So ... for having an extremely regulated schedule, lots of crazy things happen during any given week. Such as the following true accounts:
On
Tuesday night we plugged in our phone to charge like normal, and awoke
to it doing this crazy "power cycle" thing. (For those of us who are
normal and don't know what that means, the phone kept showing the logos
that it does when it powers up - for HOURS. We couldn't stop it unless
we took the battery out.) We took it to the Sprint store, aaaaaaand ...
there was no fixing it. So we had 2 options: wait a week for a new phone
to be mailed to us (AHHHHHHH!) or drive up to Boston to the mission
office to pick a new one up. After a brief phone call from one of
Sprint's finest iPhones to President for some advice, we decided to go
up that night and pick one up. And instead of driving up and back in one
night, we decided to prolong our little adventure by sleeping over at
Elder & Sister Vail's house again! They are the same senior couple
that took us in when we got stranded around Christmas. That's twice in
two months! They joked that I should just leave an extra set of pajamas
at their apartment. I suppose time will tell if I need to intrude on
their hospitality again.
Every Thursday we have District Meeting - our
district is composed of 3 rambunctious sets of Elders and us. After our
morning meetings, we usually have lunch together. This week, one of the
elders put two pots on the stove on high heat for a few minutes before
adding anything into them. When he went to add butter to cook our
pancakes, WHOOSH! Tons of smoke appeared. (You may be wondering why we
were cooking pancakes in two pots ... when you're a missionary, you just
work with what you've got.) We tried fanning the smoke away from the
smoke detectors, but alas, our efforts were in vain. The fire alarm went
off and a few minutes later firemen showed up. But not just one fire
truck! 2 full blown fire trucks, 1 police van, and 2 random other
vehicles containing emergency response personal. Hahaha, it must have
been super anticlimactic for them to pull up and see 8 missionaries
plugging their ears while frying bacon. After a few minutes of
investigation they all loaded back up into the trucks and noisily
paraded away. This week we are planning to have cold sandwiches - no
cooking needed.
Our adventures with large animals continued when we
met two giant Great Danes at a less active's house. I swear those things
are half dog, half horse. Where did they even come from? Can you
imagine meeting one in the wild? ... maybe from Denmark. That would make
sense.
One of the lady's from the ward always takes us out
to restaurants when she feeds us, and this time we pulled up to what was
unmistakably a bar. Not to mention this happened on Saturday night, so
the party was hopping! Well, it was part bar, part restaurant - but we
still got a few awkward stares. We're not exactly who people expect to
see when they go out for the night! It's like a bad joke, "Two Mormon
missionaries walk into a bar ... "
Such great adventures we're having! And somewhere in
the midst of all this craziness, we try to share the gospel :) This
next week is going to be equally crazy! Our ward holds the mission
record for number of members going out with the missionaries in one
week. Last year a set of elders got 26 splits in one week! Bishop has
politely challenged us to beat this record this week, so me and Sister
Batschi are shooting for 40 splits! Pray that everything goes as
planned, because right now, we're probably gonna make it! WOOOOOO! It's
gonna be nutz, but it will be so so fun.
I hope that all of you have an amazing week!
XOXO
Sister Gledhill
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