Dear anybody and everybody...
The week started off great, we went to the Elko County Fair with a family
of investigators, who had box seats for the horse racing. That was a lot of
fun!!! I really wanted to get cheescake on a stick because where else can you
get a piece of cake on a stick... I'll tell you where, only at the fair!! I
restrained myself and settled for a sno cone instead which was equally as
delicious since it was strawberry and peach flavored!!
The weather on monday was
nuts though, it was pretty stormy and there were flash floods. We were on our
way to dinner from the horse races when it really started to pour and seriously
every street became a river. I got some cool pictures from this awesome week
that I will send next week.
Then on Tuesday, we had
dinner and went out for ice cream with the little boy who we are teaching and
his Dad (who is a less active member). Since we've taught him a lot, we decided
to do like a recap lesson and just review all that he has learned. It is awesome
how much the son is remembering!! For dessert we went to an ice cream shop
called Cool Beans (they do coffee and ice cream). I love it! It has some just
weird and random pictures painted on the walls. It is a chill place and if I
ever come back to Elko, I am going there!
This week was insane. Sister Fellman and I set pretty high standards for
ourselves last week. We were starting to feel like we weren't doing all that we
could to be the best missionaries we know we can be. So we've set a number on
how many lessons we would like to get each week and such.
Yeah, our standards were in the toilet this week... wanna know why? (Hem,
Hem, throat clearing noises) We got lice. You know those bugs that live in your
hair, and just try to lay more and more eggs on top of your head?!?!! They were
living on Sister Fellman and I for like a day!!! We found out this week that one
of our investigators has lice and I don't think they know where it came from and
we were in their home, helping them clean and touching everything!!! The night
we found out was hilarious, as soon as she told us her boyfriend/fiance had
lice, Sister Fellman set the blanket she was folding down and said so quickly,
"It is getting dark so we better head home!" I could tell that she just wanted
to book it out of there. As soon as we walked into our house, we checked each of
our heads for lice, but luckily we didn't find any.
The next day, we weren't so lucky. After we had been out and about all day,
and had stopped by that same investigators house to help her again, we decided
it would be best to lice check our heads again. We found one egg on each of our
heads. It was nasty. So the next day, we got permission from Sister Hermansen to
stay home and clean. We had to clean everything!! Every inch of the Simons'
basement is now sparkling. We vacuumed every inch of carpet, scrubbed the
floors, used clorox wipes to clean EVERYTHING, got lice spray and sprayed a
bunch of things with it, vacuumed and cleaned our car (p.s. since wednesday, we have been traveling
around Elko by car!), and washed every piece of fabric (clothes, sheets,
etc.)
It took us two whole days to do all that! It took two days mostly because
of laundry. We were washing everything on the sanitize setting which took like 2
hours a load. We had so much to wash that we got up every two hours to change
loads. And because we were cleaning and washing everything, we had to stay in
the same disgusting clothes for both days. Since we were so nasty, we didn't
want to sleep in our beds, we put blankets on the treadmills and slept on
those!! It was so stinkin' hilarious. I have a picture of that that I will send
you! After everything was cleaned, we had to wash our hair with lice killing
shampoo. It was a fun couple of days. Pretty much now we are pros on knowing how
to get rid of lice!
Moral of the story though, don't get lice cause it is a pain in the bum
to have to clean everything to kill it so it can't keep showing up in your
hair!!
Don't worry though, we are lice free and are able to leave the house now
other than to go to walmart to get cleaning supplies!! Thank goodness!! Yeah it
was a fun weekend that I hope never to repeat!!
Love you guys!!
Sister Fish
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