Thanksg.....blaaogiaogij

Ohhhh what a week. We had Zone conference which was super good. We learned about how to better prepare people for baptism and what we can do to make the meetings a special experience. They talked a lot about our planning. How we need to learn to plan better so we can really invite the spirit.  Elder Swenson was visiting our mission so he was at the conference.  He is the doctor for Africa!!

Also featured this week: Thanksgiving. Hahahaha what a day. So I ate an apple in the morning. And then because the Assistants and President went to Beira for Conference, we became the intern Assistants and Secretary's, so we did a ton of little chores in the morning driving the new missionaries around (about 20 got here this week) and cleaning up after the conference. But as we were doing all this I was driving and feeling a very severe pain in my middle stomach (not that I have more than one but I felt that this was the most accurate way to make sure no one thinks I was having appendicitis) and I just about passed out. SOooooo we went home and I curled up in a ball and went to the bathroom periodically releasing all the fluids from my body until later that day I puked and... up came the apple!!! So that was Thanksgiving.

The next day I was super weak and we didn't get to leave the house much but now I'm all good and there were no serious problems with my health. I still like apples so there was no harm done.

Then yesterday I went on my last division with Elder Flitton. Man I love him. He has made such a big difference in my mission and I am so excited for the friendship we will have after the mission. It's possible that he goes home this transfer because of schooling and such so it was a bitter sweet day.

But I learned a lot about the importance of using the Scriptures and helping the people here understand and love the scriptures. I love ya'll and Merry Thanksgiving

-Love Elder Thornton