TUESDAY - My back was killing me, I was planning on staying inside and resting when we looked outside and realized that... we were going to be staying inside anyways! The sky was completely black, and the tornado alarms were sounding loud and clear, the wind and rain came quickly and we did not leave, we had calls from leaders, texts from members all sorts of stuff saying STAY IN, 13 tornadoes and 3 were REALLY close to us, we took some video of it until I got scared and ran inside like a little girl but it was crazy, we ordered pizza seeing if they would still deliver and they did! haha The storm had passed and the tornadoes that touched did some pretty hefty damage, but no one was injured luckily, first tornado experience, it was crazy! We had dinner with Lori Holland and Jeremy, Jeremy came and got us and we had spaghetti, it was way good, but I'm not a big fan of Jeremy, he is kind of a jerk and a know it all. But Lori is sweet, We came back and Bro Mata took us out to our lesson with Barbra, we taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ and did the egg lesson and she loved it. That was our day in a nutshell, crazy!
WEDNESDAY - Interviews with the president today and I was not feeling good still, at all. We got picked up at about 8:20 by Bro Chapman and then headed to Lake Highlands to have interviews and trainings, it was about a 4 hour meeting but it felt like a 12 hour meeting. I was just sitting in pain, I got into my interview and President said, "Elder whats on your mind, you don't look like the normal happy elder Jackson" I explained that my back had been hurting and stuff and he said "When you fly high like Michael Jordan, you land just as hard. I had the same problems" I had called Sister Durrant and she said rest it and he said the same, so that's what I did. The meeting finally ended and we got picked up by Bro Chapman and headed back, We were in all day until dinner, we went over to sister Lloyds and had hamburgers and then came back and rested more. Oh I also had a crazy dream I went home and there was a bunch of tornadoes and josh got killed by some Chinese mafia and the tornadoes took out all of sandy, it was insane!
THURSDAY - Got up, still in pain. We did some planning and studying and then did some more, we went to the store to get a few things with Tim and print some pics then we had dinner with Bro Drummond. Churchs Chicken, it was really good, I love the Drummonds, they are way cool. We were an hour late to Barbra though, but we got there and taught Word of Wisdom, Chastity, and Tithing. She only had a question about coffee like most people do, we explained that its bad for you and she asked about a 100% natural non caffeinated one and told her to pray about it. Other than that she is ready for her interview tomorrow.
FRIDAY - Interview was supposed to be today but we had to reschedule for tomorrow which is alright. We were in all day today too, not feeling any better, worse in fact. Then we had dinner with sister Rasmussen, I love them, they are so cool. We went to sCRUMBtious and had pie shakes and burgers then we went over to her house and I hung upside down in this back stretcher and we watched this movie called "The Robe" WAY old movie about the man who killed Jesus Christ, but way good too. We were there for a few hours and then she gave me some oil to put on my back that is like icy hot but much better. I felt a bit better now.
SATURDAY - We tried to get the interview set up in the morning and did but 5 minutes after Barbra called saying she was sick and all this what seemed to be excuses but who knows, I was very disappointed. Tim took us to CiCi's and I was not happy, I was in a bad mood because of the interview and my back. I'm learning a lot more patience on my mission :) We came back and were in all day again... starting to get cabin fever... Called Sister Durrant and she said the same thing, she called the doctor and they told me the pain will be there another 3 weeks but it wont be healed for 7 weeks... I don't even know what I have! They don't like us going into the doctors for some reason. I want to go somewhere and get it checked out at least. Sister Lloyd brought dinner at 8 and we had no appetite so we just went to bed.
SUNDAY - Finally we can get out, we got picked up to go to church and I couldn't sit for very long, I had to get up and move. We had a less active come today so we went into the Spanish class with him today and then had priesthood. We were starving and finally got to Bishops house and settled in ready to eat. Way good food. Brisket with potatoes and corn. We ate and then headed home. Elder Larson wasn't feeling good so he came back with me while Elder Dominguez went to a lesson with Elder Falk. I was so tired and slept, big mistake cause I could not sleep at all that night. Crappy week. But gotta keep my head up. Thanks for following. Love you all.
Elder Aaron Jackson
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