May 29,
2012
Wow! So much has happened
this week. I really don't even know where to begin. Missionary work wasn't even
the main part of this week. Elder Pearce has been having headaches and pains in
his head as well as dizziness and mysterious bumps on different parts of his
body, which we assumed to be lymph nodes. Most of them are on his head and
neck. These headaches have been going on daily since he first entered the MTC
and we felt it was about time to figure out what is going on. On Friday, we
went up to a doctor's office that accepted walk-ins. But that office had a
whole bunch of paper work asking strange questions and it didn't seem like the
best doctor's office. We went home and decided to try somewhere else
another day. We rode the bus that day and it took a long time. It took
several hours. Then on Saturday we got permission to go to an Urgent Care Center
and Elder Pearce got a perscription of a CT Scan. The doctor told us to go up
to North Broward Hospital and told us they take walk-ins, so we went up. But
the Out-Patient Center wasn't going to be open until Tuesday, today, and we
tried to see if we could get approval so that we could go to through the
emergency room to get it all over with and out of the way, but the mission
wouldn't give us approval because it costs too much. So we came up today and
Elder Pearce got the CT Scan. We left at 7:00 and we got back around 12:50. We
will get the results of the blood work that they took at the Urgent Care Center
on Thursday. The Doctor can also review the results of the CT Scan. We hope
everything is all right. That was a very short version of everything that
happened with that and it has taken hours of time between riding on the Bus,
calling Sister Sommerfeldt, the mission nurse, and going through all of the
medical procedures.
But on a small missionary
note, we saw Gaelle with Elizabeth and Brother Hillsamer, we saw Natasha, a
really nice Haitian woman and her family with the Sommerfeldt's, who gave us a
ride around that day because of the lightning outside, and we talked to her
about family home evening. We will see her Thursday. It has been frustrating because
we haven't been able to do as much missionary work as usual just because of a
lot of things. But we will work through it. I love you all and I will talk to
you later.
Love,
Elder Seamons
Hi President!
This week on an exchange with Elder Dean, I had some amazing
experiences. We took to heart what you said a while ago about praying not just
once, but many times to pray for help continually throughout the day and while
harvesting. This exchange we both focused on the feelings of the spirit and how
we felt so that we could be guided to those families that needed us. I was with
Elder Dean in my and Elder Pearce's area on Wednesday. We had planned an area
close to Atlantic Blvd. to harvest. On the way up there, as we were biking up
NE 18th Ave, which we normally don't ride on, I felt the distinct impression to
stop and start harvesting right there. The first door we knocked on Frank
answered the door and let us come in to pray with him and Ashley. He said he wouldn't
normally let us into his home. They told us how important prayer was to them.
We were grateful that we ran into them. We continued to knock in that area, but
we didn't feel it was where we were supposed to be, so we went up north. We
both concluded that we needed to stop for just that one family, but it was time
to move on. We went up north and we were guided to 5 other families that
responded to the harvest invitation. Erika, Diana, Liz, Yvette, and
Jennifer. We are so grateful for the spirit and how it helped us make more
out of the exchange than we could have done alone.
Elder Pearce and I have been reading the Book of Mormon for
30 minutes every day and we have been preparing scriptures to read with our
investigators. We gave the Book of Mormon to a man named Niles who came into
the church and we testified of its importance and what difference it has made
in our lives. I wrote my testimony in a copy of the Book of Mormon a few days
before, and I gave him that copy. Diana, who I met on the exchange, is really
interested in repentance, which is awesome considering what you told us about
repentance in the zone conference. We have some really good scriptures to share
with her the next time we teach her.
I love you President! Take care!
Love,
Elder Seamons
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