Oct 23rd - Oct 30th

Well, this week was not to eventful sadly.

We went on exchanges on Brewer, and Elder Sobisky and I hit the
streets baby! But sadly, I got way sick... sooo, that had to happen...
I did get to see the Thurlows from Lincoln! It was quite the treat, I
miss em!

Afterwords, elder Bassett got sick.. so, we tried numerous times to go
out and talk to people, but found ourselves being so sick, it felt
like we where getting shot in the face.. so we where in the apartment
needing to recover a lot... like the whole week..

The weather also sucked, it rained... like half the week haha it was a
“am I still at home?” Moment.

We went and helped out at Jackson’s eagle project, we build picnic
benches. Rad. Like the good old days. We got pizza afterwards.

We met a super awesome guy, his name is Tom. He lives in Oakland
“Waterville area” but he came to a dinner with the Frappier family and he
dug our brains out. It was kinda awesome, because I got to use 2 whole
years of missionary experience. It came like BAM! Awesome. He liked it
so much, we will be seeing him again in the future.

I’ve probably only gotten about 40 hours of sleep this week because if
I’m able to sleep, I sleep for about an hour or two and I wake up
choking and coughing my life away and there goes my night. But a cool
experience this week was Sunday.
Elder Bassett and I didn’t get any sleep last night, he woke up
and had a massive nose bleed, like blood everywhere, he looked like a
zombie and I thought I was dead for a second, cuz when you don’t
sleep, your mind plays tricks on you. Anyway, he cleaned up and we
tried sleeping again but it was to bad. So we stayed up, layed in bed
and yea. Long night.
But morning came and we where talking and thinking “should we even go
to church? We are way to sick” but we started getting manageable and
we decided to go for sacrament meeting. And I’m glad we did.
When we got there, I saw the Wilson family from Bar Harbor, I walked
in and saw their daughter Sadie and I thought I was dreaming and I was
back in Ellsworth, but I thought about it and the words “the Wilsons?”
Came out and sure enough, it was them! So awesome to see them again!
And for elder Bassett, the Waymouths-Cosme, and they are a family who
lived close to elder Bassett in Idaho, but then moved to Belfast a few
years back. So it was a great reunion for the both of us!

The lord blesses our efforts, no matter what they are, even being sick
all week, we still saw some tender mercies and miracles.

I also have a week left on my mission.. oh snap.. my milk expires
after me.. I’m pretty much done, Halloween will mark official 2 years
since I was set apart as a missionary.. I’ll leave the sob story for
my last week haha

Love you all! 10 days!

Elder Vogel