The day before leaving Charleston I sprained my ankle playing basketball. This is the same one I sprained back in June. My ankle still has some pain. It is definitely a bad sprain, the new brace they gave me at the doctor's office helps stabilize the leg bit there is still a lot of twinging if I walk the wrong way and it is still sore. Trying to visit and rest when I can but we have been super busy here...
Greenwood is an amazing area. The members here are very missionary focused and are they are trying to get the ward functioning again despite some leadership craziness with the bishop moving away and such. Literally, the first day here we called the Elders quorum President and he invited us to his daughter's baptism.
I don't know what the last Elders were doing but it doesn't look like they were really contacting the teaching pool. We have had a few good lessons with Tamaka a lady who wants to do daily bible studies. We also met Ken. He was a member for 11 years and then left the church. However, he has over the last bit come to understand that pride was the ultimate reason he left and we had an amazing discussion with him about the atonement. He wants to get baptized so we hopefully can do that soon and all of his children are unbaptized so hopefully we can start working with the whole family.
We were able to have a coordination meeting on Sunday which was amazing. They set it all up and we talked about some stuff we can do and the ward wants to focus on family history to strengthen the members.
We had an awsome member lesson with the White family that was super awesome. The seventeen-year-old son Hunter had his nonmember friend over and she joined in the lesson. We have another lesson with them on Thursday and hopefully we can start teaching her.
We had a great call with one of the members whose husband is in the hospital. She was struggling a lot because there wasn't a lot of hope for his surgery so we were able to talk to her in her moment of struggle. Fortunately, she posted on Facebook that he is doing a lot better.
I'm really mad I hurt my ankle because my new companion Elder Grant is super great and loves to work out, the ward missionary plays basketball a lot and probably would play with us, and we have a full weight set in the apartment!
The area has a lot of promise so hopefully I can stay for a while. My ankle is kind of concerning because of the level and frequency of the injuries. Wednesday I have physical therapy and will find out what is needed. I'm concerned that they will recommend a long recovery time and therapy schedule that would require me to return home. Missionary medical only allows two physical therapy visits fo your whole mission. Maybe I'm just paranoid but this physical therapy stuff has me a little nervous.
Here are some pictures of downtown Charleston before I left.
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