Alright Week (July 1, 2013)

So it rained last week, and it was crazy. Normally it does not rain here during the winter, only the summer when a cyclone comes. It has been the wettest June on record here. It is funny because some people blame me because it started when I came up. Last week was especially bad. It rained a lot, but was also constant all day. In the pictures you can see a red dirt waterfall, and where all the water was going. If you look at that picture you can see bundled rocks to keep the water contained. Well the next day we were biking by and the water was so strong it pushed one of the bundles off and rolled it about 10 meters. And in the last picture you can see the lake forming outside our flat. I went to check the mail right after that in flip flops and the water was past my ankle. We were actually lucky because the flat next to us had even more water and it started to go inside. Also one of the windows was leaking in one of the upstairs rooms. Luckily it was not in the room we sleep in or one of the beds would have been soaked. Someone said it rained 28 cm but I'm not sure if it was in that day or month. Just to put it in perspective 28 cm is around a foot, so lots of rain.

Last week I was able to watch Elder Holland's and Elder Perry's talks at the library, but it was a little hard because I had to have the volume really low to not disturb others. It is really exciting to see how the new changes will happen, and how they will help. In this area I can see how they will help because we have a couple people we see that do not have phones, so the only way to get a hold of them is to knock on the door. If we had facebook or email it would be easy to just send them a message, and build relationships with them even when we cannot see them. I was excited because it shows that you can read the talks, but when I click on the link it doesn't work, so hopefully next week I will be able to read them. I am a little surprised that President Lindsay hasn't told us anything about it, but zone conferences are happening soon so it might be part of that. And he comes up here in two weeks which will be nice to see him and Sister Lindsay. We also got good news this week that the girl that almost got baptized two weeks ago moved up here, so hopefully we will be able to start teaching her this week. Besides that this week has been a little slow, but hopefully it will be able to pick up.

Love Elder Cook