Hello Everyone!!!
Wow it's been so long since ive been able to email! It feels like it's been since skype that ive been able to talk to you guys becasue on new years I didn't really get to email as much as normal. Anyway its good to email all of you again!! Lets say the past week and a half hasn't been very fun and I don't really want to have to do it again. Before I dive in i have to wish Anna a HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN A COUPLE OF DAYS!!!! I will be thinking of you all day Anna and I hope you have the best day ever!!! I'm so sad i'm going to miss being there but I promise i will give you the best brother/sister birthday date ever when I get back!! Deal? So the day that Elder Murdock transferred was the day it hit. Everyone was saying i got sick becasuse i missed him haha. Anyway so I started to not feel well that Thursday and I started to get a fever and headache the night I picked up Elder Ymas. he is great by the way. He has been so nice this whole time. He's cooked for me and fed me his food and has taken really good care of me which was nice. It was nothing like you mom though. He's from Davao so he is a native Cebuano speaker which is good for me learning the language but is also tricky. He knows some english but he's not too good at it which is hard but it's all good. It was really hard while I was sick becasue it was just another thing that I had to deal with but its not bad. I don't know a lot about his family. we haven't really been able to talk about all of that becassue Ive been sleeping but i will find that out and tell you all about him. I believe he is a convert but I'll have to find out more about that too. Haha i'm such a great companion huh! So yeah he is really nice, really caring, and a good companion. There is that natural Filipino/American barrier which makes things kind of lonely but he is awesome. Anyway so I got sick that night but still went out to eat and pick him and stuff and then in the morning it hit hard. I had a fever and a nasty headache and my back killed and so i just went back to bed. I took some advil and yes I remembered the advil/tylenol combination that you always told me mom! Thank you so much for teaching me about all that by taking such good care of me when I was sick becasue I knew what to do before I got instructions from Sister Tanner. The only bad thing was that with dengue you aren't supposed to take advil becasue it thins your blood and dengue is a virus that attacks the platelets or something. I'm not completely sure but all i know is if i started bleeding out my nose or my teeth started bleeding from brushing them then I wouldve had to go to the hospital. That luckily didn't happen. So I just had to take tylenol and drink lots of fluids, rest and wait it out. It was never life threatening, it just wasnt fun to say the least. So yeah I stayed in bed for about 7 days straight just sleeping. I didn't feel like eating a lot so i ended up losing a lot of weight. Not scary loss but i lost quite a bit. Enough to be able to see it on my face and stomach and stuff. I'm back to eating now though. But yeah so it was a hard week in bed. I felt so homesick and pretty alone the whole time. I wanted to be home in bed or on the couch with all of you, and with you taking care of me mom. I understood how Mckade felt when he was super sick a few months ago. I never had the thought of going home but it was hard. But just like every hard thing that comes, it passes. I look back now and i did it. I made it through and that's how it is in our lives. Hard things come but they will always pass and we will come out stronger and better if we endure them well, if we rely on the Lord and let Him change us. I listened to a lot of talks and things while laying there which was nice and they helped so much. I listened to some john bytheway and michael wilcox. The Michael Wilcox one was probably my favorite, "The Jesus We Need to Know." Listen to it beacsue its amazing and i learned so much about the Savior and who He was and is. Although I felt alone sometimes i knew I was never alone. I knew that Heavenly Father was there and that the Savior was there and He knew what I was feeling becasue He felt, He has had dengue fever. Prayer has become the most important thing in this world to me out here on my mission because with it, I always have a best friend to talk to about anything I'm feeling or going through. I have my companion, other missionaries, President and Sister Tanner who are all awesome people that I can turn to for help but none of them can replace all of you. I can email once a week and receive help from all of you but that's once a week and last week I couldn't email.So the one thing i have always, one thing that we all have always, is prayer. I can always talk to my Heavenly Father whenever I want, whenever I need and He is always there to talk to me. He talks to us more than we think. If we listen in our prayers, or just at random times during the day, we will hear Him speak to us. I am so grateful for prayer. I'm so grateful to Heavenly Father for always listening to me and answering me. I know that through prayer we can receive strength and help in our lives. I'm so grateful for the relationship I have with Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ. I'm so grateful for Them and love Them so much. I know They love me and love all of you. Through them all things are possible. If we want to be healed, if we want to feel Their power and influence in our lives, then we must do what it says in Mosiah 29:20"But behold, he did deliver them becasue they did humble themselves before him; and becasue they cried mightily unto him he did deliver them our of bondage; and thus doth the Lord work with his power in all cases among the children of men, extending the arm of mercy towards them that put their trust in him."
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