On Tuesday,
the Hyderabad zone did a Nativity, with all the missionaries gathering,
reading scriptures, and singing songs. That was a lot of fun, and we
performed our skit again. Speaking of the skit, it's included below.
That took up most of our day, which was largely eclipsed by the events
of the morrow.
Wednesday
morning, I got the weirdest call of my life. A member called us up
early in the morning, and asked us to pray for her children. She was
crying a lot, and eventually told us that she was thinking about
committing suicide. That call was soon followed by many more: to the
mission president, his wife, and the senior missionaries at the mission
office. When we realized that ALL of them had their phones switched off
at the same time, we called the bishop, the APs, and the first counselor
to try and get help. Then, we booked it over to the member's house, and
had a really long conversation. On the plus side, that let us skip
district meeting. We ended up taking the day off of missionary work to
try and cheer her up, which worked really well. That night, we met with
the bishop, who gave us some interesting news that would have been good
to have hours ago: the member in question had done this sort of thing
before, and had had those same squabbles before. He used that as a
rationalization for not showing up or asking anyone else to. When we
asked him to help make sure that her home and visiting teachers came
more regularly (she'd told us that they hadn't come in forever), he
revealed that HE was her home teacher, but still didn't promise any
change. To cut short the suspense on how the story ends there, the
sister is happy and healthy, and the issue seems to be over as of right
now.
On Thursday,
we got another unexpected call early in the morning, this time with
much better news: our zone leaders informed us that the Transportation
Minister of Telangana had invited the missionaries over for his wife's
birthday party. We showed up, had lots of pictures, and they gave us
some fabric and copper water bottles as gifts. It seemed a lot random,
but whatever. Afterward, we went back to our area, which took a while.
It's about an hour's travel away. That night, we got to travel yet
another hour away to the Cobb's house, who I later emailed at. They fed
us your standard Christmas eve dinner- for Indians. It was chicken
biryani. Then, we sang songs, watched Joy to the World, and worked on a
2000 piece puzzle they had.
Friday
was very fun. We headed over to Sister Pulla's house in the morning,
and stayed half the day there. We sang yet more songs, played violin and
guitar, and made lots of food. I even tried out a no-bake cookie recipe
that I found on your blog! That turned out really well.
Saturday and Sunday
weren't quite as much fun. Elder Campbell was pretty sick, so we
mostly stayed inside while he slept. That's the news of the week!
I remembered to send them this time!
This is the bottom half our our district.
This is us with a member. I need to work on my selfie skills, though.
And this is the no-bake cookies I made. The picture didn't turn out too well, though.
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