Kaliana : Week 10

This week has been great! and also slightly crazy...I'll start with the insane things then get to the blessings!

To start off, we got in a car accident. Nothing major, but I felt like the biggest tard alive. To top it off, the day after we were in the accident we got a call from the mission office. In the call we found out that our license plates were expired, our state inspections were expired, our registration was expired and he couldn't find our title number and if we didn't get everything taken care of today, then we might get towed. CRAZY right? but it doesn't end there! Our apartment was starting to mold in the corner because of the rain that we had on one of the days and so our carpet was completely soaked through in the corner. The apartment had to turn off our water for several hours, and when they turned it back on, we didn't have hot water for a couple days. THEN we got another a text from the mission office. They informed us that if anyone did not have a bed frame then they needed to know now, otherwise we might get bed bugs. And hey what do you know? My bed did not have a frame yet. (I finally got one yesterday!! blessings!!) this week has definitely been an adventure, but you know what they say, there's always tribulation before the blessing!! we finally got everything with our car and our apartment figured out.

Next, we had a British old woman that we were teaching a few times. A couple Sundays after this, we went to church and on the door we discovered a prettily wrapped package....with the book of Mormon inside. Hey at least she wrapped it nicely right? And we will be dropping the book back off at her house soon:)

We went to a less actives home that just appeared recently on our ward list. They live out in the boonies and when we drove into their long, winding, gravel driveway we realized that they had a big gate that was closed and they would not answer their phone. My reverse driving was put to the test, and we all made it out alive. I think I should get a metal for it, right?

Ok! on to the fun stuff!! We have 2 investigators with a baptismal date this month! we are so excited to see them finally baptized!:) One of them is named patty, she's half Japanese and one of the times when we were teaching her, she says, "wait!! I just had an aha moment!!" she sprinted out of the room and came back with a box. In the contents of this box was a really really old book. Patty had by some miracle inherited a book with all of the names of her ancestors dating back until the 1700s!! It was very old and it was so cool!! She then said, "I now know why I have this book!! it's because I can do the family history for them and baptize them!!" SO COOL!! (I'll include a picture of this)

We had a lesson with an investigator this week and 4 members ended up showing up! We hadn't even invited them to the lesson, and yet they all appeared in order to help us teach, we sent most of them home, but this ward is so great and definitely on top of things!

Reciting the first vision in Spanish went really well. They said that they understood what I was saying, so I figured that was a plus, even if it was said in my Gringo accent;)

A 3 year old boy ran up and tackled me to the ground, just randomly out of the blue. I'm not sure how he accomplished such a feet. Junior hulk in the making? I think so.

A member asked us to house sit their hamster. I'm not sure if that's technically allowed, but we figured that since it wouldn't need any watching, we just needed to feed it once a day, then it would be fine. so starting in a couple weeks, our apartment will have a new addition for a week!

I think that's about all the fun for the week!! love you all!!:) I hope you enjoyed conference!! I was thinking about you!