Happy Memorial Day!!
A big congratulations to Halle this week for graduating
pre-school! I cant believe how old you are getting Halle! You looked beautiful
in your special graduation hat and braids! I am so proud of you! This week has
been a LONG one! I am grateful for a new week! Early last week, we were
able to go to Williamsport and have zone training with President Topham. He is
such an amazing man and I am so grateful that President Topham is my mission
president! We were informed that on June 8th, Elder David A. Bednar will be
coming to speak to our mission, as well as 3 other members of the 70. Its a
"Special Visit" and we are all wondering why they are coming. Rumors
are flying around the mission and I love all the excitement. I have always been
one who loves big news :) So if anyone has any clue, let this sweet sister know
:) This week I had my first lesson with someone who had encountered
"Anti" material about the church. Right when our lesson started,
Martha (the investigator) kept spewing all these "quotes" from
"church leaders" that were absolutely false. I kept trying to calmly
correct her but she would just yell over me that "THE CHURCH SAYS SO!' or
"THAT'S WHAT YOU BELIEVE!" When I could tell we weren't going
anywhere, and the Spirit wasn't going to be able to teach her, I closed the
lesson and prepared to leave. Martha then informed me I didn't know anything
because I was a woman and told me I was a quitter and that I was never going to
help a single soul because I was such a quitter. That stung for like 12 seconds,
then she spewed more false doctrine on our way out the door and I got over it.
It was an interesting experience to say the least. I am still wondering why she
even wanted to meet with us, but it was a great learning experience for me and
my companion. When we got back to the car Sister Roberts turned to me and told
me she knew we needed to leave but didn't have enough courage to get out of
there and was grateful I knew how to wrap it up, even if I got my feelings hurt
in the process. We won't be teaching Martha again, but I am grateful I can add
that lesson to a "here's what you do if...." list. This weekend I had
the worst migraine of my mission to date. Friday morning I woke up and could
tell that I was going to have a headache but we had a funeral to attend that
afternoon and I had to lead the music, so I just tried to be brave and move on.
But my head was feeling really cloudy. I laid down after the funeral but we had
a baptism to attend in our district that evening, so I tried to keep going and
we went to that. I probably shouldn't have gone to either of those activities
looking back, but we went. When I woke up Saturday my head was on fire. I
couldn't see, I felt like I was going to throw up and my feet were numb. I
called Sister Topham and she told me to call the Mission Doctor. I gave him and
call and he called me in some medications that knocked me right out. I slept
through all of Saturday. When I woke up Sunday my head still felt weird but we
headed off to church. By the end of our meetings I felt horrible so I took my
medication and laid down and woke up this morning good as gold. It was a rough
weekend and I feel HORRIBLE that i missed two whole days of missionary work but
I am grateful that I had the help available that I needed. This week is a new
week and we are planning on finding 50 million people to baptize and confirm!
Keep us in your prayers, we need them!! I love you all and hope you are having
a wonderful Memorial Day! I can't send pictures from the computer I am using
(the library is closed so we are at the church and it doesn't let you i guess)
but next week I'll send some!
I love you all!
Sister Andresen
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