Ralphs, Jay

There were two moments this week I thought I was going to go home. Both of which were sorta kinda not my fault at all.  First, during a Service Project last week I fell and cut a long shallow gash on the front of my shin. It was quite the epic fall. I fell over a little wall, then down about two feet straight onto my back in a puddle of dirty water. It left a long trail of blood down my shin. It was all good till a litte later on it got a nasty infection. Luckily Hermana Calderwood is the goat and we got that all treated up.  Then... just as soon as we got my leg figured out we went to the hospital for my wrist. I had woken up a couple of weeks before and it had just been throbbing and it still hurt a couple weeks later, so we went to get it checked out. Turns out it was not a little wrist fissure like we thought, but a synovial wrist cyst. According to what little knowledge I could glean from Meta AI it happens to about 1 in a 100,000 people with the odds only slighly going u...

You would think after 8 months as a missionary I would figure out how to be a good consistent email writer.  Guess not because last week I just totally forgot.  To start, we had quite a traumatic turn of events when we found out that Hermana Tejedor had to leave for health concerns to finish her mission in Panama. As soon as we found out, we went and bought an emergency Acai She found out on Monday and then left the next day.  It really made appreciate this delicate precious time that I have served as a missionary. Because for this Hermana, a real friend of mine, after two transfers sharing an area, just left. Just like that. Milena, our brazillian friend, got baptized by her husband! The Wendesday before her baptism we had a poweful lesson and invited her to act in faith after 5 years with the missionaries and to be baptized. Her husband, a returned missionary baptized and confirmed her. Not gonna like it made the two Hermanas in our ward Trunky This week I had two power...

Let the good times roll.