What Happened In June, 2009

Well, June was an interesting month for the Pittsburgh Urban's.

Elder Urban - 6/29/2009 2:04 PM

I am in Richfield now, it is a huge area and I am driving. It takes an hour and a half to get to the furthest town and we may go there this Friday. I missed my chance to help at the pageant. My companion is named Elder Nascimento from Brazil. He is humble and a funny guy. He wants to teach me some Portuguese.

Elder Urban - 6/22/2009 12:48 PM

The place I got my bike is called Urban Downfall and it is in Orem. I received special permission to get it. I was able to receive about 30% off of the bike and the workers there were return missionaries so they knew what they were talking about and what I needed. The place I got repairs from is the Mad Dog bike shop.

I met Elder Welsh! He told me that he was Zone Leader when you [Charles Urban] were Assistant.

Transfers are this Week and I am going to Richmond [Editor's note: Ritchfield]. It is a car area but I will still take my bike with me. I hope this means that I get to go to the Manti Pageant. [Editor's note: June 18-20, 23-27] I'll send details later.

Elder Urban - 6/15/2009 12:51 PM

I will get a bike today so look out for that. Thank you so much! I will tell you how awesome it is compared to the one I have now when I ride it around.

I am starting to become really busy so tell everyone to not worry about the decrease in letters. I'll try to get one out soon.

It's wonderful that you got to go to the temple! I did also! we went last Wednesday. I love the temple.

Thanks again for the bike. I promise to bring it home after the mission.

Elder Urban -6/8/200912:39 PM

That's awesome that Sam got to go on a bike ride. Make sure to tell him that I ride about that much each day and that at first it was painful and I was slow but now it's fun and I'm actually really fast now. It took a month of riding though.

Social Studies and Biking

Samuel Urban had two major accomplishments this week. One was in social studies and the other in biking. First I will reveal his accomplishment in social studies. His 7th grade class has three teams, the Knights, the Titans and the Spartans. Sam’s team is the Spartans. Sam’s social studies teacher had a competition this week among the three teams to demonstrate what they had learned this year. It covered three days this past week. The questions covered from the beginning of recorded history to the renaissance. For example, one of the questions Sam got right was, “What is the belief in Hinduism where when someone born, dies and comes back alive in a new form?” Another question was on geography; another, Italian renaissance history. Anyway, his team won.

His other accomplishment was completing a 50-mile bike ride. In the morning, the weather was foggy. In the afternoon, it was hot and sunny. Sam had a sun burn. During the ride, he says he was the slowest. He also remembers passing two stands that were serving free hot dogs. He wanted to stop but his counselor said, "Go on!" he passed one of the stands three times. Also, at the 36-mile mark, the chain came off of his friend’s bike. They tried to fix it, but afer about 15-minutes, they decided that his friend would take the counselor’s, the friend’s mom, bike. He needed 6 hours to complete the task. He did an accounting of what he needs to complete his biking merit badge. He needs one more 10-mile run to complete all the requirements.

Middleman Quotes

In his letter to us, Elder Urban asked that we send him quotes from the Middleman when he doesn't curse. I thought he meant a quote