G'day Family,
Well As you can Tell from my first email this week was insane! hahaha well they always are, seeing that i'm... well me! Ok really were to begin. um i guess the best part about the week. After 14 month of being a missionary i was finally alloud the chance to go to the house of the lord and attend the TEMPLE!!. I was so happy to go it was greta we got there and our lame Zone leaders hadn't reseved us a time to go in so they were gonna let us do endowments but seeing that me and one other missionary hadn't been in donkey years they let us go. it was great i always love going to the temple. the feeling there is great and no matter where i am in the world it feels like home. Man all my sweet expiriences are slipping out of my broken dumb head (you'll know why it's broken later.) Ok so on saturday we decided to be on foot all day, well not really we ride trains and busses all day. so first we ride to the chapel and walk there for a baptism of this SriLAnkin lady the other missionaries were baptising, and they did it on the first try by the way. but afterwards they drive us to the train station and we wait for our train. Then our train comes a few minutes later and i realize "oh crap were on the wrong side of the tracks!" uh oh and obviously we can't make it to the other side intime so we just walk over there. and as we walk thats when the heavens open and pour all it contains on to me and my companion. we ran thirty meters and we got soaked from head to toe, i also got cracked in the face by a giant peice of hail the size of an average bouncy ball. it hurt so bad but left no damgae, but i bet it would have super attractive next to my knife scar. man we were met, the term "dry as a bone" didn't apply to me even our bones were wet. it was bad but we were able to take some photo's and all the people were trapped under the overhang so they had to talk to us. hehehehe. Ok, ok i guess i'll tell you about the blind day we had, but first i need to tell you about the Nanai's (Na-nie), this is a samoan family in our ward and both the husband and wife are blind. So Pai (pa-ee), really helps us with missionary work a lot, he has us over 10 nights a week seriously, we love him, also he is Victoria's strongest man, oh and did i mention HE IS BLIND, how awesome. so Pai said we could last a day being blind we would freak out, so after weeks of contemplation we took his challenge and committed ourselves to being blind for a day. So on sunday i Fashioned a blind stick and some blinders for elder zabriskie and I to wear. it's pretty leggit. we honselty can't see A thing. so at nine o'clock sunday night our vision is blocked. we shower and prepare for bed with no vision. i even write in my journal it's so funny. and then we try to sleep and in the morning we wake up.... still blind. we get up and get dressed and listen to the sciptures on CD for our study. then around 9:30 be decide to brave the big outdoors. i take three steps outside and freak out all i want to do is stay in bed all day but we have tasks to perform like buy a certain can of soup or purchase some jeans. so we make our way to the train station, we make it to the end of our not so busy street safely. but thats when the fun happens, it's such a struggle just to walk straight and every four steps i'm in the street or who knows were i was. there was this one time where i thought i was standing in a relatively safe spot but the i feel a car whipp past me fast and i feel the wind of the car so it was close! i freaked out and ran to an area where i thought was safe turns out from the video we had around our necks is i ran further into traffic and onto the median of the road. Now we figured out quickely that we were no good at this whole blind thing, so when we heard people walking past we would call out for help but lame Aussie poeple wouldn't help us so many people just ignorred us ughh!! until we met Mel, Mel is a nice young mum who guided us all the way to the station and even held our hands all the way onto the train. i took a blind photo of her so you'll see that. then while on the train we thought we were alone but somebody ran up to us and scared us, and he just tapped the exit button of the train door like a thousand times really fast then we tried to talk to them but they refused to talk so we made fun of them being scared to talk to "The Freaks". We finally get to the station we need to get off at so we step off and as soon as i start to walk a hand grabs my arm and starts to lead me and by the sound of her it was a little aisian girl hahaha it was funny she leads us all the way to the front of the station and that when some other bloke decides to try and guide us, he was greek his name was peter her helps us cross this super busy road and gets us all the way to the shopping center where we were gonna meet Pai to help us out. We decide to wander around the mall for a bit and thats when i run into a Wall that was just sticking out it hurt so bad, i had already three close calls with poles and steel girders but this one finally snagged me. Pai calls us and wants us to meet him across the street (oh oh not another street) at the gym where we'll work out with him. we barely get there after more close calls with cars and when we get into the gym they make us take off our blind eyes because it was a safety issue so we did and lets just say once we saw the glories of sight we never went blind ever again. man it was scary and my head still kills but lets hope i showed heavenly father that i can never be blind and he should bless me with my sight always. I think thats about it that happened this week well there is more i just can't think of anything. I love you all and we have a baptism this week i'll tell you about it later. take care be good and keep finding girls to write me.
-Elder Ballard
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