Journal May 8, 1962

Elder Clint Robins, Elder David Halliday, Elder Dee Peterson at the Jardin du Thabor

May 8—Claude is now properly installed in the branch presidency, since our meeting of that presidency last evening. He will also serve as president of the young men’s organization. M. Leblanc is doing his best to tube out. The spirit of the Evil One has seized him, and it’s going to be very hard to extricate him. His three daughters remain determined to be baptized. The Molinas are progressing pretty well. M. Molina is home, discharged from the Hôtel-Dieu (the hospital) the day before yesterday. Mme. Molina has stopped drinking coffee. She’s still going to need our help, because her faith isn’t yet very strong. [135] We seem to have reached the culmination of the saga of Robins’ bottle. Elder Halliday had been coveting it for a month, and he’d been trying to get my companion to give it to him by the pure power of positive thinking. Elder Robins was willing to part with it, but not without some worthy effort on the recipient’s part. So we had a treasure hunt: Elder Halliday had to go to the Leroys’ and say loudly, in French, three times: “I am a cow thief!” They gave him a card which directed him to the Delétangs’, where he had to say in the same manner: “I don’t like crêpes!” Finally, he had to go back to the Leroys’ at the end of our group meeting and say: “I am the least nice missionary in the city!” They then gave him the bottle, adorned with a red ribbon. And since it was Elder Peterson’s twenty-first birthday, we had a little party, with brownies, lemonade, a little pocket tape recorder brought by Elder Fyffe (who was visiting, having completed his mission), and much jollity.

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