July 18th, Letter

Hey y'all

Alright here goes my random all over the place letter. 

So Saturday after our P Day we had a lesson with our new investigator Dan. It went pretty good! Started teaching him the Restoration. He is Hailey B Friend a member of our YSA. They are going to school here in Philly. He is accepting everything pretty well so far. Right after that we drove into center city. Because we were going to Chloe's Ballet at a theater down there. We were going cause we are supposed to teach on of her friends that dances with her. Anyways we were about a block away and we were looking for parking. We passed a good spot so we were going to turn around I took a right onto a really narrow one way. Well we entered the road and it got really tight and we got stuck between the two curbs. Then we heard a lot of air coming out of something. And i said, i hope that's not our wheel. Well i looked out my window an our front left tire was flat! And our Rim was all scratched up and not looking good. We were already running late and we were right by the theater! We had no idea what to do, we were in Downtown, center city. The back of our van was almost sticking out into broad street the main road that goes right down the center of Philly. We were blocking a sidewalk that lots of people were walking down and we were about to be late for the ballet. We had people swearing at us cause they had to walk around our van. And even worse we couldn't find our spare tire anywhere!! since our van has the seats that fold into the floor there is no room for the spare tire. So we later learned that it was hidden in the front of the van between the two seats, and you have to go through this complicated process to get it out. It was a mess. We called the AP's cause they were nearby and they helped us out. It took about an hour to get it fixed. Then we parked and were able to get into the ballet. We were only 30 Min's late. The ballet was... interesting but good. 

Sunday was pretty cool. It was a busy day. We went to broomall ward for sacrament then went to our ward council in Philly. Then we drove over to Medford for Steve Parkers Baptism. It was really cool to be there, I sat by the Mass Family. I got to see most of my favorite people from Medford. I couldn't believe Steve was getting baptized!! We had a really good time there. Then we drove back home. Then us and the Assistants went over to the Holloways for dinner with the Smuins. We had a really good time over there. We have awesome Senior Couples!!

Since this is a random letter i will just skip to this. So im pretty sure Elder Smuin will be replacing me as the Financial Secretary. He was a CPA back home so it just makes sense. Ive talked to him and president about it. And i will start to train him next week. So I'm pretty sure ive just got one more transfer here in the office. We had our interviews this week, so we talked a little about that.

We had Golden Re-Trainings this week. There were 3 of them and we went to two of them. - one in Nazareth, PA and Philly. We helped with the lunch for them. 

Let's see, on Wednesday Elder Moyer came in and and we reviewed all of our apartments. We are now paying almost $90,000 a month for all our apartments! crazy huh! And i have to find and set up 9 apartments before August 4th... I will be signing the first lease for all of those today. Going to look at an apartment in Downtown Philly on Monday. 

I'm jealous that you get to go to the Schaefermeyers Homecoming tomorrow! There are going to be sooo many people there. RM's are driving to it from everywhere! Elder Fredrickson is going to be there so make sure you meet him!

Let's see, so next week i will be busy finding apartments and making lots of phone calls. I've been continuing to work on organizing my workspace and making everything efficient. I worked on perfecting the Mission Logo. I created a sweet new fb cover and profile pic for the mission fb. It looks pretty good, i will send it to you. I'm pretty proud of it. Transfers is in two weeks, it's insane how fast time goes by. I feel like I'm just now starting to recover from the last transfer... crazy stuff. 

Well have a great week! It's good to hear from you! Maybe you could post something on my fb about me coming home soon and to email me or write me. put my missionary email and mailing address on there!

Byeeeeeeee!

         -Elder Jeremy Jensen