(Note: Eric ran out of his medication and did not remember that his mother had given him all the insurance information necessary to get his pills.)
Yes it started to snow the day after the first day of spring. Just in time for the tourists coming for RootsTech/Conference. Go Utah!
Yeah I told Elder Angus (my new district leader) that I had about a week's worth of it left about two weeks ago. He told me he'll tell Elder Brandon and that he'd take care of it. So...two weeks later I go over to Elder Brandon and say "Yeah, I've been off my medication for like 6 days. What am I supposed to do?" I guess both he and Elder Angus just assumed I knew how to get my medication on my own but when somebody tells you that it will be taken care of I think that it's reasonable for me to think that I didn't have to do much, or at least be told how to pick it up and whatever.
I got it yesterday but I didn't have any insurance information with me so I had to pay $20. I was wondering if there was actually anything in my savings account because I kind of need that $20 back. Again I think everyone thought I knew all about my insurance but again I say when somebody tells me that "It's being taken care off." - Well whatever there was a lot of confusion but I got it now.
This mission is a very interesting mission. The last last Monday I was having a pretty bad day so I went to see Elder Brandon to talk about it (that's why we almost ran into each other...unless I'm thinking of a different day.) And he showed me just how exclusive this mission is. It's gotten to the point where he's giving a potential Elder a tour almost every day, and he told me that they have to turn down about 10 elders every month which is really sad and hard for him. (This actually happened to a friend of mine over here, another Elder Smith, he told me he was supposed to come in 2011 but got turned down because they didn't have enough room.) So he told me the fact that I managed to get on this mission so soon is almost unheard of around here, and that I seriously was called by God to serve this mission because both he and President Peterson had a very strong feeling that I needed to be here. That really did make me feel better because I also just found out that I am only the third young missionary to be called to the British Services zone, and that I'm in a very exclusive zone because it's so much harder than others, mainly because of the frequent interaction with patrons. But they told me that they put me in there because again, they had a very strong feeling that I should be there, and that they believed I can handle it.
Sorry if I'm scaring you but I'm doing much better now. I would tell you why I was having a bad day but it's kind of personal and mission related that only the mission leaders could help me with. Elder Brandon is such a great man, and I really am amazed how he's managing to handle all of us young elders. But yeah the problem was solved, and I'm much happier now.
On a brighter note, I'm working on the McBride line in our family and finding out a lot of interesting things about them. I don't know why, but I found an 1861 Scotland Census with Robert McBride II in it, and he's an inmate at an asylum- Robert McBride II is Peter Howard McBride's grandpa in case you didn't know. Yeah he ended up being in a place called Mariners Asylum, which appears to be an asylum for ex-seamen. This is the only record I've been able to find of him and I'm really interested to learn more so if you know anyone that knows more about the McBrides do tell me.
The following is Eric's reply to Molly's email.
Yeah I don't remember any of that stuff you gave me and I have no idea where it is (the insurance information). Sorry I forget all this stuff I'm just so focused on my mission that I tend to forget things like this. I figured Elder Brandon already had that information so I didn't really get worried until I went 5 days without my medication and realized that I had to take action. I didn't get too sick, I just had frequent headaches that were easily taken care of because I have Aleve, and I was much, much, more irritable than I already am. But now I'm on my medication again and all is well.
Do you guys still watch Music and the Spoken Word? Because I really loved last Sunday's. Mack Willberg's arrangement of Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing is my absolute favorite song to hear from the choir and the face that I got to see and hear it live pretty much made my mission. I also really like their arrangement of Amazing Grace. Both of those songs are on their CD "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" it's a really good CD that I listen to a lot. It's not my CD but Elder Scotto doesn't care if I listen to his music so yeah.
I'm not really sure what is going on at the RootsTech convention and us young missionaries are absolutely forbidden to attend it. Apparently we were allowed to attend it a couple of years ago, but bad things happened or something. All I know is that they're going to be coming to the library on Friday and Saturday and it's going to be insanely busy.
If I had accidentally run into Dad it wouldn't be that big of a deal so you can stop worrying about it. Just know that sometimes during my lunch and/or study hours I sometimes tend to go to the JSMB to talk to the Elder Brandon or the APs something.
I'm coming up on my 3rd month here which means I'll be 1/8 done with my mission. Yay! But who's counting?
It's really hard to find things to tell you when I have a routine that I'm so used to. I'm still helping the patrons and a lot of them are still pretty creepy. For example there's this guy on the computer in front of me and he won't stop picking his nose. And his glasses are covered in what appears to be his own dandruff. Yech. But I haven't dealt with one difficult person yet and everyone is always very nice and friendly to me, even when we're having a hard time finding something.
More and more tourists are coming and I'm sure it will be that way for the rest of the year. Because of conference coming up the Anti-Mormons are starting to pop up around Temple Square too. They don't bother people unless they bother them first though, and when they try to give me pamphlets I just say no thanks and keep walking and that's about it.
I got the letter and drawings the girls sent me, and am trying to find an opportunity to send my own letter but I've been really busy. So hopefully they'll understand.
I gotta go.
Love,
Me
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