This
was an... interesting week. Last Sunday while looking for a lost frisbee,
I gave Elder Fabila a boost to look up on a high shelf and he fell and
accidentally hit me in the head above my ear pretty hard with his elbow. My
head hurt a lot, and the next day when I woke up, not only did my head hurt, but
I couldn't move my neck at all. I talked to Sister Ayre and she sent me to the
hospital, so we got there at about 8 pm Monday night. The doctor told me that I
had a traumatismo de cráneo (not sure how to say that in English) (Head trauma). They gave me
a shot (of I don't know what) and a few hours later I could move my neck a little, but it still hurt really bad. They gave me some pills to take for a few days
and they told me that I had to rest 48 hours. We left the hospital at about
1:30 am, and arrived in Zárate at about 3 am. I'm doing fine now, my head and
neck aren't bothering me. The best part of it is that Sister Ayre said that the
mission pillows aren't good for my neck, so she told me to use some of the zone
money to buy a good pillow:) The worst part of it was that we couldn't work on
Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.
On
Wednesday and Thursday we finally moved from the tiny apartment to a much
bigger apartment. The secretaries said that it is the best apartment in the
mission. It has a nice kitchen, living and dining room, with a room to study,
and a bedroom. It also has 2 air conditioners, which is fantastic. It would be
more fantastic if it were still summer here, but it is already starting to cool
down. The bad news is that we had to finish up the moving on Thursday morning,
and in the afternoon we had a bunch of meetings at church and weren't able to
spend time in our area finding people to teach.
On
Friday we were finally able to work in our area and we taught 15 lessons in one
day. We were able to find a couple new investigators that seemed really great
and that wanted to be baptized. It felt so good to finally be able to get out
in our area and work.
On
Saturday and Sunday Elder Fabila was sick and there weren't any members who
could do divisions with us, so we were once again confined to the apartment and
we couldn't work. Sunday afternoon when we were in the apartment, Elder Sanchez
and Elder Lanas arrived because Elder Lanas was also sick, so he stayed with
Elder Fabila and Elder Sanchez and I left to go work for 3 hours in my area,
which was a nice break from being in the apartment.
Then,
last night when I got home, I wasn't feeling too great. I spent the rest of the
night throwing up, so that wasn't very fun. I now feel pretty good though, so
I'm excited to work hard after Pday gets over and find new people to teach! The
truth is... this week was pretty horrible because we hardly got to work. It is
so boring just being in the apartment. I'm really excited for this week and
positive that we are going to find many people to teach! This is the best
work there is! This is the most important work there is!
Que
la fuerza les acompañe.
Love,
Elder
John William Garrett
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