(Elder Cummings)
Such a crazy week I couldn't pass up the subject title:
It all started with Elder Richards complaining of some chest pain...don't mess with the chest. We called Sister Amos and she had us go straight to the ER around 8pm. After running some tests for about 30 minutes they told us he wasn't having a heart attack. Phew. Then we had to sit another 5 hours for them to tell us he strained his chest and prescribed him some ibuprofen... Yeehaw! Much fun! We didn't get home until about 2am. However there were some fun parts. For example, we got to play Go Fish for about 2 hours. And I also got permission to drive by myself to pick up some McDonald's at 12am cause we were starving. Plus, Elder Richards is okay!
Alright. Hospital #2. This one we were just visiting, but like I said, it makes the email title so much cooler. We were able to minister to a sister in the ward and give her a blessing. She was an old lady and it was so tender. She was having some serious problems going on and she was just like "make sure my dog is ok, make sure he is ok". We made sure he was ok.
On the way back from this Hospital visit it is POURING. And if you've ever been in Louisiana, you know how it pours. Just a couple minutes and bam streets are flooding. We turn off the main road into the neighborhood where we live and BOOM we just hit a pool of water and suddenly it gets about a foot and a half deep...hehe. yeah not good. Very quickly, our engine shuts off and we are stopped. Seeing that the water is rising we take our shoes off, roll up our pants, and push our car onto a nearby driveway. If only our Chevy Equinox had a 6inch lift kit on it like the rest of the cars here do. We end up walking the next half mile home and leaving our car in that kind lady's car port.
Then that night, we come by and start her up again. We drive about 50 feet and the engine shuts off again. Not good. We call Brother Carrillo and he tows us to our apartment. After much labor and investigation we had to send her to the Chevy dealership to get checked out. The engine is flooded. Really bad. So. We've been biking the whole week and will be for the next couple. Woo-hoo! I'll actually not have to deal with that though cause I'm getting transferred to Denham Springs! Haha sorry Elder Richards…
In all seriousness though. I learned a little bit more this week about the principle of how fun is only temporary and will never last. When we hit that flood zone and we were leaving wakes behind us it was fun. We were just some teenage boys again thinking this is dope. Then our car stops and we're like "oh shoot". But it gets fun again when we get to jump in the water and push the car out. And then it's fun waving at people while we walk home with no shoes and covered in mud and sweat, still wearing white shirts and ties. But then it is no longer fun when our Chevy stopped working and we could no longer drive it. It is no longer fun that we now have to bike EVERYWHERE. And it is especially no longer fun knowing we are costing the Church a whole great deal of tithing money and effort and time and now the Work in Alexandria is temporarily slowed because we can't do as much as we usually do each day. Fun is temporary. Joy is forever. Fun comes from temporary, fleeting things. Joy comes from the eternal things, it comes from our Eternal Father in Heaven. That doesn't mean fun is bad, because it's not. But joy is so much more deep and meaningful. Plus I personally think joy is truly what allows us to still have fun during hard times.
Have a blessed week y'all!
Elder Cummings
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