Im back in buisness!!

As you can obviously tell i got the Internet back!!

YAY!!

It just took another hour long phone call with the dumb people and everything is perfect!

Anyway enough about that...

This week was the CO visit so we had meeting on Tuesday night.  I ended up being a householder and didnt get my notes until right before the meeting. It was all good though...except i had to say "Propitiatory" I cant say big words like that. So when we were doing the talk i was like..."Pro...pit..story" and then laughed cause there was no way i was gonna get it lol

But after the meeting every said i was a natural and that messing up made it sound real because no one knows how to say it right lol and that they just love listening to my accent...so that was nice.

The CO is youngish  and is from Hungry soo i could barely understand what he was saying. Him and his wife went to Gilead and used to be missionaries. They are also on one of the videos. lol

Anyway during his talk he made a point that i thought was really cool about Sydney. He was talking about different cultures and kinds of people and it was funny he said that everyone that gave a talk that night had a different accent, there was Dutch, Swiss, British, Korean,  American, and him from Hungry. But that wasnt the point, it was that Sydney is one of  the most Multi cultural city in the world and that there is over 200+ languages spoken just in Sydney. I think thats pretty cool.

Anyway Wednesday the girls went to school so Alyce was gonna pick me up from there and go in service. That was the plan anyway.  So she went to the service group and then came around 9:30 to get me. When she picked me up she said that she needed to go to the Towers to drop her bracelet off to get fixed soo we went there and figured out her whole bracelet thing...then we were off to the territory. 

This week was her parents 25 anniversary so her and her sisters bought them a new fridge...so they were gonna be delivering it today but she thought she told them in the afternoon...but as soon as we pull into territory and find some sisters they call and said they were gonna be at the house in 15 min. So we get back into the car and go to her house. I which was nice because it was like a million degrees out. Anyway when we go there her parents were still home so we were trying to make them leave but they werent ready or something so we told them they just had to hide in their rooms lol Anway the guys were talking forever so we had a coffee and some toast and were just hanging out. Finally they get here and deliver the fridge and put it in its spot and its ready togo. It looks so pretty compared to their old 25year old fridge that had only one shelve and no lights lol 

So its all in place and the guys leave so we go and get her mom....and she has no clue what it could be....when she saw it she was in shock! It was soo great!! I was soo excited for her..i was all clapping and jumping around and she was just soo happy she was all trying to hug the girls but they were all "Dont touch me its too hot"  so then she all came to me and was like "you'll hug me wont you?" lol  It was so funny. But later both Alyce and her mom said that they were glad i was there because i made it more exciting lol which made me feel good. After that we went and got Slurpee's!! They have the best raspberry flavor one and its soooooo good!! Then we called Rachel and see what people were doing about witnessing, but everyone was kinda stopping so Alyce and me ended going to the movies!  We went and saw Midnight in Paris.....stupidest movie i have seen in a long long time. There was just no point to it. Anyway after that is was perfect timing to go get the girls.  It was still sooo stinkin hot...i was sweating everywhere it was soo gross. I called mom on my way home and i was about half way home..after about 10 min i had beads on sweat just dripping down my elbow...where i was holding up the phone. By the time i got home, i couldnt take my clothes of fast enough. I was like "POOL POOL....go get your cozzie!!!" So then we played in the pool awhile. That night we watched Vegas Vacation....I ♥ that movie. 

Thursday it had dropped like 15 degrees and was kinda damp and cool. It was all raining hard in the morning. By the time we left for dance it was just drizzling but super humid. So while the girls went to dance i went over to the Towers and bought myself a bracelet...kinda splurged but whatev i had the moolah. So after dance we went back over to the Towers and they had a coloring competition for the kids sooo the girls colored and just kinda ran around. Then we went up to the one Cafe place that we usually eat our lunch at and had lunch and then went to Target where i finally found some shoes that fit me!! Yay!! They are just black wedges but thats ok they go with everything but its nice having more of a choice for shoes. That afternoon was when we got the Internet back up working so i think i spent that evening catching up on stuff.  

Friday..cleaning day...Pip left and went todo some shopping. Which was nice because then i didnt feel as pressured as i clean because she is such a neat freak lol So after i cleaned we went into the pool. Its so funny how much the girls think i am really a mermaid. They tell me todo all these tricks and are like "Oh i think i saw your tail" lol They love taking all these crazy pictures of me while im swimming and a few of them look kinda cool. 

Mermaid Lyndsey lol 

Madeline 

Imogen..too close like always

I always make them do their pose and take a million pictures of them too!

 That night was the second meeting for the C.O.  so i went to meeting.  Alyce left town for a few days but she told be that a few people were going out after meeting and to horn in on it soo i did. Rachel and Rachel were going out to El Churros for dessert and meeting up with some people. Its weird they keep calling churros doughnuts. They are just soo far from the mexican culture that poeple dont know obvious, to me things. It was sorda a good job night because Rachel (Alyce sister) finished her last exam for high school. Now shes done done. But they dont really do any party or ceremony thing here, so that was it shes done!! lol Were doing a little surprise thing in a few weeks but still its not half as a big deal as we make it lol

Saturday went out in service, nice big group out. The week before the Kunzler's a fam in the cong. invited me to come over on Sat to have lunch with the C.O. and them. His wife is a cancer survivor so she like cant eat anything. So we had a vegetable curry sorda thing and  Larissa, her brother and me totally picked through everything and just ate rice lol it was funny. After they left the mom was like "Ok..no more all vegetable meals until next year!"

After that i went home and Skyped with Meggan.

Then the Rachel's came and picked me up and we went over to the Yew's and watched some movies. It was so funny we watched UP..and Tong one of the guys looks exactly like the little boy. So we were cracking up the whole time. He had never seen it soo he didnt know wheat we were talking about. But he totally gets it now!

Its was alot of fun...we watched a couple other movies too. Then we made plans to go to the Beach the next day! :)

Sunday is my sleep in day and i love it!

The girls have swimming lessons in the morning so they are out of the house and its nice and quiet...so i can sleep inn!

Sunday morning always seem the longest because i dont do anything and im kinda waiting around just to go to the meeting. But this morning i skyped with Mom and Dad. It was fun! I like making retard faces to mom! lol And she finally got a new camera so i can actually see her better too. After that i went to meeting and brought my clothes and bathing suit and everything cause we were gonna go straight from the Hall. During the meeting it got all overcast and windy out (why windows in kingdom halls are distracting) and i was sad because i wanted to go swimming. But there was a thing going on called Sculptures by the Sea. So we would just go look at those. So right after meeting we headed to the Famous Bondi Beach

Its about 45min to an hour drive from where we live but its like 5min from the city center..its the big hangout spot.

So we met up with some people the girls knew and we were waiting for the boys to get there so we went to go look at the different sculptures. I thought they were gonna be out of sand..but they weren't! They were just tond and tons of random things that had "Picture opportunities" written all over it!

It said DO NOT TOUCH...so i straddled it...i wasnt touching it though!

There were about 10 of these guys in a circle..it looked so funny!

Weirdo guy working out..trying to pick up chicks

He totally didnt even know i was behind him lol

This one totally cracked me up..hes not even really punching its like a thinking pose or something lol

Just me and the beach!

Anyway so we were walking around all these things and we met up with the boys and of course no one wanted to be in the pictures with me lol whatev

Then we kept walking and i swear we couldn't walk more then 5 feet without running into poeple someone knew. They were saying it was like an Assembly just more and more and more people kept showing up. We didn't all stay together but there was alot of witness's there..thats all i can say.  It was soo funny when they were taking pictures of me with all the statues they were all laughing because they thought it was weird and then there was a guy a ways away posing with them too and i was all, "look see im not the only one"  So then we get over there and its people they knew. I knew one girl from our cong and it was her room mates and stuff like that. But she came up to me and was all like "Theres guys here from the states"  Then she pointed them out and i started laughing because one of them was the guy posing with the statues. I was like it must be an American thing lol

They were really rude actually..they were from New York so it wasn't a surprise. They were there with like 5 or 6 girls so they thought they were all cool being the Americans

I must of blown their cover or something lol who knows

Then we went back to the beach and got some dinner. Then we got some Ice Cream!! Then we just walked around, everyone kept bumping into more poeple they knew. I really feel like im starting to fit in good with our little group. I think they know my kinda joking and that i can take a joke and dish it right back. And that im loud..they understand that which is good! :) 

Later we went to walk on the beach..beach and got all wet. It wasnt to cold and me and Rachel were gonna jump in but we were driving Alyce's car and she would kill us if we got sand in her car or got it all wet lol
By that time it wa like 11:30 so we headed home.

It was definitely a good weekend...its what i needed after feeling a big homesick!

Then  monday morning comes and Imogen the beast child is back!!

Screamed all day pretty much..or at least thats what it felt like.

But the day ended good because i got to Skype for an hour and half with and Hannah.

We are getting all our plans ready for when she comes down!!

I am soooo excited!!

:)

♥lynds