I feel like I have nothing new to say since I just emailed on Wednesday! But I will try to think of something interesting to write about! It has been raining non stop in Missouri this week. There flood warnings like crazy. It's so much rain. I'm about ready to build an ark.
Wednesday (fake P-Day)- On Wednesday I was starting to have
a tickle in my throat and I sneezed a little more than usual. I went through
P-Day doing all of the usual stuff, grocery shopping, laundry, emailing and my
zone even got together to play volleyball! While I was at volleyball I had the
thought "you're going to get sick this week, but it's okay. You need
it." I was confused a little but I thought "I will not be getting
sick, I don't have time to be sick." and went on. After volleyball Sister
Sanders looked at me and said "hey! Do you wanna go home and get some
sleep? I feel, in my heart, like that might be a good idea." I thought it
was a weird comment but I never turn down a nap so we went home. Wednesday
night we had English class. I came home and took some Emergen-C and went to
bed.
Thursday- On Thursday we did our table at MSU. It was more
dead than usual. We didn't really even get to talk to anyone because no one
walked by. As the end of semester approaches the foot traffic slows down and
usually the only people who walk by are the ones who have to, which means it's
the same people every week. We had a lesson and it went really well! Even our
investigator said it was a really good lesson! All day long I had a cough and
the sniffles but nothing too awful. Thursday was a pretty slow day.
Friday- On Friday I woke up and felt like I got hit by a
taco bus. It was the worst. I couldn't breathe, raging headache, fever, the
whole nine yards. I walked out of the room and Sister Sanders immediately told
me to go back to sleep. Our mission president is huge on not missing a day of
work because you don't feel good. He says that a majority of the work that is
done in the world is done by people who feel less than stellar. He always talks
about a story where he had the flu and he threw up all down the bunk line while
he was feeding cows. I told Sister Sanders that I was fine and I would
"throw up down the bunk line" she laughed and told me that it was
better for me to sleep and get better and go to work later that night or the
next day than to make it worse by going out and working in the rain. I said I
would go to sleep for a little while longer and she should wake me up if I
wasn't awake in an hour. She didn't. I slept for almost 10 hours and she was so
sweet. She cloroxed the whole apartment and then did a lot of phone and
clarical work so that I could sleep. I woke up and still felt like garbage but
we spent the rest of the day doing some planning/ prep work for our Sunday
baptism. I felt really bad I didn't work through it but in the end it was a
huge blessing.
Saturday- Weekly Planning! On Saturday we did the rest of
our weekly planning and went out and did some less active member finding and
tracting! We also went to a lunch for one of our members who is leaving on a
mission this week. He had a TON of non members there that he wanted us to talk
to! It was so awesome! He is a great member missionary. After that we did some
more visits to less active members and just tried to figure out if the people
on our ward roster still lived where it said they do. The one downside to the
YSA is that they are mostly college students so 1. There's a lot of turnover.
People move in and out all the time so it's hard to keep track and 2. Whether
the people on our roster stay in our ward or not they move apartments
constantly. So it's really hard to find people. We also did some online
training. I have finished all of my newby trainings that I needed to get done
online so I started looking into some family history. It's frustrating because
we can't google anything so I couldn't look up ancestors that I had questions
about but I was telling Sister Sanders about how I would love to look into some
of the people when I get home.
Sunday- On Sunday we had church! Church is always awesome.
It was "Senior Sunday" so all of the high school seniors who will
soon be attending our single's ward came so that was awesome and then a lot of
members of the ward brought non members so we were busy all three hours trying
to meet and fellowship people. After church I was talking to the new ward
clerk's wife, Sister Maughan. I mentioned that my mom's maiden name was
Maughan. We chatted and ended up figuring out we connect at our ancestor, Peter
Maughan. We talked about that for a while and it was really fun. After church
we did some tracting and then went and got everything ready for Samuel's baptism.
His baptism was such an awesome experience. He was really well supported and
the spirit was really strong. He is the only member in his family now but his
parents both came to support him and so that was really neat. He was baptized
by Spencer, the member who leaves for his mission this week. They became really
good friends and it was an emotional moment for them! After the baptism Sister
Maughan came up to me and had a book about the life of Peter Maughan for me to
borrow and read when I have time as well as some family history information
printed off for me! She said that Brother Maughan said he would put the book on
my flashdrive for me so I have it when I get home! It was really neat because
just the day before I was telling Sister Sanders that I have a lot of cool
family history on both sides that I don't know much about and then BOOM a
tender mercy so that I can learn more about that side of my family. God is so
good!
This week was short between emails but it was great none the
less. This week was a huge testimony builder for me that God knows what we need
even when we don't. Whether it's a sick day or a really loving ward clerk and
his wife who happen to be distantly related to you. He will always take care of
us and give us the righteous needs/desires of our hearts. I am so humbled to be
a daughter of a Heavenly Father who is so actively aware of me. I know that he
is aware of all of you as well. He loves his children so much. He just wants to
bless us. I also know that he has asked us to pray. I have always struggled
with prayers. I used to feel a little silly praying because it always felt like
I was talking to myself or just whining about things I needed. I used to have
very short, insincere prayers when I decided to pray at all. Being on a mission
has really strengthened my testimony of prayer because I have had to rely on it
so much more. Prayer is an amazing tool and it only allows Heavenly
Father to bless us more. I know that Heavenly Father hears and answers prayers
and that he blesses us with things we pray for and with things that we don't. I
love you all! Pray often! Heavenly Father loves you!
--
~Sister Madisen Lloyd
Pictures! I don't have a lot of pictures this week but I do
have two!
Picture 1: Samuel's baptism picture! Samuel is the one next
to me and Spencer is next to Sister Sanders. Spencer is our awesome member
missionary who is turning into a real missionary this week! Picture 2: Sister
Sanders and I got to peek in on a scrimmage game for MSU! Samuel, our (now)
recent convert plays for them! He's number 12!
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