La Separacion de la Mision .... y los iPads!!

June 8, 2015

La Separacion de la Mision …. Y los iPads!!!

Hola Mamacita!!

This is it! Next week I'll know what's going to happen to me for the rest of my mission! haha It's pretty exciting! 

I got Joylyn's bike at the beginning of the transfer, haha you know when the APs came to revive our car? the reason why they were there was because they were bringing the bike from my last area (That was the day I hit a pole). I have started riding Joylyn's bike since this week, though. When I wrecked the first bike, we fixed it up that weekend and we still kept riding it. Joylyn's bike had flat tires and we were too lazy to fill them :P But a week or so ago, Sister Jardine asked us if we had a spare bike, so we gave her the fixed up bike and then we had to fill up Joylyn's tires with air. I LOVE Joylyn's bike! The handlebars are nice, the seats super cushy so my butt doesn't hurt as bad :P, There's a shock right underneath the seat so I don't feel on the bumps and rocks on the road... yeah it's a good bike, at least better than the other one's I've ridden. We went biking the other day and it started raining. Haha ok California, you're in a drought, but you decide that you want to start raining while we go biking! Ayayay! It was fun though! 

Some people honked at us and some Elders in a car stopped in the middle of the road to make fun of us. Haha they're just jealous of Joylyn's bike, I know it! Haha I like biking a lot though, it's fun. We get to stop whenever we see people, where in a car you speed by and say, "hey look there's a Hispanic guy over there..." but it never amounts to anything. Biking is great!

I got my hump day package on Wednesday! Thanks Mom it was perfect! Haha I liked how the poem said I still had a year left, that bummed me out a little bit haha jk it would be great to have a year left, but 9 months is great too! 

We also got our iPads! We got them right after conference on Thursday (we don't have navigators on our cars. I think that might just be confusion for the Tiwi, which does not navigate our cars :P). We weren't allowed to set them up until Friday during District meeting.

Hermana Autumn Twitchell  & Hermana Brianna Burke

 We took some pictures, but their on my iPad and we're not supposed to email on them quite yet, so when we can I'll have some more pictures for you. :) They're pretty fun, a little distracting at times, but we're learning :P We have the "Because He Lives" video downloaded on there, so yesterday while we were contacting we used it and it really opened up a lot of people! We were talking to this one Hispanic woman and she said, "I don't know when you can come by. I'll call you." Which basically means: rejection! haha I love Hispanics, but they will not say no! Then we showed her the video, asked her a few questions, then said, "Hey, you can come by tomorrow!" What!!! Haha la obra misional esta progresando! 

We lost Ramiro for a while, which was really weird because we had daily contact with him and then all of a sudden he just disappeared! Well, Hna. Burke felt prompted to call him the other day and he finally answered the phone! It turns out that he lost his phone and he moved to Bakersfield... Aww Man! That's okay though because he's still interested and I know he'll get baptized! We just need to send his information to the missionaries in Bakersfield.

I'm probably not going to go to the temple this transfer, we can only go 4 times a year, so I'm trying to save up all my chances. :) Right now I only have 2 names, so if you want to send me more that would be great!

During the zone conference we had lunch and President and Sister Jardine came and sat with us at our table. It was a lot of fun talking with them. President Jardine said that when he was serving his mission in Fresno, it covered San Jose. He said that he served in Milpitas and the border of San Jose. Haha that got me really excited and I told him that I used to live there. He said he would bike on that hill that we lived at the bottom of. Oh I would not want to do that :P It was really neat! 

We have one investigator right now that has a baptismal date for the 4th of July! That's a pretty great day! Haha His name is William and we are praying that he will come to church! I've been here for 11 weeks and I still have not had an investigator come to church! He's coming next week! I know it!

Para Siempre Dios este con Vos,

Con Amor,

Hermana Twitchell