So super crazy week.
Monday the apartment flooded, when we went back to
the apartment after we did our laundry the apartment people ripped
out our padding and had 3 huge fans and a dehumidifier. We wanted to
carpool for Dallas so we that night drove to Longview after Elder B****
had said goodbye to some families. We stayed in Longview so we could
sleep in some. If we had stayed in Lufkin we would have had to wake up
at 3:30ish now we were able to sleep in to
4:45. So I drove the entire way to Dallas. The little black box in our car
annoys the crap out of me. If there is one thing that I will not miss,
will be that little piece of plastic that has attached itself to our
car and yells at me. We had to call the number so many times to wipe my
record. clean. the speed limit stays at a constant 75 mph the entire way
to Dallas and I stayed at like 72. There were semis passing me! and the
stupid black box thinks that the speed limit changes to 60 in the
middle of nowhere. All four of us in the car had to confirm that the
sign we passed said 75. Then in Dallas, apparently, the speed limit has
changed in the past 2-3 years and they haven't updated them yet. so the
sign says 70 and the black box thinks that it is a 55.
So
Elder B***** got sent to the other far corner of the mission. Idabell in Oklaholma, on the Arkansas border, and I got Elder A**** from Pleasant
Grove. He has been out 4 months or two transfers. He will most likely
kill me off. fun fun fun. He is really great and we get along really well.
Then the drive back was nothing special. When
we got home at 5 we opened our apartment and it was a mess. They
decided to throw away all of our carpet and padding. So we have no
carpet and we haven't organized our apartment because they will just
mess it all up again. We are now living in the living room and our
bedroom is full of our desks and other junk. Don't know quite when they
will put new carpet in but it has defiantly been an adventure. Oh to add
to the excitement, I am a district leader.
The work
here is still going good. We have been keeping ourselves busy and all
that. We had a service project this week. The storm this last Monday
knocked over some trees at a members home, not on the members home
and he lives in the middle of nowhere on 15 acres and a tree fell on the
road that gets to his house and on a fence in his horse pasture. So he
cut the wood and we put the pieces in a trailer. They have three horses 2
girls and a male. They have the male pinned up because he is being a
little crazy with the girls. We opened up the fence to get through and
the 2 girls were in the way so they let me guide the horse. I grabbed the
rope and guided them away from the gate so the tractor could get
through. Meanwhile the wife was getting the male horse out of the pin so
he could run around. I was supposed to take the horse I had around the
truck and lead them out of the pasture so the male could run around. As i
was guiding the horse around the tractor the male got loose from the
wife and headed strait for me and it was getting ready to be the alpha
male. I got scared and let go of the horse and back off in a hurry and
the male started in. The girl kicked him and the male backed off for a
second and the family told me to grab the female and hurry and lead it
out of the pasture. I got it out and shut the gate right when the male
was about to get out. I was scared for my life there for a second or
two. We chopped the tree and got the fence kind of fixed. That was my
story for the week. too bad i didn't get any pictures of it.
Wow 98 more days! That means i should get my trunky papers in about 60
days. that is crazy. someone asked my how long i have been out and i
said that i have 3 months left and then i did the math about 19 months
on the mission. I cant believe that. Crazy. So what i do for the
planners is i take the black spyral off. i heat the end up with a
lighter and it moves easy. I take it off and pick the pictures I want
for the cover. I glue them on with a glue stick and cut off the extras.
then i cut the spiral holes out of the picture. after I use the packing
tape and tape over the cover and wrap it over on the other side just a
little so the cover wont fall off. Then I take a metal hanger and heat
up the pointy end on the stove and poke holes through the tape so the
spiral can get through. Some people like to use stuff called contact
paper instead of tape because with tape it leaves a line down the
center. I have also heard of missionaries laminating them. There are
some missionaries that have bought a small hole punch to punch the holes
out all at once. You can make it however you want. I just want it to be
trunky. Put picture of the family, put a countdown on it, write funny
stuff in the note section, put pictures of girls inside in between pages
on the spiral, pictures of temples. This is just something fun I want to
do because I am going to keep my planners and I want these to be fun.
SKYPE: it will be on Sunday of course at 3-4 o'clock our time so 2 to 3 your time. I cant wait!
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New Companion, Elder A**** |
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Apartment after the flood |
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Creek behind the apartment that had flooded during the storm |
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Jesse and Elder A**** Dinner at the Hendrickson's home and pictures with their cut out son who is serving in Brazil! |