Niagara Falls, A Fine Looking Young Man and Back to Pedals

Howdy Friends and Neighbors,

I cannot begin to tell you how crazy our week has been.
First off, let me introduce you to our crazy neighbor. No idea what his name is, but he's mentally handicapped and if he doesn't take his meds, he terrorizes the neighborhood.
So, after planning on Monday night, I go to the bathroom, Elder McDonald goes to the kitchen and as I begin to feel squishy carpet beneath my feet, I hear him say, "Elder, I think our apartment's flooding!"

Soon enough, there is an inch of water in the whole apartment, and our front door way becomes Niagara Falls as it pours out. We go outside and find a pipe burst on the side of our building.

We frantically run around at like 9:45pm at night trying to find someone from the apartment office staff, and calling their numbers. Finally one of the office staff rolls up and we flag her down to show her the pipe. Her jaw drops and she calls the maintenance guy and is like, "Ricky, you need to be here now!" We get the water shut off, decide we're gonna go stay with the other elders, our stuff is all on higher ground, and the staff leaves, after we resolve to deal with it in the morning. As we're packing our crazy neighbor comes by and is like what happened? And we tell him and he goes "That's f***ed up." Fast forward to tomorrow, we go home, and find out that all in that day (Monday), he cut down the American flag in our complex, threatened the office staff and their families, stole their food, ripped out all the phone cables from the back of the office, took a dump in the laundry room aaaaaaaannd... broke the pipe on the side of our apartment. Needless to say swat came and institutionalized him on Wednesday.
Then on Thursday, at 6:30am, we get a call from President Drake and he's just like "I'm gonna be there at 8:15am to pick up your car." So we get there and find out that there's body damage on it, so he had to take it to be repaired. So now we cover an area that has about an hours drive across and we're on bikes. The adventure continues.
But in all honesty, it's been a really great week. Found some really great people, and knocked into this old black lady in a wheel chair who looked at Elder McDonald and said, "You're a fine looking young man" and then looks at me and goes "You're not bad." So we know who's more attractive in the companionship. Also we got a new investigator named Joyce and she's really sweet. However the whole lesson, her drunk husband was curled up in the corner of the room screaming AMEN! and LORD BLESS THESE BOYS! as we taught the lesson. Basically, I love Beaumont.
That's about all I got.
Love y'all,
Elder M. Wright


Me and Elder McDonald

All of our stuff crammed in the kitchen while they dried the carpet.

How they dried it: It was really cool. The whole carpet lifted up and it was like a bounce house, but less bouncy.