Be careful what you eat!
Mike had quite the week it sounds like. Here is most of his letter he just sent...
Man, am I tired today. Its been a very different week.
We had such a busy Monday, thats usually our busiest day, hence, no Preparation day. Anyway, we had so much to do, we finally thought we had it all done and went to a members to eat, had some fatty hamburgers there, and when we were done we busted back over to the office to load up all the stuff we needed to take to the 2 Zone conferences we were supposed to be instructing at later this week, so we were a bit late getting on the road to Greensboro that night, which is a hour and 40 minute drive, hahaha, and we were driving the Fun Bus all the way up there. So anyway, we got there at about 10:00 and finally went to bed after a nice long day. The next day we started an exchange with Elder Wood and Elder Newton, the ZL's up there, it started out well, Elder Wood and i were having a great day, we got to teach the Africans i was teaching a few weeks ago, and then we ate lunch.... thats when it all went down hill. We ate little Caesars... and at first it was good, then my stomach started to turn all crazy, i thought it was just the grease, because i've been trying to eat a bit more healthy lately, but we went and worked a couple more hours, and at about 4 o'clock we went to teach DJ Sir Vic, i got really sick there, in the middle of the lesson i had to ask to use the restroom and went in there and Sprayed out both ends... all that pizza, and everything came up. It was sick. I just thought it was something weird, and wanted to just tough it out, cause i didn't want to jack up the exchange, especially since Elder Wood is a brand new ZL, so we stayed a little longer and i kept feeling worse and worse so i eventually just said we had to go, and made Elder Wood take me back to the apartment so i could get some Tums. On our way back Elder Newton and Elder Lee called and told us that Elder Lee was sick too. I was still driving the big 'ol Fun Bus and still felt like crap and was getting worse and worse. So when we got back to the Apartment i had Elder Wood call all the rest of our appointments and cancel, and then Elder Newton and Lee met us back there at the apartment. Thats when the fun really began... we were up all night Pukin our guts out. It was so bad that as we were getting blessings, we both had to puke. And we were supposed to Instruct at the Winston-Salem/Greensboro combined Zone Conference the next day.... But there was no way. We counted that we puked between 25 - 30 times that night. It sucked so bad. President Hobbs was laughing at us on the phone, but made sure we were staying hydrated enough to not have to go to the ER. Both Elder Lee and I were so out of it, we just layed in bed all day wednesday, and only started eating at around 9 that night and only canned peaches and pears. It was the worst ever. Turns out, we got food poisoning from those Hamburgers we ate at the members Monday night before we left. We couldn't even muster up the energy to drive back to Charlotte till Thursday Morning. Man, so thats my story this week. it was pretty intense. I still can't hack much food, but we recovered our strength pretty quickly i think. Yesterday was our first semi normal day, and today we had to go back to our regular schedule of business. We didn't get to instruct at the W-S/Greensboro on wednesday, but we did yesterday in HIckory. So its definitely been interesting. But the cool thing is that the Lord took care of our investigators while we were out of commission, were teach two of them today and solidifying their Baptismal dates for the 16th. Thats why i Love this, no matter what gets thrown your way, if you just keep on truckin in what you know is right, the Lord just takes care of everything else. Its the best.
I hope everything is going good for you this week, i guess i'll get you new update next week. Love you,
Elder Alexander
Man, am I tired today. Its been a very different week.
We had such a busy Monday, thats usually our busiest day, hence, no Preparation day. Anyway, we had so much to do, we finally thought we had it all done and went to a members to eat, had some fatty hamburgers there, and when we were done we busted back over to the office to load up all the stuff we needed to take to the 2 Zone conferences we were supposed to be instructing at later this week, so we were a bit late getting on the road to Greensboro that night, which is a hour and 40 minute drive, hahaha, and we were driving the Fun Bus all the way up there. So anyway, we got there at about 10:00 and finally went to bed after a nice long day. The next day we started an exchange with Elder Wood and Elder Newton, the ZL's up there, it started out well, Elder Wood and i were having a great day, we got to teach the Africans i was teaching a few weeks ago, and then we ate lunch.... thats when it all went down hill. We ate little Caesars... and at first it was good, then my stomach started to turn all crazy, i thought it was just the grease, because i've been trying to eat a bit more healthy lately, but we went and worked a couple more hours, and at about 4 o'clock we went to teach DJ Sir Vic, i got really sick there, in the middle of the lesson i had to ask to use the restroom and went in there and Sprayed out both ends... all that pizza, and everything came up. It was sick. I just thought it was something weird, and wanted to just tough it out, cause i didn't want to jack up the exchange, especially since Elder Wood is a brand new ZL, so we stayed a little longer and i kept feeling worse and worse so i eventually just said we had to go, and made Elder Wood take me back to the apartment so i could get some Tums. On our way back Elder Newton and Elder Lee called and told us that Elder Lee was sick too. I was still driving the big 'ol Fun Bus and still felt like crap and was getting worse and worse. So when we got back to the Apartment i had Elder Wood call all the rest of our appointments and cancel, and then Elder Newton and Lee met us back there at the apartment. Thats when the fun really began... we were up all night Pukin our guts out. It was so bad that as we were getting blessings, we both had to puke. And we were supposed to Instruct at the Winston-Salem/Greensboro combined Zone Conference the next day.... But there was no way. We counted that we puked between 25 - 30 times that night. It sucked so bad. President Hobbs was laughing at us on the phone, but made sure we were staying hydrated enough to not have to go to the ER. Both Elder Lee and I were so out of it, we just layed in bed all day wednesday, and only started eating at around 9 that night and only canned peaches and pears. It was the worst ever. Turns out, we got food poisoning from those Hamburgers we ate at the members Monday night before we left. We couldn't even muster up the energy to drive back to Charlotte till Thursday Morning. Man, so thats my story this week. it was pretty intense. I still can't hack much food, but we recovered our strength pretty quickly i think. Yesterday was our first semi normal day, and today we had to go back to our regular schedule of business. We didn't get to instruct at the W-S/Greensboro on wednesday, but we did yesterday in HIckory. So its definitely been interesting. But the cool thing is that the Lord took care of our investigators while we were out of commission, were teach two of them today and solidifying their Baptismal dates for the 16th. Thats why i Love this, no matter what gets thrown your way, if you just keep on truckin in what you know is right, the Lord just takes care of everything else. Its the best.
I hope everything is going good for you this week, i guess i'll get you new update next week. Love you,
Elder Alexander
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