Nurse/Chauffeur Elder Stubbs

Hey everyone, how's life?

So my past week has been a little different than usual. It started last Monday after emails when we went to go play basketball with the other missionaries in Windsor. Elder Wright was passing the ball and it nailed Elder Christensen's finger. He was in a lot of pain and he couldn't move his finger. Their ward mission leader was there and looked at his pinky and said it's just sprained since there was no discoloration. Later that evening, we learned that not only was his pinky broken, but that a good part of his hand was broken too. So we spent a great deal of time last week in hospitals and clinics for many, many hours waiting in looooooooong lines. He got placed in a cast and was given Tylenol 3 for the pain. Since Elder Christensen's companion can't drive, I got to spend three days with him driving him around to his appointments and such, on times we actually went out. We stayed in a lot because E. Christensen was too busy riding the technicolor dreamscape with Puff the Magic Dragon. He felt terrible for having to stay in and felt like he was a bad missionary. I told him to get over it and his well being comes first. He was in no condition to drive or be walking around all day. He finally decided to stop taking the pills and he's only taken half of them. Whatever. I can't force him to take them. Anyways, this week involved a lot of sitting around and waiting, but hey, you do what you gotta do.

Yesterday at church was interesting too. A quarter of the people who came were investigators. Of course, there were only a total of 20 in attendance, but numbers don't matter. It sounds a lot more impressive to say that a quarter of our ward are investigators. Next week may be better because not all of our investigators came out this week. We'll see what the future holds for us. Missionary work with this branch is challenging. Literally only 3 members are willing to give rides or come to appointments with us. Out of those three, one of them is constantly working, so he can't help as much as he wants. This ward is struggling and only 15 of them show up regularly.

On the positive side, all our investigators are fine and we picked up a new one named Amy. We'll see how she turns out.

Anyways that's it for today. Peace!

Elder Stubbs