A Broken Foot???

So this week has been pretty good except for the fact that I might have a broken foot. We found a new investigator this week. She is pretty much ready to be baptized so it won't be to hard. Then there is a guy named Todd who we taught and he was a bit more challenging which is good. He asks lots of questions and they are really good lessons. I extended him a soft baptismal commitment. Basically that means I say when you come to know these things are true will your follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized by someone having the authority? 


So anyways on to my foot. Its either fractured or sprained really bad. I went for a reverse layup and somehow I landed weird and I heard and felt my ankle pop. It hurt so bad. Then I started to walk it off and I remember feeling so much pain and I almost blacked out and threw up. 

That is awesome that Mark is in Harlem. That place is so ghetto. So right now I'm on a pain killer so I'm pretty light headed lol. I can't really tell yall much except that I broke my foot. But our area has picked up a lot. The boy in the baptism is Harrison Bass.

  Another missionary found a lady to buy jerseys for like really cheap. So I got a Drew Brees Superbowl edition jersey and a Mark Ingram jersey and a LSU jersey. Like they are only 25 dollars each and super cheap so I couldn't resist. I am gonna start sending stuff home. I just need to go and get Flat rate boxes at the Post office. Anyways not to much has happened this week. But I will let yall know more about my ankle and everything else like that. I'm hoping it will heal fast. Anyways yall take care and have a good week. 

Love

Elder Mattei

Remember last month's pizza challenge?

Here is the pizza.

 Elder Mattei and Elder Dela Cruz before the challenge . . . 

 and after (they look pretty miserable!)

Update on Elder Mattei's foot - He's apparently been hobbling around for the last 2 days.  They had dinner with the Crane family this evening.  Sister Crane called me tonight just to tell me what an awesome young man he is!  As an aside, she informed me the they gave him some crutches and she gave him a good lecture about getting to the doctor.  She's likely giving him a ride there tomorrow. Another member gave him a brace, some painkillers and has been providing them meals.   I emailed him back and forth a few times today as well and encouraged him to get to an urgent care or ED.  I think he's worried about being sent home.  Please keep him in your prayers that it's not all that serious and that  he heals quickly and can return to work!  

Mark's in New York

Hey how are yall doing? It was nice bein able to talk to all of you. I enjoyed it. There really isn't much new goin on since then. Today we played dodgeball and had sushi. It was pretty fun but got pretty old fast. I would have rather played basketball or football. Don't move my room into that big room unless I get a door cause I would like to have some privacy down there. But if there is a door built there I'm all for it. Thats awesome that Mark landed today. He will probably really like it there. I wonder where he is gonna serve first. That would be sweet if he went to Manhattan. I will have to write him more now since he will have more time. I hope he will have a pretty good trainer. I think he packed way too much stuff. That was so stupid for him to do. He is gonna just end up getting more while he is there. It will be a pretty big pain to transfer with all of that stuff. As I told yall we got a new investigator on Sunday. He seemed like a pretty nice guy. Our area has picked up a lot. We seem to have a lot of potential people to teach. So I'm hoping everything will turn out for the best. Anyways sorry there isn't much to write this week. But yall have a good night and take care.

 

Love

Elder Mattei

Not Counting Down

So how are yall doin? So to answer some questions Elder Crook is doing good. He actually called me from Indiana. It was nice being able to talk to him. I hope to see him sometime later this year hopefully. Elder Ware's family apparently did get hit by a tornado but eveyone is ok. He said his house had lost some shingles and damaged the roof pretty bad. But his Aunt lost her house entirely. It looked really bad. But they all seem to be fine.

I'm still working on doing that fireside. Its gonna take a couple of months to plan. It will prolly be like right before I go home. So hopefully I stay in this area long enough to plan it all out. That conference sounded really good dad. That is a lot of popular people you got to hear. It sounded like it was a pretty good message as well. 

So the NFL draft was this week. The Saints got some pretty good players. I think they will have a pretty good team this year. They got the Heisman Trophy winner in 09, Mark Ingram. The Cardinals also seem to be playing pretty well as of late.

I will probably start sending stuff home pretty soon. To be honest I really don't get that trunky. Its just kinda like whatever. Like the days are going by fast and I'm enjoying them. I'm not doing that count down thing. To be honest I don't really count down the days, just the months. Right now we aren't really teaching anyone new. We are hoping for that to change. Its slow right now and kind of discouraging. Things with my companion are really good. I get along with him.. Thanks for doing my college stuff by the way. It sounds like my classes should be pretty good. Anyways I got to get going. I hope yall have a good week. Tell everyone that I said hi.

 

Love

Elder Mattei