September 21, 2011

Hey there family!

          Well yet another week has flown by....and I cannot believe it. Adventures, miracles and lesson learned this week? well they just seem to keep on comin! along with all the laughter following close behind. Ready for the events this week??

Lessons learned this week:

1. Mouse pooooooop is nast. especially when its EVERYWHERE........

On Monday we were asked to help this family move and one thing i have learned on my mission is that the Maughan style of having people help us move is very different than the mexican style.....Maughan style is having everything packed and put in boxes already and the people come and help put it into the trucks and unload it in the new house....Mexican style is go over to the house and nothing is in boxes and you get to pack their stuff and then take it over to the house. :) We started helping pack stuff and pretty soon Hermana Noyes and I start seeing all these little brown things everywhere...clothes, shoes, food, like everything....bleh it was so gross. we tried throwing most of it away but the owner didn't want any of it in the garbage and so then it just started getting nastier and nastier and we are silently gagging and then laughing at each other......half expecting to find the mice but thankfully that adventure gets to wait for another day.

2. and 3.  Hermana Noyes learned when calling 911 at 1 in the morning you need to be prepared to give more than just your address.

What happened at 1 in the morning that calling 911 was necessary you might ask? well....we were peacefully dreaming in our beds when all of the sudden the most horrendous, ear deafening sound rudely awakened us. No it wasn't our doorbell. beepbeepbeepbeep! 2 second pause. beepbeepbeepbeep! 2second pause etc etc. it was our CO2 alarm. So we called the fire department and we were sleep groggy and laughing at the ridiculousness of all of this and Hermana Noyes was prepared to give the dispatcher our address since she was practicing it before she called and so she was so prepared to give them our address when they asked for her name she replied "226 Longview Dr. Apt A Geneva IL 60134." "um no ma'am. your name please." Her face. I wish oh i wish i could have taken a picture of it as she was trying to register the question. So we had to sit outside and wait for the fire department to come and it was cold btw. They came and tested our apt for co2 and in fact yes siree we sure did have some in there thanks to our lovely old stove. :) So we had to open all of our windows and doors and wait for it all to leave. So lesson number 3....if you only have 9 parts of co2 in your apt than your fine. you wont get sick, dissy or nothin. but how do you find out if you only have 9 parts in your apt? you have to call the fire department.  So yes everything is fine except for the fact that we can't use our oven or our stove until the landlord gets it fixed. which just might be never.

4. The tortillas have gotten to me.

We had the opportunity to go to mission counsel this month and left feeling super pumped and motivated that we were gonna have a great rest of the day and find some awesome people and be super duper obedient. and so we went to an apointment....they cancelled on us right as we got there. I sat back in the car when all of the sudden I felt this silent pop in the back of my skirt.....and so ya. guess who's fat butt POPPED the zipper off her skirt. ya. mine. the zipper didn't just break. it popped off. So it enlisted an emergency trip to the mall to get a skirt as we were super far away from our house....so Ive come to the conclusion that its OK. I'm not getting fat. my testimony is just growing. 

Adventure this week: 

Our ward held a Noche International- international night... where everyone brought food from their country and share a little talent to show off the skills and represent their country. It was pretty cool. and the missionaries were asked to do something and we are all from the US and so that's the country we represented and what a better way to do that, than by using baseball? So we ended up doing the skit "Who's on First." and translated it all to Spanish. it was pretty fun. Our ward has some cool talent and a good sense of humor. 

 Big Miracle this week: 

We have been prepping Carlos for his baptism this week and he is super excited for it. His nephew is living with him and they actually work in the same job. I guess Carlos has been talking to his sobrino about the things he has learned and loved about this church and how its changed his life so much so that it has gotten Victor (the nephew) interested. So we had a really awesome lesson with him this week. He has been through some crazy times that have truly prepared him to hear this gospel. Many of his questions and beliefs fall right in line with the gospel teachings and I'm so excited to start teaching him!

We also have some other investigators that I have felt like I have clicked with and others that we have found that are just progressing super awesome and I really want to see all of them enter the cool clean and refreshing waters of baptism! :)

Hermana Noyes and I have been working super hard that we fall asleep even before our heads hit the pillows-only if alarms and dinging things would stop waking us up we might actually get to have a full 8 hours of sleep :) jk but its been really good, this transfer is just flying by and I'm so EXCITED FOR CONFERENCE!!!!!! I LOVE CONFERENCE!!!!!!! general relief society this saturday! woot woot!

Well I hope you have a great week! Know that I love you super much!

Paz Y amor

Hermana Maughan