So remember how I said last week was the craziest week of my mission? Well I fibbed, because this definitely tops all of the craziest of the crazy weeks I have ever had.
Ok So on Tuesday morningthey (my zone leaders) called me and told me that I would be splitting the......wait for it.......The Assistants to the President's Area!!!!!! What?! I know! I didn't think they were serious. But it really did happen. They shipped me back over the mountain and I am in the Orchard South area. This area touches my old area where I first started my mission, that is in the new mission now. (sister waters is still there) The people we live with have a GIGANTIC DOG! His name is Eli and he is a mastiff. He is probably close to 4 feet tall. Now it makes sense about why the elders were asking me about dogs. We work super closely with the Assistants now. I hope they can show us all their secret ways of being amazing missionaries. We are in one of the richest areas in the entire United states. Cherry Hills Village. You need to google it. When we go to church we pass HUGE multimillion dollar homes. It's insane. We have members of the ward how have servants and I'm pretty sure we could fit every student of moses lake high school into their houses and each student would have their own room and ipad to play with haha . And then we have members who live in low income houses who can barely put food on their tables. It is really weird. The elders have all of the lower class people in their area and we have the super high income families and middle class families. I keep looking around for all the trailer parks and then I remember that I'm not in craig any more :(.
Oh man it was so hard to say goodbye to craig. I was fine until one of our investigators (who was super drunk) got really upset that I was leaving. He even cried and said that he didn't care if they sent me to affrica ( imagine this being said in a super drunk voice) if he got well enough to get baptized (he is an alchoholic) he would take out a loan and fly me back to see his baptism. I lost it. It was so hard not to cry after that. Then we had dinner with Brother Ence and Sister Ence and brother ence told me that I was a ray of sunshine and said so many nice things that I don't deserve and then asked for a hug. Oh my gosh that was sooooo hard. I then said goodbye to brother st. john and he told me that I was like a daughter to him and that he would always remember me and would love me forever. I was an emotional wreck the entire night. It was really weird saying goodbye to sister robinson too. But I know she will be ok. Her new greenie seems super sweet.
So my new companion is Sister gregerson. She is the sweetest person I have ever met. She is from Ervin, California and she is 19. She went to byu for a year before her mission. So Wednesday we had district meeting and that was crazy. In our district we have our district leader, the zone leaders, the assistants, and then us......super funny. After district meeting we had a couple appointments then we started tracking. Then the craziness started. Sister Gregerson puked in the gutter 3 times and I took her home after getting some medicine in the store. She got a fever and it wouldn't go away. We went to urgent care and they said it was a stomach bug and she would just have to wait it out. They gave her some anti-nausea medicine and then sent us home.
The next day she had extreme dizziness, extremely bad headache that went to her neck and she was going to the bathroom every 5 minutes. (not exaggerating) On the little paper it had a warning sign and said if she had those symptoms to go back to urgent care. So we did and they gave her some more medicine ran more tests and then sent us back home with basically the same info as the last visit. Super unhelpful. The next day sister Gregerson seemed to be doing tons better and I thought we would be able to go to church the next day. but then at 10:30 Pm she was doubling over because of this extreme pain in her lower abdomen. She said the pain was unbearable and we ran to the er. The put an IV in her took some blood, urine, and other samples. Then did a cat scan. They gave her some heavy duty pain meds and she was doing ok. But then around one in the morning her pain meds wore off and all heck broke loose. She was in excruciating pain and it took the doctors 30 minutes to give her more pain meds!!!! When they finally did she was ok for like 10 minutes and then she had another pain in her upper abdomen that was ten times worse than before. Yet again it took the doctors 30 minutes to get her a shot and more medicine. I was loosing it. Watching her writhe in pain and crying and basically look like she was dying I freaked out. I kept pushing the nursing call button but there were a bunch of ambulances coming with people dying so they took FOREVER to come and save her. She asked me to say a prayer and I begged heavenly father to make everything ok. The doctors came and settled everything down. they said she had a really bad muscle spasm and that all of her test came back clear and they said that her virus or bug was in her cologne and was causing inflammation. They gave her some MORE drugs and sent us home at 3 in the morning. That was probably one of the most awful nights I have ever experienced. Sister Gregerson was so high on drugs I couldn't understand anything she said to me and she could barely walk in a straight line. I directed her to her bed and she basically slept the entire next day.
We went to a specialist doctor today and they gave her some antibiotics and said it should be all over in a couple of days. I feel so bad that she has had to start off her mission this way. but I already feel super close to her. She is such a trooper and I admire her determination and faith soooo much. I hope and pray all of the craziness is over. It. was.scary!! The mission president's wife told me that I have now been called as the Mission's nurse haha. I really hope not. I don't know how to handle all of this craziness. I will definitely keep you posted on everything next week. But I have to go. Keep sister gregerson in your prayers and thanks so much for all of your support. Love you all
Sister Jones
Picture of poor sister gregerson in the ER.
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