January 31, 2011

This week was way busy! A lot of fun but a lot of things going on. We had Zone Conferences all this week. They all went really good. Monday and Tuesday conferences we were at, and did our training and all went well. Tuesday night President gave me a call and told me that one of our very best missionaries that was in a city 5 hours away had gotten very very sick. He´d been at a public Argentine hospital in the little town that he was in. The health care was a nightmare. He had a fever of over 103 and he was in a room that the air conditioner has broke in. That day the temperature was over 105 degrees. He literally was just dieing in there. He couldn´t hold down anything, especially the water there in that particular city because it´s so contaminated. (That area is famous for not being able to see the bottom of the baptismal font in the chapel because the water is so filthy). All missionaries have special filters from the church in their apartments but obviously in an emergency room in the hospital there are no filters from the church. They had him on an IV which was the only thing keeping him hydrated enough to live. Long story short, we took the mission vehicle and drove 4 and a half hours to pick him up, and bring him into Mendoza where he could get medical care. We were in the care 9 hours straight! And I was the only legal one to drive. Imagine St. George and back. Stopping once for gas. And it was very very hurried. We got him to a good hospital here in Mendoza and he is doing great now. He´s actually going to get released and be able to work tomorrow. He´s trying to make every minute last because he´s only got three weeks left! The 4th conference we got the short end of the stick and had to make sure the office was running as the other assistants and the Lindahls took a trip to San Rafael (in all reality I didn´t want to get back in the car haha) for the final conference. Friday and Saturday we took off about 30 minutes outside of Mendoza to a little town to help out a companionship that wasn´t getting along very well. We went and really had a miracle day. We found 8 people who accepted baptismal dates! Amazing lessons! The most valuable time of the whole day was just getting out and getting to talk to the Elder I was working with. Get to know him and help him out. They are great now, and really excited to work together these next 5 weeks. Love Ya!!

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