January 30, 2023 THE HOPEFULLY NOT SO BORING ADVENTURES OF ELDER WILLIAMSON CHAPTER XV

it's a dark and stormy afternoon (more like overcast).. the kind of day where you can feel the tension rising and the smell of decipt in the air.. the crows are circling overhead, for they know of what is to come.. it's calm in the apartment of the missionaries of cambita.. too calm.. i sit at my desk, bored and out of all things to do.. suddenly i hear music.. chriStmas music.. it is january.. i look for the source and find that it is reverberating from within the other elders' room.. macdonald.. i glare at him with as much anger as i can muster (not much, but i try)... he ignores my look of disapproval.. i make a decision.. i search my surroundings for potential projectiles.. palmers' yoyo.. goldfarbs' keys.. a rusty machete... and then i see it.. the weapon.. perfectly balanced.. aerodynamicly sound.. small and concealable... a lime.. taken from macdonalds' own desk... i obtain it.. it is the perfect size.. i weigh it in my hand and begin my calculations.. i have to think quickly, i don't know whenever he might look next.. i take a breath thru my nose, releasing it thru from my mouth, the oxygen filling my lungs and giving me strength.. i bring back my arm and prepare to fire.. i throw the lime.. the release is exact.. the arch perfect.. i don't need to stay to watch, i know where it is going.. i return to my cards in a flash, even before the lime finds it's new home... right square in macdonalds' children... the groans of pain and laughter that follow make it totally worth it.. for the moment.. but i also know that i might regret it later on... he finally picks himself off the floor and hobbles over to where goldfarb and i are sitting.. i make sure to sit in a manner, of in which i am protected.. he tries to speak, struggling to spit out the words.. "w-w-was that yall?"... and then i realize.. he doesn't know it was me?.. innnteresting.. and in a moment of weakness i just raise my hand.. not to volunteer the truth.. but to point to the bathroom.. to point to palmer.. to begin a war... oops... don't worry don't worry, i told him the truth like 10 minutes later or something (ten minutes of him being quite angry at elder palmer, and elder palmer just being thoroughly confused).. and i wasn't actually aiming for there, buttt somehow it just flew there perfectly.. annnd i'm pretty sure he's gonna get me back one of these days sooo.. now i live in constant fear.. annnd i felt bad after, so i bought him some pear nectar.. sooo maybe we're fine now.. in my defense tho, he diD blindside football tackle me in the middle of a bAsketball game on monday, so it's not like he's iNnocent or anything... allllso... WE HAVE WATERRR! they finally decided to get around to fixing the pump on tuesday i think? and we're really hoping it's actually fixed for good.. bUttt having water pressure is actually sO nice! i mean having water in general is pretty cool, but being able to go turn on the water whenever you want and then.. you know.. like actual water comes out, instead of some some dust and a half a cockroack (that's never actually happened, but i wouldn't have been surprised)... buttt basically before we could only have water when the people downstairs would turn on the water so thEy could use it (cuz i guess when the normal pump broke they bought a little mini one to use in the mean time?).. but that was only in the morning from like 8ish to maybe like 12 or something? (it was different every day, so we never knew when we would have water or not) and the water pressure was barely a trickle.. sooo that meant that we all had to fit our showers into the small amount of time in between when they turn on the pump and when we have to start studying and stuff.. buttt now.. hOpefully we can just take showers and wash our dishes and clothes and hands and all that.. whenever we want!... we had zone conference.. that was interesting.. i didn't realize that the christmas one didn't really count, and this one was a lot different... buttt i definitely learned a lot of new stuff, found out that i would rather talk to dominicans than gringos in spanish (apparently i can understand the dominicans better somehow?) buttt basically i just spent the whole time understanding like half, but not getting any of the explanations for the role plays, and then feeling really dum when i start doing the wrong thing and then the other person is like "uhhh aCtually they want mE to start oUt as the misSionary, and thEn i haNd the iMaginary pHone to yOu and theN you chAnge from the invesTigator to the memBer, and i beCome the investigatOr..." annnd if you can make any sense of thAt sentence, then congrats, but i was just super lost... other than that it was really good tho, and we took an uber this time to avoid all the walking across freeways and stuff... annnd some of our investigators are progressing super well actually!.. one of them wasn't married to his "wife" and didn't want to be (but needed it for baptism) buttt they're also planning on moving to the states (louisiana for some reason) and to get their visas they have to get married.. sooo that was super funny for us.. sooo idk if we'll be able to baptize him (it depends on when he leaves) buttt maybe.. annnd we have a couple others who are actually reading and progressing, and it's super cool to see... we found this game called parcheez? (at a chineese store ofc) so we've been playing that a ton.. i think they have it in the states? buttt the dominicans have claimed it as their own game (as well as dominos, which is a legit national sport)... buttt if you haven't ever played, it's basically like monopoly mixed with candy land, but you can't get monopolies, the candies are plastic (definitely did nOt try to eat one), it's more annoying, annnnd it's definitely somehow rigged so that my comp always wins, but i can't figure out how... annnd at some point elder macdonald found a snake called moises (whichhh i'm sure you can tell, but that's moses in spanish) and we tried playing parcheez with him, and he still somehow ended up beat me, even tho he kept accidentally swallowing the dice while trying to roll (that's a joke, silly snakes don't know how to play parcheez)... thattt's all i got tho.. probably.. have a good week tho! and if you're having a bad week, thennn mAke it good.. maaake it good... love you guys!... ether 12: 6-7 And now, I, Moroni, would speak somewhat concerning these things; I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith. For it was by faith that Christ showed himself unto our fathers, after he had risen from the dead; and he showed not himself unto them until after they had faith in him; wherefore, it must needs be that some had faith in him, for he showed himself not unto the world.