Family Dear,
How are y'all doing?
Good I hope!
It's been another crazy week here in Tomball.
Sister Hardy was in pain all week. It wasn't as bad as last Friday when we took her to the ER but it was bad enough that she was just miserable. Luckily they prescribed her some pain medication so that helped but it would knock her out for up to 6 hours. It was good though because she needed the rest. She was in too much pain to go out and work. The ward was incredible they set up splits for us so someone would come and watch Sis Hardy and I was able to go out and do work with the members.
We saw the doctor on Wednesday and because she was still in pain they were certain that it wasn't a passed stone. What they think now is that there is scar tissue in the gall duct and that is what is causing the pain and inflammation. In order to fix that they would need to do that endoscopic ultrasound and put in a temporary stint. Well it's a really high risk procedure and it's rare and expensive so they want to be sure that's what it is before they go in. So they drew her blood Wednesday and scheduled us to come back in in two weeks and have more blood drawn so they could continue to monitor her liver enzymes.
Basically it would have been a lot of waiting with poor sister hardy in pain. The mission doctor told us that if she would indeed need that procedure than sister hardy would be sent home.
After the end of this week we knew we couldn't continue on the way things were going and that the best thing would be for Sister Hardy to get home and get better. It was a hard decision for Sister Hardy but she has been so strong and gracious through this whole thing. She is an incredible missionary and I know she's served the mission the Lord intended for her to serve. We both felt a lot of peace about the possibility of her going home.
Well Saturday night we had stake conference and after the conference sister hardy talked to President and he felt at peace about the decision too. So on Sunday after stake conference President Pingree took my companion away. It was so hard to see her go. I feel so blessed to have been able to be her companion for these short 5 weeks.
Transfers is next week so right now Sister Quist is my temporary companion until transfers. She's amazing and I'm excited to work with her for this week!
Even amidst all this we still saw so many blessings and miracles.
We were able to see Robin again!
She told us that after we met with her that next Tuesday she took her daughter to dance class and found out that ALL the dance moms are Mormon! What?! Haha I couldn't believe it and neither could Robin. Heavenly Fathers hand in this was so obvious! She told them that she had met us and we'd given her a Book of Mormon and all the moms were so excited. Robin was telling us how they told her all about wards and conference etc. Anyways basically the Lord is preparing Robin. She's planning on coming to church next week with her family! I'm so excited to see what happens with her!
We also got to visit Carolynn millers family again. Her husband was busy but we met her darling 16 year old daughter. Her name is Brittney and she wants to be there when we share about eternal families with her dad.
We also got to meet with Kaylee and she's doing as great as always. She has loved reading the Book of Mormon.
Other than that the week was mostly spent in doctors offices and in the apartment. We needed to get Sister Hardy better. Her health was the most important thing this week.
I miss sister hardy but I know she's where she is supposed to be.
The ward has been so incredible through all of this. They have gone above and beyond to make sure that sister hardy was taken care of.
There was one thing I wanted to share with you from our Stake Conference. One thing that was said by a recent convert about hastening the work was "The Lord is hastening His work and the work will hasten with or without us. Are we helping the work move along or are we just a spectator watching the miracles around us and not taking part in this great work? Let's do this. Let's get out and work. We need to fight alongside the Lord."
I loved her words! As covenant children of God we were not meant to sit and watch. We were meant to go and do. We must assist the Lord in the hastening His work in order to reach our full potential and become like Him.
Start small and pray hard.
Thank you for all your prayers. Please continue to pray for Sister Hardy!
I love you all and I hope that you have a wonderful week!
The Kingdom of God or nothing!
Love, Sister Gregson
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