Ya'at'teh' Everyone,
So, umm, this week here in my new area, Red Cliffs, things have been very crazy, and interesting. I really can't think of an adjective to describe it, so I will just start from the beginning.
Tuesday Elder Huff and I drove to Holbrook, AZ which was about a 2 hour drive from Tuba. Elder Huff said he knew which way to go, so I trusted his judgement. Well about an hour in we got lost, but after driving around for a few minutes we finally got back on the right road and made it to Holbrook. Well we arrived about an hour and a half before the transfer van, so we just chilled at the church for a while until they showed up. Then we separated and stuff and we took another 2 hour drive over to Gallup. When we got there, we had to wait for the trailer to get there with all our stuff because it fell behind somehow. Then my new companion, Elder Henderson, went and did a little training with the Zone Leaders, and then we left for our area. When we got to our trailer we opened the door and I kid you not the trailer was an absolute disaster. I'm not complaining or anything, but it was just bad. Then, literally 30 seconds after us walking in we get a knock at the door and we meet Brother Eby. He was a former bishop here, and was in charge of making sure church property was taken care of. Anyway he came in and he was not happy with the way the trailer was, and he is a loud man, and isn't afraid to say what's on his mind. After that we went to go have dinner with the Bishop and so he could show us around a bit. Bishop Cothran is his name, and he is a great guy, and he has a great family. His wife is Brazilian, and she is just a fireball with attitude as well, she was pretty funny. So that was pretty much it for Tuesday.
Wednesday, because it was so filthy we got permission to spend as much time as it would take to clean the place. We spent 9 hours cleaning and we didn't even finish... We had to stop because we ran out of cleaning supplies. Here is a picture of all the stuff we had to throw out.
Yeah, the garbage was about half full before we put anything in it. But between all the mold, grease, dust, dirt, and heaven knows what else was in there it was really gross.
Thursday we had district meeting, it was good, and I know most of the people in my district. Then we went and did service for our senior couple, the Stubbs.
Friday we tried to do our weekly planning, and the Area Book was an absolute disaster, and nothing had been updated since like April/May, and there were like no addresses or phone numbers on the people we were supposed to be teaching. So yeah it was not the greatest weekly planning, and we pretty much had to trash a lot of that as well. So yeah we have gotten lost every day so far, but we are slowly getting there.
Saturday was a little better, we have been doing a lot of tracting trying to find anyone really. Nothing overly exciting happened that day, but we did get lost again trying to find someone, and ended up finding a different person.
Sunday. Well Sunday has to have been the strangest Sunday on my mission yet. It was pretty normal for the first half actually; we went to church, gave talks, and went to class and did all that jazz. But after church we saw our bishops wife literally running around with our dinner calendar, trying to get people to sign up to feed us, so I think we will be taken care of with food. Then we went out with our 2nd counselor in our bishopric, so he could show us more of the area and what he knew. We originally thought it would be like an hour drive at most but it ended up being a 4 hour trip, haha. I was in the back of the van so I didn't hear much of what he was saying, so I was pretty much on a scenic tour. But we stopped at his wife's house were he periodically brought out more food for us to eat while we were driving. It started out with grapes, then pop tarts, and then he brought out a bag that had hot dogs, chips, s'mores, and applesauce. So I felt like I was having a camping picnic in the back of his mini van. So that was very interesting but I enjoyed the trip :)
But other than that the truck is in pretty bad shape, and we are pretty much starting from scratch with this place. It's going to be an adventure!
Love you all,
Elder Takis
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