Of Ulcers and Ice

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Holy holy wowzies. This was probably the craziest greatest week thus far :) Guess why? Sister Phadnis has an ulcer!!! How can this possibly be a good thing you might ask? Well. Sister Phadnis has been having stomach pains her whole mission basically and we thought it was a Gluten and Dairy allergy. Well last week she was having extreme pain and we finally talked to mission medical last Monday. She called a doctor on Tuesday for an appointment to find out what was wrong with her. Miracle #1 She had two possible doctors to see and called the first only to hang up mid voice recording. She just had a feeling to go with the next one and got a person on the other line to give her an appointment later that day!!! WOOO! Heavenly Father may have been putting her through all of this pain, but only to show her how much he wants to help her through it. Doctor said she was pretty sure it was an ulcer but testing would be expensive so she gave her some medication, and if it helped it was an ulcer. We were also just so happy to know what was causing her pain and were so happy the rest of the day! It made a huge difference in our teaching and the spirit was so much stronger with us! She even had this crazy feeling to go caroling to one of our investigators. We went over sang, and she just straight up said the spirit told me to come here. Why are we here. haha! Come to find out that they (he and his mother who is a member) were thinking about us and got a call that his grandpa's got 3 weeks left to live. This 28 year old man was so heart broken and you could just feel it. So we talked a little while, then had to leave and asked him to pray. He said no. So we suggested we all pray, each person adding to the prayer and just going in a circle. The spirit was so strong and when it was finally his turn he just pored out his soul! He hasn't prayed for almost 6 years and didn't think he would ever again. He was crying and we were all crying. It was so intense!!! That was an ulcer blessing!!! Miracle #2 SO. we go to pick up the medication and it was $140. Sister Phadnis didn't have enough money so she only bought 2 of the three medicines. We talked to mission medical and turns out that you can use two insurances and whatever your home insurance won't cover the mission's will. So my dear sister stops by the pharmacy 10 minutes before we have to be to my practice (I was singing in church) and the line was so long! Once we got to the counter she asked if she could get a refund for the big bucks she spent on her meds now that she had the 2nd insurance to cover her. She asked me to pray really hard with her. I really didn't want to because I was mad, but then I realized how dumb I was being and we both prayed super hard. Well ladies and gents, the Lord provides! and My Sister Phadnis felt so loved by Heavenly Father and was so happy. She felt horrible about making me late but she really needed that experience. I love her!!!! In other news. IT FINALLY SNOWED!!! On Saturday. It didn't snow on Sunday but church was still canceled because cute little Kansas doesn't know how to handle ice and snow. Even though they get it every year! They hardly plow anything and don't really salt the roads. So the ice stays on the roads forever. But luckily we know how to drive in ice and snow. Everyone likes to tell us that it's so different from driving in Utah and Idaho because all we get is snow. LIES. But I just nod and say yes, yes of course you're so right ok I love you :) hahaha! But we had a great Sunday! It was CRAZY. but great. really super awesome. We went over to steffaine's and shared some Christmas stuff. Then had a devotional with president Bell and we brought our investigators. Steffanine FINALLY got her baptismal interview. We went over to her house like four times this week trying to get her to let the Elders interview her but she's been very busy. :) She's on date for Noche Blanca but she might just get baptized this Saturday instead. She can never make up her mind. But gosh I sure love her. She gave me this awesome green shirt that she wants me to wear on st. patty's and some sweet 90's floral pants. AND a expedition Mt. Everest shirt from DISNEY WORLD. She's always like, Sister Herrin and I are Disney freaks :) Well. I probably have more to tell but that's ok It's mostly rambles. Ok I love you all and hope you have a very very very very Merry Merry Merry CHRISTMAS!!! :) I have some Christmas Cards coming out soon so get excited about that :) OK BYE! Love, Sister Herrin