Handicap Mode and Bathroom Surprise

October 30th

First week of the new transfer down! I keep getting lucky when it comes to the elders that I am with because the new zone leader and his companion seem cool. I still don't know them that well but the zone leader's companion is an American from Arizona so i'm pretty pumped about that. Finally someone else who doesn't know what's going on! And speaking of not knowing what's going on, we had divisions this week with the zone leaders but this time I stayed in Jatoba. That means that I had to show my temporary companion around. That wouldn't be a problem normally, but I still don't really know where anything is. I've been spending all the time we have walking just looking at my vocab cards I make and so I just follow Elder Alcantara everywhere. So when I found out that I was staying in our area I was stressing. Luckily God had mercy on my soul and sent an Elder who had already served in Jatoba to be our new Zone leader so he already knew how to get to most places. Once Heavenly Father decides to turn off handicap mode I'm done for.

Saturday was pretty interesting. During the divisions, I guess Elder Alcantara ate a lot of food and at least one of the things he ate wasn't great cause he got real sick. He said he still could go out and work but after about 15 minutes of walking around at a solid 1 mph, he realized he couldn't work and so we went back. After about 3 hours we tried again. He was still real sick but he insisted. The cool part was during the lesson. During the lesson, it was like he wasn't even sick. He could talk normal (he had been sounding like he was about to die) and he wasn't in any pain or discomfort. Then right after the lesson, he felt all sick again. It's amazing how the lord will give you strength when you really need it!

On a completely unrelated note, a funny thing that happened this week was when I was going to the bathroom after a long days work. I guess my pee scared a frog that had been chilling under the lip of the toilet because it jumped out of the toilet towards me and that scared the crap out of me (thankfully not literally) because you don't usually expect things to come out of the toilet. Needless to say, I had to clean the bathroom after that experience. Also, update on the food because, you know, food is goodÇ This week's special dish was scones! Turns out that Elder Alcantara knows how to make scones so that's pretty much the best thing ever. He covers them in cinnamon and they are real tastey. Gotta say I did not expect to be eating better on the mission than back at home.

Anyways I think that's about all I can think about that is interesting this week. Hope you all have a good week. And remember, God loves you.

And mother, I'm not sure if there is anything that I can use to record my voice around here. I'll keep looking cause I think it could be pretty cool but you may have to send me one. And I hope you have maple extract in the xmas package cause I need a lot of that. We're almost out. And I got the net. But I have no way of hanging it. I need to drill the hook into the ceiling but can't do that so that's lame. But bug spray seems to do the trick well enough.

Also people are crazy. You're right father America is awesome but people are still insane. They just need to calm down.

Elder Odom