Bell, Rigdin PT

A couple more doctor visits and the announcement of the next AP for our mission has given some interesting events for this week. MONDAY was a whole ordeal all on its own because we spent about 4 hours just sitting in waiting rooms at the E.R. to get Elder Riggle's leg looked at. Our mission nurse thought he might have something called compartment syndrome and told him to go to the E.R. because if he did have it, he would possibly need emergency surgery. We went, waited around for a while, got his leg looked at for about 10 minutes, and were told that he was fine. TUESDAY we joined a bunch of the other missionaries in the zone for Spanish class so that Elder Riggle can start working on his Spanish before the mission turns fully Spanish. WEDNESDAY we had a follow-up at urgent care for Elder Riggle's leg. More sitting in waiting rooms, hurray! THURSDAY we were able to spend some time out and about knocking doors and contacting the friends we're teaching. It was great to be...

People are always telling us to watch out for the dogs around here. Well... we missed one this week. MONDAY was pretty cool because my grandparents were passing through Las Cruces, and I got to see them for a little bit! They took us out to dinner, and when they left, they were able to take some of my stuff I needed to send home. It was really nice to see them, but it was also a bit strange because I'll see them in 2 months back home. TUESDAY we had a really bad dust storm. It was so bad that they shut the highway down, and the TorC elders couldn't go to their area. So instead, they just blitzed our area with us. It was fun, and I got to hang out with Elder Owens for a bit while we waited for the dust to stop. WEDNESDAY we spent a lot of time with the Spanish elders learning Spanish. Lots of fun, not much to write about though. THURSDAY we went to the soup kitchen in the morning to do some service. I just got stuck washing dishes for 2 hours. It was pretty fun. FRIDAY my comp g...

This week's been pretty busy in a lot of different ways! My mission is changing in a couple different ways, some good and some less good. But I just trust that the Lord will bless us for our efforts. MONDAY we spent the day running around to the doctor's, to get haircuts, and finally meeting up with the zone to have a cookout. The food was good, but you could definitely tell some of those missionaries hadn't cooked for themselves before. TUESDAY we got together with the zone again so that we could practice a song we were going to perform at zone conference the next day. WEDNESDAY zone conference was a bit of a different one. The mission has been having a lot of challenges with being reverent and showing respect to members and friends. It all built up and finally hit a boiling point that made it necessary for President and all the other senior missionaries to chastise the whole mission. All of it was stuff that really needed to be talked about, so I was pretty grateful for i...

Some sad news for this week is that we have to move our trip to the temple. Our recent convert had some school stuff come up and he doesn't know when they'll be available next. So sad, but we'll keep going strong! MONDAY was a very all-over-the-place kinda day. We got our tire fixed, went thrift shopping, got ice cream with the district, and played a bunch of games. It was a lot of fun with the only bad thing being that my asthma hit me really badly when I subbed in during a basketball game the other missionaries were playing. TUESDAY our district leader had us go out onto the NMSU campus during his training and just talk to people we meet for 40 minutes. The first 10 minutes were fine, but then the next 30 minutes sucked because I just got Bible-bashed by this one random guy nonstop. Sarcasm doesn't come across the best in an email, but I just lovvvvve campuses. WEDNESDAY we managed to make some really good contacts with the people we had planned to visit that day and ...