Dr. Bean, he is the one I saw Friday and is a member, said
that I actually did have shingles. He was really surprised that the doctor
didn't originally prescribe me medicine and was surprised that the dosage they
gave me was the way it was. So he upped my dosage and said I should be all
better soon. I have definitely been blessed because the shingles really hasn't
hampered me at all besides that one day.
Things are going well over here. It is always hard on Monday
to remember what happened throughout the week. I need to start bringing my
journal or something to give me a reminder. We were on exchanges on Tuesday and
I was serving in the Spanish ward for the day, so that was fun. It was good to
be able to eat some good Mexican food because there is not a lot of that stuff
up here! It is a rare commodity.
On Thursday we had interviews with President. Those are
always good. It has been really cool to watch the way that President is finding
his groove per se. He has a vision for the mission and that vision has started
to filter it's way down to all the missionaries and it has been cool to see the
miracles that are ensuing and the way that the mission is changing in a great
way. From talking with him, it sort of sounded like I will be here for a while.
We have transfer calls Saturday, so we will find out if anything happens. We
don't think anything will.
We also had a really good lesson with Jeff and Audrey. They are both doing really
good! It is amazing how prepared they were to receive the Gospel. Every time we
talk to them we get excited because of how excited they are. It is something
that I want to try and capture and take with me every day because it is pretty
motivating. They are still on track to be baptized and this weekend we are
actually going to go up to the Visitor's Center with them, so we are excited
for that!
The biggest lesson that I learned this week came yesterday.
We were talking to Kyle, one of our friends that we are teaching, at the gas
station that he works at. He is a gas attendant and fills the cars with gas. He
had some really cool questions about the Plan of Salvation, specifically the
adversary and his followers. It was very interesting, because every time we
started to get a good conversation going, another car would pull up to stop it.
We knew that that was the opposition trying to stop him from being able to
learn. Then once we finally had a few minutes free and had a really good
conversation going, one of his supervisors pulled up and told us that we had to
leave and couldn't hang out by the pumps anymore because Kyle had to work. We
have been teaching and talking with Kyle at the pumps for over a month and
nothing had been said until that point. And there were no cars around either so
we weren't keeping him from doing anything! But we know that that was inspired
of the adversary to keep Kyle from learning and growing closer to Christ. That
was probably the most blatant I have seen the adversary work to try and stop
someone from learning on my entire mission. It was really annoying! But
motivating at the same time to realize that the adversary doesn't want anyone
to find happiness, but we have the opportunity to proclaim the truth and help
others find it.
Other than that, things are going well. This week should be
interesting. It is going to fly. We have exchanges tomorrow with the Jan Ree
elders. It'll be fun, I will be on exchange with Elder Christensen for the
first time since Madras so that'll be sweet. Then on Friday we have exchanges
with the Assistants. On Saturday we have the temple trip with Jeff and Audrey
and also have transfer calls. Crazy busy week.
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