Car Vandalism and Other Fun

Well, for those of you who don't know, our car was broken into over Conference Weekend. It wasn't until David left the apartment to go to the priesthood session of General Conference that we found out, so there were a good 24 hours in which this theft could have taken place. Obviously, David wasn't able to attend the priesthood session seeing as the police recommended not moving or touching the car until they could come out and investigate and take prints.
Fortunately for us, it wasn't as big of a deal as it easily could have been. In fact, we feel pretty blessed that if something like this was going to happen, it happened in the easiest and least inconvenient way possible. It's definitley an inconvenient situation, and there are some things that will be a pain to take care of, but ironically, there is enough of the ludicrous in the situation that I can't help but smile even while I'm frustrated.
As far as we can tell, wemust have just forgotten to lock one of our doors when we unloaded groceris on Friday night, because there aren't any broken windows or obvious signs of forced entry. We have a Hyundai Accent with a heavy plastic center dash where all the interior controls are located (clock, radio, A/C and heating, etc). All the thieves did was force this dash out and removed the radio/cd player from it, and pull out the contents of our glove compartment, scattering them on the floor. As far as we've been able to tell, this is the final tally of things stolen: our radio/cd player, our cheap mp3 player, our dollar-store sunglasses, and our rear-view mirror. Can you believe it? The cd player is the only thing of any possible value, but considering I got it as a free replacement when I purchased the car, I doubt it was worth more than $70 to begin with , so the resale value will be much less than that. The mp3 player maybe cost us $10, and only holds a few hours worth of music on it with no programming options. Fortunately we didn't have anything of major value in the car, but they still left some items that could have made life really difficult for us. One of our Sunday School teachers mentioned that identity theft is a major problem in Arizona, and we had our vehicle insurance and registration in the car which they probably could have used against us in a bad way. We also had our WIC checks which are probably worth over $100 if they could have found a way to use them. We also wonder if we have bad taste in music because one of our cd cases with most of our music was also left in the vehicle. :)
The rearview mirror is what really makes me laugh. We imagine that they must have just knocked it off while trying to get the radio out of the car and just took it with them, but I still can't believe they didn't just chuck it outside the car. What on earth can you do with a rearview mirror? We got a replacement for $14, so it's not a hot black market item by any means. The sales personnel at the auto shop we purchased a replacement from couldn't believe we were serious when we told them the rearview mirror was stolen. One guy told us about other car parts they commonly hear reported as stolen that can actually be sold for some pretty good money, but nothing else was taken from our vehicle.
It's obviously been a pain not being able to have any music in the car, and a number of minor problems have popped up (e.g. interior dash backlight display doesn't come on when the lights are turned on when it's dark, the A/C doesn't seem to be working, and the hazard lights only show up on one side of the car), but as far as we can tell, all of them are probably due to wiring problems that occured when the dash was forced open. All in all, things could have been much more traumatic.
Only a couple of other updates. We still haven't been able to find work, but every time I start to panic about it, I pray and receive firm reassurance that things will be okay one way or another. We still haven't heard back whether we've been approved for emergency cash assistance to help pay for our basic bills right now, but for the moment we have an apartment, and with food stamps we are able to purchase groceries for ourselves. That goes a long way toward making us feel secure. I've had a few interviews, but so far nothing has worked out becuase no one wants to hire on someone who will need maternity leave within a few months. I'm waiting to hear back from another interview, and we still have faith that we will be supported as long as we're trying to do what God wants us to down here.
We recently tidied up the apartment, and while I've realized I will never have the ability to make a showroom-type apartment/house, ours is about as good as it can get right now. I was excited enough I used our camera to record a short walk-through of our apartment if anyone's interested to see where we live. I didn't know our camera recorded sound so well, so if you do watch it, turn your volume down otherwise you'll hear a lot of empty noise.
One last note: our new ward, the Alma ward, apparently has an annual camout called the "Boysenberry Bash". Since day one at the new ward, we've been bombarded with handouts about it, and all the bishopbric and auxiliary presidencies walk around wearing little pins/badges advertising the campout. After sacrament meeting today, David and I watched the bishopbric talking with different ward members as everyone filed out, and we realized that from a distance, they look like mayoral/political candidates kissing babies and so forth. It just makes it funnier to realize that the badges they wear only show a picture of what we assume is an excited boysenberry, smiling looking like it's trying to hug people.