Winnemucca Week 13 (Mission Week 34)

Hey guys!!

Well this week was quite eventful. Probably the weirdest/non routine week I've had on the mission so far. It included Thanksgiving and a trip to the ER. Ill explain why in the Weekly Recap. I'm glad this week is upon us so we can get back to our regular schedule. 

Monday

Regular pdays things. The youth are out of school so a couple of them came to the church and played basketball with us.

Tuesday (Trip to the Emergency Room)

The day started out normal. We did service raking leaves with another set of Elders and then got lunch with them afterwards. When we walked out of the restaurant, my right eye's peripheral vision went out. It was weird. While I was driving, I couldnt see the cars on the right shoulder of the road. When we got back to the apartment my vision was still weird but I got dressed for the rest of the day. We started our companion study like normal. We recite 3 things at the beginning of every study (Our purpose, the First Vision, and the mission scripture). I've been out for nearly 8 months now so I have these things down. Today was different. As I was trying to recite, I couldn't get the words out. I knew what I had to say but I couldn't get my mouth to say it. I tried each recitation but it was the same for each one. My speech was slurring and my words were jumbling together. There was a point where my companion was telling me to say it but I literally just looked at the ground and stayed silent and shook my head because I couldn't. The zoneleaders were at our apartment by this point and they were asking me questions and a couple of the things I couldn't remember the answer.This lasted for 10-12 minutes which was concerning so we called the mission doctor and she told us to go to the ER immediately. She feared that I had a stroke. So we drove to the ER and spent the remainder of the day there. I had blood drawn, a CT scan, urine tests, and every other tests you can have. I was there for a long time and fortunately everything came out OK. The doctor was telling me the best idea would probably go home and get treatment and then come back on the mission. I was like that isn't how the mission works Ms. Doctor haha. We talked with President Dunn a couple of times and the situation gradually lessened to where now I'll just be driving to Reno a couple of times this transfer to see a neurologist. I either had a mild stroke (TIA) or just a massive brain fart haha. Hoping for the massive brain fart. Because of the whole situation my driving privileges got taken away. They don't want me having a stroke while driving which is a good idea. The whole ordeal took a toll on my system. I went to bed at 9pm and didn't wake up until 12:30pm the next day. 16 hours of sleep was great haha. Just pray for me that no lasting affects will be found when I see the neurologist. Interesting day

Wednesday

Half of the day was taken with me sleeping. We had to cancel some things because of my fatigue. We did have an early Thanksgiving dinner which was a pleasant surprise!

Thursday (Thanksgiving)

My body was pretty much back to normal by now which was nice because of the holiday. We had a full day planned. We had 4 dinners to go to and a lot of Thanksgiving messages to share. The elders in Winnemucca had a competition as to see who would gain the most weight. I gained 10.4 pounds. I will never do that again though. It was not worth it. By the end of the day we were all sick of food and couldn't move haha. I lost half of the weight by midnight because the food did not stay in my stomach if you know what I mean . Anyways my first Thanksgiving on the mission was great.

Friday

The day was spent contacting and we had a lesson with Gary. We were in the deep part of our area where there is no service so that was fun haha. It's called Grass Valley and that's literally what it is. Nothing around but grass and mountains with the occasional house. We had an interesting dinner as well. The couple are great people but are a bit odd haha.

Saturday

We did more service at the same place we did Tuesday. I was hoping to not have another "stroke" again since that's what happened last time we were there lol. I was fine though haha. We conducted our weekly planning and then had an awesome dinner.

Sunday

Regular church meetings. We had another lesson with Gary as well. Most of the day was spent contacting but in the evening we went and did family history with Brother Smith (an old guy in our ward). It was really fun. He said he usually goes and if no one shows up he packs up and leaves. We we there for an hour though just looking at stuff on Family Search in the Family History center. 

Lesson Reviews

Gary

Unfortunately Gary's baptismal date has been pushed back to the 10th. He drinks tea but he threw it all away and pledged to not drink it ever again because he wants to be baptized. You have to follow the Word of Wisdom for 2 weeks before being baptized which is why it got pushed back a week. He continues to impress us. We taught the Law of Chastity, Word of Wisdom, and the Law of Tithing. We talked about how these commandments are in place out of the love our Heavenly Father has for us and we obey because we love and trust Him. We were worried about tithing but he went and got some donation slips that he does for other things and said he will pay tithing! He states every lesson that he feels the "warm feeling" that we spoke about which is the Holy Ghost. We love Gary.

Well that's what happened this week. Hopefully this week will be more normal and I won't have another potential stroke haha. I love yall!!! Thanks for all the prayer and thought coming my way! Also its Christmas time!!!!!! So excited!

Elder Proctor

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Pic 2: my obituary that the Elders we did service with made before they realized that I seriously could be going home haha (I was born in 2002 not 01 lol)