Week 51 - July 27 - We both woke up puking

This week was another tough one. We didn´t have much stuff going on, and then we went to Zone Training on Thursday, which was a GREAT meeting. We went home, the sisters´ investigator didn´t show up to the baptismal interview I was supposed to give, and then we had a failed lesson or two and went home. 

AND THEN. Friday, we both woke up puking. That is the worst. An old missionary once told me that hell is sickness and a chapa - the need to be outside and the need to be in bed at the same time. Well, he was right. We went back to bed and I ministered to my worse-off companion while puking myself. I now have a LOT more respect for moms who help sick kids while being sick themselves because been there done that for a companion. It´s a good thing I remembered some stuff like "don´t drink milk" "drink gatorade" and "go to bed". We slept probably 30 hours in two days, which would be really disobedient if it hadn´t been necessary. 

We did make it out of the piso enough to teach the FHE lesson friday night - we talked about commandments, and the whole world LOVED my object lesson. I did the same thing you always do in beginning math classes when you start to talk about proofs - Write instructions to make a PB&J, and then laugh as the person quite literally follows the instructions without any outer thinking, and then deliberately tries to make things wrong. The instructions said, "Take out the bread slices" And Elder Weiss dumped out the entire bag of bread and said "uh oh." The end of the lesson was that, just like only consistent and specific and detailed instructions will get us the same PB&J every time, only consistent and specific and detailed commandments will help us change the way we want. The whole "Be a good person" that the world thinks Jesus taught does me just as much good as as  "Make a PB&J" because they both forget the important "How?" I stole the spiritual part from an Elder Maxwell quote. 

There wasn´t much more that happened this week, pretty tranqilo and then we got sick and then we tried to heal ourselves with various random things from home and members. And then my companion got a big ol package of Swiss chocolate that puts hershey´s to shame (except the significant lack of Reese´s) Needless to say, we´re still on the mend. But life is good and the gospel is still true - I asked my companion what sort of sinning we did to bring the wrath of God down upon us, but he said - "No. God is testing us, like Job. We need to have a good attitude and do what we can." Which is pretty darn correct.

Elder Stew