Hey mom!
I hope you have had a great week! My week has been an eventful one. Lol!
So Monday was a good P-day and we got a lot of stuff done. That night we were able to visit some of our investigators that we haven't been able to see in a long time because of the flu. We reviewed the Restoration and taught it to another guy that was there. It went well and we hope it continues to go well. Tuesday was great because I went to the Chiropractor! We went at 10:00am and I spent an hour, at least, filling out paperwork. Then I got 2 X-rays, one from the front and one from the right side. I am possibly going to go back this Thursday for a kind "make sure everything is still good" type of visit and most likely get a half hour to an hour massage therapy. That will be nice because my muscles are a big part of the problem. And I will see if I can get the pics of the X-rays from him, and I'll send them to you if I get them. Anyway, he believes I cracked one of my rib heads which is causing the most pain (at the beginning, but is less now) and that is something that is just gonna take time to heal cuz there is nothing they can do for that. Also my bottom left rib that had caused me trouble the last time I went in before leaving on my mission, was really low and at a weird angle. . .not in place. Then most of my ribs on my right side were high and pushed up out of place. He popped all my ribs back in place, that was a lot of popping! Also, my left hip was really low and my right one was really high, so he adjusted that was well. He did a very good job and it helped a lot, he also fixed my wrist, which may need one more fix. I told him that it had hurt for a long time especially when doing push ups or something like them. He said one of my bones in my hand/wrist had been out of place for a long time. Anyway, I am mostly better and the last little fixes will most likely occur this Thursday. He gave me much more movement in my neck and back which was wonderful and I don't hurt as much when I wake up in the morning.
Later that day we did more tracting and taught many more Restoration lessons. One of them was to a bunch of people chilling in their lawn chairs. Wednesday we had District meeting and the Zone Leaders were there and it went well; we had a good discussion. Then we did some more tracting and taught even more Restoration lessons. Thursday was a big day. We were told Wednesday night over a zone wide conference call that we would have an emergency zone conference the next day. So we went to Gulfport and had a 1 1/2 hour long zone conference. President and Sister Olson told us that our mission is going to be decommissioned as of July 1st, 2018. We will become part of the Baton Rouge, Louisiana Mission. There are less missionaries out than when the age changed and there are other countries that are growing in the gospel faster so they will be sending less to the U.S. and more elsewhere. They will be closing a number of missions. They wanted us, the missionaries, to know first so they held an emergency zone conference with every zone in 2 days. They wanted us to be able to tell you guys before you heard from someone else and got worried. Anyway, that will be a big change but everything stays the same until July 1st. That is when President is done with his mission so it will be a good time for the change. Our new President will be the current President of the Baton Rouge Mission. In the afternoon we visited a couple who have 3 kids that we recently found through former investigator records. They are awesome and are so much fun to talk to. We read the first 12 verses of 3 Nephi 11 with them and left the rest of the chapter for them to read. On our way from them to a dinner appointment with Brother and Sister Dickens (they are in their 80's and she is Austrian, really fun). They don't like us being late so we were hurrying from our appointment that went long. . .we stopped by our apartment to grab a tupperware we needed to return and when we came into our apartment we noticed that all of our furniture was gone. Couches, chairs, beds, everything! We found it all out on our balcony. We were a bit frustrated and knew that it was the D'Iberville Elders and the Pascagoula Elders who were down here earlier for Zone Conference. We went to our dinner appointment and stayed there a little longer cuz she was teaching us how to crochet. Then we came home and moved everything back. We wanted to get them back but we didn't know what to do because they would obviously be taking precautions after they just pranked us. We didn't want to do anything that would damage the mission car and we couldn't do anything that would require keys to their car or apartment. So, we thought. . .there was a dead opossum on the road to the church, let's use that. We got the opossum(we used gloves and garbage bags) and decided to drop it in their apartment. We walked up to their apartment on the 3rd floor and knocked on their door. They opened up, we walked in, I was holding it behind my back, they started laughing because of their prank and then I walked forward and dropped the opossum out of the bag onto their tile floor. Their laughter ceased immediately and their faces turned to a morbid expression. It was so funny cuz they were so shocked of what just dropped out of the bag onto their floor. We then turned around shut the door and left them to it. We went back to our apartment and went to bed. Friday Elder Hyde felt bad and wanted to go their apartment and apologize, so we did. They didn't answer so Elder Hyde wrote a note. Later they texted saying they got our note but ignored us. We went to Firestone and got 2 of our tires replaced on the car and then went back to our apartment. While we were doing our weekly planning, we got a knock on the door and it was the D'Iberville Elders. We opened the door and let them in, and they were like, "you got us!" The rest of the day we tried to visit a ton of people that we need to teach but no one answered. Saturday was alright. We went to a members house to pick up some food they got for us which was awesome. Then later the D'Iberville Elder came over and it was raining super hard. There was a real big rain storm but Elder Hyde and I decided to still go try and visit people even though we didn't have any appointments. We dropped the D'Iberville Elders off at the Schmidts cuz they didn't have any appointments and didn't have many miles left. We were able to finally get in a house we have come back to a few times. The lady there said she would make us Gumbo on Wednesday! I am so excited!! It was worth walking and standing out in the downpour. Many asked why we were out in this weather, but we told them that the weather doesn't stop us, haha. We later went and visited with the Schmidts and before we left they gave us more food (cookies. . .and green beans and chicken) to take home. They are so kind and wonderful people. Richard also showed us his many guns, which was cool. Sunday was a good Fast Sunday and we had the Spanish Group again which was nice. Then we went to the base for the Break-The-Fast potluck. We also visited a recent convert whose birthday was the other day. It was a crazy week, but a fun one!
Love you so much, Mom!! I hope you have a great week!!
Love Your Missionary
Elder Acton
After another mission haircut
Driving around with Elder Hyde
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