Hey everybody
So you know that theory i have where I cant ever get hurt? Well turns out that only applies when im running and working out 5 hours a day and doing decaathlons and what not.
This morning, my district got together to play soccer with the young men from our wards. We were playing at the court at our building, and its a pretty small concrete court. There is a strip of grass separating the court from the sidewalk, and then a curd down to the parking lot. Well I went for a loose ball near the boundry, stepped onto the wet grass, and lost my footing. everything would have been fine here, except for the fact that there were two sisters of one of the young men sitting on the sidewalk right where i would have caught myself from falling. And lets face it, as a missionary I would rather die than touch a girl besides just a handshake. So i dove head first over them, onto the asphault of the parking lot, off the curb. I broke my fall with my hands, and when i got back up i checked to make sure there was no bones or anything sticking out. I was good but i couldnt move my right wrist very much. I figured I sprained it. But then the movement came back after a few minutes and it was fine. But then about 20 minutes later after we got done playing i noticed that i couldnt bend or straighten my right elbow all the way. It slowly got sorse until I could move it about 3 inches in each direction. Its pretty swolen. So my question is, can you sprain your elbow? I dont see why not... But it doesnt really hurt if i keep it close to a 90 degree angle, so i just walk around looking like im ready to shake everyones hand. Mom, if it doesnt feel any better after a few days, I will call someone, dont worry.
Sad to say, that was the most interesting thing that hapened to me tis week. Except for maybe loosing the remainder of our investigators to no real reasons. The family we found last week, dropped us for no good reason. When we ran into the mom on the street, we asked her if she was going to be home that night, which we knew she was because she told us a week earlier that they are home everynight at the time we usually stop by. It didnt take the gift of discernment to figure out that she lied straight to our faces when she said no. So i asked her flat out "Why dont you want us to come anymore? What happened?" She couldnt look us in the eyes, and just gave us the same lame exuse as the first time when she said they are too busy. That one was a tough one.
Another one of our investigators went back to listening to the jehovas witnesses.
Another one said her arthritus (spell check?) was too bad and it hurt too much to get up to answer the door. Not even a blessing helped on that one.
We found out its going to take longer to baptize the 10 year old boy jesus dues to some problems with them going to the wrong ward for the last like 5 years.
So as all our investigators and potentials fell, I began to realize that I had been extremely blessed for the first 6 months of my mission. I have yet to face this many problems in such a short period of time. I have taught and shared countless testimonies of the helping hand of the lord through difficult times, and now its time to really see what i have learned. I surprised even myself, when a few nights ago after one of the hardest days i have had yet, I actually found myself kneeling in prayer thanking the lord for the tests he has given me. Like a refiners fire, he will purge the weakness from us if we are meek and submisive in our difficulties. As Mornoni teaches "You recieve no witness until after the trial of your faith"
We have just been knocking a lot. I have discovered how much i really enjoy just talking to people about their different beliefs. Hopefully we find more sucsess this week. We are going to be knocking a lot again.
Congrats to Nick for finishing up school! Party!
Thanks to everyone for the encouragment and the prayers. Keep em coming.
Love, Elder Kitterman
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