Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Talents, Tires and Transfer Calls

Another Busy week! I kind of don't remember what we did, so I'll probably just do a flip through my planner today and mention the highlights. 

Monday for Pday we all just hung out at the church, and prepared some stuff for the Talent Show that was Thursday. It was a nice relaxing Pday. At night, we went to our 9 year old investigators home for dinner with the family and ate ribs. It was delicious! And we finished his lessons so that he can get baptized in Hawaii when they go there to meet his biological dad and grandpa in a couple of weeks! Then we had our weekly Family Home Evening that we missionaries hold for our recent converts or investigators or anyone that wants to come. It's always a good time :)

Tuesday, we had district meeting, did some studies, some finding, had some cancelled lessons, and... yep. That was Tuesday haha. 

Wednesday we had a chunk of time, so we decided to go to a somewhat far away place and do some finding! We also wanted to stop by a Less Active that lived by a red bridge and we had only ever been there by car, so we were on the lookout for a shortcut by bike to get there. We reached a path that ran along the river that would lead us to the red bridge and decided to take it. After about 2 minutes along the path, we passed some construction workers, and as we went by them one of them yelled and said the path doesn't go through. Now, I'm not really sure why, but for some reason, my companion and I both decided that we wanted to keep going anyway. After about another 5 minutes of biking, sure enough, the path ended. However, we could see the red bridge not too far off in the distance! At the end of the path, there were also some stairs that led up probably back to the main road. Rather than backtrack, we decided we should just carry our bikes up the stairs and figure things out from there. After a few minutes of hassle, we finally reached the top of the stairs with our bikes in tow. We started biking down a road that looked promising. Not 2 minutes later, did I realize something was wrong with my bike. For the first time in my entire mission, my tire had gotten punked! Moral of the story, LISTEN TO THE WARNING VOICES. When people tell you not to go down a certain path, you should probably listen to them and not just ignore them. That was the lesson I learned that day. 

Thursday we went to lunch with one of our investigators, taught a lesson, and had the Talent Show after our English Class! We had quite a few English Class students willing to share their talents, and it turned out to be a ton of fun! One of the Elders and I sang an acapella/ beat box duet to "Secret Prayer" (In case you didn't assume this, he was the beat boxer, not me. I'm not THAT cool yet. I just sang haha.) Anyway, it turned out to be a very fun night. 

Friday we biked to another far part of our area, did some finding, visited a Less Active, visited a Recent Convert, and then get signed onto Base and had American Pizza for dinner with some of the American Members. It was a good day :)

Saturday, we went onto base in the morning and helped with a service project that consisted of preparing hot dog lunches for the homeless. Then we did some good old finding, visiting of peeps, and then came home for dinner, and then watched the General Womens Broadcast! All in all, a very good day.

Sunday, was pretty typical for a Sunday here in Okinawa, 9 hours of church because we had 2 ward councils to attend, starving missionaries because there's no time for lunch, and headaches in the evening because we've been trying to talk to any members we need to talk to for the one chance a week that we get to see them! Then we went and had a picnic at a park for dinner with the other sisters and one of our investigators. Another good day. 

Yesterday was our not pday Monday because it's transfer week, which makes pday become Tuesday, so we went to visit a recent convert, who is the cutest little old 80 year old woman who kindly informed me that my skin is oily and has acne and that I should probably do something about it, and then she informed my companion that the yakisoba that she made for her had raw carrots and that she needs to learn how to cook. She also told us about how her 2 random women from the relief society asked her if they could come visit her sometime (her visiting teachers of course) and she was so confused, and didn't really know them, so she just said no thank you. We then explained to her what visiting teachers do. I love 80 year old women :) 

That brings us to today! The transfer call day! No one is safe. I have no predictions. But I'll try to save some email time and sneak back on after we get our calls and let you all know the scoop! 

Thanks for the love and support! Love you all!

Sister Wells
 
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