Happy Birthday to Elder Keeley! and...Apartment adventures!

I have decided that when it rains it pours... both freezing rain and trials...

So you all commented on two things. that it is my birthday!!! and I am very grateful to everyone that sent a letter, E-mail, or present.  Know that I love and appreciate you all. And lots commented about how we had to sleep at the Cedar Falls church building last week... well we have all decided that when it rains it pours... I will explain later in this message.

I love teaching people-- it is the BEST!!! Ca***in  is progressing!!!!!!!!!!! She is starting to call herself a Mormon!!! She called her family and told them that she is going to convert and her mom got all churchy on her but she stood up for what she is learning and her mom said that she will respect her choices.

D***ie is also still reading the Book of Mormon she has told us that she wants to read it before she goes any further with the Church which is great by our standards!! She just hit 2 Nephi 7.

We are handing over Am*l to some Hermanas over in Cedar falls and hopefully he will progress with them. Cross your fingers!!

So now for the explanation of when it rains it pours. Well I guess that I will just tell this as a story.

First things first.  I love being in a branch with two sets of missionaries.  It is wonderful and a huge blessing more often than not.

Well last Saturday we decided to have Elder Allred, (yes he is somehow related to you Kevin and Denise), make his special cheese burgers: hamburger tomatoes peppers cheese and some spices: and he decided to pull a prank on the other elders who were coming later than our usual 8 o'clock dinner time, because of an appointment. He locked the front door.  So it can still be opened from the inside when it is locked, but not the outside. (you can already see where this is going)

They arrived at like 8:20 and they had to knock to get in, so we let them in and we all laughed and ate our food. It tasted wonderful.

Then we sat and talked for a while after we ate and we all just had a good laugh and all that other stuff that comes with being with 4 tough guys.

At nine we decided to drive the other Elders home, they both don't have driving privileges right now, and we went down to the car and we went out the door that we always go through and it was fine.  We got down to the car and Elder Musick realized he had forgotten his gloves in the apartment. He went up and then came down a few seconds later and said "I hope you have your keys-- its locked". Elder Allred did not have his keys, so we tried a few things like carding the door that wasn't dead bolted, We have two doors. We tried going up into the attic and walking around up there trying to see if we could come down through the two ceilings (one is a lowered ceiling like they have in schools) and also a few windows. All failed.  So we called our landlord.... he is in Florida for the next week and couldn't get us in and his son who is here couldn't find the spare key. It was important for us to get in there because NEWS Flash I am taking some important meds, ask mom about them.

Well we made a few more calls and the soonest that a locksmith could get here was this morning at 9:00. So for Saturday night and Sunday night we had to sleep at the other Elders' pad and it was a BLAST we had so much fun just talking wrestling and playing B-ball on their little mini hoop that they have. It was a PARTY!!!

And finally today we got into the apartment.  The locksmith was a sweet dude in the end. Because the lock was so old though, he just had to drill through the dead bolt and then used a screw driver to let us in.  It was so cool to watch!

And now the story has a happy ending--I have my meds and we are back in our own beds tonight, and  not a couch and a mattress some members let us borrow! HOORAY!!!

Well, l hope you all have a great week,

Elder Keeley