Elder Andrew Maxfield

The Stomach Flu😵‍💫

3972 Hartsville Pike, Lebanon, TN 37087

Apt A

9 DAYSSSS???🎄🎁🎅🦌

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Happy P Day everybody! Orrrr should I say try to have a good Monday everybody!! One nice thing about a mission, Mondays are a good day😅

Anyways my week was an interesting one for sure I actually do remember quite a bit of it! I'll start with an update on Quentin!

- Quentin is doing quote well and we're trying our hardest so the Lord is answering our prayers. We had a really good member lesson with him on Thursday and we were able to walk 3 miles with him and talk about the basics of the Plan of Salvation! We got to teach him for the first time about Adam and Eve!😦 It was awesome! And then on Sunday we had a music devotional and even though I felt like I was a government agent messaging all the right people for the operation to go right, we got him a ride. He said "I don't know what I was expecting but that was awesome!"🥳 So everybody pray for Quentin!

FOR THE OTHER PART OF THE WEEK!

- For Elder Hardy's last P Day we hiked the Cedars of Lebanon State Park. Super cool!

Then afterwards we threw a surprise party from the Hispanics to say goodbye to him. Some crazy cool stuff happened😅

- Transfer Calls everybody! I'm staying with Elder West and pur district is staying almost the same! Hooray! No training again but that's alright. This transfer is about to be hypeeee

- Wednesday we got a flat tire. I ran over a fatttttt nail the night before and we were able to get to the Firestone right as the nail came out and we would've had to roll our tire on the rim😅 we got to watch some  Friends while we waited so bonus!

- Thursday... the all important Thursday...

We had the member lesson with Quentin. Then we went to the church for a little bit. I wasn't feeling great but oh well. We went to dinner and had sushi. I wasn't feeling well at all. No biggie. Then we went home. And I threw up. Apparently I wasn't feeling well after all🤷‍♂️ I got the stomach flu and was up all night. Not fun. But thanks to my parents raising me right I was fine after just a day or two. Fun experience to add to the list!

- Saturday we helped move furniture into the house of someone who needed it! I love the organization FAM Essentials(previously mentioned in other emails) and they are a light to be a part of! They asked me to say the prayer which was a great opportunity and I can only pray that they all find the restored gospel because of the service efforts of the missionaries!

- Sunday we helped feed the hungry! It was soo cool it wasn't anything special but it was to me because I was able to serve with those I love and to those I don't even know yet!

That's my spiritual thought of the week. I might have already shared it but oh well! Repetition is good for the Saints! In Mosiah 2:17 King Benjamin tells us that

"And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God."

Being in the service of men is a service to God! He will bless us exponentially if we will bless the lives of others. One thing I've thought about recently is that being blessed shouldn't be a burden. It shouldn't be something we look down upon. WE'RE BEING BLESSED FOR GOODNESS SAKE! Don't complain about what we need to do to be blessed. That's how we grow in love, in the pure love of Christ. Ponder that as you go about this week.

I love yall! I can't believe I can count my transfers left on one hand😵‍💫 doesn't seem real...

But oh well I'm still chugging!

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-Drew🧡🤍