This is my area
Yesterday I got to experience the real life as companion to the mission nurse. Right now there are two nurses so Hermana Bryce is just in charge of everyone in Belice and the 2 zones here. This means that her life as nurse is pretty calm; just a few more phone calls than usual. But yesterday morning one of the phone calls was pretty serious. This poor elder in my zone was throwing up blood so we got to take a taxi to San Salvador hospital. There are hospitals here in Sonsonate but they are a little iffy so to San Salvador it was. We were in the hospital figuring everything out for most of the day. Luckily the elder is fine, just SUPER dehydrated so they put an iv in. I had to leave the room. I told Hermana Bryce that I passed out watching a cat scan. We are bothing wondering if being the companion of the mission nurse was a good idea for me. ha! But everything was taken care of and we got back to our area at about 6pm, leaving just a few short hours of work before sleeping, and waking up early just to drive to San Salvador again for the temple this morning. But the temple was GREAT!
It felt like it had been forever since I have been through a session. This time was my first time in Spanish and I actually understood almost all of it. Maybe that is because I already know what is being said a each part. ha! The last part was a little nerve racking but all went well. Can I just say that the San Salvador temple is GOREGOUS!! I have only been inside a few temples but this one is one of the prettiest I have seen. As I was sitting in the temple thinking, I started picturing all of the people that I am teaching right now that have baptismal dates, standing all in white in the temple. YES! That is the goal. I am not here only to fill the churches on Sunday. I am here to help people start taking the steps to get to the temple. It is so easy to get sucked into thinking about the day to day things. But when we are looking at the whole picture we realize how important the small but righteous decisions are. If you make your goals while only looking at the small picture, you are never going to accomplish the most important goal of this life. I have to remind myself of this often. I am not here in El Salvador just to knock doors everyday. I am here to help people prepare for eternity. They dont know what they need to do to have a good eternity. How important it is to share this with everyone! Like Jacob says in 2 Nephi 2:8 Wherefore, how great the importance to make these things (speaking of the atonement) known unto the inhabitants of the earth, that they may know that there is no flesh that can dwell in the presence of God, save it be through the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah..... This is the work of missionaries. This is the work of every member of the church! We have a duty to share this vision with everyone. I have been thinking a lot about what I am going to be like when I get home. As a missionary, you see the functions of the ward so differently. I cannot go home just to be the same as I was before, only thinking about my own salvation. If I do, I will have wasted 18 months of my life. But that is the great blessing that we have, we can change and progress. And we can only do this because of the atonement of Jesus Christ. I am SO grateful! Every day I learn a little more about this atonement and every day I am even more humbled to realize that He did that all for me, for you, for everyone. I know that my Savior lives! Because of Him, we can have hope in this life. There is light in the midst of darkness. Use it! Dont just toss aside.
I love you all!
Hermana Heap
Last
week for zone conference Hermana Bryce and I made french toast for everyone.
This was only about half of what we made
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