Music

My arm is doing better, it doesn't hurt unless I bump it or try to lift anything heavier than my purse. I did get the recipes, and we do have a DVD player that also does CDs and has a flash drive reader.    I like listening Jenny Fisher and EFY music if you want to send me that:) The rules on music is: 

Listen only to music that is consistent with the sacred spirit of your calling. Music should invite the Spirit,help you focus on the work, and direct your thoughts and feelings to the Savior. Do not listen to music that pulls your thoughts away from your work, merely entertains, has romantic lyrics or overtones, or dulls your spiritual sensitivity by its tempo, beat, loudness, lyrics, or intensity. 

We got to do baptisms for the dead with one of Sister Simmons' recent converts! Also today is Sister Francom's birthday:)

The pictures  are us in our apartment, us in our car, me and my companion, me and the other Sister Clark

Love you!!

Not broken

So this week I decided to crash my bike.  I didn't realize there was a turn at the bottom of the hill so I was going to fast.  The good news is my arm is not broken, I just have to ice it for a few days.  Pluss we got the car untill my arm gets better.  

Later in the week we were trackting and ran into another behemoth spider, right above the door.  We were debating on weather or not knocking on the door would make it fall on us or if we were ok.  I finally knocked and we didn't die, though I about had a heart attack when it moved.  I included my picture of the last one I saw just in case anyone forgot. on a more spirital note. I got to meet more of the ward since they were here as apposed to Louisiana. The had a lot of good stories about helping people affected by the floods, but one speaker took it a step farther and talked about helping our neighbors. It's good to help those people in other states but it's also important to help people locally. He also talked about developing good relationships with the people in our neighborhood before you're all stranded at the one house that isn't flooded.

Well I'm out of time at the library, sorry that was short.  

Bike's and prayers

This week was transfer week and for transfers everyone that is getting moved and there companions meet up at the stake center, find out where we're going and who we're paired up with then lode our things into there care and head to our new area.  Normally this is not a problem but we have a shortage of sister missionaries at the moment so they pulled sisters out of Flat Creek.  And we were in a threesome  for the last week.  This meant that we had to cram three peoples stuff, all the perishable food, and us into one car.  The only truck in the mission was unavailable at the time.  Fortunately we kinda knew where I was going so we had the Peach Tree City Sisters pick up my stuff and the food.  They also took food that was meant for the elders, so they were not happy.  Even after that we still had to leave two boxes that we had planed on dropping off at the mission office at the apartment.  Option number two was have someone sit cross legged with no seat belt, but we decided that was a bad idea.  

Our cars have a tiwi (teenage eye witness) in them that makes sure we're not speeding, staying in the mission, and who's driving.  We have cards we scan in so it knows who's driving.  Sister Welch scanned hers and started on the road.  As soon as we left the the tiwi said no driver, meaning no one was logged in.  So we scanned it again, and again and again.  When we got to a stop light we put it in park and rescanned it over and over and over again.  Still nothing.  We tried pushing the restart button and calling the Senior Missionary in charge of the cars.  Restarting it did nothing and the call went to voicemail.  We tried restarting it again and Sister Welch dropped the tiwi card.  I was reaching over the center and everything piled on it and Sister Leyba was trying to reach over the stuff piled on her lap and get it.  At this point the tiwi had reset properly so all we needed was the card.  Sister Layba finally dove under all the stuff and grabbed it.  After we scanned it and it finally logged in Sister Welch said "Guys, I thing I know why this is happening.  We didn't say a prayer before we left."  After that I prayed and we didn't have anymore problems getting to the stake center.  

Anyhow I am now in the white water ward.  We are in a car share meaning we're on bikes half the time and share a car with the PTC (Peach Tree City) sisters.  Georgia does not believe in sidewalks however there are golf cart paths all over PTC so we bike on those.  I'm good with biking long distances but it's a different experience in a skirt.  We have shorts underneath them but you still have to make sure they don't catch on anything.  Since their's  only to biking areas for sister missionaries the bikes stay in the area.  On the one hand it's nice because I didn't have to buy one.  On the other hand the bike doesn't like shifting into 6th gear on the back and flat out won't shift into 3rd on the front.  I'm planning on taking a look at it today and seeing if I can fix it.  Other than that it works pretty good and the hills around here aren't very steep, especially compared to the mountains and foothills that I'm use to.  The scenery is amazing.  Most of the paths are through the woods and a lot of them go by lakes.  Should be a fun area.  

Allways pray before you travel

Sister Clark