Hey everybody. Glad to hear that things are going good at home. We had a pretty good, and a little bit crasy week here in the office. Yesterday being the climax. Today... pretty tranquilo-ish.
The week started off pretty normal. We did our work. Made our visits. President left on Tuesday and so most of the week we were on our own in the office. Next week is change week, and thats always fun. We´ll be running around like crasy. Strangely enough though, we were able to get all of our preparations done ahead of time. That left us with a couple days with very little to do in the office. Thats no fun. It was weird because usually we complain about how busy we are, but I think having nothing to do is even worse.. lol. But we survived. All ready for the week that is coming.
Had some really good visits this week. We had a Family Home Evening with a family that has an inactive mother, 2 kids that are active but go to a different ward with their grandparents, and a non member dad. The idea was to get them pumped to be an eternal family. It started off kind of rough, as the mom was out at work and the dad was busy, nobody knew how to make the popcorn right, and the kids had their goofy teenage friends over. So that was weird. But then the mom got home, we got everything under control, and were able to watch ¨Together Forever¨. Sickest movie ever. The 80s clothes and talk on eternal marriage got the teenagers giggling now and again, but once the movie was finished, you could really see how the message affected everybody. Got them all thinking about what is most important in their lives and what they care about most. Even the dad, who usually seems kind of cold and uninterested told us what he thought and liked about the movie. Hopefully we can help them to make the right decisions, get married, get baptized, that kind of thing. We´ll see how it goes.
We also appear to actually have someone that is really excited to go to church this Sunday. That´ll be fun. We always have a really hard time getting people excited to come to church in this area. I think we´ve only had about 1 person come to church in the last 15 weeks. Depressing. If people don´t come to church, they can´t progress. Well. Looks like she´ll come. Its going to be legit. Hopefully the members are nice and we can help her feel the spirit while she´s here.
One last lesson that stuck out was with Gabriela. Shes been having a hard time lately. Not due to a lack of faith or anything like that, but just because she can´t do what she knows is right, and thats frustrating. She still knows that the church is true. She´ll be a fantastic member once she´s able to get baptized. Right now, her parents are still being difficult and not letting her progress. Oh well... we do everything that we can do and then wait patiently. Anyways, this week we kind of let her choose what she would learn about. We talked roughly about the commandments and then let her pick what she wanted to hear about. I think that worked really well. She asked about the Word of Wisdom. Thankfully she doesn´t have any big problems with that. She did say that she drinks a bunch of coffee though. The cool thing though, was that as we explained it to her, she already seemed to know it was true. She knew that she needed to give it up, and she committed herself to give up drinking coffee from now on. Super cool.
Wednesday or Thursday we had a fun experience in the office. We got a phonecall in the mid afternoon. Turns out that an Elder was at the hospital, one signature away from getting his appendix removed. The Hermana wasn´t answering her phone and so they called us. That lead to an exciting multi directional conversation as we called all of the necessary people and made a game plan. Unfortunately I didn´t get to participate in the rescue crew, but it was still fun because everybody got kind of goofy with the panic. Fortunately, they were able to get tests done, and then with approval of the mission doctor, he got surgery soon after his appendix actually burst. Thankfully it wasn´t anything toooo serious in the end. He´s doing good, though his sickness REALLY threw a wrench into all of the plans that we had for the weekend.
Anyways. Long story short. I ran around ALL day yesterday in the van. I honestly didnt stop driving basically all day long. As of right now there are only 2 people in the office that can drive (should change this week). But we had to put one of us in the hospital to babysit the sick-y. Then I had to drive for Christmas parties, to the bank, to lunch, to some random area 45 minutes away to drop off a matress, to drop the old missionaries at a testimony meeting, take them to the temple, take them back home. Disaster. I basically drove all day. Ridiculous. Thankfully we were able to do it all without a single scratch. A couple close ones but... lol. Turned out all right. The fun part was that by being the driver, I also got to go to the temple, and also to fancy dinner for the people that are finishing their missions. A good benefit for being the chauffeur. haha.
Also got to chauffeur a bit today too. And so I thought I´d have a lot more time to write than I now have. Sorry about that. Its been crasy. Today I had to drive the district presidents around, make hospital people trades etc. Crasy. Oh well. Anyways, so I guess I have to finish it here. Lame.
Anyways. There wasn´t really much else exciting. Today we brought some little presents that we are going to try and give away. Good thing that Elder Thomson is so on top of things. haha. Glad to hear that Marissa gets the suffering that I got from learning on the standard. Shoveling sounds more fun now that I can´t do it. lol. I liked the letter and the pics. And how little I showed up in them. hahaha JKs.
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