Hello everyone...
Welcome to my gong show of a week email... haha... Hot Springs is...
different... haha... Like... really different. Take everything that I've
told you about Maumelle, and think opposite. That's what you've got in
Hot Springs. haha. At least it keeps things interesting!
So I got all settled in last week and that was good. Then Sis Harmon
told me that every Wednesday night we play basketball at the Church with
our investigators and less actives, which is awesome. We get there and
start playing, and Sis Harmon was tearing it up!! She was playing really
hard, which I though was just how she was... Turns out (I found this out
later) that she was really upset about the transfer, not necessarily
that I was her companion, but more so that she lost her old companion
who trained her. So I'm her second companion in the field, and she
apparently had some aggression she needed to get out through some ball..
And did she ever... Unfortunately, she fell pretty hard on her knee and
messed it up... So throughout the week we've spent a lot of time at the
Hospital. She had to get an MRI on Monday, and luckily just found out
that nothing super serious happened, but she did strain her ACL pretty
good, so she's on crutches and is slowly trying to work her way off of
them... Which the doctor said will take about 2ish weeks... So that puts
tracting out the door... Which means we've been very limited in what
we're able to do. So we've had a lot of study time, and thankfully, Sis
Harmon has started warming up to me. haha.. We've visited a lot of our
investigators and some members, which is good... So that's been the
biggest event of the week...
Anyways... So here's what I know about the area. Its kinda set up like
Cabot, in that the city is divided into two areas, East of Central for
the Sisters and West for the Elders. So there's us 4 missionaries here,
and we're pretty independent of each other, except that we go to church
and dinner appointments when we have them. As far as I know, this area
has been open to Sisters for at least a year. I didn't bring my fishing
pole with me, so we haven't gone fishing, but I haven't seen anywhere
we'd be able to do it. There's a couple lakes by our apartment, but
they're empty... like... no water... haha... We have the car for 3 weeks
then we have one walk week. Thankfully we just started our 3 weeks with
the car on Monday. We.. well I... drive a brand new Chevy Malibu, which
is pretty nice. Better than the Ford Fusion (we named it Moj by the way)
that we had in Maumelle. Also.. Hot Springs is the biggest Sisters area
in the Mission. We drive a lot.. Which is fine, but again... Completely
opposite from what I'm used to. I keep on reminding myself that change
is good. haha... Also.. There's this spring downtown that people take
empty water jugs to and fill it up with spring water... Apparently it's
completely pure and doesn't need any treatment. So the water here is
pretty top quality, because the tap water comes from the same source...
But they still treat the tap water.. I dont know why, if they dont have
too.. But whatever.. Today we're gonna check out the "Gangster Museum"
and learn about the history of this place. It seems pretty interesting.
Lots of Al Capone law breaking stuff. haha.
Also. Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad. Dont worry. I wouldn't forget that.
Love you... And thanks for getting married. It worked out rather well
for me.. haha...
Sorry about last week's lame email too.. I've learned from the event and
saved my email before I send them to avoid that happening again. I think
its interesting though. Ashley said the day after she got baptized, she
wrote this big huge thing all about it on her myspace page, and as soon
as she went to post it, her computer froze and it erased everything she
had just spent the last hour typing... Then I write all about it in my
email and that gets lost too.. I think that's pretty interesting.. I
think it just goes to show how incredible she is, because someone didn't
want any records of it to exist. Hooray for journals though.
So that's about that... Love y'all a lot. The Church is true... Change
is... inevitable... haha... But the gospel never changes and that helps
a lot.
-Sister Dyer
