This week was pretty great, looking back on it. I took 41491 steps last week, about 15.71 miles. We did a lot of good stuff and also did some cool stuff that I'm very proud of.
The Short of Things:
I fixed our washer this week. It was quite an accomplishment. We had some extremely great visits this week. We ate at Cici's and had some very delicious foods from members. All the little things just kind of built up to make a good week. We do have three people who have a date for baptism. Kate is going to be baptized April 19th. And the Moceri's are going to baptized April 26th. Please pray for them that they'll be able to keep their dates.
The Long of Things:
Monday 3- P-day was a little crazy. We normally would go to the North apartment to do laundry and hang out but since there's sisters there now, we can't do that. So we asked a member if we could use their washer and dryer. They graciously said yes, so we went over there. We watched Ephriam's Rescue and it was pretty good (we got President's approval). Then we played the card game Fluxx for a little while waiting for our clothes to be done. It took forever...
Tuesday 4- We tried a bunch of people. We saw a lot of people who had moved but we did meet some very good people that we needed to see. We saw Sister Thomas (a less-active who is going to be married soon, hooray). And then right after that, we went to see the McGill's on a prompting and they really needed a visit from us. Please pray for them. We also got yelled at by a couple of people we tried that evening. All in the life of a missionary.
Wednesday 5- We had district meeting and district lunch. It was pretty good. The meeting was all about finding. When we practiced, we were given situations that we were supposed to act out and the other missionary had to talk with us without bringing up the gospel, and then bring up the gospel related to what they were doing after a certain amount of time. I was a man doing yoga in the park. After that, our car had another problem. One of the tires had a very bad leak. It was at 35 PSI on Tuesday when we filled it up but after district meeting, it was at 21 PSI. So we took it to Belle Tire and they fixed it very quickly. We saw the Lionardi's. We had a good visit. Then we had splits. It was the Relief Society's week to have people come so we didn't have anyone to go with. We went to see Rick and Brother Wright. Both people who are in the north area but are single men, so we had very great visits with them.
Thursday 6- Our water heater broke so we only had cold water for our showers, like freezing cold water. We walked today to save miles. We saw Sister Myers, which was a very good visit. She really needed some support. Then we saw Sister Buboltz. We were going to see Tamara but she cancelled on us. We did go to have dinner at Sister Kerr's. The dessert was delicious, brownies and raspberry sherbert. So good.
Friday 7- We planned for our week and went to Cici's for pizza afterwards. It was delicious. Then we tried to see Brother Cava. Bishop told us to stay outside his apartment until he came back, so we waited a while for him but he never showed up. Apparently, he was a very active member who just fell off the face of the earth. After that, we contacted a referral named Marilyn. She really loves to talk. Three times she said, "Oh, it's late and I'm tired but I have one more thing to tell you..." And she'd go on another 15 minute tangent.
Saturday 8- We devoted our studies to fixing our washer. There's a door-closed sensor thing that checks whether the lid is closed for safety reasons and all that. We took it apart to try to figure out what's wrong. I looked at the circuit diagram and felt very cool about it. We finally ascertained the problem to be that lid sensor, so we took it apart. We found the most ridiculous and asinine system I have ever seen. The copper was completely corroded, so the circuit wasn't completing to say the lid was closed. We tried fixing the assembly but it wasn't working, so I had a bright idea. I just took some copper wire from a broken lamp we have and we completed the circuit to say the lid was closed all the time. And now our washer completely works again. I feel very accomplished about it. We also did some missionary work and stuff. We saw Kate at Emilee's house and had a great lesson about what she needs to do to be baptized. Then we had a delicious dinner at the Myers. There was a chicken/onion burger and some made-from-scratch egg rolls (which never have eggs in them). So good. Then we went home teaching with Brother Myers. We saw two people, one was busy and the other was not who we were expecting (the person who we wanted to see moved).
Sunday 9- Church was soooo good! There was a fast and testimony meeting and it was extremely good. There was some less-actives who got up to bear their testimony. And even a non-member got up to share her testimony. So good! We had lunch with the Moceri's and Kohler's. It was breakfast for dinner. I even ate the eggs with mushrooms without complaining. Go me! We taught them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And they really liked it. They had great questions and they really want to be baptized. We had coordination that evening. There were delicious brownies, with ice cream and melted marshmallows. Really good. This week has been good.
Love you all sooooo much!
-Elder Michael Carlson
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