Tortica

September 6, 2010

Hello family.

This is going to be a short one since today is transfer day and we couldn't e-mail yesterday because of the holiday. My companion Elder Rupp is getting transferred and I shall once again be getting a new companion. Which kind of stinks since I just barely got here and barely know this area and it's a lot harder to get to know your area when you're on all bike. My new companion will be Elder Lamoure, I've never met nor even heard of him. I think he's pretty new. We will see how that goes.

It's been raining a lot this last week and seems like it's going to rain a lot more this week so we'll likely not have too much to do. One quick amusing anecdote. My bike has been giving me all sorts of problems lately. On friday the rear breaks locked up and we tried to fix them with no avail and finally on Saturday we found a member who had worked in a bikeshop before and the 3 of us together finally fixed it. Turns out the wire thing was messed all down the inside of the thing tube that runs up the body of the bike to the handle bars. I would never had guessed. So we fixed them and the brakes work now just not as good as they did before however. Then Sunday morning we found to our dismay that our tires had been slashed. We live on the 3rd floor of our apartment complex so we keep our bikes on the 1st floor locked up under and to the stairwell. Well somebody decided to slash up our back tires, just the back ones. So once again we were on foot that day. So yesterday we bought new tires and new intertubes, but fortunately the bike place was having a sale on everything so we got some pretty sweet discounts. Then after that when we were biking in a drizzle my bike slipped out from under me and while I came out of the crash completely unharmed, I didn't even hit the ground, I just jumped off and ran next to it. Some metal sprocket thing that the chain goes through next to wheel got all bent up and once again we were hoofing it the nearest members house, luckily the member is a pretty handy guy and we managed to bend it back in to place more or less. One thing I've come to admire about the hispanic people as that almost all of them are really handy like that. Since many of them can't go to school and get upper-class jobs, most of them work as mechanics, construction workers, and people who do yards. So they can fix just about anything.

Okay I'm out of time. I'm, looking forward to the package whenever it may come and I love you all and hope you have a good week. Peace!

--Elder Rice