So. Much. Drama.

Hey! Soooo not too much has happened this week. Iris and Eva Capshaw are on date for the 20th of this month. We may have to move the date back again though because of travel arrangements being made for the grandma. I'm just excited that they are really going through with this! They are crazy but I love them and I feel like dad would get along with them pretty well (they love Howard Stern and Alex Jones). They dropped cute Valentine's Day cookies off at our door the other night and it just made my day! I forgot to tell you earlier but I LOVE their dog! He is a little brown pit bull like Joanie and his name is CHANCHO. I thought you would like that, mom. He also only has 3 feet so he kind of has to limp everywhere but he's still amazingly fast. I'll get a video for you.

Nothing too exciting happened this week until last night, we were decorating cookies at our Ward mission leader's house when we got a call from Sis Bauer's district leader. He said that Sister Bauer and Sister Haws missed a couple of appointments earlier that day and weren't answering their phone and that they were "missing". I wasn't too worried because I figured their bikes had broken down or their phone died or something but we left to go help the search. A few minutes later, we call the elders back to coordinate our searching and they said, "it's okay, we found them! They were in a box in someone's trunk!" And then the elders' phone died! Haha, I knew they were joking but we were still mad that we didn't know what was going on. Anyway, long story short, this random lady thought she had an appointment with the sisters (she didn't) and they were at someone else's house so they weren't answering their phone during the lesson. So this lady called the bishop and told him they were missing. She also posted it on Facebook and called the cops. Sister Bauer was so stressed out by the time we went to pick them up that she looked like she was just going to cry.

Finally, we were able to go find the sisters and put their bikes on our bike rack and we thought the whole thing was over. Then what happens? Some CRAZY sister who is totally NOT the designated driver and is absolutely NOT me *cough cough* accidentally locked the car keys in the trunk of our car. Now, for months, the little lever in the front of the car that pops the trunk hasn't been working and I forgot about it until last night. So we can only pop the trunk with our keys....that were in the trunk. We tried to lay down the back seats to get into the trunk but apparently the 2013 Toyota Corolla only has a lever for the back seats....in the trunk. So we had to stay out late last night and wait for elders to drive to the mission office and find spare keys and everything. I can't tell you how much hysterical laughter came out of me last night! We've all just been so stressed for weeks and not doing well so all of this extra stuff on top of that seemed hilarious to me. We got home and Sis Bauer seemed mad and upset still so I just followed her into her room and said, "Hey. That was awesome!" And I just started laughing and she did too. We rolled around cracking up for a while and she just kept saying, "we had COPS searching for us all night!"  #PeopleAreRidiculous

"Waiting for our spare key"

Anyway, I know that was long but it was the only thing interesting that happened. I'm doing better personally this week but our companionship has been struggling and my trainee is starting to think that talking back to me with attitude is okay. We are working on that. I'm really understanding how much of an example I have to be now because if I don't do something wholeheartedly or I don't get straight in on my studies on time, no one else here does. It sometimes feels like a lot of pressure to be perfect but I'm getting better at handling it all. I think. I hope. Who knows?

LOVES

"Glendale North District hike. It was 89 degrees today!"

"They told us to look like we had a fun hike."