So, our week started off pretty
normal I would say. Monday, looking pretty promising, went to the Crawford's
for P-day. It was SO fun :) We basically just had a SHREK MARATHON with the
girls, ate loads of food, played some games etc etc. Love that family. The only
thing was probably that Sis Z has this cold that just kept coming and
going..and it was back.
Tuesday rolls around, we're
proselyting near the chapel, having a gay old time. We walk up this moderately
busy road, past all the houses of wonderful people, NEK MINUT, this border
collie dog comes from left field. My first thought "Oh no it's going to
run into the road and get hit by a car!" So I try to rally it back into its
yard, next thing we know, she's running past me, goes up behind Sister Zurcher,
runs through her legs, and BITES her on her upper inner thigh. OH MY GOODNESS.
The very well to do lady comes out trying to settle her mega CRAY CRAY dog
down. She ends up putting it in the boot of her car to get her out of the way.
We find out the dog’s name is Nancy. Such a deceiving name. The lady felt so
bad, bless her. She gave us a tour of her garden and her house and we had right
old chat with her for a while. After we left, Sister Zurcher mentions that her
leg is actually starting to hurt quite a bit. This is the one day we decide to
WALK to the area where church is, so we have to walk all the way home before
she can asses the damage. We get home, she checks her leg, there were 3 bite
marks, one worse than the others, bit of blood, and you can tell it was going
to bruise. Nevertheless, we went about our business as usual. That night, we
follow up with our district leader Elder Flake. He freaks out, tells the Zone
Leaders, who call us and say that Sister Zurcher needs to call Sister
Pilkington. So she calls her, Sis Pilkington tells her to call 111 (it's like
000 but it's not an emergency line, it's like a helpline to assess if you
should go into hospital or not). She calls it, They tell her to go to the
hospital. By this time, it's like 10.30pm. We call Sis Pilkington, she says we
can go, so we go. We wait an hour. A nurse sees to Sister Zurcher, she has a
current tetanus shot so she was alright apparently, but she was put on
antibiotics anyway, and off we went home.
Meanwhile, her dog bite was looking
more and more gnarly. Right now it looks like a bruised yellow, blue, green and
dark purple Yin Yang. Looks pretty cool actually.
On Thursday we went on exchange to
South Shields, nothing too crazy happened there thank goodness.
Saturday came flying…Saturday
evening, we get locked out of our flat. The ONE time neither of us double-checked
who had the keys. Neither of us did. They were sitting safe and sound on our
desk inside the flat. We were also in our exercise clothes because we were
about to do an Insanity workout at the chapel, which we do every one or 2 weeks
with other people. We were also due to teach Primary AND Relief Society lessons
on Sunday as well. All of which, were in the flat. So there we were. Sitting
ducks. We called someone from the Primary presidency, told them of our
predicament, said we couldn't teach the lesson. Then we called Sister C , RS
Pres, to tell her what happened and tell her we can't teach the lesson either.
Long story short, we end up staying at their house Saturday night and all of
Sunday until about 3pm when we got the key back from our landlord. SUCCESS!
So that was our week :) Pretty
standard. This week won't be as crazy hopefully. We hope to have more of a
mellow, hard working, mid-crazy week :) A bit of crazy is always funner than no
crazy init!
Still loving and appreciating all the
emails and letters! Keep 'em coming! Understood if you don't have time. I feel
like I have no time either so we're all in the same boat! :)
Much love
Sister Kuhn
PS I almost forgot to share this!
Last night we went (to see) Trish. While we were there, I had a prompting to go
and see a less-active sister L who we've seen before recently, and I was
prompted to share a scripture I was thinking about at Trish's house. So I tell
Sister Zurcher that we should go and drop by, so we do, and she's in. She is
just the sweetest lady ever. She's married with 2 older teenage, very
well-behaved boys. She joined the church a number of years ago. No-one else in
her family is a member. We have a nice little chat and then I share Moroni
10:31-33 with her. I don't even know what I said really, but what she got from
it was that she needed to do more to get her husband to soften his heart in
letting her at least come to church without making herself feel bad or guilty.
He's a really nice guy but only gets weekends off work so it's hard for them
all to spend time with each other, and maybe to him church seems in the way of
that. Fair enough. So there she is saying 'Yes, yes that is really a great
scripture. I needed to hear that. Instead of me just sitting here waiting for
something to happen, I need to be doing more to help him..' etc etc. I was like
'Woah.' All I said to explain the scripture was mostly based on verse 31 about
strengthening and broadening Zion's stakes and how it will and does take effort
and we can't just sit here and wait for it to happen etc. I said nothing about
her husband…. but she got what she needed to get from it, so that was our job
done.
There's one thing that went right
this week :)
