April 30, 2012
The mission is still
going good, its been a pretty crazy week though. Elder Spencer, the senior missionary here,
ended up in the hospital on Tuesday morning because he has fluid around his
heart. Luckily our stake president is
one of the best cardiologists in Iowa and had him come in for an appointment on
Thursday and again today. President
Jergensen came yesterday to give him a blessing and while he was here he talked
with Elder Wally and actually took his driving privileges away so now I'm the
driver! =) I'm good with that.
haha! It was good to see President
Jergensen. We finally set a baptismal
date with Brian on Tuesday his date is June 9th so that's pretty exciting! His wife is still unsure but she let him
bring their daughters to church on Sunday and of coarse they had a good
time. Hopefully she will come this
week. It's so good to see the progress
of hard work it keeps me going. Richard
from independence wants to take us to the effigee mounds, its an Indian burial
ground park in Fayette's area so he said he would take us and the Fayette
elders with him. We go on the 21st so
I'm excited for that! I'm not sure if
he will progress very much it might take a while but he really enjoys our
visits and wants us to keep coming back so we will! We have a few more potentials to work with
and most of them seem really promising.
I'm so glad that this area has picked up and I'm so jealous of the new
elder that will come in to replace me.
Elder Wally has started to do better again we had a good talk this past
week,well it was kind of and argument but either way I got my point across and things have started
to get better! Always remember that you
are never alone Christ went through everything we have and ever will so that we
could always have someone to relate to.
Love Elder Jach
May 7, 2012
The mission has been
pretty crazy! Elder Spencer the senior
missionary went into the hospital on Monday and found out he had to have heart
surgery. His 2 main arteries were blocked
and they were amazed that he wasn't dead already! He went in for open heart surgery on
Wednesday, we got the call that he came out fine and has been doing great! They called him the all star of the ICU. He is already home after only four days in
the hospital. The doctors said that
someone half his age would still be in recovery for another few days at
least. The power of prayer and a
priesthood blessing is crazy! I'm SO
happy that he gets to stay out on his mission I don't know what I would have
done if he would have had to go home.
This week we did a ton of service.
Now that the weather is warm everyone has things they want to get done
which is great for us. We have been able
to do a variety of different things. We
dug post holes for a fence luckily we had a tractor and a drill. We sanded down some cabinets. We made some
raised gardens and worked on a dairy farm, that one was one of my favorites.
We're going back out there today and again on Wednesday I'll be sure and get
some pictures to send next week. I miss
being able to be outdoors and working on the farm helps me relax a little
more. Doing some hard manual labor feels
really good. Mothers day next week and
another call home. That's pretty crazy
it came so fast, but it will be good to get to chat for a little while. Mosiah
4:9 you don't understand everything!!! =)
Love Elder Jach
