Week 91

San Jacinto Transfer 2 Week 1

Email Date: April 7, 2014

Before I talk about this week I want to write out a funny experience from the week before that I forgot to write about. 

So, I learned a very big lesson on the importance of cleaning up. If you ask my mother, she will tell you that I am not the most cleanly person in the world, and I totally admit to that. However, there is a point (much sooner than it used to be mom, I promise) where it is time to clean up. 

I went on exchanges a couple weeks ago, and we went to help someone move. They were in some apartments in a bad part of town and were moving within the complex. 

We went into the house and were greeted by an overwhelming stench of cat urine, followed closely by a scene of utter devastation. There was garbage and nastiness, literally everywhere, on the floor and every surface. The carpet and kitchen floor was disgusting, the entire kitchen was full to the cabinets with anciently dirty dishes. So we started cleaning up and moving. Our main job was moving their heavy objects so we started with their freezer, and discovered that underneath was entirely covered with cockroaches. The scattered as the freezer was moved. We moved some other furniture and I felt cockroaches literally crawling on my hands. It was super bad. The worst was the fridge. I was standing next to the fridge levering it onto the dolly. We lifted it up and it was like a scene from the Mummy, or Moses parting the cockroach sea, they scattered in a tsunami wave across the kitchen, up the wall, over my shoes and everywhere. It was one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen. We tried to spray the bottom of the fridge with Raid, but it was the wrong type. They didn't seem to mind that they were infesting their new apartment...

The best part was the comment made by the lady we were helping about all the cockroaches "when your neighbors have bugs, you do too" .... I honestly don't think that she realized that all of the food left on the floor, dishes in the sink, soda cans everywhere, cat food all over the place made for a perfect cockroach habitat.

So, moral of the story. Keep your apartment clean, realize when you have a problem, and don't dumpster dive. 

General conference was really good. I especially enjoyed elder Holland's talk, elder Uchtdorf's and Elder Eyring's in the Priesthood session. It was really cool. I went in with a few questions and each of them was answered, including the very specific non-gospel related one. Yay spirit! It is such a testimony builder that prophets are again on the earth. The purpose of the Scriptures, and general conference is to open our hearts to the Spirit so we can receive revelation. Questions questions questions, ask them! 

Someone in conference said that the things of true importance cannot be taught, only learned by the Spirit. It's all on us, so go and do. 

We also moved out of our ghetto apartment full of noisy and smelly neighbors into a nice new, clean apartment. Moving was a chore though. The old place had had missionaries living there since 2011, so was pretty bad, and it had a lot of junk. We got everything moved though, and it's really nice. I've been lucky on my mission and I've opened 3 new apartments. 

No updates on investigators. 

Thank you everyone! I love you and are praying for you.

  

Love,

 Elder Johns.