Hello
everyone!
Sounds like
everyone had a pretty good week! I'm glad Jennica got to
go to EFY!
That's awesome. I always loved EFY, and I hope you did too.
Also sounds
like everyone had a pretty good 4th of July. Better than
my day,
anyway.
The 4th was
interesting. It's one of those holidays that isn't big
enough for
missionaries to get the day off, but also very much big
enough so no
one wants to talk to you. So, we went to a breakfast and
flag raising
at the church in the morning. Tried to be productive, but
basically
failed. Went to eat dinner with an awesome family, and
then had to be
in by 7:00.
Then at about 4:00 the next morning, I woke up and
realized I
had food poisoning. Let's just leave it at that. So, we
stayed in
all day yesterday and missed church. Lame. The first time
I've been
sick on my mission. Great times. But, I'm good now, so all
is well.
This has
been a pretty slow week. It just felt weird. Not a whole lot
of teaching,
not much of anything really. We did do a little more
service than
normal, which was good. But overall, this last week has
felt weird.
Elder
Malauulu and I survived another transfer together. Every other
companionship
in our district lost one missionary though. We got
destroyed.
It will be so new, and so weird. Elder Young, who is
basically my
favorite missionary and our district leader, goes home on
Wednesday. I
am going to miss him SO much.
Also, some
more fun news. President Samuelian called us on Saturday
and extended
the call for me to be the next district leader. Which is
pretty
scary. I am excited though. I have decided I love leadership
callings,
not because of the responsibility or the title or anything
like that,
but because you get to know and love all the people you
serve
better. I love that side of it. So this will be an interesting
transfer.
I'm praying that the Lord will help me know what He wants
for me and
this district.
Spiritual
thought this week. On Saturday night, when I woke up and was
in the
beginning stages of the food poisoning goodness, but before I
came to the
conclusion it was food poisoning, I really just wanted to
go back to
sleep. So I'm sitting on the floor in the bathroom, and I
say a prayer
asking for help to be able to sleep. So I finish the
prayer, and
I sit there another minute or so. And then I very clearly
thought
something along these lines: if you expect Heavenly Father to
answer your
prayer, if you have any sort of faith at all that He can
help you
sleep, why are you still sitting on the bathroom floor? So I
got up and
got in bed. Sadly, it wasn't His will at that time that I
would sleep,
because I was back in the bathroom puking in like 10
minutes, but
that really hit me. If we expect Heavenly Father to
answer our
prayers, we need to act like it. We need to pray, and then
do the work
in order to make those answers possible. Just something
that really
stuck out to me this week.
Thanks for
all of your support! I love you all so much! Have a wonderful week!
Elder
Baldridge
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