This last week went by a lot faster than the week before, and it was good except for the part where we have only slept ten hours the last two nights. The first of the two nights we could not fall asleep. We were in bed at 1030 like we're supposed to be but laid there until after 1:00 in the morning because we couldn't sleep. I checked the clock like every five minutes so it's the real time we went to bed. And then on Sunday when I woke up my back hurt. Whenever I moved a lot it hurt and then throughout the day it got worse and worse to the point where if I sniffed or coughed or sneezed or yawned or hiccuped or talk even breathed in too deeply it hurt. I don't even know what was happening but it felt like I had been stabbed and whenever I moved or breathed it felt like a knife was being twisted where I had been stabbed. I've never been stabbed in the back before but I assume that's what it would feel like. Anyways, somehow I managed to fall asleep sometime after 11 and then woke up at 12:33 in the morning 1) because I really had to pee and 2) because my back hurt real bad. I tried to go back to sleep after I went pee but no matter how I laid down in bed it was uncomfortable and hurt. After 30 minutes of moving around in bed trying to get comfy, I resorted to the good old Ibuprofen and popped 4 pills. It may have been too much but I was in the worst pain of my life. I was in so much pain that I was shaking because of it and had a hard time taking the pills, but whenever I moved from the shaking it hurt more. It was a rough night. I seriously thought that we might have had to go to the hospital in the middle of the night because it hurt so bad. I was trying to think of all the cool things that could happen to me at the hospital like getting a kidney removed and having a sweet scar because that's where all the pain has been. That's what I was thinking about as I was writhing around in pain at 2 in the morning. After about an hour the magic of medicine started to work and it felt a little bit better. I didn't even get back into bed, I just pulled my blanket and pillow onto the ground. Maybe that's what helped. My bed is really soft, but it might be too soft for any good health. My back still hurts a little bit but not like it did last night. But after I woke up it wasn't until about 2:30 that I finally fell asleep again. Elder Nageli was up the entire time so it's not like I was keeping him up. So we've just been super tired the last couple of days. Good thing today is preparation day though.
Splits with the Zone Leaders was good. Almost as cool as the Zone Leaders from the MTC, but not quite. And not many people are quite as cool as them. The branch is quite small. Anywhere from about 40 to 50 members come every week but the records have 187 people in the branch so there are a TON of less actives but they still don't want to come to church. We're the only missionaries in the branch. The area is quite big. There's two big cities for the area, Tiffin and Fostoria, and then just a bunch of small towns that go all over the area that some of them have like ten houses in. There's a lot of people that live in Tiffin and Fostoria, but none of the other cities.
We went on exchanges again last week because Elder Nageli is the district leader so I have that to look forward to all the time. I guess it makes the week go by faster because one day every week I'm not even going to be in my area and I'll be with someone different. The rest of last week was about the same as the week before, which was about the same as the week before, up until yesterday at church which I'll get to eventually. But we just did a lot of street contacting and tracting and trying to get a hold of less actives or potential investigators. That dude we met last week that was the almost miracle we still haven't met with. We stopped by five of the days last week and his car was outside but he never answered. Maybe he doesn't have as much potential as we thought he did. And one of two investigators we do have will just randomly go out of town for half the week so we can never get in contact with him. And our other investigator is just waiting to get of of probation so he can get baptized so we just keep going over to teach him what he's already been taught. Hopefully he gets off of it soon. He was supposed to be baptized my second Saturday here but then the elders found out he was still on probation so now we just have to wait for that. But at church yesterday, a girl brought her friend that is a non member and we were able to go into primary because they were the only two kids there and we talked about prophets and the nonmember wants to learn more so we might be able to teach her. Her mom and the members mom have been talking about young womens and the non members mom wants her daughter to get involved so maybe we can get her baptized and then work on her parents. And then after church we were talking with a lady and walking with her as she was going out to her car and there was this random girl that passed us and walked in the church that we had never seen before. We tried to wrap up the conversation with the older woman so we could find out who the random girl was. We basically ran back into the church and then all around the church asking if anyone saw the girl and where she went and who she was. Nobody else knew who she was but they said they one of the counselors in the branch presidency had taken her into the branch presidents office. When they came out, he called us over and said that she was interested in learning about the church because she had a good experience with a mormon family when she was 8 years old. We set up an appointment for tonight to teach her at the counselors house with dinner at the same time. I'll let you now how it goes next week. Maybe she'll be baptized by then. You never know. She's 19 and just walked right into the church because she wanted to learn more. Pretty cool if you ask me. Praying that she'll be the one investigator we need.
We're trying to get a branch trip to Kirtland set up so we can take the few investigators that we do have and some members of the branch that want to go. There's a lot of members that said that they would want to go because they haven't been there in a long time so now we just need to get investigators to come. It'll be cool if it works out.
Love,
Elder Woodward
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