So I hit my 41 week mark! Or 42, I can't remember. But I've made it pretty far. It's crazy.
So a few eventful things from my week. Earlier last week we went into our closet to grab something, and water was looking through our roof. We are on the second story of a three story apartment complex. It was dripping fast, and our ceiling was forming bubbles coming out. We quickly put buckets out and tried knocking on our upstairs neighbor's door, but he didn't answer, so we called maintenance, but it took a bit for him to get here. This was all at 10 at night. He came to check it out, and said he would check what was happening upstairs and try to get it taken care of, so we figured we had a long night. So, being three reasonable adults, we grabbed a game, baked some cookies, popped the popcorn, and got ready for a good old fashioned girls night. It was a ton of fun. Sister Wangsgard turns out is a pro at games and won several times.
The next day we woke up to get ready, and to our surprise our hot water no longer worked. It did not work for about two or three days. Maintenance came by a few times, said it should work, but never did. Finally he did a deep check on the water heater and found one of the parts was broken, so he spent the next forty five minutes removing it, while we were in the middle of a Zoom meeting... There was a lot of confusion why there was a strange man in our apartment. After the meeting we baked some more cookies and gave him quite a few for all his help. It was an adventure, but a fun one filled with cookies and laughs.
So it turns out the weather here is very strange. It has been super hot lately, then on Sunday ash started falling from the sky. Turns out there is another fire. We ate outside with a member, and by the end of the meal there was a quite of bit of ash on our plates and car and hair. Luckily not enough to harm anything, just enough to give it a nice smokey taste, haha. It is still pretty smokey today, the sun was red as it rose, and while looking at the weather, it looks like it will be going from in the 90s today all the way down to the 30s tomorrow when we should be getting snow. Yeah, it's that crazy, but fun crazy! I'm excited to see what happens. I wonder if the snow and ash will mix, and if so if the fire nation is coming... To my utter delight, I discovered one of my companions is almost as nerdy as me. She also likes Avatar, so we've been making fun references to it:)
I have so loved my personal studies from the week. I always learn something new. I try keeping up with come follow me, but then a verse or phrase will stick out to me, and I'll write it down, study it, look for it in Bible Dictionary, use the dictionary to look for the meaning of certain words, and I have learned so much. My study of "traditions of their fathers" and I have learned so much. After the study I wrote down all the "traditions" of my fathers, or family, and I grew to appreciate what I've learned from them even more.
I am grateful for such a great opportunity to serve!
