This week was pretty fun. We had transfers, and I'm back in Bellingham. Hermana Hubner is my companion. She's seriously new-she just finished training.
Our first night together was fun. We were heading over to Blaine to teach Miguel, and we accidentally made a wrong turn. So, to save miles, we were just going to make a U-turn. First of all, Blaine (and every other part of our area) is super country. It's like the drive out to Mendon, that road with the cows, and, during the summer, the zonkey, camels, zebra... I don't remember. But yeah, it's like that, but with a few more houses. So we saw two driveways in a row, and decided that would be a perfect place to make a U-turn without having to reverse. But somehow neither of us saw the ditch between the driveways.
We drove slowly into the first driveway, we were turning into the second, but de repente, the front right wheel dropped. Hermana Hubner quickly put her foot on the brake, then tried to reverse (without a backer...) out, to no avail (because there was no backer?). So we put the car in park, and discussed what we should do ("Should we call the district leader?" ".... No, he won't be able to do anything." "Oh! Duh, let's call Elder Walkinghorse (the vehicle coordinator)!"), as it get colder the closer you get to Canada, and we weren't sure how far in we were, so we didn't really want to get out of the car.
Then some people pulled into the driveway that we hadn't quite made it into, and asked if we wanted them to push us out. We told them we had tried reversing to no avail, and they told us that made sense because the back end of the car was so high in the air. They told us they were going to call someone with a truck to pull us out, and that we shouldn't get out of the car or move around too much or we might flip, and we called Elder Walkinghorse. He was very adamant that we did not have some guy with a truck pull us out, because that might damage the bumper even more that it might have been damaged, and apparently bumpers are really expensive to repair/replace. So he asked to speak with one of the men outside and have his suggest a good tow truck company. There was a lot of talking, and us waiting anxiously in the car, and finally the phone was returned to us, and we were told that someone would be there in 45 minutes to tow us out (because it's farmland up here, it takes forever to get anywhere). The men left, because there wasn't anything they could do, and we sat in the car and waited.
Thankfully, I had my emergency bubbles that my mom sent me for Easter, so we weren't totally bored. But we called Miguel and told them we wouldn't make it because we were in a ditch, and they decided they HAD to come see if they could help, even though we told them everything was under control. They got there about the same time as the tow truck. We got towed out, Miguel and his wife invited us over for pizza, and all was well. (:
We also had two confirmations yesterday! (: Elizabeth and Eduardo, Jr. were baptized last Sunday. Their parents and younger sister were baptized last month, so they're just this cute little recent convert family. (: Their testimonies are so cute and STRONG. Seriously. They are truly converted. I love it. (:
That's all. folks!
Hermana Miller
There will be pictures of the ditch next week, I forgot my camera in the car.
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