Hello everybody it is I once again. You
may be wondering about my
email title and I just want to tell you
that I am okay. My companion
however, is not. I will explain later on
in this email, but first I'll
cover my week.
You've already seen some of the pictures
but I went to Nikko on
Monday, which is a world heritage site.
The actual place was built in
the Edo period of Japan (Edo is the old
name for Tokyo when Kyoto was
the countries capital). We had a great
time and even though I've seen
plenty of shrines in my life, I was
thoroughly impressed by this one.
They had a dealing that roared. I guess
you had to be there. No
pictures allowed though because it is
used for actual worship.
On Tuesday we taught a lot of English
and visited a good amount of
members. Really it was a pretty normal
day, but this is when it gets
not normal. During Wednesday morning
study, my companion started to
get really nauseous. He ended up
throwing up and we stayed inside all
day. I sat in my desk chair for 15 hours
straight because I didn't
want to get too close to a sick person.
However, he was totally fine
the next day. We topped off Thursday by
going up to Koga for zone
leader splits. I spent the day with
Elder Peterson and it was pretty
awesome. We biked around 20-30
kilometers that day. We also found a
bunch of new investigators and had a
wonderful time enjoying the
warmth of spring.
However, things got worse from there. My
companion got sick again, but
this time it included a good amount of
blood. Anytime he went to the
bathroom it was just blood so you can
imagine my worry. So to cope I
told him to wait the rest of the night
and went back to sleep.
SATURDAY MORNING. Still blood. We go
back to Oyama from our exchange.
There was a huge factory fire so there
was ash falling everywhere.
Wish I took a picture but I was biking
sorry. We then go to the
"hospital" (Japan doesn't have
hospitals. Just a ton of small
clinics.) and we waited for an hour to
be told he has a kidney stone
with no tests or scans. We were
skeptical because he wasn't
experiencing any pain. That night we got
a ride up to Kiryu (an old
area of mine) for a priesthood meeting.
SUNDAY. STILL WORRIED. A member in the
ward just got back from Fukuoka
for cancer in his kidneys. He had the
same symptoms as elder Sharon so
everybody was getting a little worried.
On the bike home, Elder Sharon
started to hurt and now we are dealing
with a kidney stone. Not
cancer. That brings me to the adventure
I'm in now.
I don't think I have very many pictures
from this week so I'll post
them if I have some. Thanks for tuning
in!
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