Well, it's been a great week. I can't believe we're starting week 6
of the transfer, in 5 days we get transfer calls. It's been the
fastest transfer of my mission. Hey, I just realized that this
is August! the year is practically over! and by extension, my
mission is practically over. that is totes cra-cra.
Oh :( we got dropped by Rodney this week :( I dont remember if
I've ever told you about him. actually he might have dropped us last
week, but the point is it was recently, and I'm thinking about it right
now.
Rodney is an older man (one of two older men we are teaching at the
moment actually) in his 80's. The first time he invited us in he
played us some piano and sang for us, it was pretty cool. Heather,
every time he plays piano or sings for us I always think of you, because
you would LOVE it. he plays these old sweet songs, and his voice is
so... old. but like, you can tell he had/has a great voice, its just
old now. He has pretty bad tremors, which make it difficult to play the
correct notes on the piano, but he's still pretty good. So we would go
over there, do a lesson, he'd play us a song on the piano, sometimes
we'd play him one, and thats kinda how our visits would go. and he
LOVED talking to us, because he's very lonely since his wife passed
away. But then the last time as we were leaving, he just dropped us on
our way out the door, it was so sad :( It's Dbow's (his companion) first time getting
dropped, he described it as feeling like a break up. yep.
You may recall Mary, or maybe not, but she is probably going to be
baptized on Friday :) She's all set to go, the only issue is
scheduling the baptism itself, her schedule is unpredictable, and since
she has just about 0 monies, she takes work whenever it pops up. But
we'll meet with her tomorrow and finalize the schedule hopefully.
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
OH! one more thing, remember that boy Tony we're teaching? So
here's how we taught him the commandments. Well, first of all, to
preface, when we were teaching Mary the commandments, I took a piece of
paper, and drew a beach. I talked about how beaches are fun, great
places, but you have to be careful or you can get hurt. I talked about
riptides, unstable cliffs, stingrays, etc. and then drew pictures of
warning signs, and then related each warning sign to a commandment, and
how that keeps us safe in our lives :) The analogy worked well, so I'm
gonna keep using it. So with Tony, he's an 11 year old boy, so to make
it fun, we went to the dollar store and bought some brown paper, some
blue stuff, some posterboard, and we made a beach in his backyard! Then
we went through the beach and talked about different stuff, and me and
dbow would act out different concepts like falling off cliffs, getting
carried away by riptides, stung by stingrays... actually, I think in
every commandment either me or Dbow got injured in the demonstration.
But it was fun haha.
So yeah, that was the highlight of yesterday :)
Welp, Love you!
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