I found out this week from President Day that
my release date is June 29th, not Aug 14 like I had originally thought. It's
actually a little weird because my group will only be getting 11 transfers
instead of 12, like normal. But if it means I can see Jared before he heads out
to Taiwan on his mission (hahaha calling it now!), that would be really cool. (In Feb Jared will be submitting his papers to serve a mission and should find out where he is assigned sometime in March)
On Monday evening, we came home and started
making phone calls and saw some cockroaches chilling out in our apartment. So
we pulled out the Raid and started spraying. We just sort of switched off-
one person making calls and the other on cockroach duty. We killed probably 60
or 70 in the hour. That's just an estimate though; we stopped counting after
#50. But apparently that counts as a problem, because the mission is sending a
guy out this Thursday to take care of it. By the end of the night, we had
little dead cockroach bodies and Raid puddles all over the floor. And we had
eaten a package of oreos. But the nice part is that the Raid was "country-fresh"
scented, so at least by the end of the night we had a fresh smelling apartment.
I am a little paranoid about the bug situation in the apartment so every night
before I get in bed, I check it for bugs. It makes Sis Jenkins laugh, but hey,
peace of mind is priceless. :D
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| Sink is broken-can't wash dishes? Line everything with plastic wrap! |
On Wednesday we had another apartment
adventure! As we were trying to clean our dishes after lunch, we noticed that
our sink wasn't draining at all. So on the way back from contacting, we bought
some magic drain unclogger stuff and poured it down the sink. It fizzed
and bubbled and got warm and we were pretty excited that it was working. So
after it had done its thing, I turned on the water. We were very excited that
something in our apartment was finally working....until we noticed that there
was water spilling out from beneath the cabinet. We opened up the cabinet to
find that the pipe was made out of thin plastic- it looked like a drinking
straw- so the drain opener had just totally eaten through the pipe! Hahaha! Sis
Jenkins and I just stood there and laughed! Good thing she is such a chill
person. Hopefully this week the plumber guy will show up so we can get that
taken care of.
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| Dedication of the new chapel |
The Bali elders had quite the adventure with
their baptism this weekend! I guess last week after Y's baptism, we
forgot to turn off the water heater. So they turned it on again, and it heated
the water double- up to 95 degrees celcius! They didn't realize this until they
went to turn on the water and only steam came out, which set off the fire
alarm, and a voice telling everyone to evacuate. Luckily there is a way to
manually turn off the fire alarm, which the elders did, and then got on the
loudspeaker and told everyone not to worry or evacuate, that it was just the
baptismal font! The baptism went really well. The convert is adorable, and is one of our English students. Lately at our
baptisms, while the new convert is changing into dry clothes, we have been
showing a Mormon Message (www.lds.org/pages/mormon-messages for short videos on various gospel topics) to those attending the baptism. I guess
the elders put one of the church members in charge of it, but he chose that
"spiritual crocodiles" video where the crocodile keeps attacking the
gazelles and ripping their heads off...over and over.... and over. Sis Jenkins and
I were dying of laughter because it was just so violent and we couldn't figure
out why in the world he had chosen this one! Not exactly the most spiritual way
to pass time during a baptism. Hahaha!
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| The "light lunch"served after the dedication |
This week we saw lots of miracles. I think God
knows how much of our time is being taken up by traveling all around Taibei for
choir performances all weekend long, and is showering us with blessings! There
was a guy who just walked into the chapel after church on Sunday and set up a time to
meet with us. Pretty cool!
I love being a missionary! It is such an
adventure all the time! And how lucky am I to get to spend all of my time
thinking, talking, and teaching about Jesus Christ. Incredible!
Love you!
Sis Murri
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