Tuesday-Not a good day. 3 AM roles around and i wake up in pain, my mouth is just killing me because of my tooth, i did not sleep after that and my companion told me to try and sleep and i still couldn't do it, we called sister Durrant and tried to find a dentist, she told us to call around so we called the elders in Mesquit and they gave us two members who were dentists and we were able to set up an appointment with one of them for that same day, but not till 4 in the afternoon, and it was a 2 hour bus ride there and 2 hours back, so that's what we did the whole entire day! I went downtown for the first time and let me tell you, it makes Utah look clean, nice and small. Just crazy, so many people that look like they will kill you if you get in there way, but i never feel threatened. But we got there they opened my mouth and said... you need a root canal, and thats it. So 4 hours of bus riding just for that, but i was able to talk to my dad and that was a real treat! The people there were all so so nice! Helped us a lot and wrote a prescription for the pain until i had the actual work done on Friday, but it was an hour wait for the medicine, so we did some shopping and ate at Mcdonalds, i gave some money to a poor girl and felt really good about that. Got the Medicine and didn't get home till about 8:30 so our whole day was shot, we tracked for maybe 10 minutes and headed home.
Wednesday-Specialized training meeting, somehow the story about my tooth got out haha everyone was asking how i was including president Durrant and the story got changed so much it was very funny, some people thought i lost 3 teeth from crashing on my bike haha! But the meeting was 6 hours long and i got mail too! i love mail :) and the package, Love my family and their help with my requests, not having a watch was hard, i looked at my bare wrist like 80 times a day, and it just sucked. But the meeting was great! we got out about 4, i got to see my district and i tell you they are brothers to me, i love seeing them. But we got done and got to work and i tell you the medicine im on makes you drowsey and tired and loopy, and so here i am in the heat riding a bike, on the busy road, on this medicine... probably not a good idea, but i wanted to work! i love the work and i don't want to stop, i feel so bad about yesterday and how much time we waisted. But it was quit the experience, i would laugh at some of the stupidest things, and not know why. But we did it, and im happy we worked.
Thursday-Planning day! in the apartment till about 3:30, mas or menos. Then we headed out to an appointment, talked to a few people, my Spanish is getting really good. My companion says the stuff i use and the words i use he didn't use till 1 year out, i think he is lying but who knows? But we had dinner with the Relif Society President and it was absolutely amazing!!! I just cant get enough of this food, with the amount that i eat? I will probably find a way to beat my metabolism, it was good and afterwards we went out tracking and ran into a couple that reminded me exactly of when i was dating Randi in High School, exact couple!!!!!! Same in every aspect he was exactly like me and she was exactly like her, so we talked for a long time and they were really interested and it was really good to talk to them and they were such nice people, we headed home with only two words on my mind as i went to bed, Root Canal...
Friday-today is the day i die! We got on the bus and my companion was teasing me, kept telling everyone that asked on the phone that i was going in for "surgery" and he thought it was funny, i was not happy and excited. We got there and there were two other missionaries there haha we asked why and one of them, sure enough, cracked a tooth! eating a taco at Jack in the box!!! We got there about 10:30 and i was called in and they began the work, they started the numbing process but i was getting really worried cause he came in 15 minutes later and i felt no different, my tooth was still throbbing, he began to drill and let me tell you, i felt all of it and he shot me more and more and more with numbing medicine and one of them sent a shock all the way up my face causing me to see double for about 20 minutes and my head was spinning in pain, this is not even the worst part, afterwards he took his little pointy scraper and poked my nerve, I jumped almost completely out of the chair, it was the most pain i have ever felt in my entire life, he then said "i am going to have to numb that which means you will feel the same pain again for only a second though, but you cant jerk, you have to concentrate on holding still" I knew it had to be done but it was a reflex! how do you control a reflex, so i grabbed onto the chair as hard as i could and he shot it, the same pain came but i held myself down and then... gone, couldnt feel a thing, such a relief, he shot it about 4 more times and i didn't feel anything, he then grinded it down to almost nothing and put a temporary crown on it, but i was in there from 10:30 to 3:30, not a fun day! but they were so nice! The dentists daughter came in after and asked if i needed anything and asked if i wanted her to call my dad and tell him i was alright, she also gave me 20 dollars for food and the dentist gave me some fruit cause he knew i was starving, so so helpful! Im so grateful for them, for the 75% discount i received and the additional help, afterwards, with permission from the dentist quote "you can eat anything but if its to hard to chew then you have to eat on the other side of your mouth" so.. we went to panda!! :) it was awesome! But after that it went back down hill, they gave me another prescription and we didnt have time to fill it, so i was completely out of it the rest of the day, we had a dinner appointment with my favorite members in the ward and it was a long drive and i was completely out of it, in pain, and sweating in the massive heat, as we slowed down to lock up our bikes, i didnt pull up soon enough on the curb and just ate it hard on my bike, not fun. Dinner was great, they talked about a daughter in law who passed away at 6 months and how because of that they started to go to church again and changed a lot (because apparently they were totally inactive about the time i left for the mtc is when that tragedy happened) and i love them! they are so awesome, but we ate with them, i was out of it and we got a ride THANKFULLY! to our appointment with my favorite investigators! Jesus and Anel and we taught an awesome lesson! and Elder Olson bore a strong testimony and i was trying to keep up but i dont remember much of what happened cause i was so out of it haha, as we got home and got ready to end the day my companion apologized and apologized for the long day, and i just smiled, and was so happy. Its these days that i love, The days that we struggle, how else are we supposed to grow? how else do we learn? Im thankful for the rough day because i made it through and i will always look back at how i made it through, i was so grateful for it and i went to bed with a smile on my face.
Saturday- woke up at 3 again in more pain, this time adolorido dolor or achy pain haha, because we didnt have time to fill my prescription which was double the Mlg from my first pills so the pain was pretty intense, so thankfully we have such wonderful members like Hermano Freddy (he is the one who does sandwich night) he took us to the store to get it filled and it was an hour wait, and he waited and we did some shopping, i saw posters from the mavs championship and it was weird cause it was the first time seeing dirk holding a trophey, its amazing how cut off from the world we are, but i love it, its so nice knowing that all i have to worry about is helping others, makes me happy! Im getting better on a bike though, getting better on my wheely haha and more fit. We had dinner with Hermana Roja who is from Costa Rica and she stuffed Zucchini with meat and rice and stuff, it was amazing, we also ate salsa out of a cup, it was good but weird, but i have never liked zuccini but wow that was amazing! We then went to the Apartments to track, we ran into a couple a girl from Romania married to a guy from Mexico, she spoke English and he spoke Spanish HOW DO THESE COUPLES END UP TOGETHER she is studying Spanish and is pretty good now but they invited us back so its great! she was amazed at how good our Spanish was and how committed we are to the work, no TV or Music she was so surprised.
Sunday-I had to go to Correlation meeting today and talk with all the leaders in the ward about our investigators and the help we need to get them closer to baptism. It was a good meeting, and my Spanish was really good too, so surprised at how well im progressing, its like im told a new word or principle and thats all it takes and its applied! BOOM just like that so im grateful for the gift of tongues, it is such a real gift of god and i know it, church was awesome cause all of our investigators came!! I was in pain though cause i hadnt taken my pills and i needed something to eat it with, but it was great to see them. After church we had another awesome dinner, it was dropped off. Jello for me, a gallon of simply lemonade and chicken with spaghetti with green salsa for the sauce, it was way good!! But i realized that almost everything i was eating felt like i was back to December 21 and 22 of 2010, with the whole wisdom teeth gig! jello, pudding, and mashed potatoes. Then we headed to our lesson with Vrigira and it was an unprepared lesson cause i had to go to that meeting in the morning so we didnt have time to prepare but she feels like she is ready and so do we so i belive will be having my first baptism on the 27th! exciting stuff!
Monday-I had an amazing study this moring before coming here, about the Holy Ghost and i tell you that the scriptures have so much to offer and people really dont realize that, i love it! I learn new things every single day!!!! Another week done, i cant believe how fast it goes by, almost been 13 weeks out, Thursday will be 3 months, it is astounding to me, i wanna thank everyone for following and for the letters, i received 2 from kelsey, from the fam, maisha, todd and shawn, THANKS i will have letters out to you soon, thanks for the words, the updates and the love that you have shown. Love you all and hope you enjoy this weeks blog.
Elder Aaron Jackson
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