A monster laughing his head off!!! Bwahahahahaha get it? Oh man, thanks for the Halloween card papa! I love all the riddles! This week was very busy! Sister Yellow and I went on two exchanges and we are exhausted! The first exchange we went on was Tuesday and I was with Sister Reed, she is one of the sisters in Shell's Ward. We walked A LOT on that exchange and my little feetsies felt like they were going to fall off, but Sister Reed is stellar and we had a lot of fun so it was worth it. We also saw a dolphin, up close! We were eating our lunch on a bench near this little channel that comes in from the ocean and the dolphin just came out of nowhere! We also saw a rainbow that day. It was rather magical. :) Sometime on Tuesday Sister Yellow got a call from the ZLs asking if we would give a training in district meeting the next morning. So we met about an hour before the meeting started and planned what to train on. It actually turned out pretty good, but was way stressful trying to plan for a training when we weren't even with each other. Immediately after the district meeting we normally attend, which is 45 minutes south of us, we had to travel about another hour south to attend the second district meeting in our zone. After that meeting we did exchanges with a set of sisters in St. Pete. Sister Packer came back with me. Love love love that sister! She has only been here for about 3 weeks, but she is a rockstar. Basically we have the best zone in the mission! Once Sister Yellow and I exchanged back on Thursday we were so happy because sometimes you just miss your companion and we had gone 48 hrs without seeing each other. One thing that we both learned from exchanges is that first, and foremost, we have to love the people we teach. Some sisters are so worried about taking in every suggestion given on how missionary work should be done that they get lost in all the technicalities. If we just love with all we have and include Heavenly Father in every decision, then everything will work out and we will be so much happier! I accomplished something this week that I think we can all be proud of... I survived without a microwave! Friday around 9 am our power went out. We didn't really think much of it because our water shuts off every so often and it normally comes on after a few hours so we figured it would be the same with our electricity. When we came back around 1 for lunch we still had no power! Turns out something happened with our bill and they shut it off! Everything got sorted out, but our electricity didn't come back on until just after we came home for the night! So we couldn't use the microwave to make any of our frozen food! It was a real tragedy... Then this morning we woke up and again we had NO POWER! We fumbled around in the dark trying to get ready to go exercise and as we walked outside, we realized everyone's power was out for as far as we could see. Every scary movie I have ever watched told me not to step in to the pitch black obis so we worked out inside the apt. Then we heard the helicopters and I had flashbacks to the movie Red Dawn! Luckily North Korea didn't take over and the power came back on around 7:30. We aren't sure what caused the black out, but someone told us it was a car accident. The other really cool thing I accomplished was a new bike trick! I can now stand on my bike seat...in a skirt! When you are on a bike all day every day you learn that these tricks really aren't that hard. Haha (see Dovers, I've come a long way in my bike riding abilities) I may look scared in the picture, but that's just because I wasn't sure how to get back down....so I was scared! Quote of the week/ quote of my mission that I found this week: Obedience is the price, Faith is the power, LOVE is the motive, the spirit is the key, Christ is the reason, and eternal life is the reward. I love you! Sista Upshaw
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