I know what most of you are thinking. You're thinking,
"How can a square be backwards. It's a perfect shape and would be the same
forwards and backwards." That's what I thought too. Sister Jelderks and I
were doing an escape room game that we found in our apartment and got the
correct answer but the machine kept telling us it was wrong even after the game
told us what the correct answer was. We tried flipping the other shapes around
like the rhombus and triangle that were not the same of they were backwards.
But no, the answer was that the square was backwards.
Holidays as a missionary are always kind of awkward because
no one wants their family time interrupted and all of our services are closed.
So on New Year's eve and on New Year's day we worked on the magazine and sewed
some dresses. We also made bread to drop off to a few members.
But then on Wednesday night I started coughing. On Thursday
morning, I had a fever and a really bad cough. On Friday we had zone conference
but I still had a fever over 100° and a cough. On Saturday we went to urgent
care and found out that I had not one, not two, but THREE ear infections. I
didn't even know that was possible. I still had a fever and a bad cough
yesterday so we weren't able to go to church. But I feel much better today. I
think the antibiotics finally kicked in.
Even though it was a kind of miserable week, I had an
interesting experience. Someone asked me yesterday why I'm on a mission. But
then they asked me why I'm still on a mission. It struck me kind of hard. There
are so many reasons why I could have gone home. I've struggled with anxiety and
depression for most of my mission and at two different points it got so bad
that I thought about going home. Everything with the headache fiasco at the
beginning of my mission. The two times I've been to the ER and the three times
I've been to the urgent care. I could have used any one of these and gone home
but I didn't. I stayed on a mission because of the joy it beings me to bring
joy to others. The gospel has blessed my life so immensely that I have to share
it with others.
God is good!
Sister Slade
Pictures:
1-2. we helped set up for the youth new years dance and had
to take a picture
3. At the urgent care with 3 ear infections
4. Sister Jelderks laying on the floor
5. Creepy shack on our way to a meal with some members
6. I was too sick to do much so we watched the Life of
Christ videos
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