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okay that's enough suspense..
I'm in MAUMELLE, AR!!!!!!!!!!! It's a Sherwood Park equivelant to
Edmonton. So I live in a suburb that is part of Little Rock. WOOT!!!! I
LIVE IN A LEGIT CITY NOW!!!!!!!! NO MORE LITTLE TOWN!!!!!!!!!!!! haha...
I think I'm entirely too excited about that.... but really... I'm a city
girl, and will always be, so city anything excites me. haha...
My new companion is Sister Zarbock. haha... She's from Sandy, UT and I'm
totally an inch taller than her!!! WOOT!!!! This is her last transfer
too.. So this is gonna be an interesting transfer. It's her last, and my
third!!! This is the prediction that's being made about Maumelle though.
So. We're still hurting for Sister missionaries, and next transfer three
more are going home and i dont think there's any planned to come here..
so we're thinking that after Sister Zarbock goes home, Maumelle might be
closed and I'll be moving again. But who knows. We might end up finding
so many new people this transfer that they cant close us!! Haha!!!
And just so you know... Sis Zarbock is totally a Utah girl.. Her name
sounds all foreign and stuff, but she's about as Utah as Utah girls can
get. Clarke would understand. She's awesome though. She started her
mission in Cabot, then came to Maumelle. She's only had 2 areas her
whole mission... haha.... That's kinda funny... I realized that I'm
following her. I started in Cabot, now to Maumelle, except I'm just not
staying in these places as long as she did..
OH!! MAILING ADDRESS!!!!
Sister Alison Dyer (haha.. no duh.)
200 Millwood Circle #525
Maumelle, AR 72113
Yeah. So I'm potentially here for a short amount of time... who knows.
Send me stuff there, but in about 5 weeks it would prolly be smart to
send stuff to the mission home after that.
On a completely different subject...
I'M SO EXCITED THAT I GRADUATED FROM
INSTITUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeah.. by the way, Mom
said i got a letter from the Edmonton institute saying that I'm eligible
for graduation this year. THAT'S SO AWESOME!!! I'm very pleased with
myself for that. haha.. It's also very cool that they knew I'm serving a
mission and wrote in the card that they knew I couldn't attend the
ceremony thinger. I'm happy that they took the time to let me know
anyways. haha. So. Randi. David. Sean. You have to tell the institute
teachers that I said thank you. I heart Institute... a lot....
Sis Zarbock says that everything in Maumelle is close. Within walking
distance, and she can ride a bike!!! So I'm actually gonna be able to
use my bike this transfer!!! WOOT!!!!! And just a forewarning Dad... She
says there's a lot of places to shop... So a credit card bill might
potentially be heading your way. haha...
Uhh... yeah... Dad wanted a play by play of my crawfish experience...
Well.. It all started out at lunch time. I knew we were going to be
eating crawfish that night, so i made a huge lunch so i wouldn't really
be that hungry by dinner time... I'd still have room to eat, but
wouldn't be hungry if i didn't really like them. haha.. So yeah. Huge
lunch. Then dinner time, we went there and Bishop Park (by the way... he
owns a fish farm and breeds his own crawfish and goldfish and sells them
to places around the world. it's pretty cool. He's got an endless supply
of crawfish..) Anyways..Bishop Park has a cooler full of live crawfish
and makes the Elders stick their hands into it, so they all got nicely
pinched.. Crawfish are UGLY suckers!!! They're mini lobsters with gross
beady eyes... ugh.. anyways... So he had this pot of water over this
burner outside that was boiling and full of cyan?? (KY-YAN) pepper so it
was spicy. Then he dumps all these live crawfish into it. Seriously!!!
Cooking sea food is so cruel!!! So they boil for a while and its all
fine and dandy.. so by the end of all this cooking, we have 40 pounds of
crawfish for 6 people to eat... it was rediculous... He put corn on the
cob, and potatos and mushrooms in the boil too, and they soak up the
flavor, so they were incredibly spicy. I didn't attemt eating it. It was
enough that I was willing to eat sea rodent, let alone die from over
seasoned vegetables.. hahaha... anyways... So 40 pounds of cooked
crawfish all got dumped out onto this picnic table in their back yard
and we just went to town. It was so horrible though!! In order to eat
these things you have to twist it's tail off and mutilate the poor
thing!!! Yeesh!!! Bishop said of the whole crawfish, there's prolly
only 17% of it that's actually meat.. yeah. He told the Elders that they
haven't eaten crawfish until they've "sucked the head"... yeah... what
it is, is after they've taken the tail off of it, they suck on the body
of the crawfish that doesn't have any meat in it.. but still!! GROSS!!!!
There's nothing in it other than the crazy spicy water it was boiled
in... So when they do it, they get this mouthful of burning spicy water.
They're supposed to suck so hard the eyes get sucked in too... It was
funny watching the Elders try so hard though. But surprise surprise.. I
didn't try it. haha... I was just trying to deal with mutilating these
poor animals... I'm fine eating meat, as long as i dont have to see it
when it was alive. These poor things i saw from start to finish... They
didn't taste horrible, but i didn't like them either.. It's an
experience i'd be okay with never repeating. haha..
Yeah... So that's that. I'm moved in sort of.. Oh!!! And this apartment
has queen size beds!!! haha!! We each get our own ginormous bed!!
WOOT!!!
Also... Apparently there's a temple square missionary here, and she's
going to spend the next week with us, so we'll be a threesome. I guess
she's getting here tomorrow, and she's only with us till she goes back
to temple square.
Yeah. okay. I gotta go. The computers here have a timer on it, so i
ACTUALLY only have an hour to say everything to everyone.
Monie... I have an Central Arkansas Li-berry card now... I just thought
you should know. My collection is growing! haha!!
Okay. Love you all!!!! I'll let you know next week how the people here
are!! I'm excited to meet our investigators here!! THEY ACTUALLY HAVE
THEM HERE!!!! haha!!!
Miss you!!!! Love you!!! THE CHURCH IS TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Sister Alison Dyer
