what missionaries do when they are sick...
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| the goatie on the sick day |
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| the dairy barn |
Nov 7th - Nov 14th
Sorry for the absolute sad and short email this week.. you'll understand why haha Hasta - until
Monday hasta Wednesday- We where on exchange in Newport and I was with Elder Timothy! Elder Timothy unfortunately got sick so we didn't get to do very much, we did have a dinner and the husband served his mission in Spain, which, he doesn't really speak Spanish anymore and it sounded terrible lol but that's okay. We stayed the night over in Skowhegan and had district meeting, afterwords we went to try and find people and we came across a lady named Ruby. Ruby unfortunately wasn't interested, but she is from El Salvador and obviously speaks Spanish! It was awesome to talk to her and practice a little, she gave us directions to her family who are all from El Salvador and her dad doesn't speak English. Awesome, might hit them up soon! That's about it, and a bunch of no shows. But that's the life I guess.
Thursday hasta Saturday - we didn't really do anything because Elder Iverson got sick haha we watched the home teachers on Friday night, which half the people where sick also, and we didn't shave and we decided to shave Saturday and have go-ts, pretty cool. We also have been playing a game that I made up with string and hangers. It's pretty awesome. I'll send a video or something haha and we've just been a couple scrubs. We did however on Saturday night go to coordination at brother Brissel, he is a dairy farmer. We went in the barn in our nice clothes, which was not a good idea haha and we had coordination in there with the sisters. Sisters were all dressed in scrub clothes, all dirty and telling us what work there is like and us getting nauseous because we still are kinda on edge with our viruses. Lol pretty interesting.
Sunday - Sunday was kinda interesting. People were dead, I guess this sickness hit several dozen people haha anyway, I got to see Presidant Kilgour again, it was awesome! I love him so much, he gave us some awesome council about our meals and how do effectively plan them better, awesome. After sacrament, we had gospel principles which was.. different haha but it seemed to go well for the people there, then I guess every fast Sunday the primary bails and the missionaries teach it... that was a new experience, never done that before haha we only had maybe.. 6 kids, even Hanover had at least in the teens, but shoot. 6 of them little kids, couple 8 year olds, couple 6 and 7 year olds and a 5 year old... crazy, anywho after church we came home because elder Iverson still wasn't feeling the greatest, and we cleaned.
This week I've had a lot of extra time to practice Spanish, did it go anywhere? Idk haha I hope it did, my head hurts and every time I speak to someone, they seem to understand me haha but that's okay, always room for improvement.
My fav scripture this week is Moroni 10:8 "8 Y además os exhorto, hermanos míos, a que no neguéis los dones de Dios, porque son muchos, y vienen del mismo Dios. Y hay diversas maneras de administrar estos dones, pero es el mismo Dios que obra todas las cosas en todo; y se dan a los hombres por las manifestaciones del Espíritu de Dios para beneficiarlos."
Sorry for the absolute sad and short email this week.. you'll understand why haha Hasta - until
Monday hasta Wednesday- We where on exchange in Newport and I was with Elder Timothy! Elder Timothy unfortunately got sick so we didn't get to do very much, we did have a dinner and the husband served his mission in Spain, which, he doesn't really speak Spanish anymore and it sounded terrible lol but that's okay. We stayed the night over in Skowhegan and had district meeting, afterwords we went to try and find people and we came across a lady named Ruby. Ruby unfortunately wasn't interested, but she is from El Salvador and obviously speaks Spanish! It was awesome to talk to her and practice a little, she gave us directions to her family who are all from El Salvador and her dad doesn't speak English. Awesome, might hit them up soon! That's about it, and a bunch of no shows. But that's the life I guess.
Thursday hasta Saturday - we didn't really do anything because Elder Iverson got sick haha we watched the home teachers on Friday night, which half the people where sick also, and we didn't shave and we decided to shave Saturday and have go-ts, pretty cool. We also have been playing a game that I made up with string and hangers. It's pretty awesome. I'll send a video or something haha and we've just been a couple scrubs. We did however on Saturday night go to coordination at brother Brissel, he is a dairy farmer. We went in the barn in our nice clothes, which was not a good idea haha and we had coordination in there with the sisters. Sisters were all dressed in scrub clothes, all dirty and telling us what work there is like and us getting nauseous because we still are kinda on edge with our viruses. Lol pretty interesting.
Sunday - Sunday was kinda interesting. People were dead, I guess this sickness hit several dozen people haha anyway, I got to see Presidant Kilgour again, it was awesome! I love him so much, he gave us some awesome council about our meals and how do effectively plan them better, awesome. After sacrament, we had gospel principles which was.. different haha but it seemed to go well for the people there, then I guess every fast Sunday the primary bails and the missionaries teach it... that was a new experience, never done that before haha we only had maybe.. 6 kids, even Hanover had at least in the teens, but shoot. 6 of them little kids, couple 8 year olds, couple 6 and 7 year olds and a 5 year old... crazy, anywho after church we came home because elder Iverson still wasn't feeling the greatest, and we cleaned.
This week I've had a lot of extra time to practice Spanish, did it go anywhere? Idk haha I hope it did, my head hurts and every time I speak to someone, they seem to understand me haha but that's okay, always room for improvement.
My fav scripture this week is Moroni 10:8 "8 Y además os exhorto, hermanos míos, a que no neguéis los dones de Dios, porque son muchos, y vienen del mismo Dios. Y hay diversas maneras de administrar estos dones, pero es el mismo Dios que obra todas las cosas en todo; y se dan a los hombres por las manifestaciones del Espíritu de Dios para beneficiarlos."
And I exhort you, my brethren, not to deny the gifts of God, because they are many, and come from the same God. And there are various ways of administering these gifts, but it is the same God who works all things in all; And are given to men by the manifestations of the Spirit of God to benefit them. "Moroni 10:8
I like that because it shows God is still watching and still helping us, providing us with different gifts that profit us, and as missionaries, to help the work move on. I'm blessed to be here at this time, el barrio es muy loco y difícil, but we can do it haha Elder Iverson and I have definitely been humbled this week and we are determined this week to work super hard, to find those elect people, teach them, and help them get closer to enter the waters of baptism! I am grateful for all you do, thank you for the prayers and letters! They really help give me a booster!
Con mucho amor deElder Vogel
Con mucho amor deElder Vogel
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