Tuesday, October 3, 2017

There was more training today so we didn’t start our regular morning shift.  After we walked, we went to the temple early to study the ordinances in English 😊 and then spent the afternoon in more training meetings.  The experience is much more complex here than our temple in Honduras because it is so big!  We’ll get comfortable eventually, but it will take a while.  Glade helped with some baptisms and a couple of other things, and then we finished our day with a session to see firsthand how it is done here.  We are meeting new people and making lots of special friends.  It was a great day!

Alas, we have unwelcome critters in our apartment that have caused me to shriek and scramble!  I looked them up and discovered that these leaping long-legged skinny-feelered insects are jumping spiders, also known as camel crickets or sprikets!  They look like a cross between a spider and a cricket and they are not little!  They jump at least a foot high and a foot forward when you try to smash or whap them.  Ugh!!  And we have mostly seen them when it is or has been dark.  Just what you don’t want to encounter when you get up in the night for a drink.  You can imagine my reaction. 

We stopped at Safeway on the way home on our walk looking for Ortho indoor spray and sticky traps, but came home with only a can of Raid!  Hope it works until we can find some sticky traps.  I took this picture but didn't have anything for a size reference.  It is like encountering a giant hobo spider.  I'm probably going to see this image in my sleep now.