16 October 2017

Ah, nothing quite like making a week sound so much more fun than it really ended up being in the title. That isn't to say that we didn't have our own share of adventures though. First off, we actually have people consistently keeping return appointments and reading out of the Book of Mormon! It took 5 weeks, but we finally have people to teach. One of them, Benjamin, even accepted a baptismal invitation! The other two we have are more hesitant about baptism, but are still progressing and interested in learning more. I don't know what made the difference exactly, but we've been working more effectively this week. It's been pretty great.

In less spiritual matters, it's been really crazy.  On Wednesday we were on transfers so I was actually driving, which is unusual for me. Even more unusual was the insane rain. It was so bad, we couldn't see much of the road, let alone the lines. It was really bad, and I'll try to send some videos of it that my exchange companion took. The roads were flooding, and it was the worst weather I've ever had to drive in. It was pretty crazy but still fun. I don't think I went more than half the speed limit that whole time it was raining super hard. We got to some intersection at the bottom of the hill that we thought might just kill the car to go through it until another car pulled it off instead of just bailing out over the median. Also, the next night, Thursday night our fire alarm decided that it didn't want to let us sleep and so it went off at 10:30. It then turned off a few minutes later, so we called the housing coordinator and asked him what to do. He said if it went off again, we should go outside and call the fire department. It did, and so we did. Nothing like two trucks coming in with lights and sirens late at night. To be fair, they turned off their sirens when they got into our apartment complex. A couple of firefighters hopped out and asked us what the problem was, and so we explained it. We led them back to our apartment to show them the detector, and that was when Elder Rolph got this picture of one of the trucks.

 

They came out a few minutes later saying it was just a faulty detector and we would be fine. They left, and we called our housing coordinator to explain. After that, it was about 11:30 and so we finally got to go to bed. So yeah, that's all of my exciting stuff for the week. Have a good one everybody! 

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​Sorry that these are a bit crazy, it was a tense night.