New Companion

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!

Ooh by the way... I’ll be a dad! I’m training!

Worst week ever turned into a good few days.

Hey guys! I am actually staying. That means that I’ll be here for 7 and a half months. My address is the same so don’t feel shy to send over a letter or something! Surprise surprise, I’m training! I’m super excited and I’m training a really awesome Elder. That’s the good part of the week. But I’ll get to that later. Say hello to the fresques fam
for me. I miss them lots. For the lady from Houston: currently I am in Summerwood. We are always going to be on the east side of Houston, our border touches downtown. I’ve served in Beaumont, Baytown, and the pine trails/ channelview areas.

The last Monday was ok. We did the normal pday routine and for the evening we ate with a really cool member. He lives a a nice area so has a really nice house. We played him in ping pong and ate some flautas. They were tasty. I’m excited to go home and show y’all REAL Hispanic food.

Tuesday was ok as well. We had Spanish class in the morning and during the day we just visited people. We had a lesson with Julianne. Carmen’s daughter. Oh yeah we baptized her this week. Whoops forgot to post that. I convinced her Saturday to get baptized because i was leaving haha. Turns out I’m staying... lol. But it went well. We made a huge mistake.... we got little ceasars for the four elders in our district and had them put the crazy bread butter on it too. Super unhealthy... I ate wayyyy too much! That was strike one... strike two... We ate with the Rodriguez family and they surprised us with China Star!! It’s a buffet... luckily I ate healthily there. Salad haha. But they still expected me to eat a lot. I was so full. We had mutual that night so I was able to do some exercise!

Wednesday. Actually I mixed up the days... the little ceasars and buffet was today, because afterwards we played soccer so I felt better about myself haha. Wednesday is when the horribleness started. I woke up with what looked like bed bug bites all over my body. Really small and itchy. The whole day was terrible.

Thursday. Thursday we had a super lesson with Julianee to prepare her for her baptism Friday night. Riches gave her the interview and everything went swimmingly. Other than that nothing happened. The rashes on my body got worse Thursday. Itching intensifies.

Friday was fun! But miserable. Woke up with a twice as bad rash and it itches so bad! I had no money Either so i couldn’t buy a cream or anything. It itched and itched and itched that night we had the baptism. It was super good and lots of people showed up to support her. It made the suffering of pain and itchyness lessen. I had a spot on the back of my left calf that was way more itchy than the others so it started turning into an ulcer from itching it.. ew.

Saturday I woke up miserable as well. Couldn’t sleep that night and felt so itchy. The spot on my leg was ooooozing and throbbing. My neck had bad splotches everywhere too. I felt like death. Durning the day we didn’t do too much, but we went to a birthday party and afterwards we went to the baptism of Elder Riches and Taylor. I got a call that night informing me that I would stay for another transfer and that Barnum is leaving. 

Sunday we didn’t got to church actually.. my companion that night was throwing up non stop. We stayed at the other elders apartment while they used our car. My companion looked fine though... suspicious. That day sucked to be honest. The itching was at an all time hi. Riches gave me a cream but it did nothing. That night was good though. On the way home president called me and told me I’d be training Elder Taylor. He was Riches companion, he came into the mission halfway through the last transfer due to an injury in the MTC so he only has 3 weeks here. On the call he just explained to me how awesome I was and how Good of a missionary I was and it made me feel way better. He said a ton of good things about me.

Monday was much better. I decided to go to the doctor that morning because I was so sick of suffering! First thing we went there and I got to see the doc. The rash and stuff was from either A--A staph nfection due to a spider bite on my knock (because the carry staph in their mouths) or B--Poison oak that went haywire. He treated me for
both and gave me a steroid shot that cost the big bucks. I went and had to get 5 prescriptions. 3 for itching and 2 antibiotics. The thing on my leg turned out to be an ulcer. Rotting dying flesh. Ick. It hurt. After taking meds I felt way better. It was such a relief. We played ping pong at a members with the other elders. Including my new son that I get today! That night a guy gave us all hoodies for us. It was siiiick.

That was my week! It sucked but turned out ok. I know it’s early tody but I have a ton of driving to do. Have to drop off Barnum in Baytownat 7 am.. gross. Then drove 3 hours to be in Kingwood. Icky. Later!