It has been a good week. I will say one to remember especially towards the end of the week, but we will get to that in a little bit. I have learned so much this week. Especially along the lines of Christlike attributes and the need we have to minister to the one.
Tuesday: We went over to a members house and taped their living room walls for about 2 hrs. They're getting ready to move soon and need to repaint in some places. It was quite the time taping because they had us tape the ceiling and corresponding walls with a 3 foot step ladder. And seeing as I am still pretty short, I really had to stretch myself to get everything taped. But we got it. Looked very nice at the end of it.
Wednesday: It snowed today. About 6 to 8 inches, so not much but it made it pretty chilly outside. We had an amazing district council where we talked about the purpose that we have as missionaries to preach and teach the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ, as well as having a firm belief in where we are headed after this life. We went to Stake n Shake for lunch which was pretty good not going to lie. The rest of the day we had exchanges with the New Portage Elders. That night we went over to the Labates for temple prep. Bro Labates son who also happens to be Dylan and 20 yrs old, asked us to give him a blessing. He asked me to be the voice. As soon as I placed my hands on his head, it was as though the heavens themselves opened. The words I spoke were definitely not from me, but I know that they were everything that Heavenly Father needed me to say for Dylan. I don't remember at all what I said, and that teaches me more than anything that priesthood blessings are personal and according to the recipients faith and action.
Thursday (Urgent Care day . . . Or so I thought): Brother Labate had requested a tie to wear because his got ruined, so since I only have a few weeks left then I took one of the ties I don't usually wear a ton, and gave it to Brother Labate to have. Then, myself and Elder Sanchez drove down to west Columbus for me to receive the 2nd dose of the vaccine. I got it, then I began driving us the 2 hrs back to Akron. Well, by the time we got off the freeway in Akron I was so tired. We got to the apt, had a member drop us off some dinner and then went to the church for basketball night with New Portage ward. That was a rough 2 hrs for me. I was so fatigued running up and down the court, and my whole left arm was numb. I got back to the apt that night, and I thought I was going to need to go to the urgent care. I had a very high fever, and just felt miserable. I hardly ate anything for dinner, and then fell asleep in the recliner. Only to wake up every 45 min til 5:30 am. A rough night.😞
Friday: We had mission training with the Horgesheimers over zoom. Then had a lesson with a guy in India that E. Sanchez found last week. That went super well until he started arguing with us over the call and saying that we were teaching false things, and so I leaned forward and firmly stated my testimony of Joseph Smith and the Lord's restored Gospel. The guy became silent and then said he understood what I had said. It makes me sad when people don't listen, and it also is tough when you can't even talk to people about religion at all. But I know we are all brothers and sisters. We took some blankets over to Matthew (investigator) who is moving this week. Then had a lesson with Carpenters this night. I started feeling a lot better that night too. Which was glad because I was freezing pretty much the whole day until my fever finally broke at about 7 pm Friday.
Saturday and Sunday were really super good. We had some great interactions with the members and we were able to go to the Alves house in the New Portage ward Saturday night. They're a Portuguese family and it was Bro Alves birthday so we celebrated with them. A super great weekend! :)
This week was great. I was talking with Sanchez this weekend about how he thought it went, and we both agreed that we really felt the Lord directing us this week. There were many times this week where we had thrown something into the schedule that day, only to realize 2 to 3 hrs later that the Lord had needed us to switch things and in the end we ended up doing 2 to 3 times more than we had planned for that day. I'm so grateful for that. I'm so grateful that the Lord has His hand in all things. It makes me really happy to think about the aspect that we are never alone, even when we think that we are, He is there and He is listening.
How did your guys week go? How did Make A Wish week go? My all time favorite week of SHHS year :) Sounds like many projects are getting accomplished at home which is so awesome! You are all amazing.
I pray for you all daily, miss you all lots, and love you all very much. I'm excited to talk to everyone today.
Love you all forever and always . . .
Elder Dylan McEwan
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