Family,
Hey! So, a lot of this is probably going to be repeated from the email, so bear with me.
It's been a pretty eventful week. We finished with 24 lessons, 10 new investigators and 15 potential investigators. That was nice - it pretty much made up for everything else. I had 5 flats within 5 days, I crashed my bike & had a un-opened can of soda thrown at me.
But on the plus side, I've lost 10 pounds. :) Being on a bike is different - the day goes by faster, but it draws it out, too. I've only been here for 6 days, but it feels like a couple of weeks!
But aside from all of the not-so-good things that have happened, I've seen a ton of miracles, too. The first one that I've been trying to count as a miracle would have to be the flat tires.
What was happening was, that on the rims of the bike, the hole that the valve stem comes out of is sharp. So as I rode along, every time, pressure was being applied to the stem, and the rim cut the stem. And it happened to be cutting it right at the base of the stem and the tube - so there is/was no way I could patch it.... so I kept having to buy new tubes. Well, right now I have a different rim on the front from an old bike, and on the back, I have ground it down and put 2 rubbers around the rim, and bought a heavy-duty tube for the back. So, hopefully, knock-on-wood, I won't have any more flats! I'm not quite sure what I'm gonna do about the front yet, though.
But, I'm counting that as a blessing, because I'm learning patience, and I'm learning how to fix my bike in-depth. :)
The other miracle is actually pretty amazing. Because of the tube issues, I have kept having to undo my brakes and take off the tire. Well, after my last fix on the tires, we were in a hurry to get to an appointment that we were already late to. Well, we were riding down a street named Florence, which comes up on a street named 6 Mile (which is a major travel way) and we needed to cross it. Well, I went to slow down & all of a sudden , I lost control of the bike & hit a curb that was like a divider or something, and I hit the pavement pretty hard. Well, I got back up, patched up my elbow, looked at my torn pants and knee, then tried to ride away. Well, I did a once-over on my bike, and realized that neither my front or back brakes were connected. I was only 20 feet from 6 Mile when I crashed. If I hadn't have crashed, I would have surely been hit by a car.
So yeah, I'm counting that as a miracle! :)
Another cool thing that happened was we put a 76-year-old guy on date that has been smoking for 66 years! He hasn't smoked in two days, and I hope he never will again! :D
How is everything back home? I guarantee that the weather is nicer! ;) Hahaha! You don't have to deal with the humidity!
Well, I gotta go finish laundry, then we gotta bike over to the store & get groceries. Biking gallons of milk plus food for the week sucks! It would be amazing if we had someone to take us to the store and back. But hey - life goes on, right? :)
Oh! I'm 5 months out now! Crazy!! :D
Love you guys! Stay safe!
Peace out ~
With love,
Elder Nye-Nye Jones :)
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