Keep Moving Forward!!

Hey Family!!!

So this week has been quite the week.....really it's been the hardest week of the mission to date.  So here's the story.  Monday night I start feeling the regular cramp pain on my right side ovaries.  I figure it's nothing, and that I'll be fine.  Well, Tuesday comes and it starts getting worse, I take some pain meds and feel alright so I just go on with life, but by 5 pm, which is when we usually start tracting I am in so much pain I can't really walk so we decide not to risk it and go home and rest.  I put heat on it and went to bed.  Then Wednesday the pain was worse, I can't remember the last time I was in so much pain, I think it had to be when I had the cyst burst when I was like 15, needless to say I was not feeling good, but its not my time, its the Lords time so I kept pushing and doing as much work as I could.  I called Sister Weaver to get a Dr. appointment because it didn't feel right..  That night we went went with Manette Sisters and did tracting, and by we I mean Sister Nanto went with one of them for an hour while the other sat with me, and then they switched for the other hour.  It was awful, I did read the whole book of Jacob though, and I actually understood chapter 5! WHAT?! So Sister Weaver calls me back and says that the Dr. near us doesn't want to see me but wants me to double my birth control and then stop taking it completely......because he's CRAZY!!! He didn't even know what was happening...AHH I hate doctors.  So she tells me to take Ibuprofen and put heat on it and sleep it off and see what happens.  I did and the next morning it was worse.  So she called the doctor in Tacoma and he refered her to a OBGYN in Tacoma and set up an appointment.

We drove down to Tacoma on Thursday (about a 40 min drive) and went to see the doctor.  While I was there he decided he needed to do an ultrasound to make sure my ovary hadn't flipped, luckily it hadn't but I did have a large cyst, so he gave me Tylenol-Codeine, and told me to watch it and write about what went on and if it continued through my next month that I need to go back and see him....so far, sadly, it hasn't improved too much, and the Tylenol-codeine has made me very spacy....it's funny because Sister Nanto is also really sick with we don't know what, a super sore throat and such and so we are the living dead, but we've still been doing missionary work to the best of our ability!!

We got 3 new this week and all 3 of them are on date.  Their names are Kathryn, Kenny, and Kathryn....yes 2 kathryns.....Kathryn and Kenny are dating, and Kathryn is more open than Kenny.  She was a former of Sister Nanto's, and she seems golden so I hope everything will work out!  The other Kathryn is 9 and she really wants to be baptized.  Her mom is the problem....her dad and step mom, who are super awesome, are dealing with custody stuff right now. 

We also saw Kay and Patty again this week.  They are just so cute, and they're changing, it's hard because old people don't like change but each time we go we see a little change and that's all we can ask for.  Oh question, are we related to a Bill Thomas who was married to a Vivian Thomas?  Kay and Patty knew them, and those names sound familiar but I wasn't sure, Bill died a bit ago, but vivian is still alive.  Anyway let me know!

Well that's about all I've got this week. If there is one thing I've learned this week it is that no matter what is thrown at you, you have to KEEP MOVING FORWARD! Yes it's hard, yes life is tough, but if you keep moving forward you will see miracles and you will know that you are loved by your father in heaven!!  Another thing I learned is that we can never give up on anyone.  I met a lady the other day that was baptized at the age of 90!!! Yes it's better if you accept it a little younger, but the fact that she was willing to change and come unto Christ after such a long life just shows you that it's never impossible, there is always a chance to learn the Gospel, its never TOO LATE!!! 

If anyone reading this wonders if God is there or if he loves you, I can promise you that he is there, and that he loves you more than you will ever know.  And he loves you so much that he gave his only begotten son, Jesus Christ, to come down to this earth, to atone for our sins and make it possible for us to repent and return to him.  Praying and Reading the Scriptures will bring more joy than you can imagine.  Try it out, it won't hurt, it can only help!! 

I love you all and I hope you all have a great week! 

Love,

Sister Thomas

 

P.S. I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense, the pain meds I'm on kind of make me loopy and spacy, so I hope this makes sense.  Love you all!!