October 11, 2010

Okay alot has happened this week. I will try to fit it all it. My fingers are going to be on fire at the end of this letter. Here it goes.

Tuesday was just a scary day. Explanation: We went to go tract on tuesday morning. We were walking to a house on the other side of the street and we were talking and all of a sudden we here this dog barking. we look up to see this dog. This dog was on the verge of attacking us. It was growling and barking like crazy. So the good companion that I am steps behind my companion so that she would get bit first. haha. Besides she had the dog mase. :) Well, we kept walking very caustiously and a police officer drives by and does that help us. Then this random person riding a bike saves our lives. He asks if the dog is bothering us and if he was going to attack us. We say yes. Then he calls animal control. We then start to go down another street and we see the guy again. He said that he lost the dog. Oh great. I hoped it was not after us again. But we never see the guy or the dog again. I thought it would be cool in the dog was Satan and the guy was one of the three nephites. That would be AWESOME!

So tuesday night we went over to Sheila's house. We have not been able to see her for a very long time. She is always gone when we try to see her. Well we go over and her car is not there. There are no cars there. But we saw that the door was open. so we get out(it is dark outside) and knock on the door. No one answers. We call sheila but she does not answer. We thought it was weird because sheila is very very good at locking her doors when no one is there. We just thought it was weird. Then we get this eery feeling. Like someone was watching us. We rush to the car and get out of that very dark place. Sister Moyes drives and I pray as she is driving. We get to a street with light a couple miles away and pray and read our scriptures. We kept calling sheila. I just had a feeling like somethign bad happened to her. So scary. We went home afterward and shortly after getting home we were able to get a hold of Sheila. I don't know why we were so scared at that time. Just scary. We will now never go to her house at night. It is way to scary.

We tracted on wednesday and we left a passalong card at this guys house. He came home and he saw us walking down the street. He calls out to us and says, "Hey, you left your trash" and then he throws the pass along card on the lawn. We didn't pick it up. Some day, he will know that he had the opportunity to accept the gospel.

Friday night was strange. I got sick. My glands were swollen in my neck. It was not just under the neck glands but some where on the side of my neck was swollen. It hurt so bad. I went to sleep at 9:30 and what felt like forever was only one hour. I woke up and tossed and turned. I was so cold. I went to sleep again and woke up an hour later and was still cold. I desided to go check my temperature. I was running a fever of 100.5. Weird. then I went to bed slept for an hour and woke up so so so hot! Then by some miracle I was able to sleep for the rest of the night after that. It was just strange because it happened really fast. We took a half a day sick day. So I went to sleep for two hours after we did companion study. I felt better after that because I took Tylonel and I did not feel achy anymore.

Saturday night = AWESOME!!! We went to the adult session of Stake Conference and Katie and Chris were able to go. We listened to the talks and guess who was there? Elder Anderson of the twelve. An apostle was there. So afterward we made it happen. We took Chris and Katie up to the stand to say hi to my mission president and his wife. Then...they were able to shake hands with Elder Anderson. They were so excited afterward. They said that it felt like shaking Peter's of James' hand. Oh, I also got to shake hands with him. Elder Anderson talked to Chris and Katie for 2 min about how worth it this gospel is going to be to them. Then he looked at Sister moyes and I, shook our hands, and told us we were doing a great job. So COOL!!!!

Last thing. I did something silly yesterday. I forgot what it felt like to touch boiling water. So...I tired it. and it hurts. The story? we don't have hot water in our sink so I was boiling water to wash the dishes that were piled up. Usually I put half cold water half boiling water and that usually is great. Good temperature water. I guess I got the proportions wrong yesterday. I dumped in the boiling water and it seems as if my mind was very slow. it lasted for seconds. okay. the first second: my hand goes in the water to test if the water is hot 2nd second: my brain is trying to decide if the water is hot. the third Second: my brain decides that it is hot. way to hot for my hand. the fourth second: I pull out my hand. Four seconds is alot of time for boiling water and a hand it it. I burnt my hand unfortunalely. It does not hurt too much today thankgoodness but it did last night. The worst finger it hurt was my ring finger on my right hand barely beneath my fingernail. It is all good though. Next time: BE CAREFUL. :)

I love you all. I hope this week goes great for you. Pray that I don't get really cold. :) Although it feel really good right now. :) Have a good one. Sister Amanda Ralph