Dear Mom,
This last week was again full of some great experiences but also some not so great, regarding being sick for a day or so.
Monday was a good P-day, we were able to get most everything done that we needed to and then that night we had an appointment with a family and read scriptures with them and had a little FHE. Then we had a good lesson with one of the other people we have been teaching and ended the night.
Tuesday, we left early to go to Zone Conference and we stopped by a car wash to wash and vacuum out our car and then we went to the church there. It was a great Zone Conference and the night before I had been asked to a musical number by myself with Elder Cannon playing the piano. I had got Elder Brown to agree to sing "Love One Another" with me and then once there, in the moment, we were told that we were the first musical number to start off Zone Conference. Elder Brown almost didn't join me but I got him to join. It was pretty good for a "on-the-spot" song I guess. Then we had some great presentations. We also won the "Cleanest Car" award again!! MY 4th time in a row!!! Let's go!!! I was only able to spend like 15 minutes on the car this time but because Elder Brown and I had spent so much time on it last time, it was still really clean. Plus, I try to keep it clean. Anyway, I live for those $10 Subway gift cards that you get as a prize-lol! Then we got flu shot at lunch and I had very little time to eat so a few others and I had to slam our food down and we took a pic and sang for the people that prepared it for us. The rest of Zone Conference was really good too and then afterward we had interviews with President Varner. It was fun to see other buddies at Zone Conference. While there for the rest of the night waiting for interviews, someone brought Elder Brown a Baleada (Honduran food) and he gave me half :) it was really good!! Then we started exchanges with the Thibodaux Elders and I went with Elder McRae and we drove back to Thibodaux, we grabbed some Wendy's on the way back.
Wednesday was not so great. I kind of don't like this day, lol. So, I woke up many times throughout the night a bit cold and my back and stomach hurt. At 5:00am I woke up and had to go the bathroom and from that point on I was not feeling good at all. I was throwing up and I had to use the toilet many a time. It was awful! I think I had a type of food poisoning form the Baleada that I ate. My part of the Baleada was the only part that had bones in it and the other two that ate it didn't have any problems, so it was hard to diagnose...I also might not have been used to that kind of food, though it wasn't very different than lots of Hispanic food I have eaten. Anyway form 5:00am until about 1:00pm was pretty brutal. After that it still sucked but it wasn't quite as bad. We tried to visit a few people that evening and we also had to clean out the back of the car. Elder McRae had accidentally popped the trunk instead of locking the car the night before and it was open all night. It rained super hard early that morning and so the back of the car got soaked. We pulled out the hard flooring and let that dry on the porch and then we scooped the water out from where the spare tire is and we dried the rest. It was a chore. Then later that night we drove back down to Morgan City. Throughout all day I had eaten a little cup of applesauce at like 2:00pm and then I ate about 10 tiny bites of red beans and rice that evening around 7:30pm and that was all I ate for the day. I did drink lots of water to try and flush the sickness and contaminants out of my body as the mission nurse said to do. Then we got to Morgan city, switched back our comps and I still felt pretty grody. Elder Cannon then gave me a blessing, I took some Ibuprofen and drank a bunch more water and went to bed.
Thursday, I woke up and felt almost 100% better which was awesome. Even at this point though, I can't eat a ton without feeling "bleh" still. I generally felt better and now I am feeling great again but if I eat a semi large meal it hurts my stomach a bit and makes me feel a slight bit nauseous which is weird. It is slowly getting better each time I eat though. Super weird experience. So Thursday morning we did our studies, had lunch and then we went tracting. We ended up tracting a pretty well off neighborhood and surprisingly we were able to talk to at least a few people, lol. One lady said she was the cleaner for the family that lived there and this was one of the sibling's houses, she also cleaned the other sibling's houses and the mother's house and they were all really nice houses. We decided to start offering people a song when we knock on their door to invite the spirit and it has been great. We sang her a song and a bit later she let us in this person's house for a moment. It was super nice!!! Then we later went tracting some more. It started to rain so we put our stuff in our bags and tracted a few more doors. We got wet as usual but it wasn't real bad. Then it started down pouring!!! We had to walk a few blocks back to our bikes and we got absolutely soaked. I am glad my bag is waterproof cuz I just put everything in it and then I didn't care at that point, lol. We were as soaked as if you jumped into a pool fully clothed. My shoes were completely full of water and at that point we stopped caring about trying to avoid all the flooded areas. We got on our bikes and rode to our next appointment. Still raining, completely soaked, but now were getting muddy(I don't have mud guards for my bike)I am fine with getting wet but getting mud on my shirts stinks. It is hard to get out sometimes. It was nice that we weren't having to deal with the heat anymore though! It was almost even cold!! I loved it!!! It was actually quite fun and we probably looked funny as we laughed and smiled while getting drenched. We then came home and changed. Elder Cannon had a pink sticky note in his pocket...it stained all his clothes pink...We then drove over to have a lesson with Jeanne and it was great. We then tried to see some people and then we went to the church for a family history night activity. We had some investigators come and it was a great activity. We then went to see some other people and then came home.
Friday, we had our studies and lunch and then we did our weekly planning. We then went to some appointments but they fell through so we biked to our next appointment and barely made it before the rain, we were booking it to get there before the downpour. We then had a great lesson. After the lesson we came home and grabbed some dinner since our dinner appointment fell through. They sent us some pizza instead so we waited for that to arrive. Had a piece and then left to Morgan City to do some tracting. We continued to offer a song to people when we knocked on their door and it worked really well. It brings in the spirit so well and we were able to have two great lessons at the first two houses we knocked. Then we saw a young boy who had been baptized a year ago but hasn't been to church since I've been here and he was super awesome!! Such a great kid! Then we tracted for the rest of the night and most people were kind cranky.
Saturday, after our studies we went to a family whose kids we are teaching and read the story of Ammon with them and their mother fed us pupusas again and they were so good!!! They were pupusas de chicharron and they gave us little tin orange chili peppers which were pretty hot. They said they were super super hot and I was proud to be able to eat 3 of them and not die-lol! It wasn't too bad with the cabbage and onion stuff that we eat the pupusas with. Then we tracted for a while and found two new people to teach and then we biked over to Jeanne's and then we biked the 7.5 miles back home and ate some dinner and then left to Amelia. We visited some people in Amelia and then tracted the rest of the night.
Sunday was a pretty good Sunday, Cody and his family weren't able to make it to church because their tire popped on the highway, which was sad. We did have the young guy, who was baptized a year ago, come with his sister and friend-which was awesome! Then after church we had some appointments fall through so we tracted for a couple hours, it rained but luckily we didn't get too wet. That was a hard two hours of tracting, I'll admit. Then we came home ate our Fast Sunday dinner of pizza and then we went to Morgan City, had a good lesson or two and tracted a bit and we drove over and then biked around. Then we came home. It was a week full of highs and lows and lots of good experiences.
Love,
Elder Acton
Zone Conference
Pupusas
Elder McRae's "water-logged" car
More Biking
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