I got the letter with the money and the box. I will put the money to good use. Ummm for Eli, I have no idea, what is really popular here in the mission is nerf guns. We try and have a nerf gun war every other p day. They also have a book of mormon and bible edition apples to apples, that might be cool.
Well me and Elder H had a good week, president wrote me a letter saying that he hasn't seen such high weekly indicators from Elder H before (lessons taught, investigators with a date and other stuff like that). We have been using up all the book of mormons we have in the house so the 4 I got from bernie and rich will go to good use and we also had to order 10 more to make it through next week.
Elder Holland gave a great talk, very powerful and like always I think he almost broke the pulpet at one point. At one point he said, "IF YOU GO HOME AND ARE STILL THE SAME THEN YOU MISSED SOMETHING, THEN WE AS THE CHURCH AND ME AS A PERSON HAVE FAILED YOU". He said the most important investigator we will ever have is ourselves and we should come home with a testimony strong enough to keep up active for the rest of our lives. I guess there has been a problem with missionaries going home and going inactive as they head off to college. But then he settled down and talked about christmas. He said its interesting how in the Bible when it talks about the birth of Jesus Christ it says "there was no room for "them" in the inn, it doesnt say there was no room, it says no room for them. He talked about how the Savior grew up with humble circumstances and how he wonders is the Savior couldnt have had better. But he tied it all back in really well talking about how he had to descend below everything.
Well I had a crazy week. Now don't freak out mom.... lol ok so saturday we had just gotten back to the house from practicing singing because Elder h and I and 2 other missionaries sang in a sacrament meeting "O Emmanuel, O Emmanuel". We did alright lol. Anyways we got back and I ate but I wasnt feeling too good so I had about 15 minutes before weekly planning so I layed down in bed. I guess I fell asleep. I woke up at 2:25 when Elder H came in to get me to do weekly planning. I was feeling better so I got up and walked out the door into the hallway. I started to get dizzy so I put my hand on the wall and said something (dont remember what) and then the next thing I knew I was on the ground and Elder H was standing over asking if I was ok. I felt ok but my head hurt really bad and I was bleeding from my mouth. I had no idea what had happened and it was 2:28. I asked Elder H what happened and why I was on the floor and he said I walked out into the hallway said something and then passed out. I fell flat on my face and smacked my head pretty good. He said I then began to shake as if I was having a seizure. He ran up to me thinking I was joking and then realized I wasnt joking as I was shaking and my eyes were open and I was bitting my tongue. He touched me as he ran by to get some socks to stuff in my mouth and the moment he touched me I snapped out of it and came to. I had no memory of anything between putting my hand on the wall and waking up. I spent the next 5 minutes spitting blood into the sink as my tounge was bleeding pretty good. We called Sister Miller the Mission Presidents wife and she was freaking out but what I found funny was president Miller in the backround was freaking out even more. Lol they set me up with a doctors appt and I went in on Monday. I still had a pretty bad headache at the time, it has since mostly gone away. Doctor Jones asked me some questions and then took my heart rate laying down and standing up and when I stood up my heart rate jumped more than 30 pts. He asked me about stress and diet and he said he thinks I need to drink more water and what happened was I got dehydrated passed out and when a person passes out it is not uncommon to have a seizure like reaction, but he is pretty sure I didnt have a seizure. He then did an EKG to check for heart damage and it came back negative so I am good there. I am going back in on Dec 28th for blood work to double check and make sure it isnt something more serious, he said he wants to do the blood work to rule out cancer but he said that is highly unlikely that I have Leukemia but he just wants to be safe. Then I am getting an MRI and they are going to check to make sure I dont have any internal bleeding in my brain. It all sounds pretty bad but he assured me it looks like I should be just fine, he is just doing these tests as a precaution. I am feeling a lot better and have more than doubled my water consumption a day since then. I drink about 4-5 bottles of water now. Yea so dont worry mom because I know you probably are. I mean if I was writting you a letter saying I had the flu, you would proabably say psh the flu are you joking get back to work ;) Love ya! What was funny is Elder H was more shaken up than I was. I after I spit all the blood out of my mouth I was like well lets go plan, we have people to teach, we have an appt in 2 hrs. Elder H was like wow wow slow down. That night every time I rolled over in bed to get comfortable he would sit up and look over at me and I would just laugh and be like "I am fine go back to sleep!" Anyways that was my week. Oh and the R family who we are teaching (family of 8 well 7 now the uncle went back to arizona to find work) well we found out they are not married so we talked to them about it and discused the importance of being married and we told them to pray about it, so we will see what happens. We had 11 investigators at church on sunday, it was awesome! Anyways I got to go times almost up, Love you all and Merry Christmas
Love,
Elder Jolly
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