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March 8-15 (week 68)

Aloha Family and Friends,

It’s been a long and eventful week. I really don’t have a lot of time to write so I’ll give you the highlights.

Monday was p-day and was spent running errands and generally not enjoying myself. That night my companion and I conducted family home evening. Then after that we had a really good lesson with one of our less active members. After which we asked her if she needed any help and she said she would really like to contact an American doctor about a disease her 3yr old daughter was suffering from. The mission doctor just happens to be a retired pediatrician so I told her that we would contact him and see if he knew any thing about it

Tuesday as I was preparing for district meeting I got a call and found out that my 12 year old wonder investigator was at the church crying, and complaining of severe stomach pains. She had been complaining of such stomach pains for the last several months, so I wasn’t surprised, but we ran of to the church to make sure everything was ok. We got there to find her with her head on the table crying and decided to give her a blessing. After which we took her to the hospital to see a doctor. The doctor told us it was a cold, which seemed a little farfetched, seeing that she had been complaining about it for the last several months. Anyways, it just added to my reasons to call the doctor. Later that day after a short not well prepared district meeting I called the doctor who was thrilled to hear that there was something that he could help with. After describing the symptoms of my investigator he determined that it was probably just a bad case of constipation that little kids her age sometimes suffer from, go figure. I also found out that the doctor had previously treated 3 patients with the same rare kidney disorder that my less active member daughter was suffering from and would be happy to talk to her. Remember when you’re helping your happy.

Wednesday we got a call early in the morning saying that a member needed help building their ger (Mongolian round tent house thingy), so we dropped what we were doing and ran and did that. After which we spent the rest of the day doing our planned work.

Thursday was uneventful

Friday was also pretty uneventful.

Saturday however, was eventful. Saturday morning we got a call saying that one of our members had to move at the last moment because of a misunderstanding with the owner of the property she was living on and that she needed our help. So the three other elder and I dropped everything we were doing and ran off to help break down her ger, and move the entirety of her possessions. This normally wouldn’t too much of a problem but it was an exceptionally windy morning. After breaking down her ger we moved it all via a big truck we hired to a members property on the other side of town. After which we started preparing a spot to rebuild her ger. However, as we are doing so the wind decided to pick up and turn into a giant dust storm. The dust was so thick at some points that we couldn’t see 10 feet in front of us. We struggled so for a while and then decide to take cover inside the member’s ger. Once inside we busied ourselves with inspecting our dust cover faces and clothing and washing out our dust filled mouths and eyes. As we sat and talked  Elder Enkhbayar quietly bowed his head, and less than obviously began to pray. After a while I poked my head out to see that while the wind hadn’t stopped the dust had settled. Upon announcing the conditions Enkhbayar just smiled. As we exited the members house the wind started to pick up a little, but not deterred Enkhbayar gathered us all to say a prayer before we commenced in the work. The winds continued for the rest of the day, but after our prayer they never got so bad that we couldn’t complete our work, and the dust for the most part stayed on the ground. All in all it took us the entire day, and we weren’t able to meet with any of the people we had planned, but if we weren’t there with a two of the priesthood brethren there would have been no one to help this poor lady.

Anyways that was more or less my week

~Elder Pitt

About me:

My name is Cameron Pitt and from Sept. 5, 2007 until Sept. 5, 2009 I'll be serving as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This site will chronicle my experiences while serving in the Ulaanbaatar Mongolia Mission.The stories posted on this site will be transcribed from letters sent to my family, by my mother.

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While on my mission I will only be able to communicate via written mail. If you would like to contact me you can do so at the following address (note the section in red should be on 1 line) :