March 26, 2018

Dinner with a cute less active in the Branch.

Spring!

                                Choir Practice with the best.

Hello again!

This week officially became spring and the weather is just perfect. The flowers are all coming out and it's the perfect amount of warm. This week was, well interesting. Two of our investigators turned out to be kind of crazy and bible bashed us, gotta love it, but we met other cool people this week, so it's okay!

I had the weirdest experience of my mission this week. Literally I think I could win any two truth and a lie game in the future. We got a call Friday night from our dear 90 year old Daysheen Grandma freaking out saying she fell and needed us to come as soon as possible. We run to find a taxi and head straight to her house. When we get there, there is a little crowd outside her door. All of her doors are locked and she can't move. We end up jumping this little wall up to her glass sliding door and breaking it off so that we could get in. When we get in, we help her up and see her knee is pretty messed up. She needs to go to the hospital, but she is sooo stubborn. We spent the next hour and a half trying to get her to go to the hospital, but she was throwing any excuse she could because she didn't want to have to go to the ER. "They don't take x-rays at night." "Missionaries have to be home at 9 and I don't want you to be late." "I can't leave the bathroom." It went on and on. But the biggest thing was she refused to call an ambulance, she wanted to take a taxi to the hospital. We were kindof in a mess, so we call the Elders to come help us. After an hour, she had come to a conclusion. She was going to sit on the toilet with her leg on the chair until morning, then we could come pick her up in a taxi and take her to the hospital. Obviously there was no way we were leaving her sitting on the toilet all night with a broken knee. The sad part is, she really had no one else to call but the missionaries. After so much arguing with her, we talked her into letting us call the ambulance. They came, loaded her up, and off she went. It was all such a mess and so stressful, I didn't even think. They said one person had to ride with her in the ambulance, only made sense for my companion to jump in...and before I realized it...I was watching my companion drive away in an ambulance. When I realized what I had just done, I look to my left and then right and there are the Elders, followed by, "...crap." and "Yes, exchanges with Sister Stout!" There we went running down a dark back alley road looking for a taxi to take to the hospital..to end our super illegal exchange. When we finally got to the hospital, we waited outside of the ER for forever...the exchange just kept going, until the Branch President got there so that we could go home. 

This week was a week of a lot of firsts: first exchange with the Elders, first 25 minute talk (perks of only having 5 members), first time calling an ambulance, and first time fighting with a 90 year old grandma for pills. Learning experiences everywhere we go. 

Everyone have a good conference weekend!

Sending love

xoxo

Sister Stout