4-4-11

Well this week was kinda a waste as far as missionary work goes. I got really sick and ended up spending 3 days in the hospital. They finally decided to release me this morning, it was nice to get the IV´s taken out of my arms and be able to go outside and feel fresh air, because even though I was probably at one of the nicest private hospitals in oaxaca, it still didnt have air conditioning, and it is starting to get pretty hot here so I just had to lay in the hospital bed for those days I was in there! I was only able to work Tuesday and wed but I will still tell you about the rest of my week even though its pretty boring!

Tuesday- We left early to an lesson with Isabel, because we havent gone to see her in a few days, and she needs lots of help with the things she has on her plate, having 5 little kids and being 8 and a half months pregnant, and we are pretty much the only people that she has in her life, her husband left her and she has no other family because he mom died and her brother is a drug addict and could be dead as well. So we always go over there and do what we can to try and help her out, whether it be lecture the kids so that they will behave better, or help them with there home work, or clean there little room that they live in! After we helped her with some things we had a few other lessons then we had our lunch appointment. After that we had an appointment with marco then sandra, then alberto, marisol, and Dalia, then we headed over to the appointment that we had with the Jimenez family! A family of 5 that we are looking to baptize this upcoming weekend, but we havent been able to see them much the last week, so we will just keep praying fro them!

Wed- We really didnt do too much today, we started of by going over and seeing Jose Luis and belem! They are getting married the 13th of April, and she will get baptized the 17th of april! So that should be really good! Missionaries have been trying to get them married for over a year now, but we finally were able to convince them to tie the knott! After that we headed over to the lunch! This was the last meal I ate before I got sick, and it was with some wealthier members of our ward, we just had some meat and rice, then after that we had a lesson with Lilliana and Arieli, we watched the movie about the restoration! It was a good lesson, but Arieli still has her hope in the catholic church, which I will never be able to understand, it easily has to be on of the most incorrect christian churches that exist! Its just sad how they live in lies, but I guess its good they that they actually believe in God and His son! After that we went and visited Isabel and helped her a little bit, then we headed over to give a blessing to the hermana Felipa, and her son because they were both sick, the, after that we headed over to a members house that lives in another ward, and we helped the elders in that ward put a baptismal date, they asked us to come help them teach because they are both kinda clueless haha, so we headed over and helped them out a little bit and showed them a few things to do when you teach. Then we went home and I went to bed feeling perfectly fine.

Thursday, At about 3 in the morning I woke with stomach pains and diarea, and but I really didnt think much of it because that will happen usually about every week and I am just use to it, but it got worse as time went on then at about 8 I started throwing up as well, and I had a fever, so I called sister De la Cruz ( the mission presidents wife) And she set up a doctors appt for me at 11 that morning, so I went to the doctor and by that time I had already thrown up like 8 times, and I had a fever of about 102. So he gave me some medicine and one of the medicine was a shot that I had to give to myself, but I didnt know how so we went to a sister who is a nurse, and she gave it to me and she made me some soup to eat, so I went home still with lots of stomach pains, diarea, and a fever.

Friday- I slept pretty good over the night and when I woke up I didnt have a fever anymore so I thought I was getting better, but I had another doctors appt later that morning at 11, so I went and the doctor, he told me that the infection is still really bad, but that I would feel alot better the next day, so I pretty much slept the whole day then later at about 7 when I went over to that sisters house to get my shot injected, she could tell that I felt really bad, and she checked my temperature and I had a fever of like 105-106, so she put an IV in my arm, and my comp decided to call sister De la cruz and she sent another doctor who is a specialist over to the house where I was at, when he got there he checked me and said that I needed to go to teh hospital, so he took me there, and they did all these tests on me and put IVs in my arms, and they told me that I had a very strong Infection in my intestinal trac, and that I had to stay there that night.

Saturday- I didnt really sleep much over the night because the whole night there were doctors looking at me and nurses were poking me with needles and taking my blood. It was a pretty nice hospital though, it is owned by a LDS guy, and its like a private hospital, they said I was lucky to be able to get a room there because it is usually always full, because it only only like 6 patients and we each have out own nurse and a doctor will come and check you and talk to you like every hour all day and all night. It was also conference on Saturday so the head doctor brought his laptop into my room and the mission president came and watched it with me and my companion, Him and his wife were there with me for most of the time I was there, the mission president is really funny, he knows a little bit of english so he will try and speak english to me. Also the assistants to teh president were in there alot as well, and there was space for everyone because my room had a few couches in it. So After conference we just talked and rested. Through out the day lots of different doctors came in to see me, and the mission president arrenged so that one of the best doctors around came in from Mexico city to see me, he said I had salmonella ( I dont know if thats how you spell it). So they gave me some medicine for that and I started getting better, because before the other doctors werent really sure what kind of infection I had exactly. I also got to talk to my dad so that was nice!

Sunday- The whole night the nurse wouldnt leave me alone, she would come in all the time and check my temperature and blood pressure and all that stuff, it was kinda annoying, but sunday we were able to watch the conference, it was really good, and I enjoyed it alot, it helped me keep mind off the pain that I was feeling, then by night time I was feeling alot better, and the doctors said that I was going to be bale to go home the next day! So that made me happy, my companion too, He was tired of sleeping on the couch haha, but I dont blame him.

So now I am back in my house and I still feel kinda sick but I feel a ton better! So that was pretty much my whole week!