Sept 9, 2013

So this past week has been a pretty roller coaster week full of lots of fun stuff as well as some tragedy. everything all really started wednesday. Burns was hit with a big storm and we went to the church to wait it out the day was going pretty slow and no one was home really as this week was fair but fair didn't officaly start until thursday but anyways after the storm blew over we decided to go see our wml bro Johnson about a former investigator that we had contacted earlier in the day and he lives outside of town on the other side of the Indian reservation and as we are going up broadway which is the main street in town we saw that there was an accident and they had the end of the street blocked off and so we had to go around. As we drove passed though it was weird as there was no cars that looked like they had been damaged and the road was clear minus all the cop cars and the barricades. So we finally make it out to Bro Johnsons house and we pull up and he is outside working on one of his sheds and is also on the phone so we get out and are standing there waiting for him to finish on the phone which he finally does and the first thing he says is bad news elders. and he said it so calmly that I'm expecting him to say something like he ran out of nails or something super minor but instead he goes on to explain that Jonathan who is a less active youth we have been working with as well as a great nephew to him and the half brother of our two investigators that we are teaching and who had recently moved in with the family that they were living with and who we were starting to get to know pretty well had been hit by a truck while crossing broadway and that it didn't look like he was going to make it. A wave of shock and disbelief just washed right over me while brother Johnson went on to explain that he had to go to the hospital so he couldn't talk with us right then which we totally understood and asked to follow him and he said ok so we rushed to the hospital here we found out that he was riding his bike most likely home from school wasn't paying attention and rode right in front of a semi truck and that they were going to life flight him to bend but that chances were slim that he was going to make it. After waiting there for a little while totally in shock we followed sister Johnson out as she was leaving talking to her about everything as well as the former investigator we had contacted.while talking I felt something hit my head and get stuck in my hair so I reached up to pull it out and it then stuck to my fingers and saw the black and yellow strips just in time to feel the wasp bite me which wasn't good as I am at least midly alergic to wasps so we went back into the hospital to get some ice to try and stop the swelling talked to bro sanders who is a pt at the hospital then went to the chamber to talk to sister Harrison about what happened and while we are there I get some more ice as now my finger is twice its normal size and then after finding out that she didn't have any medicine we went to the store and bought some benedryll and by then it was time for our dinner appointment with the smiths which live about twenty minutes out of town so by the time we got the the meds had kicked in the swelling had stopped but I was feeling super sleepy in addition to the shock I was in from the accident needless to say I don't remember much about that dinner other than it was rice with Yoshida sauce. After that we went to Jori's house for a lesson but he had obviously forgotten as we walk in and he had a bunch of friends over and they are watching sherk so we go into the kitchen to talk to him and he starts talking about the accident and how it had shook his mom, who was the head nurse at the hospital, pretty bad and so we ask how he was doing and jori looks down and says "he's dead" and even in my drugged state it hit pretty hard we went home and just went straight to bed feeling completely over whelmed the next day things were a little bit better as it was the start of fair and one of the members in the ward had gotten us passes to the fair so we went there and watched all the four h and ffa animals get judged and learned a little bit about what they were looking for it was a totally new experience for me but was fun then we walked around trying to talk to people as everyone in harney county was there they had even canceled school but no one really wanted to talk to us but friday the rodeo started which was soooo cool to watch and there are this things called lion balls which tasted so good and there was so much in addition to the rodeo such as horse racing which was cool to watch they even explained how to bet so Elder Johnson and I pretended to bet which was pretty funny we lost most of the time but anyways since we weren't really having success at the fair we decided to make saturday our p day and just enjoy the fair and then work today so we did and while there we got cowboy hats and all of a sudden people were a lot more willing to talk to us but overall the fair was fun so it was a great way to end a rough week