la Semana de Reposo, Parte 2‏

So my nose has been giving me a lot of troubles again, and we went back to the ENT doctor. We call him doctor bigote (Moustache) because his black moustache is very contrasting to his very white hair. He cauterized my nose for the 3rd time, and said this is it. He said I can´t do anything for a week. No exercise, dust, time in the sun, nothing. When we asked him to speak with the President´s wife, he said that he wasn't going to ask for a yes or no answer. We were a little taken aback by his boldness. None of us would ever consider speaking to her in that way! But she´s also very sweet, we´re so lucky to have a wonderful President.

I got a blessing the day before we went to the clinic, and I felt very confident that I´ll be able to return to everything after this time, without problems. I'm so grateful that the authority to act in God´s name has been restored to the earth. And that Heavenly Father really does want us to have blessings, we just have to have the courage to ask for them! 

 So to say the least, we´ve been a little bored!  We found lots of different ways to be able to still keep our appointments. My companion was able to do intercambios with the other Hermanas in our area a few times, and we did splits with some our members. We have a wonderful family who lives down the street from us who are always willing to help with anything. And it just so happens that the 2 kids speak English, so we´re able to have a bit more of a friendship. Its really hard to get to know people with a language barrier!

And with a language barrier, I didn't understand that I was going to be at this members house while their son opened his mission call. He´s off to Pennsylvania in a month, Spanish speaking. Its pretty cool, because we are basically trading places! We also have been able to bring a sweet girl with us a lot lately who is thinking about starting her papers.

Otherwise all is well here in the land of J.  We don't really have any progressing investigators at the moment, but we have about 7 people who seem to be generically seeking the truth, and are open to hearing more. I can´t wait to get back out and actually meeting with them again.

Hermana Crawford