It's a Whopper!

For those of you who know what a Transfer is and have been wanting to find out my fate, just so you know I'm not leaving my area. But my Companion who has been here since she came to Texas in December is! Hna Christensen has been profoundly weirded out as she has been packing for the first time since she left the MTC, she's been in Bear Creek for almost a year! One more Transfer would have done it almost. But now she's going to another area, and I'm left to try and remember everyone's names and where they live. Oh dear....

But I'm excited about my new companion! Her name is Hermana Wardle. I went on Exchanges with her once in my second Transfer (exchanges is where Missonaries swap companions for 24 hours) and I got to know her a bit from that and other meetings. From what I can tell I rather like her, so I'm really hopeful. And if nothing else, both our favorite colors is Orange. We'll do fine!

Other sources of news are that on Thursday we visited a Recent Convert (who is an absolutely adorable young woman but that's beside the point) around noon, and when we came outside we discovered that Harvey's Driver's Side window was bashed in. We hadn't heard anything, the car's alarm didn't even sound off! We called the cops and two of them came. From the way it was broken and the fact nothing was stolen points to Criminal Mischief. Apparently the Apartment Complex right next door has kids who do things like this, and shooting out house windows with BB guns, etc. Bummer for us, we had to get to Interviews with President Hansen!! But that same adorable RC drove us to the church building where the Senior Missionary in charge of cars picked us up in our temporary replacement. She was a dusky blue and we decided to name her Destiny. We only had her until Saturday, the window got fixed quick!

Other exciting thing that happened started at 5am this morning. We got up early, dressed in service clothes, and got picked up to go with our District to the Bayou and fish. So I went fishing this morning, between the bayou and a man-made lake I caught TEN FISH. Not too shabby, eh? First one was what's called an Aligator Garr. They get big and they're mean and you should be afraid to fall into the water when they're around apparently. Mine was just like... uh... I don't know how to judge fish-size! Two feet? Little less? Whatever, I got some awesome pictures and video! Next one was a baby Catfish. Then I caught what's called a Drum Bass, it had pretty irredescent scales on it's forehead. Then I caught a Croppy. After that we switched to the lake and I caught a little Sunfish, followed by a big Catfish! Like, well big! I was really afraid that it was going to snap my line! But with help I got it onto the grass. It had only one eye... Not my fault! I held that one to let it back into the water, I was letting him back in gently instead of throwing him and when I had his face to the water he grunted twice and I let go! I didn't know Catfish could make noises like that! After that I caught three more Sunfish. At that point Elder Geldmacher told me that if I got a tenth I had to be the one to take the hook out of it's mouth. I didn't want to do it so I just put my little bobbing line close to the edge and talked. THEN I GOT ANOTHER FISH without even trying! Jeez! It was another sunfish and I just let it tug on the line, then I hit the button on my pole and let it swim as far as it liked. I was hoping that it would get itself off the hook before we had to go in a couple minutes. When I reeled the hook in I got my wish! I didn't have to unhook the tenth fish I caught, haha!

Man I'm tired, but we have to get Hna Christensen ready to leave and go to her new area tomorrow morning. And she has so many clothes, haha! But it's all good, she's skilled at packing them away.

This was a lovely chat, we should have more.

Cheerio!
~ Hermana Smart