Buhrley, Eliza

sorry i left everyone hanging last week! Last pday was loco!  starting off with transfer news drum roll please  I got transferred to Santa Paula and i was absolutely heartbroken about it. I cried a good long while after finding out because i was not ready to leave Simi. No one thought i was being transferred! I was excited for what was waiting for me in Santa Paula but sad for what i was leaving behind  Let me rewind though. We had to drop off hermana bagley and darrington because theyve finished their missions and i didnt realize how sad i would be to say goodbye to bagley. She became the big sister i always wanted and i teared up a bit hugging her! To say ill miss her is an understatement. So I was already so sad to say bye and then thursday morning i opened my transfer email and was double whammied with leaving simi. It was a shock to everyone that i was leaving so i quickly said really hard goodbyes and promised id visit and then i was packing my bags for Santa Paula....

Sorry if youve gotten 50 emails from me in the past 30 minutes but its not working so i dont know if it's actually sending  at night in cali the temp gets down to like low 50s and im FREEZING!! California has turned me into a baby! Back home, thats shorts weather! (Sorry utah,idaho,wyoming friends)  Christmas is in full swing, we set up our mini christmas tree in our house and put up cute decorations (thanks mom!!)  And  all the missionaries in simi valley got together for a service and we got to move christmas trees. 691 christmas trees to be exact! They were all in a giant truck driven from oregon and we unloaded all of them! We were covered with dirt and scratches after. We got to go to Crèche (i think it means manger in french) last weekend! Its a multi faith activity that theyve been doing for 17 years! Its a 3 day event and they have lots of tables with tooooons of nativities from all over the world! And they taught everyone about jewish traditions and churches...

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...