What is tired, itchy, and red all over?

If you didn't catch it in the title...I'm tired, sick, and covered in a
rash from my neck to my toes. Ridiculous. But let me back up :)

This week we had some good stuff going on. We got to have dinner

(manwhich night)with the part member family we've been working with. That was
on Monday night and it went really well! The wife totally liked us
and she didn't seem nervous or anything. She stayed out with us and we
shared a message on family that she really liked. She said we could come
back again too! But they have been out of town for labor day weekend. So we
are excited to stop by there again sometime. This week we also had a
mission tour so another General Authority came down. He and his wife

taught us some good things about observation that will help us be better

teachers. It was really fun. The meeting was also held in my last ward's

church building so that was fun to go back there! I got to see a few of the

members and talk to them. I miss them! But I seem to always miss every area

I leave. It's a good thing I think :)

We had the most uncomfortable Chastity lesson this week. It was with the
less active member we have been teaching. It basically turned into a
confession period about how he didn't want relationships like he has had in
the past and how he wants to have a good marriage like the members he hangs
out with and he wants to be able to do the things they do appropriately.
Awkward! Haha! Never have I felt so uncomfortable teaching that lesson. But
at least he recognizes and understands that is not what a relationship
should be based on.

We knocked quite a few doors this week too. Not too many answered but I had
fun messing with all the dogs at each house. Seriously, dogs hate me, and I
love messing with them. These dogs I was messing with thought they were
tough stuff. They were in a fence and on a chain and if you took a step
toward them they went crazy jumping everywhere and baring their teeth and
stuff. I probably look like an idiot, but it's fun to play around. You have
to do something to switch up the day! haha. So we knocked on a door across
the street from those dogs and it didn't work out so I burst through the
trees to "run" at these dogs and get them riled up again, and there was a
big black guy in the middle of the street. Awkward! He probably thought I
was thundering towards him. So I nonchalantly just turned around and kept
walking. Sister W was laughing so hard.

Now comes my medley of symptoms in the past week! Early in the week I
started to get a slight chest pain on the right side of my chest and middle
of the right side of my back. It wasn't too bad, more just weird. But on
Wednesday night, I woke up after being asleep for maybe an hour, and had a
searing pain in my chest. No matter what I did, I could not breathe or get
the pain to go away. Apparently I kept grunting and moaning and such
because I also woke up my companion because I was trying to breathe! haha.
So didn't get any sleep that night. Then the next day I started to get a
fever plus having hot and cold flashes. So I just felt stinky. I still had
the pain in my chest as well. So the mission nurse told me to sleep on the
couch so I can prop myself up which will help me breathe. So I have been on
the couch for the past week. However, the pain in my chest stopped a few
days later, only to be replaced with a rash. (You can not be serious!) I am
currently on day 4 of said rash. It is from my neck, down to my toes. I
think I got bit by something and had an allergic reaction. So that is no
fun. I have been rubbing Hydro cortisone on all the time so I don't itch
it. It seems like it might be getting a bit better. Then a few days ago I
went to bed with a migraine and woke up with it. I did not feel well at all
so we stayed home for the most part that day so I could catch up on rest
and try to get better. My stomach also hasn't been too happy with me for
the last week. So I haven't eaten much! And finally, yesterday I acquired
an insanely sore throat. I'm hoping it's not strep because one of the zone
leaders had strep last week. So ya. It's been a lovely week. We still
made visits and stuff, but I've just been a little tired and out of it at
times. If it doesn't get better soon, then I'll go to the doctor. But the
rash seems to be easing off. The zone leaders command me to go home and
sleep like every day but Sister W only has like 20 days left so I can't do that to her!

Anyway it'll all be over soon. So we also got our 13 year old investigator to
come to a baptism this weekend! She really liked it. She is so mature for
her age. It is insane. She still doesn't really understand that she needs
to come to our church, but we have been focusing on the Book of Mormon with
her so she can read that. She is so cute.

Our recent converts are doing pretty well, well except that they always
have something wrong with them. One broke her ankle and is still feeling
sick, and another had a seizure and ended up in the hospital. Ridiculous. But
soon to be baptized woman is doing really well. She is getting all set for her baptism

on the 20th! She is progressing pretty well and has been able to successfully give
up coffee! Woo!

So it's been a good week! We got to go to the temple this morning bright
and early so that was fun. A super cute older couple took us. The wife comes out on

lessons with us all the time. She is coming on a lesson with us tomorrow and we

don't have a dinner tomorrow so she wants us to come over so we can celebrate my birthday :) They are the sweetest. I love them! They help us all the time.

Anyway I love and miss all of you. The weather is getting really hot again
down here. For a while it was overcast and not as bad, but it's getting up
there again. Darn it. Can't wait for winter here! :) Anyway have a good
week all of you and be good!