All,
I'm so tired.
I'm so, so tired.
I sleep all night every night, and wake up exhausted,
I've had a continual headache for a week now, and it got
a lot worse yesterday (you'll find out why in a second).
I'm... tired.
But anyway, I'm so tired because We've been working hard.
And that makes it all OK.
But it doesn't make me any less tired.
We had a family move in from Fresno CA. They speak NO
(1%) English. It's been really fun to teach and talk to them.
Transfers this last week. Elder Dyer abandoned me, to go
back up to Fairbanks to train.
On the Plus side, I'm so excited to stay in Hmong one
more transfer, until I'm done.
...Well, as Excited as I can be when I'm so tired...
Anyway, this will make about 1 year and 3 months in the
Hmong branch, which is now an absolute record in the AAM (Alaska Anchorage
Mission). No one in recorded history has ever spent so long consecutively in
one area. Not That I'm here for the record, but it's a nice bonus.
Anyway, yesterday was transfer meeting, which is why I'm
so tired. Something ALWAYS goes wrong on transfer day, but never the same thing
twice. So, I was looking forward to seeing what would go wrong this time,
seeing as we had gone through pretty much everything I could think of.
(missing keys, loss of internet, incorrect
software/hardware, camera trouble, audio relays go wrong, someone throws the
circuit breaker switch during the middle of our broadcast... and so much more)
Anyway, don't ever think that. Something else can ALWAYS
go wrong.
This time I walked into the library, opened up the
webcast broadcasting box, and found...
nothing.
It was empty. The entire system was missing. This trumped
three transfers ago, when half our cameras and the internet disappeared and the
computer disappeared. All the other times, as least we could put the broadcast
out there; then something would go wrong. this time we couldn't even create a
Broadcast, much less have one mess up on us. I'll admit, for just one second, everything of the past
couple weeks, the exhaustion, the workload, the stress, fell on me like a load
of bricks. I just looked up and almost asked God, "Why Me"?
I never asked before, because it didn't matter why me, or why
now. I just moved on. There are people out there with much bigger problems than
a missing broadcast. God knows all of our problems, and he lets us go through
them so we can grow. And in some way, from this experience I did. We adapted
and persevered, and got an approximation of the broadcast up and running...
kind of. Think "Video Conference" with 50+ people, including showing
slideshows and movies.
It worked in the end. We could turn off Defcom 1, and
life resumed.
Now I'm trying to train my companion to do everything
that I can do with the mission, from burning CD's to trying not to panic when
everything falls flat.
I'm also trying to not be tired, but it's not working so
well. I'll work harder on that, but it's not really at the top of my list.
"Overwhelmed is for people who still have the time,
and time is a room that's in no house of
mine!" -Ian Calk, former AAM
Missionary, in one of his songs.
I should send you that song sometime. It's pretty much
been my theme song for the past while.
Anyway, I'm out of time. Just got out of doing a
leadership meeting. At least I'm not District Leader anymore, so that's one
thing off my plate.
Tired...
Anyway.
I guess there was a lot to say.
...Tired...
Love from the Exhausted North,
Elder Darcey