Letter #21

yellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow my beloved mission fans!

let me esplain my current situation!

I am no longer in rochester!... that was a relatively tearful and bummer full day BUT I have survived the infamous 'lakehood'.... which is basically like AZ only wet... and they have lots of trees....

its pretty busy here for the most part, my new comps are christensen, lonas, and the greenie, Hatch, there all pretty cool... 

I do have my griefs with them that will make up the biggest part of my 'funny story of the week' so.... we have already had ONE baptism. Jeremy sanchez, kinda reminds me of Javier and Jared put together... only short... and mexican... and he's in the army...

anyway, we woke up and left pretty early to go set up for his baptism, Christenen and lonas left us to go and fill it up so it would all be ready... I think they had a church tour... something like that,. so the baptism started even if our fearless leaders were late XD and I gave a very brief talk on baptism, my second one so far.

so AFTER the bapstism everyone was leaving and we were setting things back up.   our leaders rushed off to do ANOTHER lesson but we were going to get another ride via other elders, when we remembered  that the stilecoom sisters had a baptism later that day.   we were GOING to leave the font full for them, BUT our ward mission leader unplugged it and what took and HOUR AND A HALF to fill, pretty much drained with in fifteen minutes -.-

SO we stayed to fill the font, our ride left and we sat and waited, well by the time it filled the sisters came and we texted christensen and lonas to come get us...... four hours later we are sitting there talking to sister wilkins and her greenie whom, after finding out we had been there since 9 this morning gave us the 'your crappy missionaries' look.

a couple hours earlier we had sent a text to our leaders saying we were ready to be picked up.... they sent back 'come get you soon'.... I still question there definition of 'soon.' because we didn't leave till the sister's baptism started.... at FOUR!.

needless to say hatch was rather P.o.ed  and I couldn't blame him.

HOWEVER, before the SECOND baptism started we called steed and dedchus... I think thats how tis spelled... my complaint was that I had been rather hungry and been wanting to grab a pizza but we had some pretty amazing luck, cuz Steed and his companion were JUST at a birthday party as we called them. SO we got to eat a bunch of pretty awesome authentic tres leches cake!!! 

so all in all aside from almost killing our leaders everything turned out okay.. in my book, it was still kinda messed up how the ditched us though.

Love,

Elder J Smart