Today we got up early to get to church in our zone. We headed up the Northeast coast to the east side and across to the southeast side for church. We thought we'd take the other way home so we headed down the south coast, but then I got a text from a sick missionary in the west zone, so instead of taking the middle cross island road back to home, we kept going all the way to the west side down by the airport to take care of the missoinary, then across the west end to the north west side and back along the north coast road to the mission home. Now that we're getting close to the end of our mission, I kept thinking maybe this will be our last drive all the way around the island! I tried to take it all in today, cause it might be the last time I see some of the beautiful areas of this island.
The week went by pretty fast. On Monday night, I got a facebook messenger message from the nurse that's coming to replace me. She wanted me to answer some questions that she had been assigned to ask as part of her missionary training. I mentioned to her that I would see her on the 22nd, which is the date the missionary roster had her arriving. But she texted me back and said she wasn't getting here until the 28th! Apparently they changed their arrival time but no one here knew that! So I guess we won't be spending any time with them to train them in person or show them around. I spent Tuesday night emailing answers to all her questions and then on Thursday we did a video chat on WhatsApp for almost 2 hours, and Elder G. has had a couple of video chats with her husband, who will be taking over the mission housing job. I've been trying to get some things cleaned out and organized so she will know what's going on when she gets here.
On Monday, we had another group of missionaries from one of the Savaii zones come for a temple trip. On Tuesday we went to our district meetings which took most of the day. The Tutuila Elders flew in for a Temple trip Tuesday evening and then flew back on Wednesday. Thursday was MLC, so we had missionaries around the office all week which keeps me busy because they're always coming in to my office to ask for things like bandaids, tylenol, ibuprofen, or to ask me about rashes or aches and pains, just anything they can find as an excuse to hang out in my office, haha. We had our zone leaders stay with us on Thursday night during MLC. That's probably the last time we'll be housing missionaries too. We helped Tui fix breakfast for the MLC missionaries on Friday morning.
Elder Godderidge delivered needs to a couple of zones this week and President Reid gave him a couple more demo and repair jobs to do around the mission office so he started working on those this weekend.
About half-way through our mission, I was reminded of the words to the hymn, "Lord, I Would Follow Thee", particularly the third verse:
"I would be my brother's keeper;
I would learn the healer's art.
To the wounded and the weary
I would show a gentle heart.
I would be my brother's keeper--
Lord, I would follow thee."
I felt like I could take the word's in that verse quite literally with my missionary calling as the Mission Nurse. So I tried to keep that verse of the Hymn in my mind while I'm serving the missionaries and it's helped me stay focused on helping them feel better so they can serve better.
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