Sister Pack: Biking in the Rain

New Trio Companions!

Monday, July 20, 2015

Hey everyone,

First let me tell you. We got soaking wet two times this week. It was fun and kinda scary to be biking in the rain. One time it was super heavy and it was dinner time. We didn't have a dinner at a member's house, so we were biking like mad to get to Panera Bread. We then went into the bathroom to dry off before ordering food. We left a huge puddle. We felt bad, but there wasn't much we could do.

First day we got soaked in the rain!

Panera Bread bathroom, drying off.

Hot chocolate at Panera.

What you all wanted to know has arrived; my daughter's name is Sister Skousen. She is awesome. I love her so much. She is the blond companion. I also have another companion (a fellow trainer) Sister Woolley. This is her last transfer, but she is going home in the middle of the transfer for school, which is why we are in a trio. She is also super awesome.

Daughter, Mother, and Grandma

Aurora with her new companion and her trainer.

Daughters, both mommies, and grandma!

I am in Melbourne East. We don't cover any of Melbourne, but we live in Melbourne. To get to our area we have to cross the causeway, which is a huge bridge to let boats through. We are then on the island. We cover Satellite Beach, Indialantic, and Indian Harbor Beach. I love our area. Even biking the causeway isn't so bad. I just don't know what we will do when there is lightening and we need to cross the causeway. We have car share here, which means we have the car for one week and don't the next. I don't mind biking; I just don't like how long it takes to bike everywhere. It takes about half an hour to bike to our area. The car share is also a bit confusing in this area, since we need the car to go to our district meeting every week. There isn't any other sisters in the district to catch a ride with. The Elders in our ward need the car every week to go to their district meeting. It will somehow work out. I don't know how though.

The first time we biked the causeway, it was raining. There was no lighting, so we were fine. It was actually really fun biking up it in the rain. I love going down the causeway.

The beach (we just looked at it and then continued on our way)

We have a super awesome investigator. His name is Connor. He has a 7 year old son, Ethan. Connor lives with a member who introduced him to the church. He calls Sister Hull grandma. I already love Connor. Elder Honda just left our area and got transferred to the mainland side of the ward. He told us that Connor wants to be baptized, but doesn't want to yet.

The ward here is just awesome. Everyone loves us and is super friendly. Everyone keeps telling us that the Sunday before we came the Bishop announced that the Elders were leaving, but Sisters were coming back to the ward. Then the ward pretty much cheered. Elder Honda said he felt pretty much unloved. I am sure they love him, they just love Sisters more.

Oh also before I forget, we live in a house. It is super weird. In the fridge there were some eggs that expired in April. Gross Elders! They had black spots on the outside of the shell. Let me just say Elders aren't the most clean people in the world. Although the house could have been worse.

Miracle: After we biked over the causeway while it was raining we stopped by one of the Elders' investigators. The rain had pretty much stopped by then. She wasn't home, so we talked to some of her neighbors that were out. They weren't interested, so we started to go and the rain was starting again and then we saw lightening, so I pulled out my iPad to look at the maps to find a place we could seek shelter. One of the people we had talked to saw us and invited us in. We told her she was super nice, but she didn't think so. She said she couldn't let us ride out in the weather. We were able to talk to her. She is atheist. Her reasoning was that she is an archaeologist. She is super nice and is tolerant of other people's religion. We also helped her unpack her books. She recently moved. She was really grateful for our help. A lot of her books look super interesting; there were even some history books.

~Sister Aurora Pack