Trade Off in Murray Bridge

Email #78
Area: Murray Bridge
Companion: Elder Hirro

Excerpts from Mom's email:

Hey Mom!
It's only been a couple of days so not to much has happened but there was a few things.

Trade Off:
On Friday this week I went on trade off with the other elders here in Murray Bridge. The Elder I was with, Elder Didkovskiy, is from Ukraine and is about 6 months into his mission. He was really fun to be with because I just love his accent so much! We knock in the door and the people always look so surprised so hear like a Russian accent followed by an American haha. We even had one lady ask "Don't they put you with people who can speak the same language?" In my head I was like "we both as speaking English haha". I guess it just sounds like a different language. I must admit though, when I first got here, it didn't sound like some Australians were speaking English either. We went down to the park while on trade offs and I haven't seen much of that part of the area before. We were seeing some massive birds down there. There was this one lady from the middle east who was feeding the birds and the one with the huge beak tried to bite her. I guess those ones aren't to nice haha. It was a successful day though and I really enjoyed being with him.

Flat Inspection:
We had a nice little problem with the flats this last week as well. We had a flat inspection and I guess the guy who did it is not to fond of missionaries... So this happened last week when I was sick, so we were there for the inspection and he told us only that the kitchen stove needed cleaned and the shower a little better. Then we get this report from the senior couple that the owners of the flat got a bad report and are considering kicking us out. Even president texted me concerned about losing this flat. I was so surprised because it looked fine. Anyway, we cleaned this flat like crazy and it looks like a shining pearl at the moment. The senior couple came by to check it out and said it looks great! So the follow up inspection will be soon so hopefully they send a different dude.

Sorry it's not much just has been 3 days lol.
Love you!


Excerpts from Dad's email:

Hey Dad!

Man we had a freaky experience this week. So we were teaching a girl named N.... and she has been showing some weird signs. She kind of enjoys attention I think and we are pretty sure she has other issues. So we were teaching the plan of Salvation and she brings up her two year old baby whom we have never met. My companion saw a picture of a baby and her from a distance as her phone screen saver so he asked about it. She told us how her baby is with the father on the weekend and then showed us the picture on her phone. Man, it was a baby doll and the kind of one that Jaela has that creeps me out. So my companion and the young RM that was with us turned and looked at me not knowing what to say. I wasn't sure if I saw that fight because by the way she talked about she was completely serious. Kind of caught off guard my tongue got a little tied for a moment until I was able to get us back on lesson. Well this especially freaked my companion out because when he saw the photo up close he got chills. I don't really know what to do with that still not sure what is wrong there, it is a long story.

Well today we are going on a hike with the rest of the district. It should be really fun and hopefully the weather will be nice. It will be over in mount Barker which is 30 min or so away so not very far. I just need to go replace the back left tire on the car because the other day it blew out. We have the spare on it, I just can't be going 110 k's with that thing on to Mt Barker.

That's all I got for ya this week.
Love you!