NYNYS Mission June 3-6, 1996

Wow, rain all day.  12 hours straight.   Wow did we get wet.  It’s a good thing we didn’t have an appointment today or we wouldn’t have gotten very wet.  A member made us some hot chocolate.  That was nice of them.  Well, that’s about the extent of it all.  Transfer calls came and [Elder] and I are together for one more month. 

Two interesting things from today

I was at work today and one of my coworkers told me a story about a concert he had gone to the night before. It was Pantera and Lamb of God, two heavy metal bands. He said there came a point in the concert where they asked everyone in the audience to flip the bird. His daughter looked at her dad knowing it was bad, but asking what should I do? I listened to him explain that he told her it wasn’t a big deal and just do what everyone else is doing.

NYNYS Mission May 28-31, 1996

I had been out and around Manhattan all day.  When I went back to meet my comp in Time Square an Elder told me a girl, a nanny from Connecticut was looking for me and she was just there.  She was now up the street so I ran up the street.  I went up the street I saw a little crowd of girls and Lisa, Matt Johnson’s girlfriend was there.   She remembered I was in New York and looked for me.  Of all the days we ended up in Manhattan on the same day. What a blessing.  She was even at my farewell. Wow. 

Instant Backache

As I got into the truck I was thinking about listening to the next book or finishing the book I was listening to in the Apocrypha, which was Baruch.  As I got into the truck, my back started to throb in sharp bursts of pain, down where my kidneys are.  It was a throbbing pain that felt like somebody had punched me in the kidneys and my muscles were spasming.