Hola! familia!
Alrighty this week has been an interesting
adventure...shall we go into detail?
Please keep in mind that this week has been bike week... oh
joy.
Monday: We had our second lesson with the coolest family!
When we first met them I could imagine them in the temple
being sealed together soooooo easily. So that is my goal for
this family. (Nancy, Felix, Karen, and Carlos)
We also worked with Ana y Salvador. Ana has studied with
the JWs for 5 years and did not appreciated how pushy they
were. She also said she had prayed about their doctrine and
that it just didn't feel right to her. So we are excited and
cautious to start working with them. Oh, we are teaching the
RS sisters how to make Chinese food tomorrow so we bought
wanton wrappers to cut into jaozo wrappers and we went to a
Chinese restaurant to buy 15 chopsticks for 2 bucks!
Score! (hermana Stevens and I think it will be hillarious to
watch Spanish sisters try and eat with chopsticks. Us and our
cruel sense of humor)
Tuesday: We came home and I crashed on the floor. I have
only once felt this completely physically exhausted and that
was when we helped with the tornado clean up. South Little
Rock is gigantic compared to Warren, which has a ten mile
diameter! We spend pretty much all of our time biking and when
we aren't biking we are spiritual harvesting. We were pretty
dissapointed when the RS activity was cancelled. The sister
who was going to let us borrow her kitchen had a son that got
really sick and there was no one else who had a big enough
kitchen... (oh well, more Chinese food for us then!)
Wednesday: I had the best night's sleep I have EVER had on
my mission! It was dream like! I woke up like people do on TV
commercials, unrealistically awake, happy and full of energy.
I wouldn't mind waking up like that everyday. We biked
everywhere and tried to see people and no one was home...we
ended up teaching 1 recent convert (for the last time because
he is going back to Mexico, Rio Verde)
Thursday: Because of some funny scheduling issues we had
weekly planning today. for lunch Hermana Stevens and I made
jaozi and rice and we feasted! It was delicious! We were so
crazing Chinese food that we may have eaten all the jaozi that
we made in one sitting... (22 a piece) I have absolutely no
self control when it comes to Chinese food. We ended making it
out of ground turkey and just winging the recipe but it was
pretty darn delicious!
And today my bike decided to have a midlife crisis... My
brakes have been getting pretty bad but they decided to stop
working altogether, my front tire came loose. Somehow the
alignment got SUPER off and my left pedal broke...don't ask me
how don't ask me why. I promise I am pretty careful with my
bike but everything just decided to freak out today. There
were only 4 incidents that were really sketchy, since I had no
breaks...
Friday: THE FOURTH OF JULY!!! ...all I can say is it is
pretty boring as a missionary. However we did have zone
meeting and we were able to meet President and Sister Wakolo
as well as their 2 children (Glet, and Jasmine) They have
super cool accents too because they are from Fiji.
Hermana Stevens and I decided to celebrate the freedom of
our wonderful county in the most patriotic way possible... by
having China's national dish of eggs and tomatos! It was SOOO
good. The first meal I want when I come home is real Chinese
food!
Saturday: This day...was not my favorite day... just being
tired... our only plans, spiritual harvesting ALL DAY. Just to
say the least I was not the most happy camper. But Hermana
Stevens was super supportive and patient. Sometimes my motto
for really hard days is, "There is only 3 hours left, I can do
ANYTHING for 3 hours.." Finally it was time to bike home. It
was a bit dusky and there is constuction on the road that
leads to our apartment... in order to get on the sidewalk
there is a little 1 inch curb that you have to go over.
Hermana Stevens didn't go directly at the curb and so it
caught her tire and flipped her off. Her scrapes and bruises
weren't too bad but she couldn't move her elbow... so that was
a bit disconcerting. The Otter Creek sisters came and picked
us up and dropped us off at our apartment. (Angels from
heaven) We called the mission nurse and she told us ice it and
then go get xrays in the morning... So that was a really fun
night getting up everyso often to get pain meds...
Sunday: We went and Hermana Stevens got xrays. Nothing
aappears to be broken or cracked but it still gives her a lot
of pain and she can't straighten or move her arm without it
hurting. Hermana Stevens wins the award for most fashionable
sling though! Who knew how handy scarves would be in this
situation.
And that has pretty much been our week...
Love yall bunches
Hermana Ives
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