Your body is a Temple

 

So this last week was pretty nuts. Monday Hermana Hale and I went to the doctor to see if he could figure out what was wrong with her. He ordered a bunch of tests for Tuesday (transfer day) so we had to be at the hospital at 6 am to get her in to a bunch of horrible tests, while slumped over in the waiting room chairs and tried not to think about everything we had to get done that day. She ended up getting her gallbladder taken out.  When she woke up from her anesthesia, oh man. She started talking in sleepy Spanish to all the doctors and I got to translate for her. It went like this. She overheard one doctor telling the other that he was going to go to a bar that night (it being new year's eve and all).

Hna Hale pointed her finger at him really firmly and said: NO TOMAS!
Me: She says you shouldn't drink.
Hna Hale: Su cuerpo es un templo!
Me: your body is a temple.
Doctor: haha tell her to respect her elders.
Hna Hale: Respecta a Dios!
Me: she says you need to respect God.
Hna Hale: Tu Necesitas una libro de mormon en su vida. Necesitas la palabra de sabiduria
Me: You need a Book of mormon in your life. And more wisdom. (she quickly corrected me that it was the WORD of wisdom which I wasn't really feeling was the right time to try to explain as the chuckling nurse was wheeling her out of the room.)

As we walked out the doctor asked his nurses, "What did she say?"

"She said your body is a temple"
"Hahaa oh yeah and I am gathering worshippers!"

That was only a fraction of the best morning ever. Then as soon as she was fully awake, we met up with her new companion in the parking lot and I went on a 2 day exchange with hermana Parry, the other sister who works in the Louetta ward, as we were both awaiting the two new spanish speakers from the MTC on Thursday. I am still trying to catch up on sleep.

I wasn't really feeling nervous or anything about having a brand new companion until I was sitting in the training meeting and then I felt like I was strapped into The Rocket and wondering how I got there. But man as soon as I saw Hermana Tu'ikolovatu I knew she was going to be mine all mine. She is the coolest. After lessons with some of our dearest less actives and investigators she just comes out crying because she loves them so much and so mad that she is crying haha. I wish I still had the energy to feel that much! hahah. I still got enough in me to keep going. And I'll go till I'm dead!

Sure love you all! too much!

Hermana Carter