Saturday, October 17, 2015

Food Poisoning and a Zone Activity January 5, 2015


Well things here have been interesting. Nothing too exciting. Well. I will try to make it sound as exciting as possible. Haha! I will just go through the week so I try not to miss anything.

So Monday. Monday we helped Dominic's family move into where Lincoln's family moved out of. I think I told you that last week. Anyway. So then we ended up emailing late. Then we didn't have much to do. The Bray family was all outside. They have this massive blow up slip and slide. It is really cool. Long story short. I kind of ended up getting convinced to go on the slip and slide. Fully clothed. Yeah, probably shouldn't have. Cause that's not exactly allowed. But it happened. And it was really fun. But won't do it again. You can cut that out if you would like, so people don't think I am just a disobedient missionary. But it was fun for me. So I thought I would just tell you.

Then Monday night all of our appointments cancelled, so Elder Edeyaoch and I made dinner with Elder Brasher and Elder O'Riordan. Well, pretty much Brasher and I made dinner for the four of us. We had enchiladas and corn bread. It was pretty good. However, by the end of the night I wasn't feeling too good. 

We got home and I went to bed. But couldn't really sleep. That's when the cycle started. I got up and went to the bathroom. Went back to bed. Couldn't sleep. Went back to the bathroom and threw up this time. Then back to bed. Then back to throw up. I went to the bathroom to throw up eight times. And that doesn't count the times I just sat in the bathroom and waited for myself to have to puke again. One time I was going to the bathroom and had to throw up in the garbage can. Yeah. Pretty annoying. And not to mention, every time I would go back  into my room, I was freezing cold. So I had a heater on. Then when I would go into the bathroom I would get SO hot, you probably could have fried an egg on my forehead. Ugh. It was the worst night I have ever had on my mission. I just wanted to come home. I hate when my I am sick with stomach problems. That's the worst for me I think. 

Anyway. I finally got like three hours of sleep. When I woke up, I found out that my companion wasn't feeling too great either. Tuesday we weren't able to go to the area. We were both too sick. Seriously felt like I was going to die. However, being sick on mission is like the worst thing in the world. Because, what can you do? Pretty much sleep and read your scriptures. I don't know, maybe I'm not righteous enough, but I can only read my scriptures for so long before I want to start crying. They're great and all, but really, all day? Yeah. Not my kind of relaxation. But yeah. I think we both had food poisoning. Which is odd because Brasher and O'Riordan ate the exact same things as we did. And neither of them were affected. 

Wednesday was fine. We went and taught for part of the day. But then we had to be in by six because it was New Year's Eve. So we went to Brasher and O'Riordan's flat to have dinner. I made Chilli. I make a fairly decent and simple Chilli. But Chilli and corn bread. (if you haven't noticed, we eat a fair amount of corn bread). Then we just kind of all hung out. Did some head stands. You know. The usual. 

Thursday was awful. I felt like I was serving a mission with a whole bunch of hormonal teenage girls. We had plans to go to the Zoo. But then our Zone Lords (Leaders) decided to plan a Zone Activity and not tell us until the night before. Anyway. They wanted to go to this restaurant called Spur. You can get all you can eat wings and ribs for like $13. So we go to Spur. And really, I have never heard good things about the all you can eat deals. Just that it isn't good, or even worth the money. So Brasher and I went to McDonalds. And really, I was still having some stomach issues, so I couldn't eat much. But when we left Spur, and went to McDonalds (and keep in mind, we are at a mall, just going to a different part of the food court) we thought the Zone Leaders were fine with it. Then our District decided we wanted to go to the China Mall. We got a little bit mixed up with cars. Anyway. In the end, we have some stupid elders, and someone's companion got left. And it was blown out of proportion. We thought that the Zone Activity was over. But no. Guess it wasn't. And instead of informing us that the activity wasn't over, the Zone Leaders decided to go straight to the AP's to tell them that we were being disobedient and not staying with the Zone. Ugh. Really. Just tell us it isn't over! That might be a good idea! Oh well. And on top of that we have the missing Elder. Well, just the missing companion. We knew where he was. Then we ended up finally getting ahold of the missing companion. And went to go get him. But there wasn't enough room in the car. So Brahser and I stayed behind. Just hung out. It was good. Just talked, walked around my neighborhood. Anyway. Then when they got back we went to Pizza Hut. There are only a few is SA. It was good. Tasted like real pizza! And there was Thrusday, with about 10% of the drama.

Friday was interviews. They were good. Sister Dunn did stuff while we waited for our turn to interview. She did a cooking thing. One person from each district was in charge of cooking a quick and easy meal and teaching everyone how to make it. So I was in charge. We made the Chilli again. It was pretty good. It was fun to get to do something while we waited instead of just sitting on the couch. Then I had my interview. It was good. Kinda short. But that's fine. But I did find out when I will be coming home. 8 December! Crazy! I only have 11 months left. I have to be honest and say that I am really excited. I never thought I would reach the end. But now the end is actually in view. Just makes me realize I will actually get to come home some day! haha! But it's a great time because I will have Christmas, time to relax and recuperate a bit. And then I can go to school in January.

Then we had district meeting. Then we made lunch as a district. Let's be real. Brasher and I made lunch for the district. It was fine. But then we had a few appointments. Nothing too exciting.

Saturday sucked. NOBODY could see us. So finally after being sick of trying to find things to do, feeling largely discouraged, we decided to go home a bit early and I made a batch of delicious chocolate chip cookies. Then we got transfer news. We will both be staying. 

Sunday was great. Pierre came to church and so did the Dunns. Then Sunday night we went to teach Pierre. He announced that he wanted to be baptized. It was a pretty sweet moment. We were all very excited for him. But you know, I really am coming to love the Dunns. They are great. And it is such a fun experience getting to teach with them and getting to know them on a more personal and unique level, but they can talk! Holy cow! Sometimes we are talking about one thing, like say, the first vision and all of the sudden we are talking about tithing! Yeah, I don't get how it works that way either. Oh well. But it is still great.

Now. It's Monday. Today we are finally going to go to the zoo. I am exited to actually do something. Instead of sitting around doing nothing.

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