So yeah...crazy week... To start off, P-Day was awesome! It was the last P-Day for some elders so we went all out and played basketball and chair soccer for 3 hours! So much fun! Had a blast, as well as probably lost some weight which is awesome!
So, we also went and saw Gus. We have actually been seeing Gus every day, trying to get him to overcome smoking and drinking. So sad. He seems to be trying so hard! GAH! Satan is just so strong sometimes!
Tuesday was fun! We went and saw Sunny! Man! The guy is just so awesome! He loves the Book of Mormon! He reads it all the time without us even asking us to! Talk about a miracle! I have never had that happen before!
Wednesday was so much fun though! We went on exchanges and I was with Elder Erasmus! He is such a stud! Love that guy! John took us to IL Uk Jo which was even better! IL Uk Jo is this Japanese buffet. No, I did not eat the sushi! I already had a terrible experience with that before... but I just loaded on Teriyaki! SO GOOD!
Thursday rolls around and we go on another exchange! I went with Elder Samis which was a lot of fun! Found some awesome people for them to teach which they have been struggling with a little.
The next day was Zone meeting. All the Elders and Sisters that were leaving went up and bore their testimonies. Kind of freaked me out because I only have 14 months until that happens to me...FREAKY!
I would have to say that the freakiest/most nerve racking day of the week was Saturday. To start it off we went and helped someone move for 4 hours. I was so exhausted already, and we just wanted to die because the furniture was so heavy and everything else. Super hot outside too. So, imagine, I am just super tired and we go to a lesson at 6, and it was a GONGSHOW. We were planning on meeting this less active who wants to come back to church, and he is just super awesome about inviting people to hear our message. So, we are super pumped about this because the members aren’t all that excited about missionary work. It turned out on being crazier than we thought. We got questions thrown at us that we didn’t even have time to answer, food was being passed back and forth, and somehow we were able to fit the message of the Restoration in there somehow. So, we walk away from that, and we are just still dead tired, we go out and talk to some more people and that’s about it. We come in for nightly planning, exhausted, and we were just about to finish when we got a call from the mission office. Well, we got transfer news earlier than we were expecting, and, well, I figured out I am pregnant. Yep, I am. So, for those who don’t know the mission lingo, that means that I am going to be training a brand new missionary! Yep, straight out of the MTC. SO, THAT FREAKED ME OUT! Elder Slack is also going to be transferred to another area to follow up train, so we were both a little on edge. Needless to say, neither of us slept that well that night. I don’t even remember what went on Sunday. I was just too exhausted. We were also fasting which didn’t help, and we didn’t even have time to eat dinner the night before, so, I was running on very little steam that day.
So yeah, I’m sitting here, about 9 months pregnant, due in about 2 days...yeah, no big deal... So, great week! I am exhausted, but God is just so good! Thank goodness for the spirit, or else I would not be able to function right now!
I sure love and miss you all!
Love
Elder McCown
