A Very Buggy Week :) (7/26/10)

FAMILY family family!!!!!!!!!!

Ok so we have a zone activity this week and it's in not very long - so this is going to be REALLY good and hopefully as long as all my other letters :) so i got my package! YEAH! and it was perfect thank you mom because I'm going to the park today and really didn't want to wear long dress pants. :) i love shorts! so this week was so crazy. SO crazy. Monday night we cleaned Cybil's house for her -- that will be important later. tuesday my companion got to go to the temple because it is her halfway mark and i was hoping that, being the WONDERFUL companion you all know i am i would get to go to. well, not how it works when your mission is very small. so i was with another sister all day and it was really great. wednesday -- well i got grilled for the first time by an investigator. and it was AWESOME. it's just way nice to know that we have the true church and no one can prove it wrong. tuesday we also found out that the saying "sleep tight don't let the bed bugs bite" IS NOT cute or funny. at all. yes. we have bed bugs. pretty sure we got them from cleaning Cybil's house. mom don't freak out or call the president because he already knows and the whole mission office knows and i wouldn't have told you except for it's pretty funny now and it is what we have done all week. HAH! Thankfully Thursday was deep clean day. I have had more laundry this week than i have in my entire life because i've just washed EVERYTHING and my bedding several times. and yeah. we have a whole bunch of chemicals going on in our apartment from permetherin to bug bombs to borax powder to a TON of raid -- we let's just say it's a good thing i'm not in my apartment breathing deeply very much :) it really is funny. and friday we bug bombed the whole place for the roaches and hey throw in the bed bugs too :) but it was really cool. the elders have been calling all the time asking us if they can do anything and the office keeps very close tabs on us seeing how things are going and seeing what needs to be done. so friday night we were walking around and getting ready to go home when we got a call from the zone leaders telling us that president nelson wanted everyone to get home immediately because there was a TORNADO warning!!!!!!!!!!! holy cow i thought that little sister lauren hill was going to get those not me! it was sweet!!! so we started running as fast as we could and we got POURED on again. the really funny part was we were at prospect park -- same place we got dumped on last time too! every single time we go there we get a lot of rain and we haven't figured out that we REALLY need to take our umbrellas yet. so we laughed our heads off when we found out it was a tornado warning too :) the weather is as freaky as the bugs are in our apt. the day after the tornado warning was SUPER SUPER hot and, as it usually goes on those days, all of our appointments stood us up. praise and bless one of the ward members - she was the only appointment that didn't stand us up and she fed us dinner and i think i drank two or three gallons of homemade lemonade. OH but i almost forgot!!!!!!! as we were walking to one of our appointments that didn't show up we met this guy who was Jewish (that is very VERY common here and people always think we are Jewish too because we are all wearing conservative dresses) anyways this guy stops us and starts chatting with us about what we are doing and why in the world we are walking around in the BLAZING hot sun (we're saving souls... no big deal :) ) and he told us his story. HE IS A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR!!!!!!!!!!! He was born in Aushwitz and his mom hid him IN THE FLOORBOARDS until he was 3 1/2 months old. WOW. yeah after that walking around in the sun didn't seem so bad. way cool guy. he is a professor at columbia university now and he was so nice! good good man. it was a good night. Yesterday we were walking home at the end of the night -- oh yeah dall mentioned that i haven't told you all this... we don't have a car. thank goodness!!!!!!! do you know how much REALLY TIGHT parallel parking i would have to do?! i will take the bed bugs over having a car thank you! -- anyways we were walking home and an ENTIRE bridal party was standing right outside the door freaking out. well, the door into our building got stuck and you couldn't get out of the building or into it. Of course the bride was flipping out and going to call 911 and the fire dept. and everyone else. i thought it was quite hilarious myself. so after 15-20 ish minutes we got in and they all got to the party ok.

SO we had a lesson with Cybil yesterday. and she committed to living the word of wisdom!!!!! and i asked her if she had received an answer for baptism and she said she knew she needed to get baptized!!!! what?! oh but then we found out that, due to some other complications in her life, she won't be able to get baptized until august.... of 2014. yep. but all that means is that i now have a planned trip to new york when i am 25 to come back and see Cybil get baptized.. that will be a REALLY good day. so we will see how everything goes. we are going to talk to president nelson tomorrow to make sure that we can't get permission, but if not - well we will all be so excited for 2014! we met with reginald this week - i think i told you about him he is the guy that speaks french and we met him on the street and by some miracle i had a FRENCH Book of Mormon with me! -- well we met with him and the first thing he says is - i have read alma and nephi. nefi is what it sounded like, but whatever :) HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU HAVEN'T EVEN MET WITH MISSIONARIES YET AND YOU HAVE READ ALMA AND NEPHI?! yeah. it was really good. and he said that he knows the book is true. and we found out right after that lesson that the sister's area boundaries don't cover reginald. which doesn't even matter because the elders in our district would have to baptize him anyways because they are the ones with the priesthood! so that will be a really good day too. we are hoping for the last day of the transfer for reginald.

well my dearest wonderful family -- that is my whole week! mom i'm serious. quit freaking out about the bugs because i know you are. more bugs = more blessings. and we really are just fine. i'm so glad the reunion went well and that cory and nate didn't get lost in oblivion and that everyone is doing well. i love you all so much more than i can say and i am so blessed to have you as my family. as for the little coleman ---- 2 1/2 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i better get a TON of pictures and i'm so excited for all of you to meet him! chels i will be praying that he doesn't come early :) tell quinn and miranda i say congratulations and miranda looks pretty and all of that wedding jazz. and jaleesa as well. tell them both thank you so much for thinking of me and sending me announcements and i'm happy for them. I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!

God is real. His love is incredible. Miracles happen.

Love you!
Sister Mich