I, Jedi

I was a Jedi, or possibly a Padawan, living in the United States and trying to learn the ways of the Force. The town I was in had no Jedi temple, so the local group met at a Mormon church. The particular talent I was trying to develop had to do with using the Force to understand very detailed and complicated physics problems. For instance, this talent might enable one to throw a pair of dice so that they landed on double 6 -- not because they were moved that way by the Force, but because the Force revealed exactly the right movement to make in throwing them. There was a particular Jedi Master who specialized in this kind of thing, and I kept trying to become his apprentice, but he insisted that it was something that couldn't be taught.