March 3, 2014
So, this week was a very interesting week. It started out amazing on Sunday when we met
the lady I told you about last week, the one who just showed up to church
without us knowing. Then we had a great
lesson with her after church, but that's when the week started to turn crazy.
It started Sunday, with Elder West mentioning to me that his
ear was bugging him a little, and that his stomach was a little upset, but I didn't
think anything of it, and he didn't say anymore, until Monday when we were
going to a noche de hogar with a recent convert family, and he said his ear was
bugging him again, and again, I really didn't think anything of it, until we
started to eat. I noticed he wasn't eating very fast, because he usually can
down food (and does) and one of the members we were with noticed as well, and
asked if he was all right, at which point he explained that it hurt him to chew
and swallow. So that's when I started
to get worried. Then, the next day, we
had a few appointments in the morning with 2 of our investigators, and they
went well, and we started to go to a eating visit, and while we were on the
metro Elder West said his stomach was really hurting him and his ear was
bugging him again, so I told him that we would go eat then go to piso and he
could take a pill or something. Well,
once we got into the visit, I was helping the member cook, and Elder West went
to the bathroom, and when he came out he let me know that he thought he had diarrhea,
and he told the member he probably wouldn't be able to eat that much because of
his ear. Fortunately the member we were
with is super nice, and he put the food in a box for Elder West to take home,
but during the time we were at his house Elder West had to go to the bathroom
about 3 times more, so after that we went to piso, and he has been confined to
piso since then. The only time he has
been able to leave was when we went to the office to go to the doctor, and he
felt well enough just to go to sacrament meeting, but other than that we have been
in piso for the past 6 days, during which time I have been able to organize our
area book and call a bunch of people, clean the piso, read a lot of the mission
library, and sleep.
But honestly, Elder West is an amazing missionary, one of
the best. I have not once heard him really complain, other than that he feels
bad that he is making me stay in piso. His
attitude is absolutely amazing, and even though I can tell his ear really hurts
him, and he has visibly lost a lot of weight because he can't eat, he still
wants to go out and work, and if it weren't for Hermana Pace´s orders he would
be working still, I think.
He was talking to me and said that he really just wants to soldier
on and work, but he knows that if he does he will make it worse. I feel really bad for him, because he really
feels super bad, even if he won't say it. But I can't say enough of how amazing
of an example he is to me, because he still is making jokes when he is awake
and trying to help me. He is awesome. I feel really bad for him. Fortunately for me, the members here are
really great, so I am with one right now so I can have a normal preparation
day, while Elder West is at the mission office with the elders there, since
they have a different preparation day.
So today we went to go play volleyball on the beach, and it
was absolutely beautiful. That though was basically my week.
Thanks for all your support,
Elder Dixon
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