Hey everyone! Hope y’all are doing better than I’m doing right now…
Well… where to begin.. so on Monday I went to the dentist and found out that I had to get my wisdom tooth pulled. Mainly because that what you do with wisdom teeth but also I had a bad cavity in it and it was causing alot of pain to my other teeth cause it was starting to hit the nerve. Well of course I scheduled an appointment to have it pulled out on Friday. And so when I went home I told everyone and we got ready to head out to the Gateway to help out with Johnson Ferry Church coming out to see us next week. Well on Tuesday I was fine… I had medicine that the doctor gave me to take for infection, swelling and pain. On Wednesday though…. I was flat on my back! I had not been eating alot as it was because of the pain in the mouth, then my tooth was hurting, then my body started hurting because of other things that were going on (I will not get into detail about that) and then with all stuff that had happen back home with my dad and all I was seriously wacked out!! So of course this happened Thursday and Friday finally rolled around and I went and got the tooth pulled! FINALLY NO MORE PAIN…. NOT!!!! The specialist gave me 3 new more medications to take and told me to take it easy for a while. I feel like such a schlum!!! If you guys know me well enough then you know that if there is one thing that I hate, its pain… but if there is something I hate even more is when I want to help but my body won’t allow me so I have to rest and I am of no use to my friends when they need help the most. My team has been doing such an incredible job so far in getting ready for these people down here and I feel like such crap because I don’t have the strength to help them when they need it the most right now… I’m sorry guys!
You know, as I’ve been resting and thinking about all this I keep getting reminded about when Paul was talking about making your body a slave to yourself (1 Corinthians 9:27). In that Chapter Paul is talking about running the race in order to win the prize… right now I feel like I’m in dead last! And you know what sometimes there are times when you need to push it and there are other times that you need it to rest so that you can rest and recover and will have the chance to come back later and conquer it! Hey what doesn’t kill ya makes ya stronger right? As well as something else… the title of that chapter is “The Rights of An Apostle”. Interesting… I thought you gave up your rights after you became an apostle… as well as a missionary… or is that just me?
Anywho… hope all is well for y’all and hope to hear from you soon! Later!
~Jeanne 😉
