Hello! Happy
April! April
7, 2014
So a member of the ward was going to miss her
Massage Therapy appointment and offered it to me because of all the back pain I’ve been
having. So, with the Mission President’s permission, I went and I found out the
source of all of my problems. She said that all of the bones in my neck were
completely out of alignment (except one) and that it had thrown my lower back
out of whack too and had made my legs uneven which is why I had trouble standing
for so long. So, now I get to go see a chiropractor in 2nd ward (for
free) to see if she can put me back into place. We’ll see. She said that I
should have been seeing a chiropractor, buuut I was fine before, so I imagine
I’ll be fine after? Psh, I can deal with it. J
We meet with
the Konzen’s often. She wants to teach us to belly dance. It should
be…interesting ha, ha.
This is from
President Mecham’s letter, in case anyone is interested in what is going on in
the Montana Billings Mission in March J :
“In the March the Montana
Billings Mission
This week
has been very busy for us. We met at least 60% of the Grace Bible college this
week when we stopped by to meet a referral from Mormon.org and they invited us
to a lunch gathering, which we accepted. They wanted to invite us to many
things after that (like hiking, other lunches, and they want me to play in
their “jam sessions”) and we exchanged phone numbers. We've also been invited
to all of their lunch gatherings in the future for this semester which I am
excited about. And we had the world's most
exhausting lesson with some of their religion students who met with us for a
paper they were doing on Mormonism and came with an attack plan! They
even admitted later that they had. One of the boys apologized because he said
we were so calm and polite and kind when they were attacking us verbally and he
said that he was really impressed and he said he felt bad for what they had
done. We graciously accepted their apology, bore testimony of the things we had
said and then he asked if he could have our copy of the Book of Mormon (we had
brought it for them, hoping they'd want one)and they both promised (of their
own free will) to read the Book of Mormon. It was a great experience because
most of the people going to that school are in training to become future
pastors and leaders of different churches and they came away with a lot of
respect for us and they were really impressed with how we handled everything. I
hope that this will later translate into a good opinion of the church when
they're addressing their congregations, even if they don't believe what we
said. Or better yet, they'll read the Book of Mormon, get an answer, and
convert! But we came home from that lessons absolutely exhausted and spent (it
lasted 2 1/2 hours!). It was great and guess what! We get to do it again
tonight with other students from the same Bible college! Ahh!
We watched
two sessions of conference with Sister Searle, which I absolutely loved! The
sessions were so good and if you haven’t seen them yet, you need to! They were
amazing! I hope she got a lot out of it. We had a good discussion afterwards.
We’ve been having a lot of good, deep discussions lately about things that are
on her mind which makes me happy. I love her so much and I just want to see her
come back and find the joy that comes from being fully active.
In support of one of the part member/less active families
we’ve been working with, we went to a medieval reenactment and watched people
beat each pother with huge wooden swords in full armor. It was a great opportunity to talk to a lot of
people and I must admit that I was intrigued by it. We had a lot of fun and it
was certainly an experience I thought I would never have on the mission! While
we were at the activity I helped a guy put together his weird Chinese flute thing
because he couldn't figure it out since the directions are in Chinese. Good
thing I read Chinese. Ha, ha just kidding!
But he wanted to sell it but he couldn't make it make music, so I messed
around with it and fixed it for him.
I also got to hold the world's cutest baby rat, Kayla,
saved from becoming snake food. It was so cute and tiny! Sister Governale
even held it, but gave it back to me once it started moving. It was funny, I
thought she was going to drop it. I’ve never seen anyone be so quick to hand an
animal back!
We participated in a huge dodge ball tournament in Three
Forks. The whole town puts it on and one of the members sponsored a sister’s
team and an elder’s team. They also took us out to dinner beforehand. It was the most brutal game of dodge ball
I’ve ever seen! I forget that not everyone is as sportsman-like as the
missionaries. It was actually a little intimidating. However we remained very
professional and had a good time talking to people. Our Sister's team took 2nd
place! We got mugs and candy. Oh yeah, living the high life!
We’ve had a lot of strange weather this week: hail, rain,
a huge snowstorm, 40-50 degree weather, you name it, we’ve had it this week!
It’s been hard to predict what the weather will be like here. I do enjoy the rain
though, since we have a car, and I love to watch the snow fall. It’s so pretty!
We had another lesson with Mark this week where we read Alma
Yep, that’s about it for this week. I hope everyone is
doing well and I love getting your letters, they make me so happy! Remember to
find something you learned from conference that you can apply in your life
starting now!
I love you all sooooo much!
Sister Draney
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