Sick and stuck in the flat

Email #20
Area: Grange area of the Firle Zone
Companion: Elder Hamilton

Excerpts from Mom's email:

Hey Mom!

Well this week has been a long one! We had to stay in the flat for three days because Elder Hamilton was pretty sick with a fever at the beginning of the week. Come Friday though luckily he started to feel well enough to head back out. It was a pretty long three days because we really can't do all that much in the flat. I basically caught up on my sleep, studied heaps and heaps, and watched a couple Mormon messages that we had on DVD. I really liked being able to catch up on studies especially. I learned a lot in those three days and Elder Hamilton and I just got closer as friends as well. I got a little bit sick with the cold side of it, but I think because I rested and took medicine early on, I didn't get as sick. So that was most of our week haha. It kind of sucks because we really start to fall behind and we had to cancel heaps of appointments as well. We rescheduled them for later in the week so the last few days we have had nothing, but teaching appointments.  Which is fine besides the fact that we were then unable to do very much finding/door knocking in the week.

This experience more then anything has shown me the importance of finding. If we are not finding people to teach then our teaching pool stays the same and that means that we aren't doing all we can to do the work. It really was unsatisfying. Part of me at first thought that I would enjoy staying in the flat for a day being able to sleep and everything, but it is more disappointing than anything. Plus you get pretty bored as soon as you have studied for 6 hours... But hey Elder Hamilton has asked me to give a training tomorrow to the district for the first time, so I had time to prepare for that. That will be exciting for sure! Plus we have transfer calls next Sunday, so this week is just going to be nerve racking haha.

We had the chance to follow up with some of our upcoming baptismal dates. They are progressing, but Satin is throwing a lot at us and our investigators to hold them back for sure. We got this though! I have complete faith that D... and M...... will be able to reach their dates next month! BTW C... received the Aaronic Priesthood this last week and we are taking him to the temple on Wednesday to do baptisms for the dead with the ward! That is something I am looking forward to for sure!

Love you mom!


Excerpts from Dad's email:

Hey Dad!

So this week we were able to follow up with both D... and M...... who have upcoming baptismal dates. This is make it of break it time these next couple weeks especially, because its Elder Hamilton's last few weeks. He and I have developed such great relationships with these two and obviously we want to see them to the end and just the fact that it is in reach keeps us very motivated. All we can do at this point is help them reach their goal and we recognize how hard it is going to be to do so, but we have complete faith in them and in the atonement!

As for stories there are a couple, but they aren't that exciting haha. One weird one just happened about 30 minutes ago. A members son who we haven't heard from in 3 months, sent us an interesting text. He asked us to call 000 which is the emergency number here. Apparently the girl he just recently moved in with is having issues and was trying to hit him with a metal pipe. He couldn't call himself because she would have found where he was at. Who knows why he asked us to call them, but we were glad to help. Kind of weird, but we did it and the police said they will send a patrol around to check it out. We always have weird experiences and they typically are just random. Last night one of our new investigators and his friend were acting weird when we knocked on their door. They were just all loopy and they said they thought we were the police at first, so they were super scared. They are both harmless blokes especially when they could barely stand, so it wasn't dangerous haha no worries.

Sorry that it wasn't much haha.
Love ya pops!