Good morning family!
I feel a lot better , thank you. I'll guess I'll give a quick update about that. So Saturday [last last Saturday] we came back from exchanges in Pozorrubio and I was feeling decently okay , just my stomach was a little upset. It was raining [as it is every day] and we headed out to work and as we sat down in our first appointment I started getting that feeling I did when I was back in Baguio and had gotten sick for a day. My body got really light , along with my head , then started hurting from like the inside out. I told Elder Bermejo but we continued to work. By our second appointment I was definitely feeling it at this point and was feeling really really cold. It was hard to focus but when worked until about 7:30. Then stepped into that appointment and by this point I knew I was sick , everything was just hurting bad and I was shivering like crazy- but that was an important appointment so we stuck it out and got home around 8:30. I then went straight to the bathroom and took a hot shower. Brought a chair in and sat down with the hot water [fortunately we have a water heater] pouring straight at me but it was still way cold ... so I started wondering why it wasn't heating up then pointed it at my hand and realized it was burning hot ... my body was just a hotter degree than the water so it still felt cold. Anyways after about 30 minutes of showering I went and laid down. Woke up a little while later and I was feeling better , I thought that was the worst of it. Wake up the next morning [Sunday morning] and my temperature was 103.2 ... yikes. So Elder Orzal stayed with me while Elder Bermejo and Velasco went to church and took care of me. Later that day my temperature reached 103.6 and my stomach was killing me alongside with it. But after about 24 hours the worst of the fever had gone away , and within about 72 hours it was pretty much gone. Just my stomach has lingered until now. So now I'm feeling okay. Yesterday was pretty much my last day of feeling super weak and a sick stomach - but now I'm doing okay. So it took a week but I finally kicked it. And oh- the sickness was the Dengue Fever [I think that's how you spell it] ... ha. People here fear it like the plague because all these mosquitoes bring it around. I'm feeling okay now , though. Last Friday I got the rashes , which are horrible. My skin itches like crazy , but it'll go away eventually.
So that's my update on my health. President and Sister Monahan were really nice and came and visited me last Monday at the apartment and brought some soup and stuff. Also they sent the Assistants over that first Sunday morning with gatorade to help me get better. Along with that I've had a number of missionaries taking good care , one being a licensed nurse haha.
Last wednesday we tried leaving but I felt way sick after like 20 minutes of email. Thursday as well. Friday we had exchanges with the office elders so I kind of forced myself to get better - which it was good for me to get up and working. At 5 we came here to Urdaneta for exchanges with them and met up here in the office. Where I got a ton of mail as well! Shout out and thank you to June for a bunch of letters and to the Relief Society in Newtown for a belated/early christmas card haha. Fortunately I love Christmas no matter what month so I was thrilled. Also Andrea thank you for all the dearelders , I actually had fun reading all of them. However still no information on Apple ... I'm not sure why.
So our exchanges were good. I went with elder Nieman to his area in Urdaneta and we taught a super loud lesson ... it was raining and there was so much noise. Not the best. Then taught a less active who fed us and I suddenly got suuper dizzy while eating. I'm not sure why but images of Mom spauled out on the bathroom floor dizzy from vertigo kept popping into mind , haha.
We then went home and ... because of my rashes I wasn't able to sleep that night. It was aweful , haha. The next day we had a couple big things we were doing here at the stake center in Urdaneta , but I was feeling like junk in the morning so I couldn't make it to the first one. Then second one was a "mission tour" for all the young men and primary of our ward. They came to Urdaneta and toured the office then the Assistants and the Engels gave them a few messages about serving missions. It was pretty good and I was surprised at how many came. Of course I was still feeling like junk throughout all of us , so as we got home later that day I went straight to my room to try and sleep. Later that night I once again tossed and turned and couldn't sleep because the rashes itched so bad. Yesterday we went to church where every member asked if I was better yet and how long I had stayed at the hospital. Haha they were shocked when I reported that although I still had dengue I hadn't gone to the hospital. One member insisintently [sp?] told me that I wasn't actually sick , just trunky ... ha. After Sacrament Meeting I was once again ... feeling like junk ... so we came home and I slept finally. After that we watched like 4 hours of MoTab Christmas Concerts and now I cannot wait for Christmas. You should definitely buy the Christmas Concert with Brian Stokes Mitchell. He sings a couple amazing songs and has such a good voice. I donno why , but I was geeking out yesterday at how good motab is , haha.
So that's all I got for now as far as an update goes. My health is better , but I'm still taking it a bit slow. I'm super stoked for Christmas and love motab christmas concerts.
So also here's a little story I thought of the other day from my first area.
Back in Malimpec , first area , I was still really rough with the language so any victory with a new grammar point or something learned was huge. And I remember when I learned how to say the sentence "thank you so much for this opportunity" for some reason I loved it. So what happened .. is I just started saying it allll the time. And I remember this one night I was on exchanges with my district leader , Elder Sanchez , and it was late at night and we were teaching this family we had just met. There were 3 girls about 18ish and one guy about 16ish with their mom. And as Elder Sanchez takes the lead in teaching this first appointment I occassionally give my few words and hand it back. And what was funny , now looking back , is I remember I must have said "thank you for this opportunity [to teach you]" about 5 or 6 times throughout the lesson. Every time my companion would teach he'd pause , meaning it's my turn , and I'd say a couple jumbled words and then end with ... thank you so much for this opportunity. After about the 4th or 5th time the kids were cracking up and I didn't realize what was so funny. It'd get to my turn and almost in unison they'd say with me .. thank you so much for this opportunity ... beacuse they knew I was about to say it , hahaha. Elder Sanchez didn't say anything to me afterwards about it , but looking back I realize just how funny that is. So that's kind of what learning a new language is like. You make a bunch of dumb mistakes that you don't see at first , but looking back makes it all the sweeter.
Any questions?
wala? sige.
Well that's all I've got for this week. Love you all , talk to you on Monday!
-Elder White
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