Even after all of the planning and preparation, Cory did not receive the box we sent for his birthday and I am not happy. Actually the box was delivered and signed for by someone in the apartment office on Friday, so I assumed he would get it no problem. Then we get this email today and I feel really sad because he sounded kind of down....
Hey family! Talk about a birthday present I get to e-mail y'all! But that is about the only present I am getting today. I get to spend the rest of the day waiting in line at the post office, shopping, waiting for my companions to get hair cuts, and waiting on a companion go to the chiropractor.... so yeah nothing really special today.
Well let's review the past week shall we. I had 2 exchanges this past week. The first one was Elder Christensen took Elder Finlinson's place in our area and it was an okay exchange. Oh, Elder Christensen broke my sunglasses and is not replacing them, so if you could send out some sunglasses in the next package you send that would be great, like my American Eagle aviators or something.
We gave Ronda a baptismal date for January 8th and she is totally excited for that. But our other investigators are not doing so hot. Like Joan is gay so that's a problem, and Moses is slowly falling off the path because of his girlfriend.
Nothing really special happened this week, all we did was tracting with basically no success. But one door I knocked on a lady answered and was like "Oh My Gosh I have something to tell y'all and I am so happy your are here!" (In my head I am like you wanna be baptized!) But turns out she just needs help moving ha ha . She is not a member, but she had missionaries help her move into her home a year ago and now she is moving again and needs help so we are going to do that next week - it's all about planting seeds any way.
Well that's all I got really, I am just not really motivated today and don't know what to talk about. Oh but I will call y'all at 6 p.m. (5p.m. your time) on Christmas and if this doesn't work for y'all just let me know. Love ya -Elder Barton
I sent an immediate response to his email asking about the package since he didn't mention it, but he did not respond. I got to thinking that I'd better check on the box since it also had all of his Christmas stuff and if it was missing I wanted to track it down ASAP. I called the mission office and asked Sis. Walker if she would call Elder Barton and ask him about the package. She called back and said that he had not received it, but she told him to check the apartment office when they got back there. In the meantime, I called the apartment office and someone checked on the package and verified it was indeed there for him. I asked them to please make sure he gets it since it was his birthday today. After running errands this afternoon, I returned home to a message on our answering machine from Sis. Walker stating that Elder Barton checked at the apartment office and they told him there was no package there for him. I tried to call the apartment office again but they were gone for the day.
I just feel horrible that Cory probably really didn't get anything for this birthday today. Needless to say, I will be making another call in the morning to found out what is going on. I really did try, really......
Hopefully, he will still call us on Christmas day and I can plead my case. UGH!
