Sickness, Service, and Setbacks
It's been a week of trial here in the Brook. That's not to
say that I haven't grown a lot from it. The weather is getting colder. It feels
a lot cooler here then it did in Nanaimo. A lot of the locals we've talked to
have said that there's a fair chance of getting a fair bit of snow. The white
stuff just loves to follow me it seems!
Wednesday morning I woke up with a scratchy throat and
chills. We helped out Tim by replacing a flat tire on his truck and fixed his
garage door. We got one of his Norton motorbikes up and running at the end of
the day which was cool. After that we helped the McCollums move some stuff out
of their apartment in preparation for their mission in Hawaii. I got a fever
after that and had to go home. I slept for about an hour and a half.
Fortunately, we got to go to dinner with a member that night and the nice hot sea
food chowder was very helpful.
My fever was gone by Thursday (thankfully.) We taught Devin
parts of the 4th lesson after our weekly planning. We invited him to go to a
baptism on Friday just so he could see what its like and then be interviewed
after. He said he would, but we haven't seen him since then. More to that
little story in a bit. That night we went to see Lori's family. We had just
came from dinner at a member's place out in Aldergrove where I ate a little too
much food. When it was my turn to speak during the lesson, I began to feel
sick to my stomach. I stopped and Elder Lamb took over until I made the
announcement that I wasn't feeling good and had to use the bathroom. It's easy
to guess what happened after... No mess was created. Perhaps the overeating and
the fever was enough to make me sicker then ever! It would have been a
forgivable lesson if Lori knew the Book of Mormon was true, but she didn't
really believe the restoration or that the book was true. She said that she would
pray and keep reading it though so there's still hope.
Friday we went over to the Gaspars, an elderly couple who live on an orchard farm just outside of town and mowed their lawn.
On Saturday we saw Chris again with Parker, one of
the young adults in our ward. He continues to do well but has been busy
with a couple of jobs and looking after his kid. We went over to his place after
that, ate lunch and helped his dad out with cleaning their garage. Close to the
time the baptism was going to start and after trying to get a hold of Devin
several times, he said he was unable to go. His date is being moved back to a
time that we have yet to determine. Briana sure isn't happy.
The sisters invited us to do a musical number in sacrament
meeting on the 23rd and we accepted. I'm pretty sure the last time I sang in
front of a crowd was in elementary school or something so it should be an
interesting experience. My nasty cough started up on Sunday and it didn't help
matters when Elder Lamb and I practiced singing the EFY medley with the
sisters! The cough is still pretty bad now.
Well, we made it! We didn't do a lot of tracting this week
because of our colds and we haven't found a new investigator in 2 weeks.
Despite the hard times and poor results, I've learned that there's not much
point in complaining. God has some kind of plan for this area as he does for
every in the the mission. I feel like I've been growing and pushing myself
more. We just gotta keep going. Miss you all and have a great week.
Elder Maclean Samis
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