Oh man the most embarrassing moment
of my life happened this week. . .
. :( hahaha
First of all, it was a huge
surprise! On pday I got the birthday package! Thanks so much mom!!! I
LOVE the dress!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!!! And since I was in charge of
that pday so everyone was at south shields- since I got so much candy I shared
it with the zone and now you are everyone's favourite! :) so thank you so
much!!!! <3
So Wednesday night we went down to
Leeds and slept over with the sisters for mission leadership council. So council was really good and everything was
great then Sister Peck and I took the car to Billingham to go on exchange. Well
we were so excited- freedom!! No more 2 hour bus rides each way, life was
good! The zone leaders told us 2 things- first fill the car up and
second- the breaks are really dodgy.
So it was a great exchange- I got to
go with Sister Seely so that is always great seeing her!! We leave to go
back to Durham to pick up the zone leaders, then they were going to come back
with us and watch us nightly plan. Well we drove from Billingham to
Durham- we stopped at McDonalds to get something to eat. .
. . .
So Sister Peck is outside the car to
back me up- well I put the key in, and the car wouldn't start.
. . . so I tried it again. Oh no! Well we called the
zone leaders and held the phone up to the car so they could hear the
sound. They gave us some tips- but we went and asked this guy in the car
park. This guy was so nice but he couldn't figure anything out either.
After a while I was on the phone with Elder Burrio and he said ''sister monroe
did you put diesel fuel in?'' ''no! of course not'' ''are you sure?!''
''well the pump was broken that we went to but I am positive that we put
unleaded in! Let me check the receipt. . . yep! £40
unleaded!'' ''SISTER MONROE YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO PUT DIESEL FUEL
IN!!'' oh man!!!! no one told us that we were supposed to put diesel fuel
in the car!! We were just two americans who know that you NEVER put diesel fuel
in a car!! Well I guess that is different over here in England- yep would have
been nice to know ;)
Well long story short- this really
nice guy came and pumped out the wrong fuel and put the right fuel in.
Oh man we still feel so dumb and so
so so bad!!!!!
To make things worse- in MLC when we
were giving our reports the ZLs told everyone we were borrowing their car- well
Elder Burrio had a little accident last week and banged up the side of the car.
So president turned to us and said Sisters make sure to take good inventory of
the car! Everyone laughed and I said we will for sure president! Then he teased
Elder Burrio like 4 more times in the meeting. Dang it! That is going to
be us next time :(
Oh man!! So embarrassing!!!!!
But we learned a lot!!!
So the next day we were at a less
actives house. Well she was having a bad day so we told her this story-
we had them laughing the whole time! Then we compared it to the Atonement-- we
made a really dumb mistake, there were a lot of nice people to help us in that
car park, but only that man could come and clean out our tank- same is true
with our Saviour. He is the only one that can forgive us and help us get
back on the road. We also talked about how even though this was a really
dumb mistake God still sent people to help us. Everyone we talk to said it was
a miracle we made it so far! and it was because we drove for a while and we
just happened to be in a really really nice car park (which was good it was
well after 9 pm!) also that guy that came and helped us was SO nice! he was so
curious of why we would come on missions- so we got to share the gospel a little
bit-- also God sent us Elder and Sister Marsh the senior couple in Newcastle-
they were SO SO SO nice to us!!! We ended up driving the car to the ZLs and
picking them up but then we met the Marsh's in gateshead and they drove us home
since it was late.
We were really blessed, even though
we made such a dumb mistake!
The good news is that less active
family loved it, they said they would call the zone leaders and tell them it
was their fault not ours ;) hahaha but I told them that I had already called and
apologized to the ZLs- but they also said that everytime they fill up they will
always think of the Atonement :)
oh my heck even though I am laughing
about it now- I am still so embarrassed!!! And tomorrow we have
interviews with President. . . . oh man! but I am
taking the car again tomorrow so I guess the zone leaders don't hate us too
much!!!!
Other than that we had a really
really good week! Meeting, packages, exchange in Billingham, and lots of
finding :) I just LOVE it here in South Shields!!!!!!!! :) Sis Peck and I are
having a good time!!
Well love you loads!
<3 Sister Monroe
