This week was such a great week, but I decided that I should start this letter with something that wasn't so great. Once Upon a Time on a quiet Thursday evening Sister Nowell and Sister Harrison were invited to go to dinner at a Members house, and let me give a disclaimer, we didn't know this family at all. And we will probably never be going there again. We sat down at the dinner table and we were having Shredded Beef Tacos, which you know, is delicious! But I am pretty sure that I am a vegetarian now so that is a thing. We started to get to know the family and the dinner was going very well, when suddenly Sister Nowell began to choke on some of the meat. But she thought she could just swallow some water and be okay, nope. The meat was lodged in her throat and the water all came back up and landed on her plate in front of her. Sister Nowell then asked to go to the restroom to freshen up and she was gone for 5-10 minutes when I decided that I should get up and go to see if she is okay. When I got there she told me the situation and said that the meat was stuck in her throat, I knew I couldn't do the Heimlich because she was talking and breathing so we decided to call the Mission Nurse and asked her what to do. Basically every couple of minutes Sister Nowell was throwing up her own spit because it would get to the meat and come back up, she was basically a muggle Ronald Weasley throwing up slugs, but the slugs were her own slime spit. So the mission nurse said to go to the ER. Once we got to the ER they took us to the back and we were literally there for an hour and a half and they did nothing for us. I sat in the chair next to Sister Nowell and watched her vitals go really low and then all of a sudden they sky rocked and I started freaking out and I was going to call someone for help because she suddenly began having a harder time breathing when suddenly.... She DISLODGED the meat by throwing up! It was a really good thing, and the ER people didn't do ANYTHING. But it was actually nasty and I then wanted to vomit. It was so gross and ever since Sister Nowell hasn't really been feeling well. But we are just glad that nothing is stuck anymore, but it was probably the grossest thing to ever happen. We might be a vegetarians for awhile.
This
week a weird thing happened to me- Sister Nowell had been craving
raisins, weird I know, but she decided that she was going to buy a big
thing of them. Well she was eating them one day and offered me some. I
HATE raisins. But she told me to try one anyway. Now all of a sudden I
love raisins, so the world must be coming to an end. As I am typing this
Elder Deppe (One of my Zone Leaders) said that the world will really
come to an end when Costco raises their prices of a Hot Dog and a drink
from a $1.50, so I guess thats really when the world will end and Jesus
will come, we will see!
I was able to use my
CNA skills this week. We met with this lady and her sister. Her sister
had just changed her insulin type and was not feeling good at all, she
literally looked real bad. But she asked if either of use knew how to
take blood pressure, so I took her blood pressure and she was able to
know if she had to take something to get her to feel better, I love that
I was able to help them with my skills that I have learned over the
years, all that CNA work was put to good use!
One
thing that I have noticed this last week which is quickly becoming one
of my pet peeves is when people call us Mormons. Thats just what
everyone knows us by.... but suddenly it is becoming my pet peeve. We
are missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
it just clarifies a lot because I feel like a lot of people get confused
about what we believe because our name, I don't know, it is just
becoming one of my pet peeves and I am trying to correct people, lol. I
also began to count during sacrament meeting how many people called us
Mormons, so that was kind of a fun game to do.
One
thought that really came to my mind this week is, "You can't change a
person, but Christ can change their hearts." And I thought this was
really important to think about in missionary work and about in our day
to day lives. With conversion the investigator has to turn to Christ to
be able to know more about the gospel. They have to open their heart and
with Christ that is possible. I think there have been times in my life
that I have felt that I could change a person and force them to do
anything, but as a missionary I have learned that nothing is possible
without Christ, and I can't so anything on my own, and the person has to
decide for themselves that they want to do that. I love that the
Atonement can help with all of this. The Atonement is essential to
everything in our lives and it is infinite, I don't know where I would
be without the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
In
personal study I have had the opportunity to read the conference talks
from the April General Conference and it has been so awesome that I have
been able to do this, and I have learned so much from this experience,
and I invite you to read these talks! These general authorities have
been called for us in these days and there is something in almost every
talk that I have read that I have needed in my life.
One
of the talks that I read this last week is called, "The Healing
Ointment of Foregiveness" by Elder Kevin R. Duncan. One quote really
spoke to me and it says, Forgiveness is the very reason God sent His
Son, so let us rejoice in His offering to heal us all. The Savior’s
Atonement is not just for those who need to repent; it is also for those
who need to forgive. If you are having trouble forgiving another person
or even yourself, ask God to help you. Forgiveness is a glorious,
healing principle. We do not need to be a victim twice. We can forgive.
I loved this quote. It is so true to remember that the Atonement covers so many different things in our lives.
Last
night we were able to have a lesson with a guy who I think I talked
about last week, but this time we were able to bring a member with us.
It was a good lesson and we were able to talk to him about the
restoration! And the member that we brought is seriously amazing, his
name is Ottis and he just all of the time talks with the spirit. But the
problem is that Ottis tells someone that they are wrong and tries to
correct them. Sister Nowell and I decided that he needs to read Preach
My Gospel to be able to learn more about how to teach the gospel to
people who are just learning. But something new came up that Sister
Nowell had never heard of before. This man that we were talking to said
that he believed that he already had the priesthood and that the
priesthood and the spirit were the same thing. So we are praying about a
way that we can more explain that to this man but we are excited to
continue teaching him.
We were able to talk to
someone who we are having a lesson with this Saturday, she is awesome
and Sister Nowell and I can totally see her getting baptized. She told
us when we were talking to her that she has already been baptized but
she feels like it was not from the right source which was something that
really surprised us and I just wanted to tell her everything about the
gospel at that point, but we decided to teach her on Saturday and give
her a church tour which we are really excited about.
We
tried to meet with some less actives this week one of which we found one
of them got baptized in another church... so we are having dinner with
her later this week so that will be interesting...
Sister Harrison
The Sisters took a picture and somehow Elder Mafi got in on it so that was funny.
This picture was from our Saturday Service project with our ward. We
shoveled a lot of mulch for the Roseburg Visitors center and oh my
goodness my shoulders hurt so bad the next day!
But we got yummy
doughnuts out of it so it was SO worth it.
We had a Zone Training Meeting this week and took pictures, please ignore my ugly hair,
I was a hot mess this day.
here we are and look I even did my hair!
Us in the ER and I told Sister Nowell that we had to take a selfie,
don't worry we are already laughing about the experience.
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