Where do I begin for this week….This
week has been super spiritual but also probably the hardest week of my life.
I’ll start off with the bad things so we can end on a good note haha.
To start off, basically the entire
MTC is on quarantine because there is a nasty bug going around. And of course,
I was one of the people who picked it up. On Monday I wasn’t able to go to any
of my classes because I was sick in bed, constantly making trips between my
room and the bathroom to throw up. It’s one thing to be sick at home when you
can watch TV or do something else to pass the time, but all I had was a blank
wall. And I didn’t have energy to do anything else. So Monday was by far the
worst day I’ve had here, but luckily I only really suffered from it for that
one day.
The next day, I woke up and was
feeling better. So as a district we went to the gym to play basketball. We were
playing against some other guys who were a little hot headed and an Elder in
our district lost his cool. It’s hard here, to sit in class all day and have
very little time to work out, so all of our tension had built up and everyone
in the MTC is always a little on edge. But the Elder in our district and the
other Elder started talking to each other, and you could tell a fight was about
to break out. So I went to grab the Elder in our district, and I did and
started pulling him back. But I did that right when the other Elder threw a
punch, and he hit me right on my cheekbone. It hurt pretty badly, but I’m okay.
But it is bruised and because of that I won’t be sending any pictures this
week. I don’t know. It’s just hard here to keep all of your emotions in check.
I don’t blame anyone for what happened. And it’s nothing too bad.
Okay enough about all of that sad
stuff! Because being on a mission is awesome! So a way cool experience that
happened this week. One of the hermanas (sisters) in our district had a really
nasty cough, and was coughing every minute without fail. She was going to go
see the doctor but the doctor’s office is closed on Saturdays so she would have
to wait until Monday. So all of the Elders in our district decided to give her
a blessing. Elder Clark was the one who was asked to give the blessing, and he was
giving a good blessing. But out of nowhere in this blessing, Elder Clark just
stopped for about thirty seconds. Then in a loud voice he said “Sister
Eldridge, at this time we bless you to be healed. That through your faith in
Christ, you can and will be healed.” He said some other things too that were
super cool but that was the gist of it. Well, after the blessing we were all
pretty much in tears. And still to this day I have not heard that sister cough
once!
Also Tuesday night we had our
devotional, and we all sat down, and then we all noticed they had the stands of
bulletproof glass set up. So we were all pretty excited. Then Elder Dallin H.
Oaks walked in, and we all stood up. It was really cool because I was sitting
really close to him. More or less about fifty feet! He gave a wonderful
devotional and said some things I really needed to hear. Here is my favorite
quote that he gave, and it helped me during this challenging week of mine:
Courage isn’t always a loud booming voice. Sometimes it’s the little voice in
your head at the end of the day saying… “I’ll try again tomorrow.”
Well that is all for today!
-Elder Adams
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