Week 75 - Sta Margarita 11/24/2012

so this has been an interesting few weeks last week not much happened we had our amazing zone activity and had a great zone training meeting and then tuesday night we went out and taught a young man who is a recent convert of about 7 months we are trying to teach his parents but they are always drunk or out with their friends so really difficult but we taught him a great lesson about scripture study and he committed to read everyday so that he can become an example for his parents and we can hopefully start teaching them but then i started feeling sick and so we went home and long story short i started getting better come saturday but elder dariagan got sick friday with the same thing but it was way harder on his immmune system so we went to the hospital saturday night for a check up and they wanted to admit him to the hospital and so i called sister Andaya and she asked if we could travel to tacloban as soon as possible turns out there has been a dengue outbreak in the mission and me elder dariagan elder misalucha elder theobald and elder bard were all in the hospital at the same time here in Tacloban me and elder theobald werent to bad so we were just under observation and then our blood platelet count came back up and i am fine but my companions dropped down to 63 which for those of you that dont know the average person his age and size should be 250 so not good and for those of you that dont know what blood platelets are they are the part of your blood that makes it clot so not good is if he started bleeding and he almost had to have a blood transfusion crazy week but we are out but have to stay in tacloban until monday when he goes for a check up because his blood platelet count is still low it was only 100 when we left and if it is low again monday we go back into the hospital but one thing has come from this week i have learned a ton with all the free time in the hospital i had 5 hour personal studies everyday for 5 days and have read a ton mostly about the things in my patriarchal blessing i read Doctrine and Covenants 107 twice section 121 section 46 and 84 and i read 3 nephi chapters 8-12 and in my other book of mormon reading i read from the title page to 1 nephi chapter 19 and i read like 10 chapters from Preach MY Gospel such a good study time to bad i dont have the chance to use all the new stuff i have learned and i got to see elder Ostler one last time before he went home i cant believe its been a year since we became companions but i only have 2 companions who are still here in the mission Elder Andrada and Elder Dariagan and they are from the same home stake so weird all of my companions are home and i just realized i only have 5 transfers left that is a really short time not sure but i feel like i have one more big thing i need to do before i go but as well i got the package while i was in the hospital so nice to have things to snack on its almost all gone but the BBQ sauce and potatoes will be used whenever i go back to Calbayog so we can celebrate Thanksgiving even if we are celebrating late but thats ok well im really excited to see what happens since me and elder dariagan are together for another transfer no transfers in our entire zone except they took one of our sisters and put her in the office so its still good she is an amazing missionary well i love you all and sorry i dont really have a ton of amazing stories to let you in on this week but i do want you all to know that no matter what we are right now that isnt who we have to be when we die its all a matter of goal setting and accomplishing and as long as we look to the lord to fill in those parts we cant do everything becomes possible well i love you family and hope i have brought at least a little enlightenment to your lives through this email but until next week be careful with the gun mom and chad keep on practicing it will really pay off dad i love you and i met another person who lives here in tacloban who knows you she brought us food while in the hospital she was quite amazed that i was here because her oldest is only 16 but ya kamrie its ok if elementary is over because it only gets better and you will just keep getting smarter and scott your bed is awesome a lot of people here in the Philippines would love a hamok that big a hamok in warray is called a duyan they are awesome and tyler just keep going and dont forget what you need to do to serve the Lord you will need his help and you can get that by doing what He wants you to do i love you all and know this is the only church that is 100% true here on earth and it is Gods kingdom here on the earth so lets keep doing our part to help build that kingdom so we will all be happy well thats all for now

and its crazy 75 weeks i just want to ask if the blog is still updated because i have a missionary friend that was reading it before he got here and it was behind and he wasnt sure what happened well love you all and i will be sending letters to you soon that i want you to send to our family members one day i decided i needed to do what i do best and that is help people come back to Gods kingdom and i wrote all of our inactive family members and i hope i can get them to you before christmas thats kind of what i wanted to do for christmas