June 9, 2008

Dear Family, Greetings from Wilmington "where the summer days make you feel like you are taking a bath in hot molases." It really is very hot in every place of the mission and it is especially hot in our area of the mission. We have only one airconditioner in our apartment and we have placed that in our room. However, our study room lacks such cooling. Every we open up our bedroom door and walk into an oven and sit there and frivolously attempt to study the scriptures in such a extreme temperature. Elder Witt informs me that it will only get worse. It was about 95 degrees with 80% humidty all last week and I wanted to die. This week has been one of service as well as success. On Saturday we hiked two miles to visit a less active woman by the name of Janice Jolly. By the time we reached the house our clothing was dripping with swet. Immediately sister Jolly saw us and let us in. We sat down and began our study, but immediatey sister Jolly told us to get up and move one of her toilets out to the dumpster. We happily accepted and I began to carry her old and rusted porcelen thrown down the stairs and to the garbage. We I reached about half way down the stairs her water started leeking through the toilet and ont my pants. I was not to excited. The rest of the day we went tracting and at nearly every door people said that I smelled like dog crap. At one door I said "correction I smell like human crap." we had a very interesting lesson about the Ten Commandments with Jamal. When we got to the 6th or seventh commandment (whichever one thou shalt not steal is) we stopped and looked at Jamal. Unfortunately our hopes to have Jamal confess to stealing celluar phones, Ipods, and chalk were dashed when he said nothing. We then proceeded onward with the rest of our lessons. This week we have been working with two investigators from the same apartment complex. Last saturday we decided that we would go visit tasha. When she opened her door we noticed that she had a bruised eye and scratches all over her face. We asked what happened and we found out that our other investigator Tereasa had beaten the crap out of her because she didn't like how she was talking to one of her baby daddy. O the wonderful Babymama drama of Wilmington. Well thats about all that has occured in my life throughout the past week.