Four times in six months. It's
really getting old.
Monday we met at the church
and played some games and porked out on pizza with Emily and the Elders. We had
lots of fun, and then there was booming thunder and pouring rain so we ran
outside and danced for a little bit and got all wet. It's rained a LOT this
week. I guess we're getting the backlash from Texas.
Tuesday we got to meet with
Dennis and talked about how he aspires to serve in the church. There's so many
things he wants to do now that he has all this knowledge. Tuesday we had a
powerful lesson with Dannette. She explained to us that every time we come over
it's like something inside of her is telling her to join us and to believe the
things we're teaching and get baptized..........OK!
So we talked about the Holy
Ghost and how these things are coming from God. She pulled out her calendar and
picked July 18th to be baptized and said nothing will get in her way.
It was pretty cool. Pam has been loving her Ensign and is always excited to
share the most recent thing she's read. I never understood how powerful of a
tool that magazine is. I love it.
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| Check the magazine out here |
Wednesday we had Specialized
Training in Charleston with President and Sister Salisbury. The themes were
obedience, the Atonement, and keeping the Sabbath holy. With obedience he
emphasized that between July 2nd and August 13th 66 new
missionaries will be joining us in the WVCM. So he needs lots of trainers. And
he desperately needs trainers to be obedient. That's a lot of new missionaries.
I spent a good chunk of the meeting in the bathroom rolling on the floor. I was
miserable! We spent the rest of the day at home because I thought I was dying.
Thursday I died. I puked
AAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL day. We had several appointments and I was so annoyed
to cancel.
Friday I was still a little
queasy but we wanted to make sure I was clean for 24 hours before going out and
getting anyone else sick. So it was another boring day. But Sister Keller
brought me some chicken noodle soup and it was the only thing I would eat. It
was so stinking good.
Saturday was an interesting
day. We did our weekly planning and came up with some great ideas to help this
area grow and for us individually. I have determined to find a family to teach
the Gospel, every Sunday for the rest of my mission. Obviously I'd love to find
several throughout the week as well, but Sunday is family finding day.
We
headed out to Nitro to try some of our investigators and totally missed the
freeway exit, we're still confused how. But we found a new part of our area at
the next exit that we didn't know existed. We met some cool people and we're
excited to go back.
We also found some cool people in Nitro and then met a
Recent Convert from 6 months ago that had been missing since he got baptized
and no one knew where he was. He's been doing drugs. Lots of drugs. His brain
is so fried. I don't know what's gonna happen there. I honestly didn't feel
very safe around him.
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| We found this gazebo on the lake while exploring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Emily has been getting really gross cysts in her armpit
and they've gotten extremely infected so she had to go to the emergency room
and we ended up keeping her company for 2 hours. She was so scared to be there.
Sunday church was great! The
building was so FULL!!!!!! Why can't it be like that every week????? Thomas
didn't make it because he was sick, and Dannette didn't make it either :(
But I
focused on "Worthy to Partake" by George Albert Smith. Basically it's
5 questions to ask yourself during the Sacrament service. It made a big
difference for the Spirit and peace and I could feel.
We spent a solid 4 hours
at the Hospital with Emily while her Dad went to take a shower and take a nap.
Happy Father's Day Brother Nevins! She's developed MRSA and so they did surgery
to remove the infection and will be keeping her til at least Tuesday. I don't
know if I've mentioned this but Emily has Autism and so sometimes she gets
really sensitive to stressful situations. This is one of them. She hates
hospitals. I'm glad we could help. We were just there for a really long time.
But we felt like it was where we needed to be.
On the way home from the Hospital
we found a small hidden road with trailers. I felt like that was where we
needed to be so we went to find our family! As we walked through the park the
cutest 5 year old boy ran out and started talking to us like we'd known him for
years. I'm usually pretty apprehensive about talking to kids because people get
so weird, but it just felt right. He ran inside and we started to walk away. We
looked at each other and said, "That's a future missionary right
there!" It was like the Spirit slapped me in the back of the head and
said, "DUH GO BACK!" So I turned around and went back, Sister
Campbell didn't realize I had walked away haha. His mom came out right as we
walked up and we started talking to her. We didn't pick her up as an
investigator, but that's not really the important part. We found a family to
work with.
-Sister Packard
Best:
1. Playing in the rain.
2. Exploring new areas.
3. Chicken noodle soup.
4. A sweet peace at church.
And don't freak out. People here just have the coolest jewelry ever. I take TONS of pictures with rings. I just like this one the best so far.
Worst:
1. Vomit. I'm so done.
2. My water spilled all over
the car and it started to stink! Hopefully it'll clear up soon.
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