Back and Better than Ever: Soaking Wet, Apartment Hunting, and Skyping

This week was not a normal week in most senses. Lesson wise it was pretty normal. We had a fairly high number of cancellations and a decent amount that were there. It is really hard to have progressing investigators when things are like that. But this week we started the lessons with a little girl named Kealani who is turning 8 next month. She is really sweet and we enjoy teaching her. She should be getting baptized next month, yay!

As for soaking wet...you remember how last week was rainy? Well this week was worse. And this time we were outside in the pouring rain. We had a lesson at 10 with Teraia, and that went really well. Then at 11 with Hana, a new investigator. And during the lesson with Hana the rain started to get strong. And as we walked to our next lesson it stayed strong. We got to the house and the lesson got cancelled. We next went to our lesson that was to follow and he wasn't there either. No! By this time we were soaked so we walked into the neighborhood Tubuai (pronounced Two-puu-eye) and headed to a member's house for refuge. We ended up in our ward mission leader's house and he kindly let us in and let us dry off. He also helped us look for an apartment because where we live now is 30 minutes on foot from our area. So he looked for some apartments while we dried our books and clothes off with a hair dryer. Ha. It was pretty great.

As for apartment hunting we have been doing that whenever we have some down time. We walk around looking for apartments and making calls. It makes for quite the plan b activity. Ha.

And as for skype. We have to do our meetings with my district by skype and since the only computer that has a camera is the ward's laptop we have to use that for zone and district meetings. Knowing that last week we did a zone meeting to say goodbye to the ones who were leaving because of the transfer, using the skype was a success, even if I had to hold the laptop and the poor sisters had to stare at me for most of the meeting. But this week for our zone meeting the internet would just not work at all. We tried for almost an hour and it did nothing. So the sisters had to sit in their clerk's office and do their own meeting while we did our zone meeting. It was really unfortunate because they are on an island. They are the only two missionaries on that island. And contact from the outside world is rare, so it's nice for them to have skype with us and it's nice to have them as a part of our meetings.

So yeah. That's my week. I hope you all have a great week. I love you all. And I hope you all know that I love the Lord and I want nothing more than to serve Him.

Have a great week family and friends,

Elder Squires