Also, spiders!
There was a massive spider crawling on Elder Lanterman's butt yesterday.
Elder Connelly saw it, and almost spanked his companion right in the
middle of the dworzec, but he thought better of it. So instead all four
of us watched in horror as this massive spider crawled up Elder
Lanterman's butt, onto his back and towards his face, before Elder
Connelly finally managed to gather himself and flick it off of him.
There
were actually some instances of crazy, hairy jungle-men running around
this week. One in particular was during a whiteboard, there was a man
just down the street from us who had overgrown hair and beard, was not
wearing a shirt and was shouting at a statue of Medusa sitting on a
throne in the park.
And there were MONKEYS!!!!!! And by that I do mean the Elders, haha!
Then
there was the weather. We got rained out of several whiteboards this
week because occasionally the sky would just open up on us. mostly it
was really blazing hot though, much worse than the fourth of July. On Saturday
when we were in Legnica it was so hot I literally could not think of
anything other than getting a drink of water, and the episode of
Spongebob where he visits Sandy's treedome, because I understood
perfectly how Spongebob felt in that episode. I felt so dried out at one
point I was certain that if I didn't get a drink of water soon my
tongue might just disintegrate!
Then there was
yesterday. Yesterday was pretty cool, because it was the second time
they've held a sacrament meeting in Legnica, and it was the first time
that we got to go. So we had church in wrocław then us, and the elders
all hopped on a train and went to Legnica for second church! Along the
way to Legnica we talked a lot about how flat Poland is, there are NO mountains...
none, it freaks me out so much. And that got us talking about tornadoes
and crazy weather, and how Elder Lanterman, being from Virginia, is
used to those kind of crazy things. Then we had church in Legnica and it
was fun, but it was swelteringly hot. Sis Carlson had a talk too, which
she had to give in both meetings, heh heh, and while she was giving her
talk it was so hot she literally looked like she had just gone
swimming, lol.
After Legnica church we went to
the dworzec to catch our train and then found it was delayed 90 minutes
(by comparison, not that bad, another train on the schedule was delayed
200 minutes) So our choices were wait 90 minutes for that train, or
catch the train that was only an hour later and hope our tickets would
work for that one, since it's headed to the same place. We chose the
second option because with that one we'd only be a little bit later
getting into our apartment, and with the other one, we wouldn't get to
our apartments until around 10:00.
And let me just say, it was a super uncomfortable train ride. There
were tons of people on it because everyone had the same idea as us, so
there was no where to sit. We stood the whole way and there was a guy
next to me hogging all the available space and his thigh kept bumping
into mine which was super awkward, and my feet hurt really bad, it was
swelteringly hot in there, and to cap it all, there was a weird guy
wearing Trelawney glasses and a hood (just a hood, it wasn't attached to
anything) who wouldn't stop staring at me and elder Connelly!
By the time we got home it was after 9:00
but we had barely eaten anything all day, so I proceeded to make up a
thing of mac and cheese, which I got from the Kuchnia Świat (world
kitchen), and ate the entire thing, by myself. Then, around 10:00,
the time we would have probably been getting home if we had taken the
other train, things got crazy! First, I noticed that the sky was being
completely lit with lightning, then, the next thing we knew, it was
raining, then the wind got so bad our windows were shaking. Then the sky
literally opened up and the wind was straight up pummeling our building
with gallons of water. It was leaking through our windows and filling
our balcony. Lighting blazed across the sky right above our street and
was so frequent it wasn't really even night anymore. It was a monsoon,
no joke. The street flooded and there were cars still trying to drive
through it. It was crazy. At one point it absolutely looked like a
tornado, and Sis Carlson and I were so freaked out we just said a prayer
right in front of the window while the water was pounding it, and there
was lighting everywhere. And then literally, less than a minute after
we said the prayer, it all calmed down. The street was still flooded and
there was a city-wide alarm going off for several hours afterwards, but
we felt much safer.
This morning on the way to
go email we got to see that chaos all around. Now, more than ever, our
neighborhood looks like it came straight out of the video-game Fallout.
There were entire trees ripped out by the root and strewn across
sidewalks, in the road, on top of cars. There was a huge sign near our
house that was bent all the way to the ground. Biedronka (the grocery
store) flooded a little, so all the products were wet and a little
soggy. We didn't even bother looking at the bread, it was all ruined.
I've heard about the time the streets in Wrocław flooded (the main road
next to the Rynek, and right by the chapel) and I always had trouble
picturing that happening. Not anymore, It's very possible.
That was the main big thing that happened this week, other than that there were some funny things.
On Monday
we had to cancel our whiteboard because of crazy rain (nothing new).
Sis Carlson and I wanted to check out a possible location for a
whiteboard so we found coats people had left in the chapel, and decided
to wear those. I found a pretty good looking leather jacket, but sister
Carlson found a huge bright read poncho with a hood, which, when worn
over her backpack, with the hood up, made her look like a giant red
dinosaur. It was so entertaining. Her backpack under the coat also kind
of made it look like she had a hump, so of course I took picture of her
climbing through the window like Quasimodo.
There
was a bike-off outside our apartment. We didn't see how it started but I
think this young bald dude bumped into this old guy on his bike. (they
were both on bikes) the old guy was ranting and swearing and yelling at
the young guy. Then the young guy got mad at him and bumped the old guy
in the leg with his wheel. That only made the old guy rant more, so the
young guy turned and rode away. The old guy, still yelling and grumbling
to himself got on his bike and started to ride away. When the young guy
showed up again, out of nowhere, sped past him, and tried to kick the
old guy off his bike as he passed. It was a pretty weenie attempt
though, and didn't really do anything except make the old guy angry.
Then the young guy turned around and rode off, while the old guy slowly
turned his bike around and rode after him, calling the police as he
went, lol! It was so bizarre!
I think that's
basically it for this week, there were a couple of funny little things
here and there, and Elder Lanterman and I discovered how fun it is to
scare Sis Carlson, but other than that, that was my week... it was
pretty crazy.
Oh, and dad, before you ask, yes I call him "Elder Green Lanterman"
Kocham was!
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