Frustrations Of Mission Work

It is only Wednesday, but we have already had some frustrations.
Monday morning we are excited for a new week and month, and we have so much to do. It was not possible. Apparently, they were installing a new generator in the area below the office building. Elder W. had quite a large amount of information to format for our phone contacts to make during the month. Each time he would begin to arrange his data the electricity would go out, and the computer would also shut down. All the data GONE. He would start again, and once again the electricity off. After three times, too much frustration, we went home.
I have been trying to get him to rest more anyway; so, he would get to feeling better. Thus he did some more resting that day and IS in fact feeling better.
Not feeling well and having to slow down is not an easy thing while we are serving "full time." You feel the need to push forward, but sometimes we need to slow down just a little bit. We are NOT 19 year olds.
The Lord is opening doors and helping us accomplish a tremendous amount. We have been given three more areas of students to contact. It seems undaunting, but we know we will have success. Many Priesthood leaders are "catching the vision" and giving better support for the program.
Many of our participants are coming in and meeting us, and calling us to "update" their statistics, that is quite an accomplishment. Before we came they needed to call Bogota, thus they never called. So all their information was wrong, it took us a little while to get them to call us, and we are thrilled they are doing so.