The four square legend

At the MTC things get to be pretty repetitive. It is so horrible most times but really allows creativity to flourish. Gym is the only way the over anxious teenage boys get to release some of their cooped up energy at the MTC. For our district gym time had gotten to be one of the repetitive things, but one day our fate was changed for the better. We were doing some district abs (we consists of Elder Barr, Elder Wilson, and I) and began to watch the 4-square game going on in the gym. One particular French native we love, and which we have nick-named the baker for reasons I will explain later, was playing with all the smoothness of a baker flattening dough or cooking a wonderful pastry. We call this man the baker because if you put a white apron on the guy and put one of those goofy hats that bakers wear, he would look exactly like a stereotypical French baker. With that picture on mind think of this baker effortlessly slapping the ball and dominating the game which is 4-square. Sure his mobility was limited, but if you hit it anywhere near his area he was all on that. In other words he doesn't miss. This sparked interest in members of the district and we decided we would try our hand at the 4-square court outside the MTC. We all came prepared and we began playing. The competitive nature of 4-square matched with all our athletic abilities led to a great gym time. There was joy there was pain and most of all there was hard competition. Everyone is a threat in 4-square. The best part of all happened saturday. We began our game outside fully believing that it would be another inner district game. We were the only district brave enought to play 4-square. As we played we beheld the most pleasent surprise of the day, we saw the baker walking towards our 4-square game. To play with the legend was a dream I had since that Thursday. He was the baker and he didn't even know it. As usual this game of 4-square had a lot of hard fought competition and it was a lot of fun. There will be videos soon and I hope that my family is capable enought to post them on my blog. I would never want you to miss out on the great joy of 4-square at the MTC.

 

Along with the great games we play we have amazing teachers in Soeur Larsen and Frere Larimer. Larsen is a former Paris missionary and is so much fun. I have got her to break character 3 times while teaching out "Investigators." The reason investigators is in quotes is because it is our teachers playing the parts of people they taught on their missions. Although I've got Soeur Larsen to laugh 3 times only 1 was on purpose. Oops! She laughed during my baptismal commit because she said it reminded her of my law of chastity pitch. Nevertheless we are now done with our second investigators and we asked brother Larimer where his character Jean Michelle went. He promptly responded with, "He was walking to church and got hit by a bus, he is dead, c'est la vie. It sounded much funnier in my head and in French, but it was still great. he kept saying things like c'est normale and things like that. Just the fact that we'd been speaking French all day and our day was almost over made us tired and everything extremely funny. Oh life at the MTC. I can't wait for France I'm anxious and excited and I just want to be there!