Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Hey!
So again things have been slow here, not much teaching and a lot of tocando puertas. We really need to thing of something to spark something. I did have one great experience this past week. Mom is going to FREAK OUT! K- so on Saturday, the 27th, one year exactly since I received my mission call,...well let me draw a mental picture for you. Imagine the small intersection where Mendive and the elementary school are, where we go through to get to Daniel Vivas' house. Imagine me riding on my bike as if I was going to Daniel's house and it is around 8 at night and dark. My companion already passed the intersection and I am coming up to it. (So I am going north on the right side of the street). Picture it in a residential area with houses all around and a couple big trees. k- so right when I am about thirty feet away from the intersection a car pulls up to the intersection in the lane as if going to the Mendive library from reed high. ( you also half to keep in mind that I am on a bike and still moving). Right when I am basically to the intersection, a kid on the opposite corner, diagonally from me, drops his bike,(he was stationary), pulls out a gun and starts shooting at the car! The car drives to get away going straight and the kid keeps shooting. I ended up being in the pathway of the firing. With the little momentum that I had I turned up on the sidewalk and coasted down the sidewalk in the direction that I came. I figured it would be better to get shot in the back then the chest, since I did have a backpack as well. But I didn't get hit,..... DANG-IT! I was hoping to find a bullet in my scriptures or something. Since my companion had already gone through the intersection he thought that I was the one that got shot cause he couldn't see me when he looked back as well cause I was on the sidewalk and there was some trees blocking his view. Yah, it was pretty sweet but I feel like I should have dropped the kid after because he just simply/slowly rode away on his bike with his friend, and I know he was out of ammo also cause who wouldn't unload the full thing?

So how is everything there, are you on your way to the hospital, taking mom to emergency care? Hopefully you didn't have a heart-attack. I didn't get the letter yet so I’ll respond to that next week. I can't believe that it is already October! CRAZY! it has really started to get cold and I am truthfully not excited for it. At least no more rain, right! We got drenched again on Monday after helping move some elders from one apartment to another. Right when we finished it started to sprinkle, then when we got on the bikes it down-poured! I'm super stoked for general conference! How's everything holding up there in Nevada? HELP THE MISSIONARIES! Esperemos que las cosas vayan a cambiar pronto! SUERTE!