This
week was pretty eventful.
Carnaval
ending up being a snooze. There were so
many people dying in our area that they decided to cancel all the blocos just
to be safe. So we pretty much returned
at 5pm every night until Wednesday for nothing. But it was good to relax and
study. They ended up having one bloco go
on yesterday (which wasn’t even part of carnaval). It was just a normal bloco - nothing crazy.
After
district meeting, we went on an exchange with the Zone Leaders. We both went to
their area to work. I worked with Elder Brailsford from American Fork and Elder
Gimenez went with Elder Abrego from Honduras. I learned a ton and we saw some awesome things
happen that day. Elder Brailsford made us some blueberry pancakes that were so
great.
On
Saturday I started feeling sick. It was
mostly in my stomach, so we went to the church to use the restroom. Then I started to get a fever. Then I got a
huge headache that wouldn’t stop. We had to go to another area that night to do
some interviews and I was not doing well. We got back home and I was doing way
worse. I had so much pain in my whole
body. I think that Saturday night has
been the most painful night in my mission. I don’t think I have been that sick in my
life.
Sunday
we woke up and I was still doing poorly, but we needed to go to church because
we were expecting investigators and someone needed to teach the Gospel
Principles class. So we called a member
to come pick us up. We got to the church and I just basically slept in one of
the church pews. Elder Gimenez ran the
show. I think every member came over to touch me to see if I really did have a
fever and every one of them said yep he has chikugunya or zika or dengue. Well whatever it was that I had has now passed.
Sunday night I was basically left with
just stomach issues and today I am doing better. I lost about 3.5 quilos (kilos) in a day and a
half.
Hope
you have a great week! stay away from the mosquitos.
Elder
Waters
