12/5/11

Ugg, I hate ward council. Mainly because the leadership just disputes over immaterial items while the missionaries try not to fall asleep. This week we´re just going to leave a Progress Record with the ward mission leader (who we don´t even meet with) and leave.

Transfers are next week, but President sent out the information early to let everyone know, and I´m staying here. He said he wanted to make as few changes as possible this close to the end of the year. 

Don´t worry, I´ll get the packages. They´ll get to me on the 21st, so I won´t be tempted to open them. Or maybe I will. I broke and open my birthday packages on Monday...naah, I´ll wait. :)

Now the members are starting to ask if I´ll ever be leaving Gandia. I´ll be here for a total of nine months, which is more than a third of the mission. But it´s okay, I have a nice apartment and food.

¨Old trusty¨ probably should have been retired in 2009, but we´ll see. By the time I get home it´ll be seven years old, which is definately time to replace it. I don´t think that hard drive will last much longer.

Thanks for the shoes. I looked closer at them and basically, the sole is a high-density foam coated in rubber. What´s happened is that in several places (like where the pad of the foot is) the rubber has completely worn off, so now it´s just the foam chipping off. That´s why the heel split as well. The rain hasn´t been helping matters either, I don´t think.

I really haven´t had too many sleepless nights, but I´m usually too tired to not sleep. At this point, I don´t function too well without eight hours. I don´t expect to sleep for a long time when I get home, but I will enjoy a nice rest. And driving...ooh, we were riding with a member this week and he started going a little fast...then I had to snap out of it. Hehe, I´ll survive.

I knew him a little bit, but I don´t think we ever had any classes together. Sometimes those things happen. I´m sure he´s fine now, probably busy preaching again.

This week should be busy. We´ll be preparing our new investigator for her baptism on the 17th. On Thursday we´ll be going to Valencia, since Elder Gerald Caussé of the Seventy is doing a mission tour.

They keep this district down here in Gandia full of Arizonans. They´re pulling out Elder Martherus, from Gilbert, and putting in Elder Rassmussen, from...Gilbert. Woohoo. I started my own little organization, the ¨Elders from Arizona¨, but no one´s paid their membership dues yet. Well, that´s how life goes sometimes.

Thursday we went to Burger King. I had some kind of disturbing box full of random food. Afterwards I felt sick from the grease, I think. I´m sure that won´t stop me in the future.

Well, I hope you all have a good week.

Bradley.