Oh my goodness! It has been a crazy crazy week! On Thursday we had six
lessons planned and only one of them actually happened. We had two
different members come out with us and our appointments fell through
with both of them! It was so sad. Our time with members is precious,
and when appointments fall through it's just sad! We went out
contacting with them both and even tried two different appointments
with our last member and nobody was home! It was so annoying. But we
were grateful for our willing members to come with us.
Thursday night, on our way home we got a call from President Alba. He
asked Hermana Fernandez about switching to be an English missionary.
This is my companion from Spain. All transfer long she has been trying
to perfect her English and she has been doing a great job at it, but
she feels that she doesn't know the language at all. Anyways President
asked her to pray about it and if her answer was to go English
speaking she would leave the very next morning. I guess we have a few
English sisters who are going home early due to health so President
needed someone right away. This broke Hermana Fernandez heart because
it was Hermana Wises last weekend here in the mission and on top of
that she was scared to death to speak English. So she just started
crying.
We got in our apartment and Hermana Fernandez was still crying but
wanted to continue on with planning and so we started to plan and a
couple minutes into planning she went into the bathroom to cry.
Hermana Wise and I decided to let her have her space and we finished
planning. Afterwards we were looking at pictures that Hermana Wise had
and by this time Hermana Fernandez had made it to her bed. She was
praying...or at least that's what we thought she was doing. We heard
heavy breathing coming from our room and Hermana Wise and I went to
go check on her and we came into the room and Hermana Fernandez was
just on her bed hyperventilating and she had slowly gone into a panic
attack. Luckily Hermana Wise had had a lot of experience with panic
attacks and for the most part knew kind of what to do. Anyways her
whole body was rock hard and she was not responding to anything we
were saying. So I called the mission nurse and she wasn't answering,
so we called Sister Alba and she didn't answer either! So I called
President and he answered. He talked us through the attack here and
there, we were pretty much on the phone with him all night. The attack
lasted until about midnight. We had to have our zone leaders come over
and give her a blessing. It was crazy. President was so nice. He was
so concerned and he made sure that everything was ok before he went to
sleep. I am so grateful for him. He does so much for us missionaries.
Him and Sister Alba both work their tails off for us. Saturday we
spent about three hours at Sister Steuarts house (she is our mission
nurse). And she talked to Hermana Fernandez about it and gave us
advice on what to do next time that happens. I am so grateful for all
that they do for a missionaries. They care so much for us.
It turns out that Hermana Fernandez and I are staying together and it
will be just the two of us is transfer. I can't believe that Hermana
Wise is done! She had her interview with President yesterday and we
are on our way to go drop her off at the mission office. It is sad!
It's going to be so weird without her. I am a little nervous for
Hermana Fernandez because she is really sad about Hermana wise going
home, I am just praying that we aren't going to have to go through
another panic attack! It was stressful that night! But now I know what
to do when my companion is having a panic attack!
Anyways that's the news for this week. I seriously can't think of
anything else. It has been a hectic/stressful week! But we are going
to have a good transfer and we are going to work hard! If things go
right we will be baptizing a family in September!! That makes it all
worth it.
I love you all! Hope you have a great week. Love, Hermana Hamblin
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