We did have to move out of our Furnished apartment, which we weren't too worried about at the beginning of the week because our landlord... and lady, said that the person who was staying in the apartment we were supposed to move into was taking a while moving out so that it might not be ready in time. But when we got back from doing missionary work Tuesday evening they came over and talked to us and said that the other tenants had moved out and that we could start moving in right away. So we dropped everything and did. Luckily we didn't have any appointments that night so were able to get a lot of the stuff over, enough of it that we were able to sleep in the new apartment that night, although we had to steal the shower curtain out of the old apartment so that we would be able to get ready the next day (Wednesday), because apparently unfurnished apartments don't have shower curtains. Who knew!
My new mattress is super comfy, (it’s a Sealy mattress with a matching box spring, I have no idea how we scored that one. The mission office even sent up one of these metal bed frames on wheels, but it’s more trouble than it’s worth, so I just put the box spring on the floor. Saves my toes too cause I'm not cutting them off on that metal frame.) Elder A's sleeping arrangements look a little less plush, he is on a twin sized mattress so the sheets he brought fit (unlike me, I just use the two flat sheets turned sideways and tucked WAY under) but he didn't get a box spring and the mattress itself is essentially garbage. I tried to call dibs on it, but Elder A said that he had dibs since he was here first. (I don't know if he really wanted it because his sheets fit, or if he was just trying to be nice.) I don't have my camera with me, so no pictures of the new apartment yet, but I'll try to get some of them out in an email next week.
Wednesday we were about to run to Wal-Mart to buy our own shower curtain when found out that our landlords needed us out of our old apartment by noon so they could get in there and clean up for the next people who were moving in. We sort of panicked and frantically ran around for a while, but in the end we were able to get everything out of our old apartment and into the new one before noon. We even had some time to clean up the old apartment a bit (sweep, mop, vacuum, wipe down counters and stove, etc.) But alas, the new apartment was trashed. In our haste to get everything moved we kinda threw everything everywhere, and it took us the rest of Wednesday (which was okay because it was Halloween, and we weren't supposed to be out after 6 anyways) and some of Thursday to finish getting everything put to rights. The new apartment is pretty nice, I like the layout a lot better; it feels bigger.
The rest of the week kind of flew by. We spent a lot of time working on cleaning up the branch list (that thing is a train wreck) and dropping by potentials and former investigators. We’re just trying to get some people to teach. We haven't found a new investigator for three weeks now and that's... not good. Despite doing a TON of personal finding (tracting/street contacting) we haven't been able to find anyone who is really solidly interested in the gospel. So we thought we’d take another look at the people who have shown some interest in the past.
We also did some more tracting, which was REALLY fun yesterday. ;D The wind was super strong and even though it wasn't raining that hard (unlike Saturday, when we got DRENCHED!) the rain drops were moving fast enough that they would sting when they hit you. I actually lost my magnetic name tag because it blew of while we were walking and when I went back for it, it was nowhere to be found. I should probably order another one.
Oh! One more thing! I also saw the ferry almost crash. We had gone out to see one of our investigators and he wasn't home, but his parents were and they invited us in for a bit, and while we were there the ferry was coming in and you could see it from the big windows in their front room, and you could see the ferry dock, and the wind was still super strong, and the ferry was coming, and the wind was blowing, and the ferry flipped around, and the captain threw it in reverse, and you could tell he was giving it all it'd got, but it still was moving the wrong way (toward shore), and it was like that for what seemed like the longest time just drifting closer and closer to shore, finally the captain just gunned forward and they were able to get out of there but it was pretty intense from where we were watching.
As you know, this week is transfers. We haven't heard anything yet but we
expect to sometime today. I don’t expect that either of us will be going
anywhere, but I could be wrong.
And just FYI... I'd really love
a waterproof bag. I don't know what the best option is, because really haven't
(and wont) had the chance to shop around. but when I was on my exchange with
Elder N I was super jealous of his messenger bag because it made it really easy
to pass out pamphlets or copies of the Book of Mormon without having to take
your backpack off (which just so you know is super awkward). I have destroyed
more than a couple copies of the Book of Mormon already by carrying them in my
soggy backpack. I dunno, if you could keep an eye out for something that'd be
nice. :) Ideally I would just have a black waterproof version of my Lands’ End
Canvas messenger bag that you guys have back home. Hey! Maybe Dad could go to
the Rain Shed and score me some super tough waterproof fabric, and then Mom and
Belle could sew a bag modeled after the LE one, and Zach and Nate could make a
metal bobble to go on it or something. There, Christmas present from everyone!
;)
I love you all, and look forward to hearing back from you. :D
I love you all, and look forward to hearing back from you. :D
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