April 15, 2012

"This should be a great trackting street!"

Greeley is flat and full of wonderful people. It is a college town with lots of apartments but still has a mature and stable population with related housing It is like a city that essentially stops and becomes rolling pasture land. There is a lot of farming and beef is king. There is a huge slaughter house in the south of our area and it gives Greeley it's infamous smell. The smell isn't that bad and when the wind is blowing out of the north you can't smell anything, but smell it does. It feels like a mix of Wy and Co. In short,  this is going to be a nice place to serve. The area is a family ward and mostly south of the 34 bypass. The bishop is a bit odd and is something like if "House" was nicer, a business man and a bishop. He'll say something like, "Now don't be offended but..." and then say something a bit abrasive and usually directed at you. After about 5 minutes the thought stops and things go on like nothing happened. It made for an interesting ward council meeting and since we were prepared, it didn't bother me when our mistakes were made the subject. I wasn't offended and then when he was finished I made a simple counter point, to which he responded that I should have stopped him. I just laughed and was very comfortably delivered  the rest of our report. I was told that I did very well by other members of the council afterwards and I considered it an achievement to be able to walk into a situation like that and play the part of one experienced in social interaction. :) 

We live with the Jacob's and have a sweet set-up. We live in the basement and have a pool table, a ping pong table, a little kitchen and a great bathroom.