Week 45

1.Today was transfers I met up with Elder Allred and we headed off to work, I new it would come sooner or later but I got the steel horses, they suck I thought it would be okay, and it is when your going down hill but for Pete sakes Lancaster is up and down and down and up. And it's hot as all get up, its cool here besides the fact I'm in the big city/suburbs which is a big change from Petersburg but we have been having a great time my companion is from Arizona and is funny. anyways just got back home after a long day of working definitely going to bed soon

2.Today we had to weekly plan. 

But then we rode out on the steel horses and oh my goodness I am honestly very out of shape, I was sweating so bad today it was 85 degrees and humidity is very high and then a member informed me that it will be 100 with 100 percent humidity Saturday and so on. Just what I needed to hear today. So I think I will wear my beanie and coat that day 

Anyways I am going go sleep like a rock tonight

3.Today we didnt bike but... We were on our feet all day long in killer heat, because we and the sister missionaries here share the car and miles are cut here so cant go to far without strapping your shoes on or you saddle up on the steel horse.

We went to the Church too sign up for some service thing and let's just say that this church is huge... It has an elevator and it's got to 2 floors! I thought that was a pretty crazy.

4.Gave a blessing today and it was super cool because we gave one to a member who hurt there foot really bad and her foot healed super fast so her non member granddaughter wanted one it was super cool. Then we walked back into the heat, the humidity literally feels like you are walking through jello, the air is super thick and very hot anyways that is my daily dose of complaining but this is the hardest area I have ever had to work but I definitely like it here, Im not a big fan of the city but the people here are awesome and the harder I work the better I feel. 

5.TODAY WAS ROUGH. To start out we had to ride bikes all over Lancaster up and down the little hills and big hills and it was close to 100 degrees but we kept going didn't even stop to use the restroom, that mostly because we were sweating all the liquids out of our bodies. We biked and biked but there was no success. Then we were heading home to get back for a dinner appointment and we were at an intersection waiting for the stoplight to say we could go, then a guy on a bullet bike pulls up and starts making fun of our bikes and wants to race us, I guess he looses most of his races so the only races he can win are against pedal bikes anyways we crossed in front and went around to the next sidewalk I turn the corner and all of the sudden I fly over the handle bars, land on my helmet, I stand up and look at my bike and the front tire looks like a pretzel.

THE tire had ran into the edge of the curb.

So we are on main St and the bullet bike guy is making fun of me and just when it happened a huge bus pulled up to watch. So it was just perfect timing.

Anyways we were still 1 and a half miles away from the apartment, i couldn't ride my bike and I can't push it so here I am putting this steel horse on my shoulders  all the way to the apartment, hey it was fair, the horse and I took turns riding! 

My companion was worrying about me because I was making jokes and laughing all the way there, I just figured there is no real reason to get mad I'm alive and all that got injured was my pride. Oh and the white shirt isn't so white anymore because I am not quite sure how to get bike grease off of a shirt. 

My head probably wouldn't look the same if it wasn't for the helmet.

My mom was right it's kinda funny how I didn't realize how right she is until it actually happens

MOMS ARE JUST SUPER SMART, HEED TO THEIR MESSAGE OR YOU WILL REGRET NOT DOING SO.

ANYWAYS after that we walked and walked and walked, oh and then we walked. We did find people but we had to give all of them to the sister missionaries.

Then we walked 

Just glad we could help, you know do a good deed daily. And walk 

I don't get it, this area is killer hard and very slow but it turns out this is one of the areas I am having the time of my life serving in, and walking 

So just keep walking until the tire looks like a donut, not a pretzel.

6. Today it was our turn to use the car thank goodness, but we car pooled to the Church with the sister missionaries and then they didn't tell us they didn't need a ride back so we waited we thought they were somewhere talking, like when your mom gets out of relief Society...

Turns out they were going to Lititz for baptism and didn't inform us but it's what ever. 

The sister missionaries then call us about time before curfew and they were in the middle of Lancaster, they said its to hot and didn't want to ride bikes. 

we kindly went and picked them up on this little one way street, so parked in the middle because there were no parking spots we jump out and throw their bikes on and strap them up and we all jump in and we get home late because they told us the wrong street thrice times. 

But they kindly offered to let me borrow their bikes while mine gets fixed, but I would have to turn down the light green bike with baby blue stripes. 

Anyways it's been a good Sunday we met with cool members and had a great time. 

And we told the ward council that I had wrecked my bike and the elders quorum president proudly stood up and let the congregation know I had done so.