The ... Doctor! And Zone Conference

Dear family and friends,

This week has been fast paced and crazy! To get into it, my amazing comp Elder Patterson had to go to the doctor because his toe was hurting. We go Wednesday to New Amsterdam to the doc and find out that he got an infection in his big toe! So we had to come back Saturday and get surgery done. 

Another thing that made this week crazy was zone conference! We traveled on the Berbice Battle Bus with the Boys and got to go to the giftland mall in Georgetown. We spent the night in the Guyana mission office and played uno flip! I was introduced to this version of uno on the mission and It is super fun, up there with original uno.

We learned big stuff in zone conference and ate some epic food! I learned that it's important for us missionaries to work with the leaders in our branches. The branches our so small and most of them rely on us to do everything sometimes, but President Lamprecht taught us that they have the Keys to direct the work here in the mission! We need to help them recognize that they have power through god to direct us, so that the big thing we are going to focus on this week.

Back to the Doctor! We go in for the surgery and it was insane! First he starts by numbing the toe and cleans it. Then he starts cutting. Throughout the whole thing, Elder Patterson was in pain! The doctor had to inject him more with the anaesthesia but according to my comps words, it didn't do anything! He felt the whole thing, and now he's missing a toe nail. 

Elder Patterson is still in great spirits though and we are going back tomorrow to see how its healing. Overall it's been a crazy adventure!

Spiritual thought: Daily Restoration 

I was looking through general conference talks and I got the impression to listen to Elder Uchtdorf's talk, Daily Restoration. I really love his testimony about how we should be nourished by the Gospel Daily! I will like to add to his testimony that if we are being invested in the gospel daily, we can be on the Covenant path and never fall astray! I say this in the name of Jesus christ, Amen!

Sincerely,

Elder Franco