Week 36: No I Am Not Having A Baby And No I Do Not Have Cancer

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 up because I was basketball player and a rock climber. However, it's a cyst that apparently will just develop with no ryhme or reason and the only way to remove it is by surgery. Which happens in the States. At home. 

Fortunately, it only needs surgery if it´s too big. Or if it's cancer. Luckiky it was neither. Either way,  I had the pleasure of going to do an Ultrasound Wednsday Morning. You can imagine how we felt walking in with all the pregant woman to do an ultrasound on my wrist. Needless to say, us two 18,19 year old Elders felt out of place with all the pregant Paraguaya woman.

However I'm all good! Not going anywhere for 16 months.

I´m not trunky you are. 

I loved this verse this week from Alma 17:10!

"And it came to pass that the Lord did visit them with his Spirit, and said unto them: Be comforted. And they were comforted."

The Lord will comfort us in our afflictions, gashed legs and broken wrists! 

I know it! 

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Élder Ralphs

Vamos!







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