Another Transfer in Midwood written November 4, 2013
Well this was the first week of another transfer here in Midwood. As with most first weeks of the transfer, it was a pretty slow week. After the transfer meeting on Tuesday, we barely had enough time to get back to Midwood to teach English classes. We had a pretty solid turnout though and it was a fun time. My favorite thing to do with English class is to teach them slang words or to explain English idioms. Recently I explained "It's raining cats and dogs" and "I'm happy as a clam." I love it, English class is the best.
Wednesday we had our weekly service as Prospect Park in the morning. Then in the evening we had our first Wednesday evening without a Brazilian elder in a while. Unfortunately, it ended up being a really uneventful night. We had an appointment with a new investigator and we had some other names. The first guy juked us and nobody else was home. On the upside, we did some good walking and we had some nice conversation. And we tried McDonald's new dollar menu on the way home. I'll be honest, I'm kind of unimpressed with it. Though I think I would like the Buffalo McChicken more if I had it again. We'll find out. I'll keep you posted.
Thursday was Halloween! We were supposed to be in our apartments by 6 PM to keep us safe from whatever shenanigans might happen on Halloween in New York. People start trick or treating around here at like 3 in the afternoon and they mostly only go to stores instead of houses. It's funny how things are different here. We weren't able to accomplish too much in the afternoon and we had to cancel English classes because of the 6 PM rule. So Elder Spencer and I got ready to throw a party by ourselves in our apartment. And it sure was a good time. We bought some Dr Pepper and we got Little Caesar's pizza for dinner. Then we ate and we played chess while we listened to the soundtrack for O Brother Where Art Thou for three hours. There were other soundtracks involved, but our Halloween mostly consisted of eating pizza, drinking Dr Pepper, and playing chess. We're getting pretty good by now.
Friday was largely uneventful except for our visit to our old friend Gabriel. He is still struggling to try to get Sundays off so he can come to church. He finally had them off at one point, then his work closed so he had to do a bunch of stuff and try to find a new job. Now he's back working again, but he doesn't have Sundays off yet. So we're back to the usual struggle. It's tough when you have to work ridiculous hours to just barely scrape by. He's a good guy and if he could, he would come to church. So we're just going to keep on visiting him so he can know that we care about him and keep trying to get Sundays off.
Saturday we had a bunch of sports activities. There's a group of members and missionaries that go play Ultimate Frisbee on Saturday mornings. We decided to go check it out and see if it's any good so we can start inviting members from our ward to come play. It was a lot of fun, we just need to start working on inviting members to come play with us too. Later in the afternoon, we played soccer again with members and investigators. We've got some people that have been coming and there's a group of Hatians that are always there when we go. It's fun to see the Hispanics to play with the Hatians. They are all so dang good at soccer. I just try to stay out of their way. It seems to work out pretty well. After that, we had an awesome meeting with the bishop. We went over the ward list with him and we picked out all the people that neither of us knew. He asked us to make a list and start working with all of these people. So Elder Spencer and I are going to hit up the library tomorrow and compile it so we can start working on it. I think this is going to be really helpful for us here.
Sunday was a largely quiet day. The best part was that a member invited us to have burritos at her house for dinner. And she doesn't mess around when it comes to burrito. They were incredible. Best burritos I have had in a long while. Better than Chipotle, I would argue. And didn't cost me $10 a burrito. That's always a plus. We finished out the day by helping a woman in our ward who is trying to pass the GED. She struggles with the math part, so I go and help her out every once and a while. I miss doing math, so it is a lot of fun to help her.
And that's about it for now. We've got some stuff lined up for this week, so hopefully we can make some new things happen. It will be a fun time. Only five more weeks in Midwood, so I better make the most of it. Love you guys!
Elder Erickson
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