April 8, 2014

I’m not so good. This week sucked really really bad. I got Malaria. So

I’ve been unable to get up from my bed except to throw up or diarrhea

for about 5 days. I had a fever of about 103 for 2-3 days straight.

Malaria feels a lot like the flu but worse and with a few bonuses ha.

I also had to go to this nasty sketchy clinic and got a shot in my

butt to bring my fever down. So I’ve felt like crap this week. Not fun.

Being sick in mission really sucks. You to feel

guilty if you’re not doing something productive. So all day you lay

there feeling guilty for not leaving the house. Second, you can’t do

any of the things you can at home when you’re sick. No movies, no

Gatorade :( , no Jell-O..  no soup or

 moms to rub your back., worst of all

because of all the things I listed you feel super super home sick.. so

I’ve had a horrid horrid week. My mind has been saying "that’s it, this

sucks. I want to go home" but my heart still says "Just another quick

trial, you're an Elder. You're fine." So as I said being sick on

mission sucks but at least now I can say I have experience Malaria..

yay

I am recovering though, My temp is back to normal and I’m on enough

medication to cure the world of malaria.. Just dizzy and still a

little achy. But I’ll live to teach another Restoration lesson ha

That Story with C is really really awesome, I will be praying

hard for her. If she is willing and ready to accept the gospel her

life is about to get so much better. I just wish I could have been

there to hug the guts out of both of the Girls I chased growing up.

First Lexie because I miss her like crap and she is awesome for

running the Lords errand. AH sooo sweet! Then C because now

that I'm taller than her it won’t be so awkward to hug her and she has

just taken the first of many steps in becoming what God knows and we

as Saints know she can become. Keep me posted on that. She needs to be

referred to the Missionaries ;)

Well I don’t get to see conference for a few weeks. We have to wait for

the DVDs so it’ll be awhile. Sounds like everything there is still

going great. I miss home more and more every day, But I know that this

is exactly where I’m supposed to be. So no problem. I know I mentioned

it to Lexie but currently I’ve been a little Obsessed with Jacob,

especially chapter 5. I went from hating it as a kid, dang Vineyard.

To now that is my favorite book in the BoM. I’ve read it over and over.

It is the most marked up book in my triple. . Missionary work is hard work. And there isn’t a lot of reward. So
why am I doing it? Because I know that these things are true, I know
that I have been called to this work by Christ himself. The Vineyard
in Jacob 5 is the clearest and most simply understood parable once
eyes have been open to how missionary work is to be done.

 "62 Wherefore, let us go to and labor with our might this last time,
for behold the end draweth nigh, and this is for the last time that I
shall prune my vineyard."

 "66 For it grieveth me that I should lose the trees of my vineyard;
wherefore ye shall clear away the bad according as the good shall
grow, that the root and the top may be equal in strength, until the
good shall overcome the bad, and the bad be hewn down and cast into
the fire, that they cumber not the ground of my vineyard; and thus
will I sweep away the bad out of my vineyard."

I love love love the

scriptures.

But not a lot to report this week since I’ve been sick. We have a new

elder in the district Elder Manuwere (Zimbabwe) he is huge!! and so so

funny!

I love you all!

Elder Bennion

ps. No I won’t get anything till the last Saturday of the month that’s

when the zls go to Kampala.

Oh and please tell Grandma B THANK YOU for the package :) I get the

most in the whole mission I’m sure :)And Grandma R for the money.