Week 12: What a Ride

07/31/2016: Well, last night was the last night of Pageant. I am sad to bid farewell to my pageant family, but it honestly has not really hit me yet that tomorrow I will be going home after Sunset by the Mississippi rather than to the pageant stage. I hope that I jump from denial to acceptance without all the stages of grief in between, but we shall see.

I had some awesome visitors this week. My mom and aunt came for a couple of days, and it was wonderful to see them! I am very excited to be able to see my mom again in 16 days and be able to talk to her for more than just a couple of minutes between shows. I also got to see the Stokes Family, including Abby Stokes who is on the way home from her mission in Nebraska. It was wonderful to see a friend I grew up with after years apart.

The "Nauvoo Crud" is going around the Young Performing Missionaries. Some think it is an actual illness, but others think it is the body giving up and dying from how extra-tiring this month has been with the addition of Pageant. In all reality, it is probably a combination of the two. Both of my companions have it, so I have been helping try to get them healthy again (#DaughterofaDoctorProbs) and have been lucky to not yet get ill myself. Hopefully, my luck continues.

Between the end of Pageant, wonderful visitors, and the Nauvoo Crud (the latter making us look like a group of zombies, not missionaries), this week has been quite a crazy but wonderful ride. With how busy and tiring the month of July has been, I have learned the truth of President Dieter F. Uchtdorf's words, "You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable that you can imagine."   Indeed, I am through the help of the Lord who has definitely been helping me every step of the way as I have been blessed with the energy and strength to accomplish all tasks placed in front of me with a smile.

 

Picture is of me with Jeff and Aurora Dickamore and their daughter Wilde. They are in the pageant core cast, and he is getting a masters at University of Tennessee (which is way cool because... Tennessee). 

Have a wonderful week! Love you all!

-Sister Sylvestre