Well it has been quite an interesting week. So for awhile Elder Wright
thought that he had a boil forming on his leg, which is pretty normal,
he's had like four. But unbeknownst to me, that thing just kept getting
bigger and bigger and red and
sore. until Thursday rolled around and I looked at it and it was super
inflamed and red and it was spreading all over his leg. So I called
Sister Kirk, the mission nurse, and we were at the Newerewere hospital
in Tarawa like 6 hours later. Turns out it wasn't
just a boil, they termed it an "abscess." They cut open the tennis ball
sized bump on his leg and apparently stuff was just gushing from it for
like 20 minutes. Yeah so he's technically on bed rest and I've been
sitting in the AP's house with him since then.
Basically the worst, but I have gotten a lot of Ana Boki Moomon done.
But we are quite bored. They did let us go to church yesterday which was
really nice, I got to show off my language skills to some other Elders
in my intake, which was alright. A lot of
guys just don't have confidence. Sister Kirk comes and redresses Elder
Wright's wound everyday, and she told us that tomorrow a film crew is
coming with her. Apparently they are making some sort of Kiribati senior
couple promotional video, because a lot of
people are scared to come here I guess, and right now Sister Kirk does
basically everything. On the upside, before we left Abaiang, we got to
eat puffer fish, which I was actually scared to do. I just ate a ton of
rice first and waited for Elder Wright to
eat some, and when he didn't die I ate some as well. Sounds funny but
it was a very serious experience for me. It actually tasted good too.
Anyway for a spiritual thought, Being stuck inside all day, I've
realized how much serving the Lord can actually make us happy. Sitting
around for 12 plus hours a day basically sucks compared to it. Our
Father in Heaven has provided us all with a way to
work, and I can see first hand now that it is the real and true way to
happiness.
anyways I'm healthier than Elder Wright at the very least
Elder Cubby
Puffer Fish - eating pufferfish is really risky! I told him he is not allowed to eat it again!
Told him we went out to Indian food before we left...
Dang I'm jealous of all the cool food you guys had. We've been living
large at the AP's house actually, had cold cereal this morning, score.
Ben's talk was actually really good, thanks for sending it.
I asked more about Elder Wright...
He had a fever and what not already, I had to convince him to go in. he's
on a bunch of antibiotics right now so it's getting better. sister Kirk
got mad at us for waiting this long though, and basically told us that
biking 20 plus miles a day
was one of the worst things we could do for it.
He sent me some pictures of the leg, but I thought I'd better not post, since they it's not his leg. Basically it looked like a boil that was turning into cellulitis with red spreading down his leg.
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