Sorry about not being able to email you yesterday....i was feeling quite sick throughout the day yesterday, and i went to doctor today to see if anything in particular was wrong. basically they said that everything was normal except that i have a UTI, which i already knew like four days back so i thought something else was also wrong. I didn't know having a UTI could make someone have vomitings and loose motions and extreme body/bone pains.....Is that normal Dad? i trust your opinion more than this doctor's honestly, so if you could let me know that would be great. I am feeling a little bit better this evening and hopefully should be able to resume my mish work tomorrow.
Anyways so it was another very hard working week for me and
my awesome companion. We are really doing our best to find and teach and
reactivate and retain and all that stuff. We are having a pretty
difficult time still finding new investigators which is pretty frustrating, but
we are still trying and hopefully this week we are able to meet some new people
to teach.
As far as Sophia goes, we were making some good progress this
week with her until something very unfortunate happened...the other night, in
the middle of the night, the family she was staying with just took her and
dropped her off at her village and left her there, so we aren't sure when or
if she will come back. our branch president is trying really hard to bring her
back and arrange for a member family to let her stay with them until she leaves
for the US. So on friday for our zone training, this was right when we
found out she was gone, part of the training was about our accountability and
whose fault it is for people not accepting or for missionaries not meeting
their goals, and the zone leaders read us a scripture from john chapter 9 i
think about it being nobody's fault. God has a specific plan for
everybody, and sometimes he allows things like this to happen so that we can learn
in different ways. This was a real comfort to me because i was quite
discouraged about what happened.
As far as Neeraja goes, we taught her again and when we
taught her on Friday, she wouldn't even pray....so this week we must teach her
about the importance of prayer again, and probably will have to postpone her
baptism until April 19 so we will see how that goes. As far as our
progressing investigators it was a bit discouraging, but we did awesome with our
recent converts and less actives and member lessons this week and had 20
rc/la's come to church so we were very pleased with that.
So about conference, we don't get to watch til the week
after. Same as it was for me in Bangalore. This upcoming weekend is
our conference time so that should be good. Sounds like another great
one. So in answer to the question from mom...the little miracles
i think are a lot of times God keeping me safe on these streets in India with
all of the crazy traffic, and also just how he helped me to love this country even
though it is so different. And other things like that. Also even in
times where it is easy to be discouraged because of failure, it is still so
hard to not be happy knowing that i am doing the right thing.
Speaking of Go India, dad your mission country beat mine in
the world cup semis and cricket and then eventually won the cup. That is
right, Australia won the world cup. Kangas get the W. Duke won?! Man!!! what happened to Kentucky?? anyways sounds
exciting.
Actually i do have one request...that i get some more daily
contacts...if that is possible. It is so dang hot here in rajahmundry so
it is really frustrating wearing glasses because they just slide off my sweaty
face anyways. So if that is possible it is the only request i have.
:)
Well yes i am still loving my mission and having a great
time and really enjoying teaching the gospel. I also love you guys so
much and hope you have a wonderful week this week!
Love,Elder Ball
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