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| Editor's Note: Why would you eat this if you were sick? |
May 20, 2015
Today was good despite the fact that we started out lazy
with me still feeling the after effects of yesterday’s illness, namely my
stomach was more tangled than Disney.
The most eventful part of the day was going to a fast food joint and
ordering a half meter hot dog. Though it
was delicious, it definitely was not a wise choice for an upset stomach.
Miracle #239: The whole V. family participated in our
lesson, even the disinterested son.
The funny part of the day was when we walked into the V.
home and the father had the tv on. A
fighting movie was on and I was struggling not to watch it, but like any good
missionary, I asked the hermano if he could turn off the tv, to which he
replied, “No!” Soooo what could we do,
we waited for 10 minutes for the movie to end and for he wife to get home.
May 21, 2015
Today we barely worked in missionary work because 90% of the
day went into preparing for the ward activity/dessert competition. We cleaned the church, had a great lunch,
planned for our week, visited 1 person, and went to finish work on the
activity. This was the first ward
activity in over 6 months and it was awesome!
We had so many people (around 60 – which is close to our Sunday
attendance) come and enjoy themselves.
We had 13 people bring desserts!
Miracle #240: Despite the fact that the judges (our
mission president) were against us, we got 5th place. We had the best tasting dessert – but it was
so ugly that we only got 5th.
The
funniest part of today was in the morning when I got up. My stomach cramps
returned and lets just sum it up by saying I experienced a missionary right of
passage In the CCM they tell you that to be a real missionary, you have to:
1.
be bit by a dog
2.
get food
poisoning
3.
get a kiss (on
the cheek I assume)
4.
have a girl chase
after you
5.
poop your pants.
I am only missing #4 now.
May 22, 2015
Well it was another day of diarrhea. Like a LOT.
I spent at least 3 hours in the bathroom today, but at least I got all
of my reading done! War chapters of the
Book of Mormon go well with gastroenteritis.
Miracle #241: Despite explosively destroying
bathrooms, we still worked hard and got 3 lessons taught and 2 divisions done.
We found an amazing family today that I have super high hopes for.
The funny part of the day just has to do mostly with the
inadvertent noises of the day. Ughhh, it
was a long day and I suppose it will also be a long night.
May 23, 2015
Today was GREAT! This
morning I woke up with another horrible stomach ache, so I couldn’t do any
exercise, but the pain wore off by the time we had to leave for work. The best part of the day was doing divisions
in our sector. The most fun part was
that everyone who took part switched comps for the 2 ½ hours of the
activity. I got someone from Paraguay
and we were on a role! We met tons of
future investigators and 3 appointments from the activity. I am so excited again!
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| My astonishment at seeing my camera! |
Miracle #242: After 2 weeks without my camera, I
finally got it back! The zone leaders
finally found it under one of their beds!!
May 24, 2015
Today was good but not stellar. Church was alright and a fair number of
people came. We planned a mutual
activity this Friday where I am going to teach first aid. The reception from the young men was less
than encouraging. They complained about
the activity not being fun enough. I
explained that we should be learning something AND enjoying ourselves in
mutual. I suppose that I will have to be ready to make first aid really fun
somehow. I have a few ideas.
Miracle #243: As we prepared for a lesson, we found a
scripture that we both felt would perfectly meet the needs of the people we
planned to teach. Then the appointment
fell through. As it turned out, someone
else asked us a question that was perfectly answered by that same scripture.
The funny part of the day was when we were given a candle
used for black magic rituals…creepy, but it is just a regular candle.
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| our sweet white board set up |
May 25, 2015
Today was a full day of work. It was pretty decent to boot. We had a lesson with J., a man that we found
contacting a couple of weeks ago. He
accepted the baptismal invitation if he gets his answer from God that the
gospel is true. I know that if he reads
and makes a sincere effort to ask in prayer, he will get his answer. I have learned one thing for certain on my
mission, that is that if people do their part, the Lord always follows through
with his part. I really love this
investigator and I can see so much potential in him for his future.
The rest of the day we contacted lots of people and had an
overall good time even thought the people were generally not receptive to our
message. I am very well adjusted to
rejection.
Miracle #244: We were able to work for a full day for
the first time in over a week.
It’s really been hard to be sick all week long, but now I am
feeling better. The funny part of the day was just messing around with a bunch
of park exercise equipment, kind-of like my Eagle Scout project. Elder White and I went on a circuit in the
middle of the day in proselyting clothes.
It was a rather fun break.
May 26, 2015
We had a good day today.
We accidentally slept in for an extra half hour because our phone alarms
didn’t go off. It actually was the right
time to get up, but we like to get up early so that we can fit more exercise
in. I really didn’t realize how much I treasure that extra time until
today. I love the studies in peace and
quiet in the morning and the extra exercise time a little later. Anyway, after the morning stuff, we went to
district meeting where we talked about our president’s weekly newsletter
message about memorizing scriptures. I
was super grateful that I had a prompting about 6 months ago to work on memorizing
scriptures in Spanish. I now have over
25 scriptures one and I am still working hard.
I have found it very interesting that a lot of times, I will be thinking
about a principle of missionary work several weeks before a message from the
president comes out that teaches the same thing that I have had on my mind.
Miracle #245: Missionary correlation meeting got
cancelled today! That meeting is usually a weekly personal battle to keep my
head down and my mouth shut.
I am kind of starting to worry about this next transfer
cycle. Elder White thinks that I will be
given some sort of responsibility, but I am feeling like I really enjoy the
work right now and don’t want to change a thing. Oh, well, it is not worth worrying
about cause I have no control over it.
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| Our missionary attempt at sushi (not bad). |
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