Missionary Letter #11 (December 13, 2010)

i had woken up that morning with a sore throat so i felt pretty awful the whole walk over to see j. i knew i was feeling so bad so i went into the bathroom and prayed that i'd be able to make it through the lesson, especially because i had kind of taken the lead in planning his lesson. my companions were like totally not there because they were feeling awful as well. i was able to make it through the lesson, and listen to him the whole time, esp because he talks for a long time and takes a while to get out what he wants to say, so if you're not focusing really hard, you get lost. anyway, i was like the only one who could follow him, i answered his questions, we finished the lesson, and as soon as he was gone i was like laying on the ground next to the heater and it hurt so much to talk! it was so crazy. then we went straight home and tried to do weekly planning but we were all so sick. and also the kind of sick where just your whole body hurts. what do you think happened?? then sis k woke up the next day with a fever of 39 degrees c, and i was feeling really awful as well. we went and taught a lesson and then came back home because sis k couldn't do anything. we just like slept all day and hung out in our room. it's so annoying being sick on a mission. so that was thursday night and friday. then i woke up on saturday morning with a fever of 39! and we called our zone leaders and asked if they could give us blessings. then we taught a lesson and came home and slept.

later we heard banging on the door and what a welcome surprise!! mother's package with christmas festivities came!! so that was so good to have when we had to stay in or we'd get more sick, but we had already been sleeping all day! so what did we do?? listened to the really good mix, my comps love it, put together the paper tree, cut out snowflakes, ate oreo balls, read the christmas letter, talked about how the handwarmers you sent me were the same kind that sis k destroyed! so that was so fun! and so timely!

but yeah, mostly these past few days have been my comps and i laughing so hard that we all just start having fits of horrendous coughing. yaaaaaay. hahaha. it's pretty funny.

christmas here is cool. i think it's the victorians who made christmas tacky. typical. haha! but i mean just with like tinsel and just like the type of christmas tackiness you see sometimes...? anyway. so, it's pretty fun. i was going to send you christmas crackers, but they put like the dumbest things in them! like finger nail clippers and hairties. i was hoping i could find some with chocolate. nope!

love,
emma