Beginning this week, I was already a little beat up (I wasn't able to hear out of my left year all last week, forgot to mention it, but it's because my eardrum was blocked by whatever was in there, we still don't know, and the excavation irritated my ear enough to make it throb for the next few days. No fun...) so we're looking for something nice and fun to do for a P-day to rejuvenate ourselves for another week of 봄 time missionary work. We tried going to a park, ended up being a depressing zoo, so we went to the biggest traditional market in Daegu and spent time looking around and shopping here and there. We do the shopping and Elder Seol, our native Korean, wants to eat some traditional market 순대 "sundae" (not like the hot fudge type, it's actually pig blood sausage stuff). We end up following suit with him (because he's our Korean and we weren't going to just stand around and watch him eat while we did nothing). Long story short, I order one too, but they give me more than this sausage stuff, it's a platter of assorted mystery pig meats (which later turned out to be womb, lung, intestine, liver, and concentrated head meat. Pictures and videos will be included.) Four of us eat it. I down mine really easy (I'm really prideful at this point in the mission, thinking I can eat anything now after the hardships of my earlier missionary days) another Elder has a hard time getting it all down, but we finish, it's done, we go home, have a member appointment that night, end of Monday...
The next day, I wake up, I'm not feeling hot. I force down breakfast, do exercise and all that. MISTAKE. I toss my breakfast up right before personal study. I endure the rest of our studies while trying to stay focused and alive, go get Elder Nations some lunch (because there is no way I'm eating), rest while he eats, rest a little more because it's worse than we thought, try doing some contacting, that failed, and we head to our appointment disregarding my current condition. ANOTHER MISTAKE. I'm riding the bus. My companion is silent, recognizing the glass in my eyes. I'm clenching my bag, sweating, staring out the window and I make my decision: it's going to have to go out the window. Hand the bag to Elder Nations, verbalize my plan, and begin the regrettable moment that took place on that bus. I'm still tossing by the time we get to our bus stop, hand the phone to Elder Nations who cancels our appointment a minute before it was scheduled, get off the bus at the next stop. I call our mission mom, who tells me to not eat anything that day, drink only a little water, rest for a bit, get back to work. We plan a split with A-team who has Elder Seol dying from allergies so we can rest for a bit while Elder Stewart and Nations take on the schedule for both teams that day. We finally grab the other Elders, I'm tossing as we're walking back to the house. Long story even shorter: I got home and couldn't get up for the rest of the night. Got back to functionality the next day, and only one other Elder died the way I did. Lesson learned: don't eat unrefrigderated assorted pig organs in foreign countries~
OTHER STUFF THIS WEEK:
-We got a lot appointments cancelled all through out the week. Just one of those weeks I guess. FUN FACT: That day I couldn't do anything and we went on splits, all of our appointments and A-team's appointments fell through. We had some good laughs about our pity-party that night.
-We went hard trying to prepare stuff for our English class. Found some awesome people who have potential for our class AND for becoming investigators
-We visited a man, only for the second time this transfer, to teach him the second lesson. He ended up understanding and listening to everything really well and we were able to commit him to baptism, along with a soft baptismal date! He's a little unique and has a lot of age on his hands but he's got the desire to learn, go to church, and act. Hopefully we can continue meeting with him and prepare him well~
-We had interviews with Mission President this week. It was more insightful and uplifting than most. Excited for next transfer!
General Conference was AMAZING!! I had written down questions beforehand on things I wanted to know/learn from General Conference and I felt like the majority of them were answered pretty clearly. My biggest one was "How can I love better and more like the Savior?". I was surprised when I realized that the entire theme of that conference seemed to all focused on love. The idea of "ministering" really stuck with me; teaching by the individual, according to needs, in unification, and with a single desire to follow the Savior Jesus Christ. I also received the inspiration that I ought to expand my spiritual capacities by searching for what it is I need to improve or give-up in order to feel the Spirit more strongly. So many more answers, so many more thoughts, but no time to list it all. Keep looking through the conference talks, and come up with personal questions of your own to receive personal revelation!
Gotta go, buh bye~
-Elder Metcalf
1-3) Our P-day Adventures at a depressing zoo
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1-2) MISTAKES.
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