To begin, I have to introduce you to the Crouse Family. They are the craziest, funnest, most bizarre, genuine family I know. I love err'y one of 'em. Kelly, the mom, converted when she was 17 and then fell away. 16 years in the future, Kaitlyn, the oldest daughter (16 yrs old) gets invited to church by a friend. Long story short, all 5 kids that are of age get baptized. Jarett, Kelly's fiance is taking the lessons and is getting baptized after their wedding on June 21st. Yes, that means I get to go to a wedding on my mission!!!! Holla! Not only that, but we've got to do service making crafts for the big day. Best service ever. We are teaching Katie's friend Alexis, so we spend a lot of time with the Crouses.
Yesterday, we are doing service with Kelly, Matthew(13), and Avery(12). Kelly's friend Brandy moved to a new house where she can't keep the her pool so she tells Kelly if she can pick it up, she can have it.
We get to the house and see that it's one of those inflatable 6 foot by 6 foot pools. It's deflated and is full of dead leaves and nasty water. No one else really wanted to touch it, so I volunteered to roll it up. A few seconds into rolling it, my companion screams "There's a snake!" Matthew is gone before the rest of us start screaming. Fearing for my life, I jump back. Naturally, there was a snake twice the size of the other one behind me, and I stepped right back onto it, while wearing sandals. We all panic, and I throw a brick at the smaller snake. Both snakes slither back into the pool.
Our screams were loud enough that every neighborhood kid within three blocks came running over and the next door neighbor came out onto her porch.
This is the point where Mary Mitchell would've gone home and taken a shower. But, Sister Mitchell decided that they could still get the pool out if they lifted each fold carefully enough, found the snakes, and killed them. My companion was already looking for a shovel.
The three of us looked for sharp weapons that we could take the snakes heads off with. We even asked the kids and neighbors watching the show if they had anything. We ended up being armed with a brick, a blunt metal pole, and a pogo stick.
For 45 MINUTES we chased them. Every time we found the snake we would stab it with our sad sticks and they would slither into another freaking fold of the pool. Finally we found the 2 foot long baby snake. We trapped it and Sister Garner went at it with the metal pole. It wasn't sharp enough to cut the head off, but it gave Kelly an opportunity to smash it's brain with a brick. The entire time this is happening the neighborhood kids are chanting "KILL IT, STAB IT, SMASH IT." I felt a little bit like Steve Erwin.
We flick the baby snake out of the pool, and put a brick on top of it. A while later we find the 3 foot snake. Sister Garner was tried to stab it, but it was so big it wasn't getting anywhere. The snake needed to be held down so Kelly starts smashing it with the the pogo stick, but the snake JUMPS at her and wraps itself around the pogo stick. She spazzes out, I throw a brick at the snake and Sis Garner finally kills it. The pogo had blood all over the foot pedals.
We get the second snake out of the pool and Avery runs up screaming with a brick and chucks it at the dead snake.
I kid you not, the snake popped. It's skin splits and it's guts spill out. along with a BABY SNAKE FETUS. Kelly starts retching and throws up. I have never been so traumatized.
The neighborhood kids start chanting "PICK IT UP AND SHOW US." So we walk over and meet them all. They love us. They even asked to sign my shirt. That is what you call a creative finding activity.
From this all we found 5 new investigators, What up!
We didn't get back to the apartment until 9:45 at which point curfew was broken and we hadn't eaten dinner. So we ordered a pizza and took showers.
We are #fearless and #bold.
Feel free to be impressed.
Love you all
Sis M.
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