Rat Chaa'a vs. Food Poisoning

This week was crazy.

On Monday, we went and explored some ancient Navajo ruins!
They were way up the hills, and secluded back in a small rocky canyon. (NOTE:  IF YOU CLICK ON THE PICS, THEY WILL ENLARGE AND YOU CAN SCROLL THROUGH THEM.  CLICK ANYWHERE AND THEY WILL DISAPPEAR)

ruins were way up this beautiful remote canyon

going underground >:) the entrance was tiny and claustrophobic! 

  

 looking out the entrance...

cave lyfe

 Once you get to the hidden entrance, you have to go 15 feet underground by worming your way through this claustrophobic tunnel. It's easy to get stuck too!  On the walls near the entrance are old clay paintings. Hand prints, grasshoppers, and humans are all over the rocks. 

2 grasshoppers, these are a big part of the Navajo creation story. I wonder how old these are!

hand paintings on the ruin walls! 

Once you climb down, you enter in a tiny underground chamber with a little hole in the far wall. You climb through it and then you are in a maze of small rooms, it was SO cool!! 

 

 

Elder Lind and I taking selfies in the rat dust 

 

little entrances into other ruin rooms

 



There was rat poo all over the floors though (explaining the masks in our pictures), and this leads to my next epic event of the week...

 

That night we went and ate Mexican food, and I had 100 pounds of green chili.
So on Tuesday, I threw up 8 times either because of Mad Rat Disease, or severe food poisoning!
Either way, I was in bed all day, and I lost 8 pounds :)  Won't go into further detail of that day. 

Later in the week, we really cracked back down on missionary work! It's still Gwilliams "4 weeks to sexy", so we are doing Insanity every morning, and trying to eat healthy still. It's pretty hard to do that when every Navajo offers you fry bread and pop every hour! Hahaha I love it here.
During the day, we have really worked on finding new people to teach, because a lot of our current investigators are slacking off and it's time to move on.

Saturday was a GREAT day. Everything just seemed to flow in place, and it was just a happy, spiritual day. Every event was perfect, and the weather was amazing, it felt like Summer. I needed a day like that! 

Overall, I learned this week that patience helps us grow. When we are patient, God will bless us with trials. When we are patient through trials, we learn. When we learn, we have hope, and when we have hope, the spirit is with us. This whole life is to prove to God that we can be His, and not Our Own. So even though bearing trails is HARD, isn't it amazing? We get the chance to show God and our Savior how much we love them, if we are patient and diligent!
So here is my weekly challenge.

You know that one person that just drives you nuts? That class you can't stand to be in? That thing that is bothering you so much?

Well.
Be patient, pray for help, and acknowledge to God that it is hard.
Show Him that you are willing to do His will, and just work through it!
I promise that if you do that, you will immediately be blessed!
Love you guys!
-Elder Hilton 

giant bird nest at the caves...would hate to have this thing fly over me