Wow its almost February! You know what that means? Its almost 10 months since I've been on my mission! (and it's almost my birthday. Feb. 14)
This past week has been interesting. We had to take our car into the shop on wednesday to get some dents taken out. Neither Elder Hastings or I have ever taken a car into the shop. Let alone for body work. We thought we'd go in and they'd pop the dents out and we'd be on our merry way. Not so. Mind you the place we took it is in Cottonwood. About 17 miles away. We were informed that we would get the car back Friday. Shock...slight panic...we told him "that may not work. Give us a minute to make some phone calls." Long story short. We got a ride back to Sedona from the dealership. We thought we can share the gospel with the driver. Not so. He was deaf.
All I can say is that I have learned to laugh on my mission. It threw off our plans for the day and we rode about 26 miles on bike up and down hills. Reaching a maximum of 33.8mph and a minimum of about 5mph goin up hill. That was great. We were able to contact on bike again. It was just like being in the valley again. People were mean, people were nice, people honked their car horn at us, and yelled out their windows. It was great.
So the moral of the story is learn to laugh when plans don't go as planned :) You will be a lot happier and have less stress. The key to being stress free is to laugh.
I know that missionary work is the greatest work on this earth. It is the only way we can help others enjoy the blessings we enjoy. So we all do missionary work in our own way. Just figure out that way and run with it!
Love Elder Fagersten in AZ
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