Friday, June 8

So. I'm no longer in Birkenhead and the Wirral. We both got transferred (whitewashed again), but we are staying together and we whitewashed into our area. And you will never guess where we live now.... we live in.... wait for it... wait for it...... Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Wales. Yes that is actually the name. It's the longest name of a town. It is actually a whole sentence in Welsh about a church on a hill by the seaside or something. We are on the Isle of Anglesey. It is very spread out and it hasn't stopped raining since we arrived. They gave us a car though because the area would be impossible without one, but they didn't give us a GPS.... So here I was the first couple of days with my map while Sister Hoffman drove looking for signs for llanfairpwllgwyngyll when there are towns also called Llangefni, Llandegfan, and Llanglouister. It was ridiculous!  So we asked bishop last night if he might have a spare GPS that we could borrow until we get one. (I had already made a very stern phone call to president regarding the ridiculousness of not having a GPS.) So we are borrowing bishop's until next week when we should be getting one from the mission office.

Our other adventure thus far is that the phone we have has no service in our flat. None. So we can't make phone calls in our flat, in our parking lot, or anywhere near our complex. We had to drive out to a parking lot in the middle of nowhere on a hill to call President to tell him I was sick and staying in for the day. So that was our fun adventure yesterday, the joys of living on an island. I am sickly, but getting better. I've lost my voice and when I called President I sounded like a dying goose and he laughed and said with the tone of my voice he thought I was an elder calling him. I said that wasn't funny. So hopefully with lots of water and rest I will get better.

Oh, other adventure:  We got whitewashed into an area that was 3 days away from a baptism. So we've been rushing this way and that trying to make sure everything is prepared for this baptism that is happening tomorrow for an investigator we know nothing about! It is crazy!

Well we don't have much time to write and I still need to write president, but luckily I will get to write in a few days again, but thought I'd let you know I am alive and where we are at now.