Courtney's Week #40

So here are a few things that I learned this week:

 

1. Riding a bike in a skirt is an art that I haven´t quite mastered yet. Oh my goodness, this whole week I have been trying to figure out a way to ride my bike without showing my underwear to the whole world, I think I have almost figured it out. The other problem, is that if you wear a skirt that is a little bit longer it gets caught in the wheel and in the brakes. I´ve decided what seems to work best is to pedal like a frog, then it seems to work out okay. But just as a little tip of advice, if you can, use pants when riding a bike.

 

2. If the bishop does not attend church, a ward does not function very well. My new ward is having this very problem, the bishop works one of those schedules where you work for 7 days and then you´re off for 4 or something like that, I still haven´t met him, but this ward is falling apart. There isn´t a Young Mens President at all, and the first counselor doesn´t do anything because I guess he was never set apart, and he can´t be set apart because he doesn´t have the Melquesidec priesthood, and he couldn´t recieve the Melquesidec priesthood because the bishop wasn´t there at the last stake conference and so he wasn´t sustained. The ward is also kind of split in two, there is kind of like a rebelion against the bishop going on, and the bishop is losing because he´s never present. It´s pretty bad.

 

3. Without members, missionary work is good for nothing. My sector has had some pretty awesome missionaries in the last few years. This sector was actually for Elders until about 3 months ago, when they put Hermanas here. The missionaries that were here in this sector did a lot of work and baptized a lot of really really great people, but, all of these people are now inactive because they didn´t have any support or friendship from the members. It is really really sad.

 

4. The church is true!!

 

Well, that´s about all I learned this week that I can think of for the moment. I actually really like my sector, it´s mostly country, we have to bike past huge vineyards to get to parts of our sector, but it is so pretty. The people in this area are mostly really old people that have lived here since the beginning of time.

 

So exciting news, I found out this week that the mom of the kids that I baptized back in August finally got baptized!! It was the family that was really poor, Larissa worked our all of her difficulties and was able to be baptized Christmas Eve! Their family is complete now!

 

Well, that´s about all for this week. Things are going great!

 

Love you all!

Hermana Evans

Larissa and Hermana Taggart, my companion from the MTC, who baptized her!