Hermana Bolen and I got on the bus to go from Punta Alta (my area) to
Bahia Blanca (where my zone meets), it is about an hour ride. Well, I was
knitting away, but started to get sick, so I stopped and just sat there looking
out the window. I woke up later and looked out the window and realized I
still don´´t know the bus system very well here, but I had just come to
realize a few thing last week. I knew the next stop coming up and I could get
off and go to the mission office, but it was Sunday and it won´t be open and I
didn´t know how to get back on the bus or go to where I needed to go from
there, I thougt that maybe my comp, might think I´ll go there, but I still
wasn´t sure what happened to her, so I decided that I would be better staying
on the bus. After I made that decision I wasnt sure it was the good idea,. but
it was tooo late. I now had two in reality better opinions. Thankfully I could
remember where we usually pick up the bus at this other spot and I figured I
could get off there and try and look for the steeple as I headed in the right
general direction, or I could go back to Punta Alta. I don´t have the keys so I would sit outside the door the whole time if I did
that and I also don´t know where anybody else lives, as in how to get there
exactly, so it would be a whole lot of guess all by myself, for a long period of
time, so of course I decided to head for the originally capilla, there I knew
there would be missionaries from my zone so I´´d at least have companions and
we could figure out what happened to my companion because I didn´t know if
someone took her or what. I went around and around with the bus driver till he
dropped off everybody. Then he parked because he di´dnt have to get started
for another 30 min. He was surprised to still see someone in the bus and
Thankfully he understood my broken spanish enough to understand that I missed my
stop. He asked me where I was supposed to get off and he chuckled
because it was so far away. He told me to sit up front so I could see
everything. As he headed back to where I needed to be his stops were going by
that area, he made a special quick stop and dropped me off at the street I
needed four blocks from the capilla (church).
Five min. later some office Elders come in and I say I´ve lost my companion and
they were so shocked to see me, they called the zone leaders right away and said
Hna. Bussey is here. The search party stopped. Everybody was so shocked at how
completely calm I was and completely unnerved by it. My companion 20 min. later
comes in. She said she had fallen asleep to. She woke up a little before our
stop. Tapped me so that we would get off, and she thought that she woke me up.
She got up and the bus is always crazy coming to a stop, so she got off the bus
turning around to find me as the people begin to separate in their various
directions and then realizes I´m not there and there goes the bus
