Week 43 (March 13, 2017)

This week was a long one. 

On Saturday of last week I woke up with a rash on my wrists but I thought it was just an irritation from my shirt, I was wrong, It spread to the rest of my body. So I finally gave in and went to the doctors and got medicine to take care of it and it is going away. The doctor said it was some sort of allergy, but I don't know what I was allergic to. 

We also spent a ton of time in our house this week for my comp, he wont stop crying. He spends all his time on the phone either talking to the mission president, the assistants, the mission nurse, or the mission psychologist, its a mess. He wakes up every morning crying and the doesn't want to work for the whole day. I had to teach a few lessons by myself because he just refuses to speak or cries the whole time. So that was fun. Although teaching by myself is fine because I can control where the lesson goes and I ask lots of questions that really make the investigators think. Its pretty fun. 

This week as well I found a new talk that I really like, its from James E. Faust in a conference from April 1978. Its called, The Refiners Fire. I love it, and I explained it to my comp and made him read all of the scriptures and he likes it to. He said it gives him hope that things will get better.

Also this week we got the luck to listen to Elder Gay of the quorum of the 70. He talked about the need to go where investigators are spiritually, and when we really understand their lives, we will become ready to teach them and help them progress in the gospel. It was really good. He told lots of crazy stories from his time as a mission president in Ghana. It was way awesome!! 

Also on Thursday my comp and I walked past a baseball field and there were a few little kids messing around on the field. So I asked if I could play and they gave me the bat to hit. First pitch, boom, I hit the fence. All the little kids were so amazed. I hit the ball 3 more times, and then the cover of the ball came off. I felt like I was on the Sandlot haha! It was nice to play a little ball. I miss it. 

And that's it for the week. Not a ton of teaching but I did get in lots of studying and learned a lot about the gospel. Well miss you all!! Have a great week!! 

Elder Hamblin