April 18 mud, beetle, and a dog race

Well another good week, I found out that I'll be staying again with

Elder Geigenmiller! Good news since we get a lot of stuff done

together. He's a really nice guy and a good companion. Unfortunately

I'll be losing the car since they called another zone leader this

transfer but that's alright. It was a good run while it lasted and I

learned a lot. I'm glad I don't have to worry about so many other

responsibilities and can just focus on missionary work again. We had a

lot of successes this week, the biggest was probably bringing our

investigator Winston to church! We biked to his house and we all biked

to the church together which was a good time. Elder Jennings, the

other zone leader, also got our van stuck the other day during a

service project and it was literally inches from tipping over... hahah

I don't know why I ever let him drive but it's okay now i guess, a

huge 4000 kilo truck just happened to come by and help us out. the

first attempt broke our steel cable, but luckily they had a thick

chain that was able to get us out and save the church a whole lot of

tithing money. We also witnessed something pretty crazy coming home

from our last appointment on saturday night, where we saw a huge truck

upside down in a ditch! There was a huge crowd gathered in the middle

of the street and we saw that there was also a wrecked bike and a man

lying on the road, luckily his injuries weren't life threatening but

it was pretty scary to see the whole scene. On a unrelated note I had

a huge beetle fly literally into my eye and it freaked me out in the

middle of one of our lessons. the beetle fell to the ground and got

eaten by a toad though so I feel good knowing it got what it deserved.

I also raced a dog on my bike and won. he had me beat with

acceleration but my top speed was too much for him to handle. I hope

you all have a great week and I'll talk to you again soon!

Elder Carpenter