Aug 09, 2009

Hey Family,

This week was a good one it went very fast but we had lots of good fun especially the last couple days. We had president interviews and everything with me is good. But after the interviews he came and checked our flat hahahaha oh man he wasn't pleased. Now let me get this straight, our flat is clean... very clean. It was just not to missionary standards or something. The curtains were on wrong and we had cut things out of ensigns and put them all over the walls with sticky tack, and he asked us to take them down and move our beds back into the bedroom but the worst thing about it all was he took my pull up ball. I'm so bummed I loved that thing I bought it back in America now it's gone :(. And I tried to plead with him telling him how i've gone from one pull-up to 15 but no dice. Oh well now I have a boring old flat but... plenty of room to wrestle. Then saturday we ate at Margrate's. She gave us Christmas Pudding which is like fruit cake (fruit?...good...Cake?...Great!....Fruit Cake?... Nasty Crap) but this christmas pudding was like fruit cake that has already passed through sombody. Oh man YUUUUUUUUUCCKKKK i'd rather eat Balute Egg. See as a missionary i've become a robot I eat everything in front of me and it's easy but this was the worst thing ever. Oh man Elder Monty and I were gonna throw up big time. That was that day. Then sunday, what a day. First church was good I love Glenhoun, then Glenorchy when we got there, there was a german girl looking for us she said she was a spy (investigator) and was just visiting. She was smarter than any of our converts even she was awesome. And her story is sweet. A missionary on his way to frankfurt from Dallas talked to her for ten hours and got her very insterested. Man good on him. I was scared to death to talk to anyone on the way out to Australia. She also has taught religion in a Catholic school which means she would have questioned that missionary a lot so even more props to him. But it just was the coolest thing, I want an investigator like her so bad. we'll get one don't you worry. Then another thing happened later that night. Elder Ianusi and I went out tracting and we tracted a very small court and it was chokka block full of accepting people but then we get to one house and this lady come's to the door but doesn't open it and says "are you trying to scare me?" in a very high pitched voice. We tell her no we are missionaries then she just starts to hyperventalate like really bad. So I ran next door to see if she has a condition they said she is an alchoholic and skytzo. so we go back and she is like dying infront of us, i kinda laughed but was concerned too. then when we talk with her a while she invites us in but we don't go cause we gotta go. Then we finally tell her we'll be back later in all her hysterics but she says while bawling "i'll be dead by then" wowzer ok so we don't know what to do Elder Ianusi said we should go so we did but it was crazy. We did find lots of other sweet people, we'll see them this week. Thanks every one for your support I love you all.

-Elder Ballard