Week #44 Rain and more rain
Last week as part of our additional assignment in the area offices we were asked to participate in a devotional in Pachuca, Hidalgo, at which the Area President, Elder Montoya, presided and spoke. Our task was to provide information and answer questions about serving full-time or service missions for our church. For the two weeks prior to this event, I had some type of stomach flu. The night before our departure was memorable in that the pain, distress and sleeplessness was exceeded only by my experience with kidney stones and the sleepless night I spent "camping" on a flowing stream bed in the rain with the young men of the Cholula Ward while Popocatepetl shook the ground and spewed ashes and pebbles on us. During the night my stomach ballooned making me look, well, very pregnant. I was exhausted and went to bed hoping to sleep it off but I woke up every hour because of the pain and discomfort. The only relief I could get was to sit up in bed, supporting my self with my elbo