2/20/12

Well, it´s been an interesting day, and an interesting week.

My appointment to get my tooth looked at is on March 2nd. That´s the earliest the dentist had. I tried to stay away from the ones who run their office out of their apartment. Of course, I couldn´t go to the big chain dentists either, as they have the policy of ¨All or nothing¨, meaning that they´ll make up that you have something else, and if you don´t agree to have it fixed, they won´t do any work at all. Good old extortion tactics.

It´s the molar on the back bottom, left hand side (your left). It hasn´t gotten particularly bad, and I hope it stays calm until I can get it looked at.

The weather´s been better this week. In the 70´s during the day. It´s still tolerable to wear a suit coat, though I´m sure by the end of March it´s already going to be too hot for such things.

That Elder actually didn´t end up going home. The Area Presidency cleared that he stay. So he flew back out on Thursday, and he´s back out and working again.

Last week, we decided to go out and have a little fun. So we went out and went bowling (yeah, it´s been a while). We went out to give him a little send off.

Of course, one thing leads to another,  so the four of us here in Palma went out bowling again today. We decided to throw three games this time, however.

My first two games weren´t bad, then I started off the third one with a strike. Kinda sunk down after that, but then I came back on the fourth throw with a strike. I actually had three strikes in a row, then a 5, then a few others, then I threw a strike, but ended up messing up on the final set and lost by 5 points, more or less. But it was a good game.

Sorry if that sounded a little excited. But it was a really good game-I came back from having 26 after three to finishing with 134 (which is still terrible, but it´s good for me.) :)

It´s been a good week for the work as well. We saw a lot of good things. On Sunday, we found a new Dominican family to begin teaching. Her son, who´s 18, had studied to be a Catholic Priest for four years before he came to Spain. We didn´t know what to expect, but he seems like a normal kid.

Bob´s had an interesting week. He wants to get baptised, but he wasn´t sure how to break the news to his wife. We had a lesson talking about that. We´ll be seeing him at 9 tonight to see how that turned out (I don´t think it came out perfectly).

On Thursday we had to wake up at 5AM to get to the airport on time so that my companion could catch his 9AM flight to Barcelona. We had to do exchanges with the AP´s, so then we waited in the airport until 1:30 when Elder Hadley arrived. It was a similar story on Saturday when we switched back-got to the airport at 12, waited until 4PM. It´s a long time to sit in a small airport.

Next week I don´t know if I´ll be writing on Tuesday or Wednesday. We have Mission Council on Monday, but the flight might be just early enough to give us time to write. But if not, I´ll write on Tuesday.

That computer is a dinosaur. There are flash drives with more capacity than that hard drive. I´ll patch it up when I get home, then it´ll probably be time to give it the boot.

Well, I hope the week moves smoothly. I´ll look forward to hearing about it next week.

Bradley.