Stitches

 

Wassup guys, I'm just gonna get straight to the point: I took a fat elbow right to the lip last preparation day and it wrecked my lip. My companion was going for a wide open layup in basketball and a little stupid voice in the back of my head said "hey, you can block that" and so I tried doing just that. The result was that I sorta slipped and landed right into his elbow and got a big cut on the right side of my mouth. It was bleeding a good amount and I knew immediately I was going to need a stitch. Soooo, we whipped on down to UrgentCare and got the stitch and as of right now, I just got the stitch taken out! I didn't see it fit to go back to UrgentCare to get the one stitch they gave me taken out so I took some sewing scissors and pulled that baby out. My mouth still looks a little weird, but it'll be alright. 

Anyway, now to more spiritual things, we've been super busy these last couple weeks. With how blessed Daphne is as an area and with the responsibility of being a Zone Leader, I don't really get breaks. We just run... like everywhere. We've got 2 baptisms lined up for 27th so we have been hauling trying to get these kids prepared for the sacred dunk. If there's one thing though that I've learned from my mission, opposition before baptisms is soooo real. One of the kids, Teegan, is getting constant thoughts of "you should go check out other churches.. you should push off the date so you're more 'prepared'.." It's been stressful work. Satan really does suck sometimes. The ultimate goal was to have Elder Olsen be here for his baptism because he just got word that he'll be going back to his original assignment in Ethiopia on April 1st.  Reason why was we so badly want this to happen is because Elder Olsen's father put T's dad on date for baptism 30 years ago. With that being said, you try to tell me God ain't real. It's such a crazy miracle, but we really want it to pan out. We'll see what happens.

There's also a lot of other missionaries going back to their original assignments and because of that they are closing a bunch of areas. Right now, we share a ward with the Fairhope Elders, but they are going to be taken out of the area to fill in for the missionaries that are going back. Well... That means I'm going to be taking over Fairhope's work... As well as Daphne's. I don't know who my companion is going to be, I surely hope he's a stud otherwise I'll probably have an aneurysm from the size of the workload. I'll let you know what ends up happening. 

I think I'll leave this here, hope y'all have a wonderfully blessed week. Praise God, Hallelujah, Roll Tide. 🐘 

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Elder Batman 🦇