Hey
Mom and others! It's so great to hear from you!
Anywhosers,
my week has been, long, to say the least.
So,
starting with Monday, I crashed on my bike, big time.... So, the day itself was
fine, a normal p-day, woke up, went out to Taco Bell for lunch, emailed,
shopped, etc etc... It wasn't until the end of p-day at 6, where things became
difficult. Since, it's humid here, wind of any kind, goes straight through our
clothing, so biking at night, which is now earlier in the day, becomes a
problem. So, Monday night, we where biking home from the church after a long
day of biking about, when we got to a downhill slope that had no shoulder for
bikes, none whatsoever. As a result, a car got a little to close, I swerved
into the gravel, it was too cold to hold on effectively, my front tire got
caught on a rock, I went over the handle bars, and I slid a good 3 feet.
But
I'm fine! I got scrapped up a bit, nothing's torn or broken, my bike chain came
off, but I was completely fine aside from a little bit of blood.
Tuesday,
we had our first zone conference, it lasted from 10 in the morning, to about 4
at night. To give a brief explanation of what was taught; mission work with
members, steps to help a progressing investigator to baptism, and keeping your
car clean and ready. Fun fact, the church has to deal with over 400k in damage
done to cars because of improper backing out alone, statistically, that would
add about 23 new cars to all missions world wide. Afterwards, we visited a less
active who doesn't attend because he takes care of his mother, and had dinner
at another less actives, who, I kid you not, is probably my favorite person to
visit. He is an ex-combat engineer for the military, he showed us a potato gun
he built that he almost shot down a helicopter with a plastic bag with.
Wednesday
was Wednesday, a lot of visiting with less actives, a lot of potentialing, and
a lot of biking. We did get to meet the new bishop of he Bramdermill ward
officially, nice guy.
Thursday
we didn't do much but walk about. Friday was about the same.
Saturday,
we raked leaves, for about 3 hours. The rest of the day was spent potentialing,
with no one really interested.
Sunday,
was a great way to end a week. First of all! It was fast Sunday, because we had
stake conference last week, so, I woke up, didn't eat breakfast, got ready, and
was picked up by pj, the most recent baptism in the stake, at 8:40. He drove us
to the old Clover Hill ward to attend their sacrament, because he, pj, was
being confirmed, and asked if elder Scott and I would join in the circle. We
sat around afterwards until around 1, when our sacrament started. Testimony
meeting lasted an hour and a half, the rest of the time we had a meet and great
potluck, and boy howdy, was the meal just absolutely fantastic, everything from
Hawaiian pulled pork (baked till it just fell apart in pineapple), to chili
with chicken in it, to some phenomenal mac and cheese. The day ended with a
visit to a member of our ward whom is one of the oldest living quadriplegics,
he was injured in a rugby accident, and had been that way for about 20 years.
It really made me grateful for my health.
Anyway,
that's been my day, I don't have many pictures to share with all of y'all, I'll
try to do better next week.
Love you!
-Elder
Tayler Hagen
This
is what Virginia looks like in the fall, colors, colors everywhere.
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