Week #34

Hi

What a week. Busy one.

I saw  Elder Matthew Parker Seegmiller. Highlight of the mission so far.

I made a 6 kg turkey for the boys. Happy Thanksgiving. I also put 3 sticks of butter in the potatos (Latvijan butter sticks are about twice the size of American) and it was delicious.

Went to Jelgava this week. Elder Satterlee (the new Jelgava District Leader) is doing great. 

Cool Experience: We had to visit a referral that has been really hard to contact (she lives halfway between Riga and Jelgava and can only be reached by train). We went to see if we couldnt get her on the way home. We had to break into the building. Easy, 10 pressure button, code where you have to hit 3 at the same time. I am a pro at these, but we couldnt crack this one. Finally after 20 minutes I got angry and punched the code and it opened. Miricle #1. We got up there and knocked on the door and... No answer. We knocked 3 more times with the same result. We were like "Were never gonna be here again, were so angry" So we knocked her 4 neighbors, the first 3 hated us, but the 4th. He like us. He was Russian and spoke 2 year old level Latvian. We said "Baznīca" which means church, and he stepped to the side and let us in. Long story short, called the Russians and they taught him over the phone and he loved it. He gave us apples. We decided to try one more time on the referrals door, and she answered. Well, her cousin did, but we got her number and we are going back on Saturday. Woo Hoo.

Nice.