22 Months & First Time Baptizing by Fire: No Flames Needed

This last week was all abuzz with us trying to get the baptisms all ready to go and the apartment ready to go as well I'll start with the baptisms so that way you have something worthwhile to read first and then if you don't feel like being depressed you can just stop there.
So, as I said, we spent the week getting Mary and Justina ready for their baptisms, and their baptisms ready for them. Justina didn't take much work to prepare her for it, as she is golden and had had all of the lessons taught to her already. She even has been reading the Book of Mormon in Marshallese and English side by side and can now read Marshallese and has improved her English tremendously. Really, if she could get any more phenomenal, she'd explode. Mary still had some lessons to be taught, so we were finishing getting her ready. Friday, the day before the baptism, however, we found out that Mary had gone into labor and given birth to three beautiful girls. They were fairly quickly taken off to Iowa City to be taken care of there, as they were fairly premature and had some trouble breathing. So Mary was not baptized on Saturday, as she was in the hospital. Fairly legitimate reason to not be baptized. She and her fiance are in Iowa City as well as of right now. She'll be baptized when the babies are out of the hospital and that's over with, so probably later in July. Justina was married and baptized on Saturday, however, and it was an incredible service. The marriage was just a small ceremony in the bishop's office that was very sweet, and then so many people showed up to the baptism that it had to be held in the chapel. The Spirit was so strong. It also ended up being a wonderful missionary opportunity. Earlier in the week, we set two more baptismal dates with two young men, Branton and Dino, two Marshallese youth. Branton came to the baptismal service, informing us that his parents were cool with him being baptized and that he was excited for it. Dino, however, did not come to the baptism, but his nonmember parents did. We asked them if they were ok with us baptizing their son, and his father offered some qualms with the situation as Dino had been baptized as a child in their church. After Elder Unsicker briefly explained authority, however, Dino's father responded to a second time of asking for permission by saying that it "would be a great opportunity for Dino." Both Dino and Branton are on track for baptism on July 2nd now. Also, we taught two more Marshallese people for the first time yesterday and set two more baptismal dates with them for July 2nd. Six baptismal dates altogether. Sunday also was the day Justina received the Gift of the Holy Ghost and I was privileged to be the one to give that to to her. It really was a great experience.
Alright. The apartment.
Well, we finally met up with the gas guy after another attempt at getting him there on Friday. So, after a week of sleeping at the Holts' house, we were finally home. The nice cave-like coolness also leads to not-so-nice cave-like dampness. I've never had my sheets get dryer as I slept in them. The next morning we also were blessed to be present as police showed up to visit our new neighbors upstairs. While this was a fairly pleasant neighborhood we'd moved into, the neighbors upstairs who moved in only a couple days before aren't too fond of it being pleasant. So, in order to mix things up a bit, they decided to steal the grill from across the street. The man across the street apparently enjoys pleasantness and wasn't too keen on his grill being stolen. So he went looking for his grill just to find it on the back porch of the people above us. Well, he got the police involved, who searched upstairs looking for the grill, and finally found it hidden in a closet in the vacant apartment on the third floor. This, along with the fact that they have no clue how to handle their children accept by screaming obscenities at them and their children retaliate by running in circles for hours on end has not made a great impression on us. Saturday also led to us discovering that the hot water wouldn't shut off in the shower so we had water constantly dribbling out of the faucet, which couldn't be fixed till this morning, so we either showered with cold water or under a little dribble of warm water, and it all didn't help with that moisture problem. All in all, if it wasn't for the Marshallese, I'd be begging to be transferred. I know missionaries will hate me forever for choosing this apartment. It used to be a good idea. Anybody have a dehumidifier?
Congrats to Tyler for being home taller, fatter and older!
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Love,
Elder Gates
"Complete conversion comes after many trials and much testing." Bible Dictionary