Oh my goodness mom! You would not BELIEVE the day I've had!
So, my companion and I went walking today. We walk a lot. And, I swear my head was starting to sunburn so I grabbed that wonderful umbrella Grammy bought me and we headed out. I felt silly carrying it outside on a sunny day, people were looking at me weird, but whatever. I'm here for the Lord, not for me, so I don't care what people think. We were on our way to dinner when we see Orville W, my favorite old man in the whole world, across the street. So we crossed to go talk to him. He was at the bus stop with a young man who lives with him. After the kid got on the city bus, we stood there for about an hour at the bus stop just talking. He is really smart as he's a retired lawyer so he reminds me of an older Mr. S.! (A former high school teacher). He talks a lot. Anyways, I just love him. So after a while at the bus stop, he invited us to have lemonade at his house which was down the block a little ways. He lives in a little apartment community full of older people I think.
So we agreed, and walked down to sit on his porch. I think my companion and I were under the impression that he had lemonade already, but while we were sitting on his porch waiting, I could see through his screen door, he was in there squeezing lemons and making the lemonade right then! It was the sweetest thing ever! I can't even explain it, it was so funny! So, he brought out the lemonade and some peanut butter cookies that he had apparently previously made. We sat on his porch and drank lemonade and ate peanut butter cookies for a while and just talked some more. Except, OW does about 89% of the talking most of the time. :) He needs it.
So, my companion mentioned "oh my goodness, this lemonade tasted like a sno cone!" and then she proceeded to ask OW how he made it. He said, "fresh lemons and pina colada!" And then my heart sank and my tummy did a flip because guess what I was instantly remembered?! That guy in the YSA ward who told me not to drink the iced tea here because people like to put moonshine in it! So, I jumped up and said, "Pina Colada??" and then OW said "ya, its just flavoring syrup, its non-alcoholic but it's used to flavor alcoholic drinks." hahahah Just imagine! "Member gets sister missionaries drunk!" That thought popped into my head and and then i didn't know how to explain to my companion or OW why I was laughing so hard.
Then, here is where the story gets interesting . . . . . .
All of a sudden we hear someone's voice. It sounds like they are calling someone. We look behind us and we see this little old lady, barefoot and pants-less, in a power chair, oxygen tubes in her nose, holding her shirt over legs best she can, coming up the walk, yellling "Maxie! Maxie!" It was a little scary at first not going to lie . . . then when she reaches us, she asks if we have seen a little dog, its name is Maxie. We say no, so she starts to speed on down the path . . .. yelling "and my nurse locked me out again!" So seeing that she is pants-less, locked outside and lost her dog, I jump up. Okay, we need to help this lady and get her back inside!!
OW speaks up, "well, I have a screw driver, we can go break in. . .?" So that's what we do! We walk her back to her apartment and try to break her in.
However, right when we made it over to her abode, someone pulled up in a car, who must have been the nurse, because the naked lady in the power chair starts screeching at her and throwing things at her from her porch. Anything she could reach out and grab from where she was sitting was hurled at the poor lady getting out of the car. I swear mom, I felt like I had just found myself right in the middle of a three-ring circus!!! It was humorous, yet a little scary at the same time. My companion, O, and I started backing away from the scene very slowly. . . It was so AWKWARD! Then my companion suggested we pray with the old lady to help her find her dog and get her back in her apartment. But, as soon as the little old lady dropped the F-bomb, my companion got super scared and ran in the opposite direction - back to O's house. I wanted to stay and help, but I guess that it did get to a point where the spirit was going to be nowhere in sight! So, we all went back to Orville's porch to regroup.
Then, about 2 minutes later, down the sidewalk came a more calm, collected half-naked lady in a power chair. She came to apologize and to thank us for trying to help. Mostly for our immediate willingness to help, I guess. Also, she informed us that Maxie had been in the apartment the ENTIRE time!!! Which, I had to hold back bursting out laughing, because that's totally something I would do! Be frantically looking for my dog, when he's actually been inside my house the entire time! So then we offered to pray with her, after introducing ourselves as missionaries and OW even said the prayer! It was just so perfect I loved it, and the lady was so happy that we cared enough to pray for her that she just cried.
Oh how the Spirit can turn a three-ring circus into a serene canoe on a lake of tranquility. Cuz, I knew that how we were feeling after that prayer.
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