Buongiorno tutti! Don't worry, I'm
talking about the week in my title, not my companion. He's still up and
kicking, although he goes home in less than one hundred days. Good times are
had here sometimes solely for that reason. This can be good and bad, but
usually it just means that it's at least entertaining. Photos below.
I don't remember what the stats are for
this email and I don't have access to my journal right now where I wrote them
down, so stats will come next week I suppose.
Tuesday was a scambio (exchange) where
we switched off with the Zone leaders and I stayed here with Anziano Trickett.
We enjoyed some metro finding and an English course where the participants learned
about tongue twisters and they couldn't believe that I could say them at all,
let alone with the speed that I was going. The twister I used is one I got from
Anziano Belnap in agrigento: "Betty bought some butter, but the butter
betty bought was bitter. Betty bought some better butter to make the bitter
butter better." English is fun
Wednesday was a whole bunch of travel where
after we taught a member who is preparing to receive the melchezidek priesthood
at the church that morning, we immediately went to the temple so that we could
have district council with the sorelle and end our scambio with the Zone
leaders. We then had a grand old time riding the metro home and just spending
an hour and a half on the metro before lunch. Woo hoo.
Thursday we decided to burn some old
clothing during lunch because why not? Things got a little heated, and the fire
extinguisher was used a little prematurely. But the fire was put out 🔥😅
Friday, surgery. The whole story is
long, so the shortened one is en route. I arrive on time. I am seen half an
hour after my appointment time. Ok.
When I was taken back, the doctor made
my companion leave to go and pay the bill downstairs of what ended up being 352
euro, 440 dollars. Cool, but back to the room where I'm on a check up mattress
thing. Doctor just starts to circle my cyst with pen. OK, cool.
Doctor grabs needle and just sticks it
into my arm without sanitizing it. Cool, that's totally standard procedure I
think. Uses all the anesthetic and then grabs another needle, repeats the
process. OK, awesome.
I insert my arm into a piece of surgical
paper that allows for easy clean up after the surgery, ha senso. While I'm
doing this, assistant hands doctor a scalpel, things start immediately after my
hand is resting under my head, anesthesia has yet to kick in.
I feel knife for a good twenty seconds
before I don't. Sweet. Doctor gets distracted by assistant talking about
California because they think I live there because I was born there and Italian
culture states that you always live where you were born and then you die there,
sometimes never leaving that area. They believe California to be cold and
rainy. I correct them as doctor pulls cyst out of arm with a chunk of skin. (If
you want photos of that, email me and I'll send them to you as they are gnarly)
I get sautered shut inside my arm with
electricity somehow, and watch smoke emenate from my arm. Awesome!
Stitches happen, don't feel the first
four, but I feel all the other eight. Halfway through the eight, I'm asked if I
feel pain. I sarcastically say "not a lot" but I forget that Italians
don't do sarcasm so he believes me and then yanks very hard to tighten my
stitches. I probably deserved that one.
We end up having to call the office, and
Anziano willey comes down to pay for my surgery. He then takes us out for
Gelato, dinner, and he buys us groceries for the rest of the week because he
feels bad for us. Absolute legend, love the man to death.
Saturday, we end up not doing a lot because my
arm region was in a lot of pain. I have no painkillers, and was given
instructions on how to care for it but none of the supplies. Luckily, mission
nurse sorella millet has made sure that all apartments with missionaries have a
decent first aid kit, so I had the materials at home. We then interview two
people for baptism, and we have some people on the line up for baptismal
interviews in the near future.
That's my week, here are some photos:
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