The Human Body. The Words Best Working Machine

Long week this week haha!

On Tuesday it was a pretty normal day. We had a few visits and we met with a boy named Yahir. Yahir is 11 years old and lives with his mom and sister who are both more or less active members. Yahir is not baptized but has decided that he should be baptized. So met with him on Tuesday and put a baptismal date for June 17th. So for the next few weeks we are going to work with him to help him prepare for his baptism and hopefully in the process we can get his mom and sister to fully active members.

On Wednesday we had a service project in the morning with rest of our district. We spent most of the morning digging 4 holes into the side of a hill so a member family could put pillars in for a foundation or something like that. But I realized that the pickaxe and shovel have been my two best friends for the past few weeks haha. Anyways, after the service project we all ate lunch as a district with Hermana Carla. Hermana Carla is the lady who cooks lunches for Elder Reyes and I and she lives right next door to us. She and her kids are all members and are a big help to us since they live so close.

Anyways after we all ate lunch Elder Reyes and I did our visits for the day. We met with a few families. One of the families we met with is family Jurado. This family consists of 3 young girls and their mom. They are all inactive members except for one of the daughters who isnt baptized. She is a little stubborn and and has lots of doubts and questions. While we taught the restoration she asked where the gold plates are right now. We tried to explain that angel Moroni took the plates with him and all but as you can imagine that is a little hard to explain to someone who doesnt have much of a church background. But then I asked a question that I have always wanted to ask someone. I asked her that if we could show her the gold plates right now then would she believe the Book of Mormon 100  percent? hehe. She said no. After that we had a good discussion about how the only way she could know for sure is through a testimony of the Holy Ghost. There really isnt any way around it.

After our visits on Wednesday we got home and I was really tired. I got ready for bed and started washing some clothes but I really wasnt feeling good at all. Well it turns out I wasnt because about 15 minutes later I was throwing up everything I had. So I spent just about all of Wednesday night sitting on the toilet with a bucket (whom I have named "Leaky" for obvious reasons) throwing up until I had nothing left to throw up. It was pretty miserable haha. But during all this was thinking about how the human body works haha. Lots of people say that the human body is the worlds best working machine and is basically perfect. And it is. The human is an awesome miracle and I am really greatful for mine. Only one suggestion...hahah. Could there maybe be a less horribly uncomfortable way to get rid of bad food? haha that is my only suggestion. 

But I am feeling quite a bit better now. I spent Thursday and Friday getting back to strength and to my normal diet. By Sunday we were up and doing our visits again. I am still not 100 percent but I am getting there.

Anyways that is mostly how this week was. Today we had a relaxing Pday and just washed clothes and rested. Thanks for all the love and support!

Love you all!

Elder Gessell

The Garcia family sent this pictures to us via facebook yesterday!