day 271

Helloooooo!!!!

well ill write a story for this week and last week. Just to let you know im ok now.
Ok, so last week, on tuesday we had our district meeting. it was super good. then we had a district dinner, well it was just with the sisters.so anyways, we had a huge pizza. it was really good. it was like huge, like my arms couldnt fit around the circumference of the pizza. so we went about our work like any other day. we returned home and then eventually went to bed. i woke up in the middle of the night with bad LBM. i went back to bed but couldnt sleep cuz i was having one of the worst pain in my stomach. i had no idea what it was. i thought it was from the pizza but no one else got sick... so the pain lasted all night. so that night i didnt get to much sleep. i would wake up almost screaming then it would go away. it would happen every 20 mins or so. so that night sucked. the next day i couldnt get out of bed. like physically, my body was dead. the pain continued all the day and into the night. All through this time i was pooping my guts out. it was bad. then wednesday night, i started throwing up. so every 20 mins i would have that pain and then go to the CR and puke and other stuff.. this happened until my body was completly empty of anything inside. my stomach felt like it was wringing itself out, just trying to get absolutley everything out. so when i got to the point of just dry heaving and the crazy bad stomach pain i called sister andaya(presidents wife) she told me to get to tacloban as soon as possible. so early on thursday i went to tacloban. i went to a doctor and he told me i needed to be admitted to the hospital right away. So i went to another hospital and got admitted. they hooked me up to an IV right away and tried to rehydrate me and they also dumped a ton of medicine in as well. they made me poop in a cup and do numerous other tests. they said it was from an amoeba. so they gave tons of medicine, like pills and lots of fluid meds that they put in the IV. so i stayed the night in the hospital.(first time in my life) the next day the doctor came back and did more poop related tests and other stuff like that. they told me that i needed to stay another night. so the next day was ok. the medicine was working, the pain in my stomach was getting smaller and less frequent. i wasnt throwing up, i was still pooping but not as frequent. so about sunday afternoon i was able to be released. so after that, they gave me a lot of medicine and told me to take it easy and if the pain and other symptoms to come back. so sunday and monday i stayed at the mission home we traveled back on monday night. As of right now, im pain free and not having any problems. i was able to get rid of the amoeba. ha. sorry i wasnt able to email. but i had a stressful day.(name that quote)

This week, was a great week. Holy cow, if i sold all the fruits that ive reaped from this last week i would be rich. It has been soooo great. so the ward was all concerned for me and told me not to work most of the week. but i hadnt worked really all last week. i needed to get back. so we worked super hard and with lots of members. it was soooo great. We have the best family ever! they are getting baptized on the 28th. holy cow. also yesterday alone, we received 9 referrals. HOLY COW! ALL professional people. so amazing. we are really having great work now. so about this family, they have 6 people in the fam. two are members(two daughters 13and16ish) and then the mom and dad and little boy are not members. this family is a soccer fam. i have coached some of their practices. they are great! sooo prepared. we taught about word of wisdom knowing that the dad had some problems with it so we were prepared for a hard time from him, BUT as we told him about this law, he told us that he knew it was true. He went to get is income from his boss, but his boss didnt have it. so they had now money. he was going to buy some alcohol and cigaretts to take a load off" but instead he didnt, he prayed. it was sooo cool to hear him testify about that. then he told us that after he prayed, his boss gave them his money and bought them rice. He related that blessing to not smoking and drinking. we testified that it was a sign from god that he shouldnt do that, and if he didnt he would be blessed. so we made a plan for him to quit and he accepted. Holy cow... he said, "its still a vice so i will need all the help i can but i will try." we told him that he can get help from us, the Lord ward members and especially his family. it was super spiritual. while we were teaching he went and laid down cuz he was Trancasol. which means you have headache, fever, cold, sore body, basically everything that sucks. so we told him about blessings and asked if he wanted one. He accepted and we blessed him then left. yesterday, sunday, his family was at church and they told us that literally minutes after we left, his sickness was gone. It was truly amazing to see the family witness that. im so excited for them. :) 

we are getting swamped with referrals. everyone loves us and wants to work and give us all their referrals. i love it. we are always busy. and meeting new people. we are working with some people who dont want us to speak waray, so we have our lessons in english. its really cool cuz i have a way bigger vocabulary to use. lots easier to teach. i think this area could be my favorite areas of my mission. ever though ive only had two, i think its going to be hard to beat this.

also... our visits to the Gov and Vice gov are pretty productive. both time we have visited them they are out of town, but we manage to get referrals from the secrataries. its cool beans. we also have an investigator who is the richest man in catarman. he is a millionaire. they are super cool to teach cuz they treat us as professionals.. its nice to feel respected like that. i wish people everywhere would treat representatives of Christ that way.

we had a zone activity today. it was bomb! we went to a white sand beach and played volleyball and beach soccer!!! it was a blast!!! holy fetch its hard to run on sand!!!!!!! haha i will send some pics..

well im really good now,(we found a place with the BEST hotdogs in the philippines. its soooo good.) really good.
I think thats all. haha :)
I love you all and im greatful for your love.

Love Christian