Lightening Storms

July 23, 2012

Dear Familia,

Well this week has been pretty slow. That lightning storm was fun -- NYC had over 1,000 strikes in a 15 minute period of time. We got in the church for our interviews with the president right before it really started going. I accidentally grabbed the wrong planner this week so my thoughts might be kind of scattered. But ya the temperature this week was pretty nice for the most part. The day of the lightning storm when we first left the apartment at eleven it was very hot, and then as we started going about the day a few clouds started to come in, then a light drizzle came. It took awhile for it to really cool off though. The humidity seems to hold the temperature pretty stable. After that though it was nice for the rest of the week.

So on Tuesday was deep clean day. As we were finishing up we got a call saying that the AC repairmen were coming. That got us excited. Unfortunately they had no idea what they were doing, and barely even spoke english (not spanish either, some kind of southern asian). All they ended up doing was push a few buttons, use our bathroom, and tell us they don't know what's wrong so they will call some AC specialists. Wait, weren't you guys supposed to be the AC specialists? Hmmm...

Anyway after that we called the East Elders to make sure that they remembered that they were teaching English class. They told us that the calendar we decided on in district meeting said it was our turn. The calendar the rest of us wrote down said that it was their turn, as did the order we had been following for earlier in the transfer, which we based the calendar we made off of. All three of us had appointments scheduled which made it so that none of us could cover for them. He ended up just pulling his 'I'm the district leader so my calendar is final' card to make us go. We had to do an exchange with the other elders, cancel an appointment, and do some other weird maneuverings in order to make it work. Luckily we were blessed for our sacrifice and three people gave us their information.

Wednesday was the day of the lightning storm. We had five things scheduled that day which was amazing. One was our dinner appointment and another was the interviews with the president but that's still three lessons scheduled. Unfortunately all three of those lessons fell through. Thursday we got a new investigator although I'm not sure what we are going to be able to do with her. She is someone that has been taught many times in the past. Her brother was an RM in the ward but he got deported a while ago. She wants to be baptized but is not married. She has been taught everything plenty of times, has been to church plenty of times. It felt more like a less-active lesson than an investigator lesson. She used to want to get married but now she is not so sure. There isn't much we can do. The rest of Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday were just fruitless lookups. We burned through that new list of names from last week pretty quick. We have just kind of decided to go back to what Elder Sanford and I were doing two transfers ago, just talk to everything that moves all day, because we found 24 new investigators that transfer. Most of them fizzled out pretty quickly but it was at least a lot of volume. Since then I would be surprised if we had half that number of new investigators in the two transfers I have been here. So guess we will see how it works.

Love you guys,

Elder Pearce