Hola!!!
Well this week has been very interesting. Needless to say it has been very long and boring. soo...... after emailing and shopping we were on the way home with groceries. My companion Elder Tramel, does not have a big backpack so he puts a lot of the stuff on his handlebars. and it’s about a 2-3 mile ride home. We were going along Crenshaw rd. and next to Hawthorne airport its gets very backed up with traffic. No big deal right we ride through traffic all the time. Anyways. My companion was behind me and I did not see any of this.... here comes the scary part. In LA there is no such thing as a bike lane, the bike lane is the 3rd right lane. and when there's traffic it’s always filled with cars. but most leave us enough room to ride and pass by. But there was an 18 wheeler, and he did not leave enough room. my companion had to get right in the gutter and slow down a ton, but there was a little water and his tire washed out from under him and he flipped and almost got ran over.... somehow he got pushed out from under the truck and ended up on the curb, trying to get out of the street, 3 guys saw the whole thing and came an picked him up and grabbed his bike and stuff and pulled it to the side. Elder Tramel was limping and was in a lot of pain. We pulled his shoe off, and it was immediately swelling and he said he could not feel his foot. Not good at all. We quickly called some other elders to come and pick us up. Then we contacted the mission nurse and sis Weidman, finally we got directed to an urgent care and got it creaked out. Nothing was broken but he got a shot and the pain went away. We went back home and was in contact with President and The nurse all day. So it was just a long day. But it turned into a long week, we just stayed inside for 4 days doing nothing. We got a car on Thursday so we could leave and visit a couple of people. Other than that we are mandated to stay inside unless we have a set appt. for a lot of crazy things have happened this week. President was thinking about sending him home, but then he said he would wait out the transfer and see how he was doing and then make a decision. But other than that, I haven't been up too much. But because my district leader is nice, he let me take a break from being inside and we split again and I went up to my old area and that was a very de-stressing. Got to visit, the Amaya’s, and the Martinez clan. It was fun and just a great day. But o well I hope he gets better quick.
So not much updates on the area, since we haven’t met with
anyone in about a week. It’s just been slow and I feel like I’m about to go
nuts. You can only listen to the same music all day for so long. We did borrow
settlers of catan from another elder so we could play that when we are bored. I
finished the last 1/4 of the book of Mormon, am halfway through D&C and
hopefully will finish that this week, then on to the Old Testament. But I’ve
been writing a few letters to friend’s n such, but yeah. Lots of personal study
and I've slept alot in the last week, I think too much, because I could not
sleep at all last night. I think I’m going to do a 2000 push up challenge. 2000
in 6 days. and yeah, and read alot. Anyways. Thanks for all your support! I
love getting letters from you. and keep sending me letters, it’s definitely
great to read about home. I still get homesick sometimes, but it’s never too
bad, I actually enjoy reading about home and it doesn’t get me down like it did
before. I wish we had computer access so I could watch conference. and videos,
but no, we only have the district dvds and the testaments.
Love
Elder Hollingshead
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