ALOHA

 

     But it stuns me that another week has gone by fast! It feels like it was yesterday that I last wrote. This has been a slower week for me and my companion, mainly because I was sick. So for about 3 days I was stuck inside recovering. I have not been that sick in a long time, I even lost my voice! But now I am recovering and should be back to normal soon.

     I probably should mention that I am still having neck pain. It hasn't stopped me but it has become a nuisance that needs to be taken care of. I have one more chiropractor appointment scheduled but I have a suspicion it is not my back that's the direct cause. On Sunday it was causing so much trouble I started doing some research and I found that TMJ can cause neck pain along with jaw pain and ringing in ears (which 2 things I had trouble with pre-mission). If I am right my back is not the cause. I plan on talking to the mission nurse to get her opinion so you might get a call later this week with more information. 

     My stomach has been doing great and hasn't been causing me much trouble.

   

Besides health, I am doing great, when I was sick I took some time to improve my handwriting in print and cursive and also developing a workout/yoga plan which I am excited to incorporate in the future. I feel I used the sick time productively.

     The moment that stuck out to me the most this week was teaching at the National Guard reform school. The facility finally gave us a room to teach in and we got a great turnout. The class was filled to capacity. 

     What makes a challenge as well is we have an hour to teach and with that large of a teaching pool, we have to get creative in order to teach such a simple lesson in such a long time. 

     One thing we did to fill time was when talking about the atonement we used an analogy, we took 3 of the strongest youth and asked then to do five pushups foe everybody in the room, and we had the students each say either something they have done or an example of a sin or pain. We only got to about half the class but it was an awesome object lesson. We related this to the atonement of Christ, how he took our sins (them telling us a sin) and he paid the price for them (doing the push ups). The moral of that activity seemed to really sink in with them. They keep coming back so that is a good sign! This week has gone by so fast! 

Love you all 

-Elder Esplin