Stories: Elder Worst was my best companion
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| Rosales Pangasinan was probably the area where I got my most wonderful experiences from.I had been out in the field for 4 months when I got transferred here.After a month my filipino companion there got transferred and was replaced by another filipino whom you'd say was not a heaven sent type companion.We got off on the wrong foot the first time we met.There were things about him that bothered me and I'm sure he felt the same about me.The first few weeks were trying times.He didn't like the way I taught the discussions and there were things about the way he did it that I didn't like either.We didn't have companionship study or evaluation and we barely talked.One day we went out tracting and we came across a man tending his ducks in the rice field.We approached him and did the usual intro thing.He had a concern about the Book of Mormon which I thought was a good chance to set an appointment,my companion however wanted to resolve it right there and then.We got nothing.I was mad and took off at a distance after the man left.My companion was walking slowly behind.We were in the middle of a rice plantation with no houses in sight so I slowed down and waited for him.I felt like we won't accomplish anything that day so we went home.
I took a glass of cold water and set in on the table before him and tried to discuss what the problem was.Needless to say we ended up yelling at eachother.I locked myself in the bedroom.I didn't expect my mission to be like that..... this early.....I wanted to go home at that point.My companion started banging on the door and demanded i open it.But he banged the door so hard that the knob got jammed and I couldn't open it from inside.He started saying bad things to me that I felt was inappropriate so I rebuked him.He stopped.After an hour or so he managed to open the door with a knife.I was on my knees praying....waiting.That night we spoke to the zone leaders who happened to live in the same appartment.Nothing was resolved.I didn't sleep a wink that night and I was sure that my comp didn't either.The next morning I prayed and asked Heavenly Father what to do because I was at the end of my rope.After that prayer I did the bravest thing I ever did in my life.I got a chair.....sat next to my comp's bed while he was sleeping and started singing As I Have Loved You..The part of the song that hit the hardest was the part when it said..."By this shall men know...That ye are my disciples....If ye have love one to another...."I started crying during the song realizing that that song was meant for me at that point because I hated my compamnion.He woke up...asked me what I was doing and I told him to sing the song with me.We finished the song in each others shoulders crying.We didn't really apologized to eachother,or maybe we did,I can't remember,all I knew then was that I was overwhelmed by love for my companion that I saw him beyond the things that I hated about him.He was my partner in spreading the gospel and that we were meant to be companions.We still didn't have companionship study after that...or evaluation for that matter,but we were ok.After the trials we will be blessed and indeed we were...we baptized 20 people that month and more projections for the following month.Elder Worst(Not his real name) truly was my best comp and if you ask me if I'd do it again? IN A HEART BEAT! |
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