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
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