This has been a wild week. Feels like transfers but those aren't for another week or 2 or something. I've been on a week-long trade off with my zone leaders. Their ward is kinda annoyed at them because they have gone through 4 missionaries in 4 weeks, I think, with transfers, then an emergency transfer, then a week-long trade off. The members just ask who are you and how long you will be there. Heh. But it's been good. I was trying to do many interesting things on that tradeoff. I was permitted to play basketball for a bit one day during lunch. I'm awful at basketball, but it was so nice to play just to be able to do something else. I tried to measure the humidity in the computer room and tried to hypothesize why the computer room is so blasted hot and the room next door is actually a normal temperature. Also why the fan only kinda works and makes a bunch of disconcerting noises while all the other fans work just fine. That week was the fastest I have ever done anything in my entire life. My comp for the week was a machine. He turned on at 6:30 and turned off at 10:30. It was actually really impressive.
When I finally got home I was greeted by a nice little Brazilian flu. It is different from the American flu. For me, I am used to flu season where I feel kinda yucky for a few days and my nose runs like a water hose during school and it is painfully awkward. But here, I now know how the American Indians felt when they all died when the Spaniards showed up with the Spanish flu. I legit was like ok, now I'm seriously going to die. My comp said it's just the flu. The flu on steroids. I'm doing better now, almost 100%.
It was my comp's and my mom's birthday on the 23rd, and that was really fun. We had lunch at a restaurant where some members work, and they made him a really big cake. It was really fun to see all that and eat it all. It was so good.
I ate at McDonald's two or so weeks ago, and it was definitely the great value version. Not really the best. Then I ate at Burger King, and goodness it was amazing for some reason. I'm not a super big fast food guy, but we ate there again today and it didn't really live up to the expectations I had but it was still better than McDonald's here. But we had a McFlurry thing, and it was crazy good. I got some fancy chocolate in it, and I was really impressed. I would recommend this from McDonald's.
After our trade off, I came home to the dirtiest apartment I have ever seen in my life. I was a little annoyed in the beginning, then I was rather impressed. Impressed as to how two people in 7 days could make a house that dirty. The worst part was our fridge. There was some food in there that had already gone bad, but they refused to clean it. Our fridge and microwave use the same plug, and sometimes we forget to plug the fridge back in. That happened last week. So I also was greeted by the worst smell known to man when I went to clean the fridge. We put 3 masks on and then cologne on the masks and then put a shirt over the masks. Through all that I could still smell the food a little bit. It was awful. We even put a fan in the kitchen to blow some fresh air in. Quite the experience. So I'm going to compare this to repentance. If we would have just cleaned the food when it went bad, it would have had a bad smell; if you repent quickly you'll have a little process of pain. But if you prolong or procrastinate your repentance like we prolonged and procrastinated our cleaning, it will be a long, gross, and painful process. The two different ways bring the same result: a clean kitchen and clean body. One way is much more desirable. I urge you to choose this easier path. Don't procrastinate the day of your repentance. Because of this, we can now breathe easy in our house and not have fear of opening our fridge and dying haha.
While I'm here I might as well say this, too: I really liked what I studied today; it was what Alma the Younger said after he woke up from his wild ride with an angel. It is Mosiah 27:24-26. I really like how he is talking about being born again. He wasn't baptized while he was in a coma, but he became a new creature. Have we done this? Are we doing this? Am I doing this? This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Faith, repentance, baptism, the Holy Ghost, and enduring/progressing to the end. This is how we can become new creatures. I love this. Becoming new. Becoming better.
Anywho, I hope y'all have a great week and a safe one too. I don't want an inception pandemic. A pandemic inside of a pandemic. Covid 19.2.0 Soon it'll sound like Apple ios systemos. ios 10.1.3.5.7.43.56.45.7.4.2.653.67.456.7.256 1/2. But don't worry, it's the newest one and absolutely nothing changed except the numbers. Anywho. Enjoy your week for me. Have some fun.
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