I feel like I've given a million blessings already since I got here. I didn't think I would be doing that many so I didn't have any oil on quick draw, but now I do. I'll be strapped from now on. A sister in my district was playing volleyball this week and was spiking the ball when some kid ran under the net and took her out. I was running on the track above the gym when it happened and some sisters came to grab me to give her a blessing. My companion and I gave her the blessing in the gym clinic and I felt prompted to tell her that her mission wasn't over. There was some serious bruising running down her leg so I knew that technically there's a good chance they'd just release her, but I said it anyway. After a visit with the doctor we found out she had a full tear of her ACL and a condyle fracture of her femur. Long story short, after a lot of meetings with the MTC presidency, she's going to finish MTC and then go home for surgery, and then go out to Korea once she's healed. She's had a great attitude about the whole thing, definitely a great example to everyone. She's very happy that her mission will continue.
Other than that, this week has been pretty uneventful. I would kill for a guitar, I think I've bribed every single teacher on the 4th floor. There's an instrument library here and they've got the most rinky dink collection I've ever seen. Want a harp? Got u. Recorder? Sounds good. Guitar? No, that instrument isn't mainstream enough unfortunately. Hopefully I remember all my songs when I get to play again, or that's gonna be some bullcrap.
The language is coming pretty good, some days I feel like I'm in the wrong class, and then there's some days I understand what's being said more than I don't. The good days are extremely satisfying, being able to understand what people are saying feels really good. Hopefully I have a lot more of those good days before I get shipped off, or I'm cooked.
Funny Story: This story isn't mine haha but I thought it would be worth sharing.
In the residence halls there's red call boxes in the hallways, we're told we can use those in case of emergency. One of the sisters in my district woke up and started puking the other night, around 3 am, and almost immediately some security guards showed up and asked her if she's the girl who's been puking. She was kinda confused but told them yes and so they had her and her companion put some shoes on and come outside where they had a big red van waiting for them. They promptly drove them a staggering 23 ft. to the main building where an on call doctor was waiting to see her. He asked her about her symptoms and she said she only had a headache so he gave her Excedrin and sent them back to their residence. When they got back they started walking up the stairs and found a girl wrapped in a blanket who looked like she was about to die sitting on the stairs. She asked them if they heard what the intercom said and the girls in my district said that it was something about a "girl puking." The stair girl then told them that she had been puking, and had used the red call box but "nobody came."....
awkward lol. Right as they finished that convo the same security guards came hauling back in and took her away. Moral of the story, if people show up to help you for seemingly no reason it's probably not for you haha. The chances of that are so low, poor girl.
Spiritual thought:
I was reading the talk "The Plan of Happiness" by Boyd K. Packer this week, which I believe was his last conference address before he passed away. It's interesting to me what he wanted his last apostolic message to the world to be. In the talk he explained that our physical bodies can be damaged and that there are frequently scars left over from injuries, but that with our "spiritual bodies it is another matter."
"Our spirits are damaged when we make mistakes and commit sins. But unlike the case of our mortal bodies, when the repentance process is complete, no scars remain because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. The promise is: "Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more." (D&C 58:42)
It's awesome that his last testimony was that Jesus Christ performed a perfect atonement, and that those of use who choose to use it properly and completely will be able to stand before God with a perfect confidence. Sometimes it feels like the atonement hasn't worked because we think we still feel the "scars" of our sins, but the promise is that God, not us, won't remember our sins when we repent. We will remember them for our own good and experience, to help us to avoid it in the future, but when we have fully repented our guilt will be washed away.
Peak human innovation (ran out of penut butter)
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