The Big Sickness

Well, I almost died this week. Truthfully, I actually didn't almost die. I just got like deathly dehydrated because I drank some bad water. I had you know what for 10 days! 

 I called Sister Bangerter (mission president wife) because I thought I was dying.  She thought I was crazy for not going to the doctor sooner, I told her I had already taken two types of medication that didn't do anything so she sent me to the hospital. 

 When I got there nobody believed me that I had been sick for ten days. They couldn't understand how I still managed to walk all day in the sun and not be dead of dehydration.  It was kind of funny, everyone looked at me like I was stupid. The doctor instructed me to stay in the house for 3 days and drink this like super Gatorade stuff to help re-hydrate.  He also gave me some super strong medication. It was funny when he told me to stay in the house for three days I looked at him and was like, " well we actually don't usually stay in the house because we have a bunch of people to teach and I don't really think I'll be able to stay in the house, much less for 3 whole days". 

He them printed out a sheet that said I needed to stay in the house for three days and not do anything, signed it and told me to stay in the house. When i left i was just thinking "what the heck am I gonna do with this paper, give it to the Lord".  So i ended up taking the medicine which stopped the dehydration issues, but the cramps intensified.  I ended up staying in the house for about a day and a half which I thought was enough. 
Everything is going well with our investigators, we didn't do a whole lot of looking for new ones, pretty much just left the house when we had appointments so i could rest.  I'm doing good now though. 

But yeah that was my week, exciting. 

Love you guys
Location: Piracicaba - State of São Paulo, Brazil

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