11/14/2011 Still Staying in Romeo
We got transfer calls on Saturday and found out that both of us are
staying in Romeo. So that means Elder Erickson will finish out his
mission here.
One investigator has been giving us a roller coaster ride of emotions. If you
remember, last Sunday he came to church and we were so excited! But
then we went over to his house on Tuesday and he was drunk… Then we
called him on Friday and found out he was in the hospital AGAIN! This
time the reason was he passed out because he’s diabetic and let his
blood sugar go to low. I guess his blood sugar was to high and then he
did the math wrong on how much insulin he was supposed to take and
ended up putting himself into shock. It was a pretty crazy story.
He did tell us though that he wanted to quit drinking finally and had
told a nurse that he wanted help. We were feeling happy again because
missionaries and members have been trying to get him to stop drinking
for a really long time! But then last night I called him and he was in
the hospital again. It turns out the hospital released him with some
pain killers and he went home and took 3 of them and then drank a ton
of alcohol. So now he is on suicide watch at the hospital too.
It was really depressing talking to him last night and I kept telling him
that he needs to quit drinking. He drank himself blind, he ruined his
liver, it’s really bad for his diabetes and now he’s on suicide watch.
He ended up calling us later and apologizing. I guess he then talked
to one of our really strong members, and our Branch President and
they both told him the same things. Then he called again
later last night and I got to talk to him again.
I don’t know how the Lord does it, but the spirit was in that phone call. He told me he wanted help and he knew that we as missionaries can help him and get him help. I told him that we pray for him every night and that if he
truly wants to quit drinking, the Lord will help him. We’re going to
call him later tonight and set up another appointment with him.
That was really the main high/low of the week. Other than that, things
have been about the same. We have a hard time getting lessons between
6:00 and 9:00PM every night so we end up tracting almost every night. It
gets dark around 5:00 now though and it’s super awkward to tract in
the country. We try and stick to more residential areas but there
aren’t many in our area. We used to just hit the trailer parks at
night but we’ve been through every street of almost every one.
We had a good family night with some members last Monday. We played a few short games, read some scriptures and I played some music. I played a
few primary songs we sang a long too and then I played some Pink Floyd–
haha. I’m supposed to play a musical number at our mission fireside
this Thursday too which I’m a little nervous about. I’ll probably do a
version of ‘I need the every hour.’ If you can find that ‘Hymns Made
Easy’ book that would be really great. I’m slowly slowly learning some
of the ones out of the book that dad got me last year but I’m nowhere
near being able to perform them yet.
Romeo lost last week so they’re out of the football tournament. If they
would’ve won, we could’ve gone to the next game. We are looking at a
possibility of going to a Lion’s game on Thanksgiving though. But
that’s still way up in the air.
I asked Elder Erickson about USU and I wrote some things down so I’ll
send it home to Austin today.
Well tell everyone hi for me!
-Love Erik