We had a longer week this week because of
Labor Day,(preparation day was moved to Tuesday due to the holiday) which
makes the weeks feel a little weird. Our preparation day was moved so that we
would be able to talk to more families during the holiday weekend.
Other than that the week was pretty normal.
The family history centers were closed this week so we were not able to do very
much family history work during the hours of 1-4 instead we went to the mission
office and help out there for some of that time and we also cleaned a lot. Our
basement is probably the cleanest it has ever!
We had a lot of meetings this week. which
took up a lot of time - but they are fun to go to. This week we had Zone
Council and District Council and both of them focused on having number goals to
make the missionaries more accountable to their leaders for the work that they
are doing in their areas. I really like this because I think it will make me
more motivated to work the hardest I can.
We also had exchanges this week, which was
really nice because I was with a missionary that could work for the full day.
We had a ton of success working the full day as well. We had quite a few people
who said that they would like us to come back and share a message with them and
their families and we found one guy that wants us to help him with family
history work - it is cool to see that people are interested in the things that
we are learning. We had another fireside this week and we had a nonmember show
up so that was nice. We talked about the Book of Mormon and the Bible and
compared them and shared how they help support each other.
In other news: This week I also made a tie,
which turned out pretty well!
That was about all that happened during the
week. Other than the little fact that he has been dealing with a medical issue. He just told us that a few weeks ago he had a ruptured cyst that he went to the Urgent Care for and was put on a course of antibiotics. He said, "I must have forgotten to mention that ...". Yes, he did! It has not improved and after a second Urgent Care visit he was told it is a Pilonidol Cyst that must be surgically removed in order to heal. Afer consulting with the Mission President and other powers that be ... it has been decided that he will be come home for surgery + recovery - 4 weeks or so - and then go back out to serve.
Spiritual thought:
33 And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then
cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed.
I like this scripture because
it it pretty plain in saying that we need to be continually
repenting because we are not perfect. We are always making
mistakes but through the atonement we can be forgiven of those mistakes and we
don't have to worry about carrying around those sins anymore.
- Elder Sugden
I also got a letter from him thanking me for the packages of cookies, ties and notes. Before he left he said he didn't need packages, that he would make his own cookies! I can't help myself, so I still sent stuff ... but he's come a long way in 3 months :) He added that he thought I'd like to know that, "The other Elders in my zone are jealous because of how awesome my mom is and how she sends me a lot of packages."
