We're going on an adventure!... "Can we get snacks first?"

Maayong Aga! (Good morning)

This week was quite crazy.. hold on to your seats.

Saturday morning I woke up feeling like a basurahan (trashcan)- I couldn't stop coughing. So I asked my companions if we could go to the doctor.. The MTC doctor was closed to we had to go on the shuttle to urgent care. We were there for like two hours and then they looked at my throat for like 7 seconds and said I had allergies (definitely wasn't allergies). So we went back to the MTC and I bought loads of cough drops and some cold medicine. It kind of helped. ( This story will be continued)

Sunday we were released as STLs and called as the music directors! Yay. We had testimony meeting and I shared Alma 27:17-18. For Choir this week we sand Lead Kindly Light.. Which is one of my favorite hymns. Brother Eggett always makes sure we understand the meaning of what we're singing. That hymn is all about letting Heavenly Father be your guide and following His will instead of your own- doing what He wants you to do. For the devotional Trey Martino and his son told the story of Joseph Smith through folk songs. I was dancing in my seat a bit :)

Monday we had TRC again and the coolest thing happened! So last week we invited one of the sisters to think of a friend that wasn't reading the Book of Mormon everyday and to remind her of the importance of it and invite her to start reading everyday... and she did it!!! She texts her friend every night and they both share what they learned through the scriptures that day. It made me so happy :) We're real missionaries!

Tuesday night our devotional speaker was Elder Anderson! We're so spoiled here. He talked about President Nelson's talk from conference about receiving personal revelation. I thought a lot about exact obedience and what that really means.. I think it also means heeding to the council of the prophets and being meek enough to make changes in you life when invited to do so.

Wednesday we got to be new missionary hosts!! I got to help 4 new sisters! They were so excited and happy- I had no criers haha.. It was a fun opportunity to be able to show them around a little bit and see their reactions when they found their rooms and got their name tags.

Funny story--- So I like to look up extra vocabulary words and such outside of class and I had looked up the word failure earlier in the week... so in class our teacher asked if anyone knew what failure was.. So I said " Kalabasa " .... um that was incorrect.. Kalabasa means squash- like the vegetable-- So I've probably called myself a squash like 5 times this week :) My teachers died laughing. It was awesome. We also challenged our investigator (our teacher) to baptism this week and he said yes!! That was a really cool experience

And the story continues! So all week I've been coughing so much like to the point where I can't eat because it makes me cough too much so we went back to the doctor at the MTC and he told me that it definitely wasn't allergies! I got two prescriptions and then he told me that I needed to walk across the street to the BYU health center to get a chest x-ray. So I went and told my companions that we were going on an adventure- I had to get a chest x-ray! And they said "Oh! Can we get snacks first!" It was hilarious. They help me keep things light- hearted.

My chest is fine though and I think my cough is getting better. I'm not allowed to talk, sing, or run today so my companions wrote a sticky note for my name tag that says "Sorry I can't talk today- doctor's orders. Please leave a message with Sister Schenk or Sister Thedell. Thanks!" I'm so grateful for them they've been so patient this week. We couldn't go to the temple this morning because my coughing was out of control so they sat in our room and studied while I slept all morning. I also have to go to bed at 8 pm for a few days and they're being super nice to me like moms haha. They have lots of selfies with me sleeping. :)