2.16.15 - Bendiciones en el hospital

Our Ward mission leader Sergio Gonzales called us while we were street contacting at night. He said a friend of one of the ward members had 3 hard attacks and was medically induced into a coma. The member had requested that we go to give him a blessing. The Intensive Care room was cold and awkward while a fleet of nurses made sure I didn't kill him by stepping on a cord or ... I don't know what else I could have done to him. We laid our hands on his head and gave the blessing while 5 members of his huge family listened. We thought it had been a great success, the spirit was evidently there, and we had just enough time to get home before curfew. Brother Gonzalez on our way out asked if any the members of the family waiting would like a blessing of comfort. No one knew what that was, and we try to refrain from soliciting blessings in hospitals, and when it seemed like no one was going to respond a small shy mexican hand slipped up into the air. So we gave a blessing to the mans wife, and when we opened our eyes, we saw one more hand pensively considering the offer. So the second blessing was given, and now 2 more hands were in the air! We left the hospital after giving 13 blessings and were very late getting home. It was a very moving and memorable experience.

I had a surprise exchange with Elder Pew again on tuesday. We also had district leader council. Wednesday we had an exchange with Pflugerville, Elder Van Oene is English called so we talked about his district between a few lessons that I tried to teach solo. Thursday We did a weekly planning exchange with Taylor. Friday... I got really sick. I had a fever of 102. So I slept the whole day. Sister slaughter said I would be contagious for 24 hours after that, so Saturday we also didn't leave the apartment, but we did study all day which I really enjoyed. Once I threw up I felt great, and since I didn't eat for 2 days I lost 7 pounds. I'm not getting it all back.

Oh! Yesterday I gave a talk in Church. I spoke for 10 minutes on the covenant of the Sacrament.

That's what i've been learning the most about this week. Every blessing of the atonement is introduced into your life through Holy Ghost. How important it is that in the sacrament prayer every week we are promised that spirit so long as we commit to be disciples Jesus Christ. One very important part of the sacrament is to take time to remember all of the ways the strengthening power of the atonement, by means of the spirit, has blessed your life. That's something that has made my experience taking the sacrament turn from a very hard self evaluation every week, with the result that I still make a lot of the same mistakes, to a chance to see how God has blessed me to be able to do things beyond me physical capacity, and thus making me a little more like his son. Praised be his name!

I love you!

Stay Salty!

Elder Tyler Meidell