Monday, May 28

Well, it has been another interesting week. I have been having problems with my knee for a couple of weeks... My District leader kept telling me to call the mission doctor. I ignored him, then on Tuesday we had our specialized training and I was wearing my ace bandage. President talked to me on the phone that night and told me to call the doctor. I said "yes", but I had no intention of doing so. Well, apparently God Smites you if you lie to the mission president. I woke up the next day with a spasm in my back that had me on the floor not moving. So we called president and he said to call the doctor about my knee and my back. So we did. His prescription was to take 600 mg of ibuprofen with each meal and 400 mg before bed. My thought was that he was going to have me overdose with ibuprofen--12 a day seems to be a bit excessive right? 

I followed doctors orders on Friday and woke up nauseous and vomiting on Saturday.  The mission president came to give me a blessing of comfort but ended up giving me an all encompassing blessing for health and comfort and counsel. It was good. They asked if we wanted to spend the day with them going to baptisms rather than just hanging around the flat. We decided that would be a day well spent, so we left our flat and went to Bolton, Chorley, Blackburn, and Preston for baptisms and got home after 9:30 in the evening. It was good! I got to know President and Sister Preston better and was able to allow my body some time to recooperate. The weather has been beautiful and hot here lately. Sister Hoffman got sunburned and I got a boot tan. Lovely.

Transfers are next week so we won't be emailing on Monday. Monday is also the Queen's Jubilee. So it is a big day of celebration and our ward is having a picnic event with the church across the street. So it will be a good day!

We haven't had any more problems with Sister Hoffman's stalker. I love how protective our District leader (Elder Cline) is of us. He forbade us from going back there and He hates hearing or even talking about the stalker. I brought the painting to specialized training with us to show people and tell the story and he looked me straight in the eye and said, "It's not funny, you should burn that." we laugh at him. I just joke about it now to see him react. Our goal this last week was tofind a fear each day to overcome. So one night I was reporting and I said that we had changed our fear for the day last minute and that as we were on the train we came across the stop that we got off to go see demonboy and I said we were inspired that we needed to overcome the fear of being afraid of going back and seeing him. There was a long pause on the other end of the phone... Elder Cline said, "Are you serious?..... for what reason?" we could just tell he was trying to maintain his cool so I was like, "I was just kidding." Another long pause.... "Okay. Good. I was about to go nuts over the phone." I don't think he appreciates me joking about it but I just think it is funny. Elder Cline goes home next week. We will miss him.

We got a dog! Just kidding. We were walking down the road the other day and this dog came bounding through the busy intersection and just came and stood by us. He had a leash on but we couldn't see anyone looking for him. We stood there for a second wondering what to do and we checked for a tag... nothing.... no one on the street. I called Elder Cline and he said to call President and ask for permission to keep it. ha ha! Finally this lady came up to us and asked us if we just found the dog. Apparently it was her neighbor's and her neighbor was drunk and lost it. So that was the extent of our having a dog. It was pretty funny!

So those are my adventures for the week. We are going to go do some clothes shopping today so I will have some warmer weather clothes. So that will be good.
There is a street near our flat called Wellington Road.  It is LINED with Wellington boots.  That is what these pictures are about: