“Regardless of our age and stage in life, daily obedience to gospel principles is the only sure way to eternal happiness. President Ezra Taft Benson put it most poignantly when he said, ‘When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.’”
Today is Friday; I’ve been home since Wednesday noon feeling unable to do anything but with no real “symptoms” other than extreme tiredness and an inability to be up and about. Actually today I am doing better - finally - but still nowhere close to normal. At least I have been able to be up and about doing some of my “normal” things with great effort and then resting afterwards. Dad may come and get me at lunchtime if I feel up to going into the office; right now I am not sure.
Monday was a good day with two interesting referrals, sort of:) One was a message left on the answering machine Saturday evening from a lady saying she had moved up from southern California and had been having a hard time and wanted to find a church. At first it sounded more like someone looking for the Eugene mission, which takes care of homeless people, etc. But she also said that her parents had been married by a Mormon bishop and that they had advised her to get in touch with the Mormon church. So, I tried calling back; go no answer and a message that her voicemail had not been set up. I decided to keep trying throughout the day and about the 4th or 5th time someone did answer. When I asked for her by the name she had left, the person said no...then I told them about the phone message that had been left and that person asked if I were from the Mormon church - and I said yes - and she yelled across the room to another person that it was the Mormon church. I ended up suggesting that she call me later when she was free (it sounded like she might be working in a beauty salon). She did and when I told her that if she would give me her address I could send two missionaries over to share where the church was and answer any questions, her response was, “Oh, that would be wonderful!” Turns out she is in the area covered by our APs; when I asked them later how their first visit was they said, “Awesome!” So we’ll wait to hear more:)
Then - a man walked into the office looking for some information about the church. Apparently has been in jail, apparently has had some connection with the church at some time...and after a brief encounter with us, and then the APs who came in the door, he went on his way with a new Book of Mormon (a particular chapter marked by the APs that they thought would be good for him) and several pamphlets. So I thought Monday was a marvelous day:)! I love it when we get to be a little part of sharing of the gospel.
I’m sure Tuesday was a normal day only I have no real memory of it now, other than being too tired to do a little shopping in the evening, which I had hoped very much to do; Wednesday seemed to start OK except I felt too tired in the morning to do my exercises - lay down on the couch instead for a nap. At the office I seemed to be just dragging my way through the simplest of tasks and finally realized I needed to go home and lie down - so requested my good driver to bring me here:). Besides sleeping and feeling totally useless, my one wonderful memory of Wednesday is that I got up at one point to go to the bathroom and the sun was shining everywhere - glorious light seemed to fill every room and the whole outdoors. I know that later when I got up for the same reason, everything was gray again, so I felt that one beautiful period was a special blessing for me. Thursday was more of the same; Dad kept thinking that I was just tired and sleep would fix me...kept thinking I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night after sleeping so many hours in the day, but that never happened. I have spent a LOT of hours in sleep over the past few days; I am grateful to be moving around a little better this morning and hope to get past this soon - whatever “this” is!
OK - now it is Saturday; I am quite a bit better, but still get tired way too easily doing the smallest of things. This is such a mystery to me. Our new sister in the office who is now the mission nurse stopped by Thursday evening to see how I was doing and check me over. She even brought some soup and french bread - which was so very kind of her. However there is nothing obviously wrong with me. Blood pressure normal, no temperature, etc. Weird. Anyway, if I improve as much tomorrow as I seem to have improved so far today, then I should be able to go to the office on Monday. (Never did get there Friday afternoon.)
Today is Mary’s birthday! I called her and it sounded like a pretty quiet birthday...working from 4:30 to midnight at Sub Zero. Last night was the Sub Zero appearance on Shark Tank; sounds like it generated some business in the shop in Provo and that they have had a good Facebook response. We wish them well! Next birthday is Tanner - he’s almost 2!!! Time does fly. Ask Jim Jr. - since his birthday was yesterday!
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