went and checked the bus schedule and while I was gone Joel started the dishes. I eventually convinced him (after much lamenting and lip pouting) to let me do the dishes.
I then headed off to teach Andrea again. She is the cutest girl! Today we went over about two dozen of some of the most basic verbs and we also went over clothing articles. I got home in time to catch the end of lunch, potato and egg omelet and salad. We then had fromage blanc with chestnut spread for dessert. Hannah and I baked our oatmeal raisin and our chocolate chip cookies in our wonderful not-very-French-but-more-American totally awesome oven. The oatmeal cookies had a little too much flour, but the chocolate chip cookies turned out PERFECT. Elder Maxfield did a jaw drop when he saw them.
After we made cookies we went for a walk with Anne. They have this really nice large park/green area just down the street from them with lots of wildflowers and walking paths. We walked by a pond and heard the toads croaking and it was beautiful. Anne was telling us how in May they can hear the toads from their house because it is their mating season. How she said it in French made it sound more like people making love that you can hear and it was just very funny. We walked for a couple miles and then we headed back to the house because the missionaries were coming for dinner.
I went to meet them at the bus stop. Bless their hearts, they missed the stop. I walked to meet them by the next one and took them to the house. The new elder is named Elder Ford. He has red hair and a long crooked nose. He comes from California where his dad is the ward mission leader so he has been on splits before. Bless his heart he is so confused in France and doesn’t really speak any French. I admire his efforts though. Elder Bourgeois didn’t get to play his joke that he was French because when Elder Ford got to the apartment Elder Bourg’s nose was bleeding so he was speaking in English to be better understood. Elder Maxfield is going to be a good father to his son Elder Ford. It was fun watching them give the lesson. You could tell that Elder Maxfield had prepared Elder Ford and where he would participate. Elder Maxfield gave the lesson about trials in this life and how they help us to grow.
Papa Joel made a humongous stack of crepes for dinner. We showed Elder Ford how to eat crepes and that he should not put sugar on nutella crepes. He liked them and he definitely appreciated the speculoos (spelling) which the Elders have decided tastes like cinnamon teddy grahams. My personal favorite creation was speculoos with bananas and whipped topping.
Once the Elders left we had a little music fest as the girls. Anne brought out two jambays and a guitar. Hannah, Anne, and I played the guitar (as a guitar and as a drum). At first we would beat out rhythms and then we started singing as well. Anne taught us an African song and Hannah and I started singing Primary songs to the beat. It was kind of like beat poetry/singing improve, but with the lyrics already decided. We played until we were all exhausted.
I tried calling my dear family yet again, but they did not want to talk to me. I then called my best friend Amber! It was so good to hear her voice. I really think she is my sanity some days. Poor soul can’t run because her lungs are still yucky from her pneumonia. We talked for a little bit and I ate some of my amazing cookies!
Friday, April 16, 2010
Day 226: Goldilocks at the Garon's
14 avril 2010 (Day 226)
This morning was great. I had papa Garon teach me how he makes his hot chocolate in the morning (in a ginormous bowl!...it is like Goldilocks with Anne and her tiny bowl and Joel with this giant bowl the size of my head). I also had some toasted baguette with jam which was delicious. We listed to The Who while we waited for the chimney sweep to come (can we say exactly like Mary Poppins!) and then the Garon’s headed out to go visit some family friends leaving me and Hannah to not burn down the house. We watched Les Choristes, a great French film that I recommend and then had leftovers for lunch. Hannah had the leftover couscous and carrots and I had some cabbage/carrot/potato/sausage yummy leftoverness.
I then went to grab stuff from Fresche-Blanc (our university housing) while Hannah slept. I also took a shower and bought the ingredients to make cookies because Hannah and I decided that we want to make cookies for the Garons. While at my house I had one of my Magnum ice cream popsicles and it was incredible (Erik was right about Magnum ice cream). I got back to the Garon’s around 5pm and Hannah and I made chocolate chip cookie dough and oatmeal raisin cookie dough as well. I tried calling some of my family/friends but didn’t have much luck. I did eventually get a hold of Aunt Becky and I talked with her for several minutes.
The Garon’s came home and I helped make our dinner. It was simply steamed veggies with a soy bean (not like Chinese soy sauce) white sauce and cheese. We read our scriptures together afterwards and I called Grandpa Keeley and spoke with him for a little bit. He seemed to be doing well, but is wanting to go home when he is more mobile. I convinced/coerced/got Joel to play some games with Hannah and me. We first played this game where you try to visit different cities in France (it was mediocre) and then we played this awesome brain game called labyrinth in which you are always moving pieces and trying to get to certain objects in the labyrinth. I really liked it.
This morning was great. I had papa Garon teach me how he makes his hot chocolate in the morning (in a ginormous bowl!...it is like Goldilocks with Anne and her tiny bowl and Joel with this giant bowl the size of my head). I also had some toasted baguette with jam which was delicious. We listed to The Who while we waited for the chimney sweep to come (can we say exactly like Mary Poppins!) and then the Garon’s headed out to go visit some family friends leaving me and Hannah to not burn down the house. We watched Les Choristes, a great French film that I recommend and then had leftovers for lunch. Hannah had the leftover couscous and carrots and I had some cabbage/carrot/potato/sausage yummy leftoverness.
I then went to grab stuff from Fresche-Blanc (our university housing) while Hannah slept. I also took a shower and bought the ingredients to make cookies because Hannah and I decided that we want to make cookies for the Garons. While at my house I had one of my Magnum ice cream popsicles and it was incredible (Erik was right about Magnum ice cream). I got back to the Garon’s around 5pm and Hannah and I made chocolate chip cookie dough and oatmeal raisin cookie dough as well. I tried calling some of my family/friends but didn’t have much luck. I did eventually get a hold of Aunt Becky and I talked with her for several minutes.
The Garon’s came home and I helped make our dinner. It was simply steamed veggies with a soy bean (not like Chinese soy sauce) white sauce and cheese. We read our scriptures together afterwards and I called Grandpa Keeley and spoke with him for a little bit. He seemed to be doing well, but is wanting to go home when he is more mobile. I convinced/coerced/got Joel to play some games with Hannah and me. We first played this game where you try to visit different cities in France (it was mediocre) and then we played this awesome brain game called labyrinth in which you are always moving pieces and trying to get to certain objects in the labyrinth. I really liked it.
Day 225: What Time Is It?
13 avril 2010 (Day 225)
I love eating breakfast with French people! It is so much fun. I had museli and some bread with honey before Hannah and I left to catch the bus at 9:30. I had an English lesson that I was teaching at 11am and I had to figure out where it was. Poor Hannah was crying because it hurt so bad by the time we got off the tram at Commerce (we first took a 30 minute bus ride). It turns out she had forgotten to take her pain reliever, but we didn’t know that then.
I am so blessed that the family sent a little map of where there house was and that I downloaded it. I was able to turn my laptop upside down and figure out exactly where I needed to go. This also means that I was about 30 minutes early. It was far too cold and windy to stay outside for that much time, so I found the nearest brasserie and ordered some hot chocolate. It was pretty good hot chocolate and I enjoyed watching all the old men order beer and wine before 11 o’clock in the morning.
The English lesson with Andrea went really well. She is about 14 years old and super cute. She lives in a pretty big house for being in the center of Nantes and you can tell that her family is rich. She is very nice and I hope that I can help her get better grades in her English class. I am going to meet with her three times a week during vacation and then we are going to see after that.
I went home to my room and had lunch afterwards. I was pretty (extremely) tired so I took a nap for a while and then I went for a 25 minute run. The wind had stopped so it was a lot warmer and I can tell that I haven’t been running for a while. I was going to run on the horse track, but they were racing, so I went down into the forest-park.
Hannah and I took the bus to go teach English at the church. We were the first ones there so Jean-Luc let us in and I played the piano for a while. Today I ended up teaching Jean-Luc and Jean-Yves about how to tell time. I never knew it could be such a struggle with old men! I know that the quarter to, half past thing is hard, but when they think that American clocks are different (and that you count by 10 and not by 5) it becomes a struggle. Elder Knapp had to come tell them that I was telling them the correct time (they thought that it was an hour different) and it was just all really funny and half ridiculous. Afterwards the elders started playing baseball and I tried not to get hit. Elder Knapp, who was not playing baseball, was telling me about how the Joseph Smith movie in SLC makes him cry. I mentioned that I haven’t seen it yet (still, I know…it as on my to do list last summer and Amber and I tried to go one day) so we are now going when I get home because it is a must see.
Joel gave us a ride home and we ate couscous with carrots in a caramelized sauce. It was delicious! We then read scriptures and Quinton and I had a little tickle war. You can tell he is the third child; he was getting blamed for everything. I really didn’t mind though, as long as he wasn’t poking out my eye.
I love eating breakfast with French people! It is so much fun. I had museli and some bread with honey before Hannah and I left to catch the bus at 9:30. I had an English lesson that I was teaching at 11am and I had to figure out where it was. Poor Hannah was crying because it hurt so bad by the time we got off the tram at Commerce (we first took a 30 minute bus ride). It turns out she had forgotten to take her pain reliever, but we didn’t know that then.
I am so blessed that the family sent a little map of where there house was and that I downloaded it. I was able to turn my laptop upside down and figure out exactly where I needed to go. This also means that I was about 30 minutes early. It was far too cold and windy to stay outside for that much time, so I found the nearest brasserie and ordered some hot chocolate. It was pretty good hot chocolate and I enjoyed watching all the old men order beer and wine before 11 o’clock in the morning.
The English lesson with Andrea went really well. She is about 14 years old and super cute. She lives in a pretty big house for being in the center of Nantes and you can tell that her family is rich. She is very nice and I hope that I can help her get better grades in her English class. I am going to meet with her three times a week during vacation and then we are going to see after that.
I went home to my room and had lunch afterwards. I was pretty (extremely) tired so I took a nap for a while and then I went for a 25 minute run. The wind had stopped so it was a lot warmer and I can tell that I haven’t been running for a while. I was going to run on the horse track, but they were racing, so I went down into the forest-park.
Hannah and I took the bus to go teach English at the church. We were the first ones there so Jean-Luc let us in and I played the piano for a while. Today I ended up teaching Jean-Luc and Jean-Yves about how to tell time. I never knew it could be such a struggle with old men! I know that the quarter to, half past thing is hard, but when they think that American clocks are different (and that you count by 10 and not by 5) it becomes a struggle. Elder Knapp had to come tell them that I was telling them the correct time (they thought that it was an hour different) and it was just all really funny and half ridiculous. Afterwards the elders started playing baseball and I tried not to get hit. Elder Knapp, who was not playing baseball, was telling me about how the Joseph Smith movie in SLC makes him cry. I mentioned that I haven’t seen it yet (still, I know…it as on my to do list last summer and Amber and I tried to go one day) so we are now going when I get home because it is a must see.
Joel gave us a ride home and we ate couscous with carrots in a caramelized sauce. It was delicious! We then read scriptures and Quinton and I had a little tickle war. You can tell he is the third child; he was getting blamed for everything. I really didn’t mind though, as long as he wasn’t poking out my eye.
Day 224: Hannah Attack, x-rays
12 avril 2010 (Day 224)
Hannah’s dinner the other night of yogurt, oats, and strawberries inspired me so I went shopping for strawberries this morning. I had just gotten out of the store when I received a phone call. It was Hannah. She was on her floor, bawling, because she couldn’t move and was asking for a blessing. I naturally began to call people. Elders number 1. No answer. Elders number 2. No answer. Stephane. At work. Elders number 1. Still no answer. Frere Joel Garon…success! Bless his heart. He and Anne came speeding over and he gave her a blessing. They also eventually took her to their back doctor. And to their house.
During this time I went and figured out where the radiologist was…all by myself. Can I just say that I love Google. I got step by step directions of how to get there WITH street views which is perfect for us visual direction people. Surprisingly, I didn’t have to fill out any paperwork, questionnaires, or sign. Anything. It was quite weird. I was the youngest person there by at least 50 years, which is normal. Surprisingly I didn’t have to wait long. I saw the doctor within five minutes of when my appointment was. They did xray the crap out of me though. They didn’t even give me a core shield, which I found quite annoying; they just blasted dangerous xrays around my precious innards. So in the waiting room there were some great old ladies. This one was so mad that she was still waiting. She was yelling up a storm and was just like, “I can’t believe this. Why am I still waiting. This is ridiculous!” I really wanted to tell her that she should try going to a doctor in the US, but I resisted. I got my results within 5 minutes of the xrays and tra la la! No fracture. You couldn’t even see the healed spot of my old fracture (I guess that is a good thing) so to celebrate I went and got my sweet of the week. It was a sort of version of an apple pie. The pastry part was really thin and reminded me almost of won-ton or philo pastry. I warmed it up in the microwave and it wasn’t half bad.
Joel called me up once I got home and told me that Hannah was sleeping over and that I should come too. I said, “Sure, why not.” Thirty minutes later I was picked up and off to the Garons. They are such sweethearts. They are amazing and so nice and funny and cute. I want to be an awesome married couple like them when I am older. Joel is really big and tall with dark hair and a little patch of white hair and Anne is tiny and super skinny. I learned how to make a white sauce and a green onion tart (which is what we ate for dinner). We had bread and cheese after dinner (of course), and home-canned cherries and yogurt. It was delicious.
Afterwards we had family home evening. We decided to do it based off the talk by Elder Uchtdorf, “Happiness, Our Heritage.” It was really nice to have a family home evening together and then we all went to bed.
Hannah’s dinner the other night of yogurt, oats, and strawberries inspired me so I went shopping for strawberries this morning. I had just gotten out of the store when I received a phone call. It was Hannah. She was on her floor, bawling, because she couldn’t move and was asking for a blessing. I naturally began to call people. Elders number 1. No answer. Elders number 2. No answer. Stephane. At work. Elders number 1. Still no answer. Frere Joel Garon…success! Bless his heart. He and Anne came speeding over and he gave her a blessing. They also eventually took her to their back doctor. And to their house.
During this time I went and figured out where the radiologist was…all by myself. Can I just say that I love Google. I got step by step directions of how to get there WITH street views which is perfect for us visual direction people. Surprisingly, I didn’t have to fill out any paperwork, questionnaires, or sign. Anything. It was quite weird. I was the youngest person there by at least 50 years, which is normal. Surprisingly I didn’t have to wait long. I saw the doctor within five minutes of when my appointment was. They did xray the crap out of me though. They didn’t even give me a core shield, which I found quite annoying; they just blasted dangerous xrays around my precious innards. So in the waiting room there were some great old ladies. This one was so mad that she was still waiting. She was yelling up a storm and was just like, “I can’t believe this. Why am I still waiting. This is ridiculous!” I really wanted to tell her that she should try going to a doctor in the US, but I resisted. I got my results within 5 minutes of the xrays and tra la la! No fracture. You couldn’t even see the healed spot of my old fracture (I guess that is a good thing) so to celebrate I went and got my sweet of the week. It was a sort of version of an apple pie. The pastry part was really thin and reminded me almost of won-ton or philo pastry. I warmed it up in the microwave and it wasn’t half bad.
Joel called me up once I got home and told me that Hannah was sleeping over and that I should come too. I said, “Sure, why not.” Thirty minutes later I was picked up and off to the Garons. They are such sweethearts. They are amazing and so nice and funny and cute. I want to be an awesome married couple like them when I am older. Joel is really big and tall with dark hair and a little patch of white hair and Anne is tiny and super skinny. I learned how to make a white sauce and a green onion tart (which is what we ate for dinner). We had bread and cheese after dinner (of course), and home-canned cherries and yogurt. It was delicious.
Afterwards we had family home evening. We decided to do it based off the talk by Elder Uchtdorf, “Happiness, Our Heritage.” It was really nice to have a family home evening together and then we all went to bed.
Day 223: At The Parageau's
11 avril 2010 (Day 223) Sunday
The Lord was on Hannah’s side of the bed this morning. Armelle called me a couple minutes before I was going to leave to take the tram saying that she could take us to church at 8:15. I called Hannah to tell her this happy news and in doing so I woke her up. We went to choir practice and then had Relief Society. Cecilia and Katie (possibly Cathy), two Chinese investigators came. Katie doesn’t speak French very well so I translated a lot of the lesson on the Holy Ghost for her (in English). Sunday School was AWESOME! I think we had 9 investigators there and they were all Chinese. Elder Lazarev ended up translating some of the lesson into Chinese and it was just so cool. It was a really neat experience.
I translated a little bit more for Katie during testimony meeting and then went up to bear my own testimony. It was really short and sweet because the time was passing, but I gave it in French and then in English. I had some French members come up and say thank you for my testimony, especially my one in English because they could really feel the spirit and understood what I said. That was pretty cool. It is Elder Lazarev’s last Sunday before he goes back to Paris so we took pictures of him with all of his Chinese investigators. Choir practice was okay today, but Pili still wasn’t very happy. We didn’t have the Elders there today so I tried playing the piano for some of it and it was awful!
At 4pm Hannah and I walked up to where we were meeting Armelle and Stephane to go to their house to play games. The missionaries (Elder Lazarev and Elder Knapp respectively) and Cecilia met us there. Armelle and Stephane actually live really close to Hannah and me. They have the cutest house ever! It was seriously so adorable, I loved it. They had this awesome sun room where we had drinks (the organic apple juice that Stephane made) and some treats (some being an apple tart, chocolate fondue, and a prune dessert). Even Elder Knapp, who is allergic to raw apples tried the amazing apple juice. After we had our snack and were shown around the house (the upstairs had the most amazing window in the roof through which you can look at the stars while on the bed) we played some games. We played UNO which was a lot of fun. We also played this game that is like the equivalent for billiards put it is with chips and you have a square board. I was on a team with Stephane and Elder Knapp. We were pretty awesome even though we lost. We put talc on the board to make the pieces slide better and Elder Knapp wiped some on his cheeks like warrior paint so Stephane and I followed. I was terrible at the game! Stephane got a kick out of my awfulness and Elder Knapp was trying to be nice about it. We almost won, but then the other team caught up to us and beat us. We left around 8pm and walked to Hannah’s where I tried to pop back in her rib because Elder Knapp was sure that the pain that she was feeling was a rib out of place and he, being a missionary, could not pop it back in, but I could. I don’t really think I did anything except for cause Hannah pain though. It was that laughing/yelling kind of pain.
Day 222: Super Saturday Shopping and Such
10 avril 2010 (Day 222)
Today was not at all the day I was expecting, but it was awesome nonetheless. Hannah and I were either going to go shopping or to the beach so I decided to go drop off cookies for the elders and go to the Saturday market before then. I went shopping and the elders called to say that they couldn’t make it but that I could come teaching with them at 2pm at the church. I agreed and decided that I might as well stay in town since it wouldn’t be worth it to spend all my time going back home and into town again. Instead I went shopping and found several really cute shirts to wear as a sister missionary. I am really excited about them because they look really nice and I won’t be looking frumpy in Paris! I also went and got to macarons, went to the book store, and went to find the Greek restaurant in town to get a falafel. It took me a while to find the restaurant but I found it and got a delightful hummus falafel. The owner works there with his cute younger son and it was just a fun experience.
I ate my falafel on the way to the church and met up there with the missionaries and Lisa. She is a cute girl from China that speaks English and French very well. She studied in Ohio and there she became involved in the Protestant church. She said that lately she has been far away from God. Elder Lazarev offered a prayer in Chinese and then afterwards she started praying in English! Elder Lazarev’s face said it all. In the middle of the prayer she was like, “I don’t know what I’m doing! I don’t know how.” And then she would switch into Chinese. Her prayer was really sincere and you could tell that she wanted to come closer to God. She apologized that it wasn’t a “good” prayer and so then we started talking about how we need to be sincere and be like a child and that flowerly prayers aren’t necessarily better. We ended up not teaching the lesson but watching a church movie on Finding Faith which was nice. I haven’t seen the film in a while. Lisa won’t be at church tomorrow because she is going on vacation, but she should be coming next week. The elders said that I will be a big role in her progression because they feel that she is going to be tried by her friends and that it will be important for her to have friends who are “normal” members of the church.
I did a little bit more shopping…glancing mostly after the lesson but by then there were far too many people shopping. I showed Hannah my new shirts, which she loves and then we decided to have dinner together and make no bake cookies since she is off her sugar lent. We watched some of My Fair Lady with Spanish subtitles which was hilarious because we were trying to read them out loud while giving back rubs. Hopefully there weren’t any Spanish people around! We stayed up pretty late, especially since we had to wake up early to catch the tram.
Today was not at all the day I was expecting, but it was awesome nonetheless. Hannah and I were either going to go shopping or to the beach so I decided to go drop off cookies for the elders and go to the Saturday market before then. I went shopping and the elders called to say that they couldn’t make it but that I could come teaching with them at 2pm at the church. I agreed and decided that I might as well stay in town since it wouldn’t be worth it to spend all my time going back home and into town again. Instead I went shopping and found several really cute shirts to wear as a sister missionary. I am really excited about them because they look really nice and I won’t be looking frumpy in Paris! I also went and got to macarons, went to the book store, and went to find the Greek restaurant in town to get a falafel. It took me a while to find the restaurant but I found it and got a delightful hummus falafel. The owner works there with his cute younger son and it was just a fun experience.
I ate my falafel on the way to the church and met up there with the missionaries and Lisa. She is a cute girl from China that speaks English and French very well. She studied in Ohio and there she became involved in the Protestant church. She said that lately she has been far away from God. Elder Lazarev offered a prayer in Chinese and then afterwards she started praying in English! Elder Lazarev’s face said it all. In the middle of the prayer she was like, “I don’t know what I’m doing! I don’t know how.” And then she would switch into Chinese. Her prayer was really sincere and you could tell that she wanted to come closer to God. She apologized that it wasn’t a “good” prayer and so then we started talking about how we need to be sincere and be like a child and that flowerly prayers aren’t necessarily better. We ended up not teaching the lesson but watching a church movie on Finding Faith which was nice. I haven’t seen the film in a while. Lisa won’t be at church tomorrow because she is going on vacation, but she should be coming next week. The elders said that I will be a big role in her progression because they feel that she is going to be tried by her friends and that it will be important for her to have friends who are “normal” members of the church.
I did a little bit more shopping…glancing mostly after the lesson but by then there were far too many people shopping. I showed Hannah my new shirts, which she loves and then we decided to have dinner together and make no bake cookies since she is off her sugar lent. We watched some of My Fair Lady with Spanish subtitles which was hilarious because we were trying to read them out loud while giving back rubs. Hopefully there weren’t any Spanish people around! We stayed up pretty late, especially since we had to wake up early to catch the tram.
Day 221: Mini-Mission!
9 avril 2010 (Day 221) Friday
Today class went well. In the sociology of art are teaching was feeling off with his teaching (too many ideas and thoughts in his head) so we got let out of his class early and I went to the gym alone. I ate and tried to quickly study for our little in class essay in history.
Elder Maxfield called me today during class and left a message…I am going to get to go on a mini-mission! They had made an error and there will be an odd number of sisters so I can go on a mini-mission. A mini-mission is exactly like a real mission, without the call. I will be serving (most likely in Paris or thereabouts) from May 26-July 1. I will be living the missionary rules and with a companion sister missionary 24/7. It is going to be awesome. I was so excited I could hardly concentrate. The president called me to make sure that it was okay with me.
I am nervous and excited now and it was driving Hannah nuts on the way to institute! She said she could feel my nervous energy and that I needed to relax so we did some breathing exercises. We were late to institute because the bus and then the tram were late and the missionaries called and told me that they were waiting for me and where was I…weird! It ended up being that Elder Maxfield and Elder Bourgeois stayed for institute. Kevin gave the lesson today and was quite serious with it. It was a good lesson but it was odd having him teach. Maxfield was translating for Oly, who doesn’t speak French and he ended up giving him basically a totally different lesson.
I called up Jenn and I showed her how to make no-bake cookies. She was quite amazed at how easy it was. Sadly I put in too many oats so they were a little dry…oh well! We had a lot of fun. Oh, P.S. I cut my hair today…don’t worry it is fine. I attacked the back because I couldn’t stand that it was longer than the front.
Today class went well. In the sociology of art are teaching was feeling off with his teaching (too many ideas and thoughts in his head) so we got let out of his class early and I went to the gym alone. I ate and tried to quickly study for our little in class essay in history.
Elder Maxfield called me today during class and left a message…I am going to get to go on a mini-mission! They had made an error and there will be an odd number of sisters so I can go on a mini-mission. A mini-mission is exactly like a real mission, without the call. I will be serving (most likely in Paris or thereabouts) from May 26-July 1. I will be living the missionary rules and with a companion sister missionary 24/7. It is going to be awesome. I was so excited I could hardly concentrate. The president called me to make sure that it was okay with me.
I am nervous and excited now and it was driving Hannah nuts on the way to institute! She said she could feel my nervous energy and that I needed to relax so we did some breathing exercises. We were late to institute because the bus and then the tram were late and the missionaries called and told me that they were waiting for me and where was I…weird! It ended up being that Elder Maxfield and Elder Bourgeois stayed for institute. Kevin gave the lesson today and was quite serious with it. It was a good lesson but it was odd having him teach. Maxfield was translating for Oly, who doesn’t speak French and he ended up giving him basically a totally different lesson.
I called up Jenn and I showed her how to make no-bake cookies. She was quite amazed at how easy it was. Sadly I put in too many oats so they were a little dry…oh well! We had a lot of fun. Oh, P.S. I cut my hair today…don’t worry it is fine. I attacked the back because I couldn’t stand that it was longer than the front.
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