Buhrley, Eliza

i just sent an email like 4 days ago so not much has changed since then but i guess ill fill ya in on the small things. This might be my most boring one yet,  sorry bout that!  Friday we go about our normal routine and start to walk our bikes downstairs and my tire was super flat. Someone HAS to be playing a prank of us. Pumped it up thinking all is well and as we're about to leave we noticed a goat head in the tire. it wasnt losing air that bad though and we were way too prideful to call the elders for the 700th time so we just brought the tiny handheld bike pump and before we left somewhere we just added a little more air. Missionary fix! Went on exchanges with hermana darrington! So i got to be in a car for the day, it felt weird to be away from my mission mom (hna bagley) but we had tons of fun! Hermano Pacheco was out of town on sunday and he normally does the translation for the branch because we have a couple english speakers, or sometimes someone will give a ...

¡feliz día de acción de gracias! Im so thankful for all of you in my life!!!  I know everyone was just suuuuuper concerened and sad i didnt send an email yesterday but dont even worry about it its only because my pday is today this week. And next week itll be on monday. (Dont ask me why i dont make the rules) ok bike saga update because IT NEVER ENDS. so back to where we left off, bagleys bike tire had gone flat a total of 4 times in 7 days. Elder Tate finally just bought a new bike tire (dont worry we bought him lots of food to compensate and save his sanity) and it was finally fixed! Next day we're on cloud 9! Nothing can stop us now! The world is our oyster! New tire who dis! We're leaving the apartment and make it less than a mile down the street when the elders honk as theyre passing us in their car. We wave, we go up the sidewalk and BOTH MY TIRES POP!!!! I dont even know how. So the Elders had to turn around and save us yet again. And now i have a bike that has one compl...

yesterday i hit 100 days in the mission! Crazy. Heres a long and pointless but semi funny story for ya. If you dont wanna read it, i understand, skip to the "Marcos continues to be amazing!" paragraph  Thursday was an interesting day. In the afternoon we rode our bikes to a little cafe down the street to do some of our studies, and after we were gonna swing by the apartment again to grab sweaters in case it got colder. Well as we're riding back i realize my bike pedal is broken and like almost falling off. And we didnt really have anything on hand to fix it. So we lean the bikes against a tree downstairs and run up to find some packing tape to try, come back down and fix the pedal by wrapping a loooot of tape around it. Well we're feeling pretty accomplished, and we havent lost that much time, we're ready to rock and roll.  Bagley grabs her bike, and the tire is COMPLETELY FLAT! Like there was nooo air in that badboy. It had been completely full not 2 minutes befo...

Our branch mission leader says this ^ after every missionary meeting, hes so weird i love hermano pacheco  The past few days hermana bagley and i have spent every night basically scrubbing our apartment from top to bottom, cause Elder Hill ALWAYS wins the cleanest apartment award no matter how hard we try! (I think its rigged but) im determined to win this transfer. Ill keep yall updated on if we win, but i honesty dont know how much faith i can have in us, Elder Hill is cracked and cleans like a woman Daylight savings was a blessing for one reason only, that extra hour to sleep. But that means it gets darker sooner and we cant ride our bikes once its dark. It used to get dark at like 6:30, now it gets dark at like 5. And 4-9 is prime find time!  Also for those of you who dont know, my mom got me a chia pet for my birthday and he was our apartment child we took such good care of him. Well (we honestly dont know how cause it wasnt windy at all) but he took a 2 story dive off ou...

you guys were getting too comfortable with me sending emails on Wednesday i had to switch it up on ya. Keep you on your toes! Just kidding preparation day is thursday this week cause transfers! Also sorry I started making an email and accidentally sent it before I actually wrote it.... Also if you want more behind the scenes fotos click the link https://photos.app.goo.gl/ hKNu1A1Y4JpSYmu48 happy día de los muertos! It's so cool to see and hear about everyone's traditions here This week was bomb! Marcos was baptized! There was a few mishaps but it was so good and he is so happy and full of joy! And we put our friend Brian on date  Celebrated my birthday! 20 years old, ill probably have a crisis over it later  My birthday was SO fun! I felt so special and so loved! Thank you everyone for all the birthday wishes! It meant to world to me! We decorated the apartment, biked a lot, carved pumpkins, had cupcakes, got to talk to my fam, taught the good word, ya know just the best ...