LATE NIGHTS MAKE LONG DAYS

So our upstairs neighbors...the Baptist Seminary student, his wife, and two dachshunds moved out.  Funny thing about them.  The only thing we heard from them was the dogs little claws running across the floor or an occasional bark.

 We now have new neighbors.  We haven't met them yet, unless you want to count the time Don went outside in his pajama pants and RSL shirt to get something out of the car. He introduced himself as a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints.  I'm sure they were impressed! Supposedly there are two girls up there.  Judging from the amount of cars in the four parking spaces, there is never just two.  And...somehow...they make an unnatural amount of noise!  Including a fight in the bedroom over ours Sunday night (I think it was with a boyfriend). The lease is up on our apartment in December.  I really hope we don't move because we like the area we're in and I dread moving in the winter, but the landlord doesn't seem interested in keeping up the building we're in so there might be no option.  Really the only reason we're in Louisville and the office, is because Don was needed here.  When we leave, the next nurse and spouse may be out in the boonies!

Our new Mission President is finally getting the lay of the land.  He has had a lot to deal with in the last 2 months.  We've sent a few home and had a few difficult cases to handle but he's doing a great job.  We have two more going this next week.  Both medical...hopefully they will want to come back when they are doing better.

One of the interesting things about Louisville is the number of cemeteries here.  The mission home is close to an area called Germantown and I missed a turn one day and ended up at the entrance of a Catholic cemetery with mostly German names.  It's interesting to see all the ornate older headstones. Speaking of Catholics...I have been surprised at how big the Catholic church is here.  I expected all the Protestant ones but didn't think about Catholicism being so prevalent.

Another interesting thing to me is the number of large hospitals here.  Close to us there are big hospitals on three of four corners.  A Kentucky One-Jewish, Norton, and Baptist.  And that's the way it is all over here.

I'm hoping to get out to some of the rural areas. From what the missionaries tell us, there are some pretty different ways of living out in the hills. We have zone conference in Lexington next week and it ends at 2 pm.  Hopefully we can do some sight seeing afterwards.

We got a lot of rain last week...left over from Hurricane Harvey.  It will be interesting to see if we get some from Irma too.

We have Elder Clayton from the Seventy coming tonight to put in a new Stake Presidency in Evansville over the weekend.  He will then tour the mission, going to zone conferences M, T, W, before going home.  We are to have dinner with them Sunday evening.

                                             Don and the TIWI's...or as AJ called them
                                           "the little electronic box car monitor thingy"
  
I'm sure there will be more to write and more pictures to post next week.  Hey!  Every week can't be jam packed (thank goodness!).