Pulling Out the Sweat Rag!

Favorite Stories by Mike Malm

(on the cover of the July Liahona)

It´s hot. Super hot. Even when it´s not hot like you think, you realize that you´re covered in sweat. It´s hot even when it rains. We got caught in a rainstorm last pday, and the result of getting soaked here and then baking the next minute is always the gripe. So we´ve been battling colds the entire week. But still working hard! We´re working really really hard, teaching lots and lots of lessons, but still having a very hard time getting anyone at church. 

Refer to Hna Safeer´s blog for funny story about contacting.  http://zoesbigadventure.blogspot.com/

This week I also had several adventures getting in fights with stairs. The stairs here are metal spirals, like corkscrew spirals, going straight up, making it possible to just keep adding houses on top of houses. They can be a bit treacherous however, as one could probably imagine. Especially if it´s raining. Or you´re tall. Or apparently have too skinny feet. I´ve slipped down a couple and now have scrapes that actually look like bear claw marks. But the crowning event was stepping off the second story landing of a house onto these stairs and instead of my foot planting, as expected, it slid right through the spaces between metal bars. So my left foot was still sitting above on the landing, while my right is dangling in the air, two stories up, stuck just above my knee, putting me in a lovely squatting position. And oh so painful. A little girl started laughing at me, which at first made me a little annoyed, but then I burst out laughing also, because how funny is it to see a giant white girl get stuck in stairs with her skirt all over the place, still gripping tightly to her Book of Mormon (Which I finished for the first time in Spanish this morning, by the way). So after a good laugh for a few seconds, I tried to more or less gracefully get up. But realized I was actually stuck. Eventually I got myself out of there, with only a bruise the size of a watermelon, and a small limp, as evidence.

We´re still teaching Cazy. We taught the Plan of Salvation, and only managed to delve into outer darkness and the resurrection of the earth and tried to keep the rest pretty basic. He just asks the deepest questions! He´s reading the Book of Mormon looking up every Biblical footnote. He says it´s true  so far, becuase it works perfectly with the  Bible, but he says he hasn´t been told by God yet, and he needs to study more.  We´ve been trying to talk about faith, and how it´s not a perfect knowledge.

We´re staying the same this transfer, we´ll finish up the 12 week training program, I´m excited to see all the stuff that I never learned!

Oh, and what a shock to get our July Liahona and see my sisters on the front cover!!!! Rachel and Maddy in Mike Malm´s painting. I was so shocked and had to tell everyone a million times until they were sick of it.

I love you all! Thanks for the letters, I love to hear the  updates. It really makes my day! Thanks especially for all your prayers, I´m praying for you.

Love, Hermana Sarah Peck