11/21/11

Yay for Best Buy...well, as long as it works. Reasons like that is why I plan on having Gigabit Ethernet jacks wired into my future house. It´s just simpler that way.

Smartphones have been out since the 90´s, though they do do a bit more in these days. I don´t think you really want an iPad. They release a new one every year, and then they stop making software for yours within a year and a half from the time it came out. It´s not quite like a PC.

Yes, the old info would have been stored in the Xbox, so just deleting all the config information would have worked, since with an Ethernet connection it´s generally automatic.

He should be getting baptised this weekend, if all goes well.

I honestly don´t know. I think I´m going to be transfered, but I might stay. I´ll have spent 7.5 months in Gandia in total by the time this transfer ends. A situation like this makes it nearly impossible to guess.

No, Larry´s a bum. He doesn´t write.

Is she well behaved or does she need a few light slams every now and then?

Hehehehehehe...married. That´s a good one.

I´m going to look at buying a turkey today. I don´t think my search will be very fruitful. But I´m not buying a rabbit to replace it. I´ll think hard on what we´re going to have. Last year we worked a normal day, and I cooked bratwurst. I´ll try to do better this year.

So our week was fairly calm. Tuesday we had our first full district meeting here in Gandia, and the zone leaders came down, which always turns into a party. Then I sent my companion off to Alcoy and had Elder Martherus come here. Strangely, nothing particularly crazy happened, which is a rare event in Gandia, and especially while we´re on intercambios.

They did a lot of construction on the chapel this week, changing out the rostrum and placing windows in all the doors. But then they left a huge mess, and we ended up getting called to clean with one member. So we worked upstairs, reorganizing the library and Bishop´s office, all the classrooms and finished up there, only to come down and find that the member had ´kinda sorta halfway´ swept up the sawdust (aka-not) and was about to start mopping. We sent him upstairs to mop, reswept the entire first floor, and then arranged all the chairs again. I miss pews and carpet, but that´s rare to see. Spaniards and their cheap tile.

Sunday we were talking about typical ´end of days´ destruction, and how it´s possible that Menorca could collapse into the sea and send a huge wave towards Valencia and Gandia. One of the members said ¨yeah, but these buildings are made of brick, so they´d probably survive.¨ I had to not laugh. Not to be too negative, but I don´t think more than 1 percent of buildings here would pass any kind of inspection in the States. They don´t use the brick properly, (or proper bricks, for that matter) so it would probably fare worse than wood. At least the houses in the states typically stay in one piece when the flood carries them away...

This week, I don´t think I have to go anywhere. A week of rest. I just got my hair cut, then we´ll go shopping, then I think it´ll be a calm day today. Not much else to do.

Well, I hope you all have a good week. I´ll send pictures of the baptism next week.

Love,

Bradley.