Monday, January 13, 2014

Snow and Cold and kidney stones. again! from December 23, 2013


from Dan: 
Well we finally have snow! and it all came in one night! We went to bed and there was just frozen rain on all the grass but when we woke up there was 4 inches of the stuff! This makes contacting potentials VERY difficult especially if they are single women because we cannot enter their homes.
Well all that we can do about it is keep trying to have our busy members make some time for us.

Wow so there is an epidemic going through this mission.  I have now had it TWICE and there are 4 other missionaries going through the same thing... anyone guessed what it is yet? Kidney stone... I developed #2 about a week ago and apparently it was just sitting in my kidney until Thursday causing me minor irritation that I thought was back pain (that's another story oh mom does our insurance cover chiropractors?) On Thursday we were just sitting there teaching James and all of a sudden i was hurting and I told myself "wow this back pain is really bad all of a sudden" and I mentioned that we may need to cut the lesson short because of the pain. James makes some special oil (like mom makes) made specifically for back pain. Sooo I used it and it didn't help after a while so I had to face the facts it wasn't back pain. I had known all along what it felt like but I just wasn't going to admit it to myself. Well we went to the doc and he took a CT scan and it found the stone already in the bladder. So the worst was over and now all I have to do is drink enough fluids for it to flush out the rest of the way. Happy Christmas to me!!! :(

I cannot wait to talk to everyone on Wednesday! That will be exciting! 

Well the world keeps revolving and we as missionaries keep going.  This week has been filled with our investigators and less actives that we are working with being out of town.  So amid the snow and cold (it is much worse than last year) we have been knocking doors. There is a really annoying habit here in the mid-west they don't open the door when it is cold they just rub a spot on their frosted window and mouth this "It's to cold.  Move on." and we as missionaries think "We know.  We are out in it.  Will you let us in to get warm?" 

I cannot wait for Christmas to be over so that everyone comes back home and we can actually progress with the people who we know and love, and love us back!

well yep that has been the week!
love, Elder Keeley

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