15 May 1999

Wayne Gretzky, the greatest hockey player of all time, retired last month.  I found this out on Thursday when I got a letter from home with a bunch of newspaper articles about it.  Surprisingly, it was very emotional for me.  Wayne Gretzky has been a constant presence in hockey since I was a baby.  And he was on the Oilers back in their best days.

It was a very good zone conference yesterday.  I enjoyed it very much.  After it was done, Sister Dimaya operated on my toe again.  Stupid toe.  I had a big audience this time.

Before the operation.  It's blurry (I had a crappy camera), but you can tell something's wrong.

Elder Surowiec is just goofing off with a pair of pliers.  He isn't actually helping.

It's lunchtime now.  I'm on splits with Elder Roberts.  He's doing my certification pre-check.

Elder Surowiec and I ended up working until 10:30 last night, and we had to walk most of the way home.  I wasn't pleased about that.  When we got home, there was no electricity.  I almost swore.  We were the only house on the street without power, so it wasn't just an ordinary brown-out.  We went to the owner's house, and her son came here and somehow hooked the electricity up again.  As soon as the lights were on again, I found the problem: an unpaid electric bill.  We weren't happy missionaries.