New address: 1011 Saint Andrews circle rantoul illinois..........I want to start off by shouting out Aunt Heather and Uncle Seth's family for writing me letters. Email is great but it is awesome to get letters especially when you're not expecting them.
We officially moved into our new apartment so no more black mold. I'll attach photos of the old place but they definitely don't do it justice. When you'd shower moldy paint would fall onto your head and shoulders and I went to clean under the microwave and there was like rainbow mold. The first retard Elders that didn't clean created a domino effect that caused every elder after to not clean because it was already so dirty. The moving assistance came Tuesday and helped us load everything into a trailer, then we would drive 50 yards down the street and put everything back into the new apartment. Somehow I got the washer and dryer both times. The washer didn't drain so it felt like 500 pounds and it was a little rusty on the bottom where my hand was so hopefully my tetanus pulled through. The bathroom in our old apartment was so bad. There is a senior couple who are in charge of the housing and there are always 2 elders stationed with them. The Senior elder, elder Hatfield was so upset from before he even got out of the car because it is a 3 hour drive from St Louis to Rantoul and then he had to scrub the moldy bathroom for like 3 hours. The trailer looked brand new and really nice so I told him it was a nice trailer and he said it is brand new because the 2 elders crashed the other one. One of the housing elders was my companion's first companion in rantoul when he got sent here from Ghana so they were having a grand reunion time. The elder that was here before was wearing a shirt that he had bought in Rantoul and my companion took off his hoodie and he was wearing it as well. You should have seen them high five and get all giddy!
We went to "amish land" today and ate at an amish buffet. The food was really good and we met some elders there so it was a fun time. After we ate we went to this amish store and I and a couple other elders bought genuine amish straw hats. The amish people here are kind of fake amish because there were cars and farm technology all around. They wear the Pioneer clothes and have horse drawn buggies but some of them have cars and have like nike shoes and stuff and I saw forklifts at the store so I'm not sure they're real.
This week our area 70 Elder met with our mission over zoom for like and hour and a half for 3 consecutive days and it was pretty spiritual.....my companion and I had various lessons, we read "come follow me" with members a lot because 1. they need fellowshipping, and 2. it's not like we have insane amounts of new people we are teaching.
....we taught John again. He had cancelled the last couple times but when we met the spirit was so strong....it is annoying, especially with this guy cause he used to be a gangster from east saint Louis but he understands, and I know he feels the spirit and he also said that he knows what we are teaching him is true, and that he's prayed about it, but I kind of feel like he is going through the pride cycle because he is feeling the spirit and reading the scriptures but he's not fully accepting the gospel ya know.......he's out of jail on parole in this program that let's you get out of jail, but you have to live at this church for 8 months....he has like 3 hours of church a day but we feel like as soon as he's done he's going to be done with that church, and us cause he thinks it's just a "good message" even tho the spirit is constantly testifying to him..........
we went back to the alpaca farm and turns out another alpaca died, just got sick and died. We helped her scoop out all the alpaca poop from the barn (that's where they sleep at night because it is to cold outside) and relocated it some place outside like 30 yards from the barn. It's super fun to help her because she actually needs it, and she is also super fun to talk to. I honestly don't know how she takes care of all those animals and works 2 jobs, but she says she likes the way she lives.....
........apparently they are sending missionaries back to mexico who have just over 6 months left so I should be going within a couple months (allegedly)..........adios!
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