Queridos amigos,
First off, don´t be too alarmed by the quote from the
Incredibles in the email heading (that means you mom).
This week has been insane.
Monday- I wrote you lovely folks and then did grocery
shopping for the week. We deep cleaned the apartment and that night we had a
family home evening activity with our investigator Graciela and her family. It
was great. We made stir-fry for them and they loved it! Juan, Graciela´s
boyfriend had never tried broccoli before! He´s 52! But, they all liked it,
broccoli included.
Tuesday- We had district meeting and we got a little bit of
rain. My comp´s permanent retainer fell out, but we had so many lessons
scheduled that we did divisions with members so that I could teach and she
could go to the dentist.
Wednesday- We had a worldwide conference for missionaries
where we learned about new changes to schedules and studies in the mission (
I´ll write more later about those when Pte. Calquin approves them)
Thursday- My companion woke up with a headache (not out of
the ordinary because she gets migraines occasionally). We had a lesson with
Victoria (she accepted to be baptized 17 de Febrero) and then one with Olimpia
(she accepted to be baptized 11 de Febrero). Then, we had lunch with Graciela.
Graciela didn´t have water, so we went with her to her mom´s house to eat. My
companion started to get chills and was shivering up a storm. She did not look
good, poor thing.
Graciela is a nurse, so she took her blood pressure and
checked her oxygen level. It was all very low. So, she gave her some mineral
water with some sugar and then sent us home. Hermana Chappell went to bed and
slept. I washed laundry and cleaned the apartment while she slept.
Friday- I continued to clean and do things to keep myself
busy. My companion was still sleeping until 2pm. We called the mission
president´s wife and she gave us the rest of the week off and told us to rest.
Saturday- Hermana Chappell felt a little bit better, so we
did weekly planning and then rested some more. We decided to go visit Graciela
and after we left her house, I started to get a headache. We then headed to visit
Sonia. When we left her house, I felt nasty. My head hurt and I was dizzy. My
skin hurt to touch and all of my muscles were sore. It was a blessing that we
made it back to the apartment without any problems. That night I had a fever of
101.8 F and I was taking Ibuprofen and Tylenol like it was going out of style.
My fever never went away and it was a rough night.
Sunday- I slept until 8am and then we slowly made the walk
to the church. I felt a little better, but not that great. I made it through
all of the church meetings and then we had lunch with Graciela. After lunch we
walked back to the apartment where I went to bed to die. I was close to
overdosing on Ibuprofen and my fever wasn´t going down. So, what does one do in
times of desperation? Turn to God. Or, His servants the Elders. We got a sister
to drive us to the chapel ( I couldn´t walk to the chapel and the Elders can´t
enter our apartment) and the Elders met us there.
They gave me a priesthood blessing of health. During the
blessing, I felt my fever break and all of the pain left my body. I couldn´t
believe how fast it took effect. I´m truly grateful for the priesthood and the
miracles that it works in our lives. When I entered the chapel my temperature
was 100.6 and when I left it was 98.3.
I know that God has restored His church through the prophet
Joseph Smith. I know that Joseph Smith received the priesthood authority of
God, to act in God´s name and that through this power miracles are wrought.
Today, worthy men in the church hold this power and have the great
responsibility to use it to bless the lives of others. God is a God of
miracles. He always has been and always will be. I´m grateful for the daily
miracles that I´m seeing here.
I hope that you all look for the miracles in your lives.
They are everywhere, just stop and look.
I love you all and hope you know how much you mean to me.
Con amor,
Hermana Chaffin
"The sheep is worthy of divine rescue simply because it
is loved by the Shepherd" -Dieter F. Uchtdorf
"The highest ideal of man is the will of God"
-Anonymous
From the movie The Last Samurai, as the leader lay dying from mortal injuries received in honorable combat, after a lifetime of, among other things, searching for the perfect cherry blossom:
ReplyDelete"They are ALL perfect!"
The miracles of which you speak truly surround us, if we will but see them for what they are.
Que Dios te bendiga para que siempre veas Sus milagos!