12 August 2013

 

This was a different week for me. It was spent the majority in meetings and training and being with D. to help calm him down. He was feeling a lot of stress this week as family who he hadn't seen for years were all coming into town just for 3 hours to see him get baptized and leave, much less the girl that he's pseudo dating came in from Arizona. It's a long and complicated story, but suffice it  to say we spent some time with him pretty much every day. The day before the baptism was when he felt it the hardest. He ended up calling us just as we were about to say a prayer for dinner with some members and begging us to open the church gym right then and there so that he could play some basketball. He was having a anger melt down. We told the members that D. was having a crisis and we booked it out of there and opened the church for him to blow off some steam. He told us that he had done the same thing as us. He was sitting down with his significant other and extended family during dinner at a super fancy restaurant and excused himself and called us. After sweating and a few more tears he told us a 6 PM that he was just going to go get some Z-quil and hit the hay and not set his alarm clock for the morning.

The next day was a bit stressful getting everything prepped for the baptism with getting keys  but it all worked out in the nick of time. When we saw D. for lunch he was much more calmed down and happy in fact!

sorry not much time today.