Sorry I am a little late getting this post out. Emily and Jason blessed the babies this weekend and I was pretty involved helping out. These pictures were hard for a mom to take. My son seems to be freezing and I can't do a thing about it. Bob tells me he lived through a few apartments like that and he is none the worse for wear so again, I have to learn to trust in the Lord that he will be okay.
Hey everyone,
Well we had kind of a boring week, not a whole lot happened. Today is the first day of my 5th transfer and I will be with Elder Traasdahl again. Things have been improving so it's not as bad as I once thought it was. I am still interested to see if president will keep us together for one more after this since it will be Elder Traasdahls last transfer. His mom knows the Christensens somehow, Chad and Sheri. She gave them a call and talked to them a bit and asked if they knew me. Small world. It has been warming up a little, enough for our apartment to heat back up to a reasonable temperature anyway. By the way, don't worry, we don't have a furnace. We have a gas stove though but we always make sure it's off. Anyway, the weirdest thing about our apartment is that every once in a while we would have no hot water, which isn't that weird, but lately we haven't had cold water! I have to say, I would rather go without hot water than without cold. You have to put the shower all the way on cold and it is still so hot that you can't hardly be in it! Plus, the water pressure is really low when it's all the way on cold so it's kind of like being trickled with molten lava. Elder Traasdahl claims that if you lay down in the bathtub as flat as you can, the water has more time in the air and is therefore a little cooler by the time it hits your body. I didn't try it so I'm not sure. The other thing is, the past few days, right at lunch time, they have been shutting off the water completely. I have been smart enough to take the one and only flush of the toilet before Elder Traasdahl realizes what is going on. I have needed it lately because I think God is punishing me. I might have accidentally broken the word of wisdom when I ate an entire box of jello for breakfast one morning. I had made it the night before and so it was ready by morning and I just couldn't wait to eat it. The problem is that I had to make it in a gigantic bowl because it was all we had so it looked like there wasn't that much jello in there. I think there was more than I thought but I just finished it off. The next few days my stomach was feeling pretty weird. I think the jello reset itself in my stomach, at least that's what it felt like. Once I felt better from that, I think I did it again when I ate an entire can of corn for lunch. It was on Tuesday so we had already started running low on food so I just ate the corn. Either you aren't supposed to do that or the chicken we ate wasn't all the way cooked. Anyway, I think I might be over all of these weird things. We finished the last transfer with a total of around 50 rubles. I would say that is pretty good. Hopefully this transfer we will be able to be a bit more thrifty. I forgot that you get the newsletter, we didn't even get it this last zone conference. I think they must have forgotten it or something. Ya there has been two baptisms here in Veronezh since I've been here and one kid got baptized last week from Lipitsk, a city about two hours from here. They came here because they don't have a font there. This poor kid was 9 years old and his mom is a member. They tried to baptize him when he was 8 but he is really scared of the water and they didn't get him all the way under. It took him a year to get the guts up to try again. I was really impressed with the branch president. He did the baptism and he did a really good job. The kid was really scared again, as he got in the water, his legs just sort of melted and he started to just kind of curl up or something. He was shaking and breathing funny trying to be as brave as possible. The president knew he didn't have much time and that he would only have once chance so he said the baptismal prayer with about as much authority as I've ever heard, then dunked the kid with more authority than I've ever seen and lifted him straight out of the water and out of the font in one move. It was really cool. The sisters here just set a baptismal date with a girl yesterday. The sad thing is that both sisters will be gone by the time the baptism takes place. Sister Werner, the red haired sister, got transfered to Minsk and one of the native sisters, Sister Vlasova, got transfered to Kazakstan.
I can't remember what I asked you to send in that package but if you can, send me a jump drive and two normal garment bottoms, hamburger helper if it is big enough, oh and most important, if you can send me our most recent family picture and maybe a few more pictures that you can find, and I think there was something else I wanted but I can't remember. Just follow the spirit and I'm sure it will all be fine! Anyway, it sounds like you are all doing really well. Tell everyone hello for me that I don't write as often. I love you all, take care.
Love, Elder Geddes
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