Hi guys!
Well, as much as I love the holidays, I'm sure glad that's over! This week has been extremely slow. Basically our entire teaching pool decided to go out of town for the week. And despite really trying, we couldn't find any new investigators. So it wasn't exactly an enjoyable week. But now at least a majority of our teaching pool is back in town so we will be able to have a much better week. I'm looking forward to it.
To make this past week even more frustrating, I got sick again for half of it, and I'm still not completely better. Thankfully it's not as bad as last time, but it's still very uncomfortable. It's a pretty
bad head cold, and I really hope it doesn't turn into a sinus infection. So that has been making my life difficult.
We did have a bit of fun on New Years Eve, however. We had a district New Years Eve party that the ZLs also attended. It was really fun, despite the fact that I was still not feeling well.
We also had a rather cool referral experience. I accidentally pocket dialed some random number that was saved in our phone, and then that evening they called back and asked if we had called about a certain family. I said I had no idea who they were, and the guy said he actually needed to talk to us about them because it was a couple who were recent converts and they wanted their kids (sounded like they're teenage kids) to take the lessons. The plan is hopefully to start teaching them this week, if the kids agree to it. So yeah, talk about an inspired pocket dial. The Lord does work in mysterious ways.
The only other matter of any excitement that really happened this week was that silly mouse that inhabits our apartment. The little miscreant really is living up to his name "Khan". And no, we still haven't caught him. We have learned something of his omnipresent nature, however. He seems to appear and disappear at will. He has at least four entrances to his lair, in various places around the apartment. He can climb things. I think he's building a summer home in our fake ficus. And he is not even a little bit fooled by our mousetrap. In fact I think at one point he may have moved it slightly so he could get around it. We hear him all the time, and we've seen him multiple times this week, probably more than ever before. And he's actually started eating some of our food.
Elder Cockerham put a loaf of sliced bread on a shelf, probably about four and a half or five feet high. Well, Khan ate it. One night I walked by and I saw him jump off said shelf and disappear into the shadows. I realized that he had climbed up a nearly vertical narrow stick thing, about the width of an extension cord. Apparently he had been scaling up that and then getting off on the shelf and then
gorging himself. A few days later, Elder Cockerham saw what was happening to his bread. I've included a picture of it below. We now keep bread on top of the refrigerator. And I guess we'll see how long it takes for him to learn how to climb that.
It's a little embarrassing that we are getting totally owned by a mouse. But we are. He's skilled and he's smart. He's like a tiny little dragon sitting on his hoard inside our wall. And we can't seem to do anything about it. And I think he may be starting to realize that, thus his becoming more bold.
So yeah, a lot of the "highlights" of the week have been unsuccessfully attempting to bring him into custody. But despite our best efforts, Khan is still at large.
And that's pretty much been my week. Happy New Year!
-Elder Oswald
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