I hope you are doing well. Thank you for the emails and the fun stories. It sounds like all is well!
This week something crazy happened. Crazy is the only word that I can think of to explain it.
On Friday
night, my companion and I got back to our room, and right as we walked in the Elders
called us to ask us a few questions. I sat down at my desk and was
talking to them, and my companion lay down on her bed. I think I
was talking to them for like 6 minutes, on speaker phone so that my
companion could hear too. But when I hung up I looked over at her and
she was sleeping. Six minutes! I was amazed at how fast she fell asleep, I
didn´t realize she was so tired. She had mentioned it during the day
that she was abnormally tired, but she kept working as normal. I tried
waking her up, but she was super duper asleep. I got a little irritated
actually, because every night we always plan for the next day, and it´s
not an optional thing. So I decided to just leave her alone for a
minute, and I started to get ready for bed and stuff. At 10-ish, I tried
waking her up again. I was literally screaming her name and shaking her
whole body, but she would not wake up! I was legitimately angry at this
point, and I just thought to myself, "Whatever, you can just do
whatever you want." I´m so dumb and immature sometimes. So at 10:30,
bed time for all missionaries, I prayed, tried to wake her up one more
time (with no luck) and went to bed. Literally the second my head hit
the pillow, I felt so strongly in my heart that something was not right
and I heard in my mind, "Go take care of your companion!" I jumped off
my bed and turned on the light and saw that my companion was convulsing.
Her whole body was shaking and her eyes were rolled back in her head.
It was probably one of the scariest things I´ve ever seen. I don´t know
how I managed to keep calm because I was so freaked out. I called our
leaders, they called the mission president, and they all came to our
room to take her to the hospital. When the elders saw my companion, they
freaked out a little bit too. The President came, and they carried her
out to his car and we went to the hospital. We got there at 12:30ish.
Basically, it wasn´t as serious as it looked. She´s been taking a
medication that apparently doesn´t work right, and it made her body
enter into shock. I don´t know what the doctors did to get her out of
it, but it wasn´t that huge of a process, thankfully. When she woke up,
she was so confused. I felt so bad! Imagine that, just waking up in the
hospital and not remembering anything. By the time we got out of there,
it was so late that we had to sleep in the president´s house because our
area was too far away. The next day we woke up after getting about 3
hours of sleep, and just laughed. It was such a strange, sweet, and
funny moment.
My companion is okay! Don´t
worry. This week and especially the past few days, we´ve talked a lot
about all of the things we´ve learned together; all of the moments that
have taught us so much. We´ve seen a lot of amazing things together and
had quite a few bumps in the road. But that day, I really felt that God
is always taking care of us. Who knows what would have happened if I had
ignored that impression and let my tiredness win me over. I think I´m
still paying the price of getting so little sleep, but obviously it had
to be that way.
This experience helped me to
understand the importance of the little things that happen in our lives
(in the midst of the big things). Loving my companion, for one. Second,
being able to listen to and respond to the prompting I received that
night.
There is a scripture in the Book of
Mormon that I really love. It´s in Moroni 7. It´s really well known, but
it says everything that I´ve felt these past few days:
Wherefore,
my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity, ye are nothing, for
charity never faileth. Wherefore, cleave unto charity, which is the
greatest of all, for all things must fail—
But charity is
the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found
possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.
Wherefore,
my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart,
that ye may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all
who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the
sons of God; that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we
shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may
be purified even as he is pure. Amen.
Interesting how it
says that if we don´t have charity, WE ARE NOTHING. We really have to
learn how to love all people, despite their flaws. It´s something that
I´m learning, and trying to master.
We must
be like Jesus Christ! We must learn to love as He loves. And also,
don´t take medication that has crazy side effects :) Be willing to
listen to the Spirit, and follow what He says.
I love you so much! Have a great week!
All my love,
Hermana Scott
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