Jessie in Georgia: kidney stones and tanning (not burning) - Missionary Training Center, Provo Utah

Hello Everyone!

I'm so emo we leave the mtc this week I don't want to leave my district ugh!!! I keep telling myself that we're going to make so many new friends in the field but I'm sure going to miss them :( Sister Lord and I will be in Georgia by wednesday so my next email will be from there ahhhh!! I'm so nervous but more excited. Let's get into my week!

Saturday: The day started out good because we got to do sealings at the TEMPLE! We started a fast after lunch so we could do a 24 hour fast for Sunday the next day. In class, I started crying because they forgot to warn us that we'd be teaching the plan of salvation that day and I embarassed myself so badddd!!! Turns out I wasn't the only one having a rough day because basically our whole district started crying later. Anyway then we all hugged it out (except for the elders that's illegal) and cried as we said goodnight to the elders. Then, people started throwing up willy nilly. Sister Lord said "tomorrow will be such a good day!"

Sunday: Sister Lord jinxed herself. Long story short, Sister Lord woke up at 4am in agonizing pain and took meds to sleep again. She woke up feeling fine and then suddenly felt like she was dying. She got a blessing from the elders and we cried the whole blessing because she looked like she was suffering so much. They transported me and Sister Lord to the ER and they told her she had a kidney stone. How awful is that? They drugged her up and sent us away and then we ended up back at the ER because she could. not. stop. throwing. up. I'm talking every ten seconds. I felt useless because I couldn't help her!!! All I could do was hold her hand and scratch her back while she was absolutely helpless. Sister Mitton (branch pres wife) came to our room to see how we were doing but she actually ended up staying with us the rest of the day!! She's so sweet!!! We ended up back at the ER because the MTC doctor told us to get her an IV for fluids because she couldn't hold any water down. We found out she has TWO kidney stones. We ended up being away from our district from 9am-9pm. It was so sad and we had horrible fomo. When we got back to the MTC, we saw our district running toward us with open arms a few of them were crying it was the sweetest thing ever. We prayed as a district and finally went to bed. I'm so grateful for modern medicine and my cute district.

Monday: Much better day than sunday. I had a bagel for breakfast (if you know me you know that's my favorite thing for breakfast in the whole world) and then I fell asleep sitting on a bench with my comp. We got jumpscared awake by Elder Spencer (from england, we call him elder england) who was asking how Sister Lord was feeling. After that we played volleyball yay! Later in class Sister Lord was feeling sick again so we left early. Poor thing!!! Ugh! Then during our second class of the night, we had someone else stay with Sister Lord and watch over zoom so I could be there in person. It was so nice!

Tuesday:Temple day! The timpanogos temple is so prettyyyy! Can you guess what I ate for breakfast? (It was a bagel) We did baptisms and Initiatories! It was cold outside which was buns for our wet hair but whatevs. Mom, if you're reading this, look on missionary mamas cause there was a lady who took a pic of our district at the temple hehe! Then we had a devotional at night and it was great! We had W. Mark Bassett and his wife come!

Wednesday:Temple AGAIN! (bagel) Class was so fun today we were laughing our heads off. They had creamery ice cream at dinner and it made my day better lowkey. My teaching in the second class of the day was actually on fire I can see my improvement! Then after class when we were holding pinkies with our district, Elder England came and joined us for district prayer after spotting sister Lord. Then we went to the vending machines and I got a lunchable. Long live the MTC vending machines.

Thursday:I might be an idiot lowkey but when I was pondering life today I had an epiphany. The words inside and outside came from somewhere. The IN side of something is called the inside and the OUT side of something is called the outside. The more you know. Moving on, Elder english was lowk flirting with Sister Lord today saying "you have beautiful eyes." Elder you're not locked. After that we had to serve lunch and it was boring as freak and then we got to eat. Mid food per usual. Class went by so fast and then we ate dinner and then we had a sub for our second class. Elder Tommy Watts. IYKYK. They were cutting the grass and blowing around the dusty leaves all day today so sister Allen and my allergies were horrible today. HAPPY P-DAY EVE!

Friday (today): HAPPY P-DAY! Today we woke up and had a workshop about entering the mission field because we're leaving soon! We all either fly out tuesday or wednesday. Sister Lord and I will get to georgia sometime around 2pm on wednesday. AHHHHHHH! Then we went to lunch and then out to the field to play sand volleyball and spikeball in our matching stripling warriors shirts (look at my google photos if you want to see)!! I was staring straight into the sun but it was so fun lol and we all got tan or burned. (dw mom i didn't burn) Anyway now I'm in the computer lab in T2 writing this silly little email! Bye bye my loves!