I have a lot to write this week so perdon me if this is choppy.
Monday was a glorious day. Sunday night we spent in the hospital with Chelly because she had severe stomach pain. But the little rockstar still wanted to come with us to the city monday. We went to the University of Concepcion. They say its the prettiest campus in all of north america. And it is gorgeous! We planned to explore all of it but ended up putting a blanket in the grass and just sleeping. It was lovely.
Tuesday we had a mini cambio. I went to Hualpen with hermana Lopez. She is my second favorite argentinan. One of those hermanas that I am going to return and visit every year! She yelled at me for a bit about not resting with my hernia. We talked about my dilemma. I cant get better if I dont rest. If I dont get better I cant finish my mission. I cant force myself to rest...I just cant! I know I need to rest...but my desire to go out and teach overpowers everything else. That night my leg started hurting a lot. Like a lot a lot. Even breathing hurt. And I thought of the pain I have had now for 6 months...and I realized that 6 more months is a long time. I have been so stubborn about that I am not going home..I´ve never let the thought enter my head. But suddenly the words of the mission hymn entered my head..
I´ll go where you want me to go..I´ll be what you want me to be.
I accepted that phrase so fully when I got my mission call.. God called me to come to Chile. I accepted that with all of my heart. I put all my confidence and faith in Him and came to this place so different and far from home. I came where He wanted me to come and did what He wanted me to do. And if He wanted me to go home...to start a different mission in another place..shouldnt I be just as willing and enthusiastic about that?
So I decided..obviously God is pointing in a different direction than I am looking...I need to go home. And I cried the whole night. And the next morning we went to Presidents house and I sat in his office and I cried and said I needed to go home.
"Do you want to go home hermana?¨" No. "Do you want to be healed?" Yes. I cant count the number of blessings and fastings and prayers I have had...but here I am..still sick. "Do you have faith that He can heal you?" Well I did..now I dont know if He wants to. He then said that God still has work for me here. And he gave me blessing and said that I would be healed and finish my mission.
And after that I felt much better in every way possible. And everything will be okay.
Once I got back home to Hualqui I learned that Chelly had gone in ambulance to the hospital during the night. So we went and visited her in her house. I have never set foot in her house before...we are not allowed even in the yard. So miracle number one is that we were able to enter her house. I was shocked when I saw her. The poor thing was thrashing around on her bed and couldnt even talk from the pain she was in. She just silently cried. I couldnt even look at her..it was awful. We stayed with her and I tried to feed her creamed rice. After a few hours she reached a level of pain that I was scared she was going to die. So I got her mom to take us to the hospital. We went with her parents and her sister....none of who I have talked to before. But we all bonded in the emergency room. We even took her sister with us and she contacted with us! It was a night of miracles. I dont know if I have mentioned just how much her family does not like the church.
Friday while walking home and I banged the top of my head with an iron rod. I kind of passed out for a min and my comp got a car to take us home. I was super dizzy and called the doctor. I had a little concussion and my comp and to wake me up every hour of the night so see if I was alive. Poor thing! I´m totally fine though now. Still have a large bump on my head. Obviously I am super accident prone.
Saturday morning President and Hermana Arrington dropped off cinnamon rolls at our house and your package. I hadnt had cinammon rolls in a year so I was happy!
Sunday we were supposed to have the baptism of X. He had three interviews and was super ready. He had left his drugs and drinking and everything for three weeks. And saturday night he went to a party and when we went to pick him up for his baptism...he was drunk. We already had the font filled up and had to empty it during the conference. It was really sad. He has come so far and was so disapointed in himself. It broke my heart. But we are going to get him some better medical help and keep on helping him. But it was a sad day.
At night the other hermanas in our house made us brownies and we all cried that cambios was the next day. But mire!! Its monday and we are all staying here in Haulqui for 6 more weeks!!!! I could not be happier!!!
I have so much more I want to say but will save it for next week!
I am just grateful that Chelly is better and okay! and that I get to stay here in Hualqui!!
Love you all!!
Hermana Orchard
This is our 1 year anniversary. Our ward mission leader brought us donuts. It was the one year mark for me, Hermana Razeria and Elder Moore.
This is us with Chelly when she opened her mission call.
In front of the stake center
Last night eating brownies before cambios
