1/9/23 Sickness and I love Hermana Sorenson

 Heyyyy 


So Vallenar is my happy place. Especially with hermana Sorenson 😊 

With that being said, I was super sick this week hahahahahahaha. 

Tuesday we woke up with the sunshine, excited for our new companionship and I was especially so excited to show her around vallenar! We went shopping in the morning, worked all day, she got to know some people, it was really good! 

Wednesday we went to our meetings in the morning and like halfway through the meeting I started to feel just so lethargic and tired... and cold. But ya know, I kept focused, took notes and everything! And then when the meeting was over I was like heyy hna Sorenson, I don't feel so good... and I'm so so cold, are you cold?? 
She was not cold. 
We went to our apartment and took my temperature... 99.8! Fever! Yeah so I went ahead and slept for the most of the rest of the day. I couldn't even really put together coherent sentences to help my poor compi in this sector where she had only been for ONE DAY! She was asking me a bunch of questions, I was between fever dreams, not sure what language I answered in and in the meantime, there were a ton of ants in the house. Even though the apartment is the cleanest it has been in MONTHS! Oh yeah, and our phone has been kinda broken, so we don't have Facebook or any of the apps to do digital designs or even duolingo. We literally just have gmail and WhatsApp and areabook. So my comp couldn't even find people on Facebook. 
At like 8pm the elders came over to give me a blessing... and it was so embarrassing, towards the end of the blessing with their hands still on my head I may or may not have almost thrown up... and then immediately when they said amen, I ran to the bathroom and threw up a lot 😳 
I dont really remember much else that happened that day except for fever dreams haha. 

Thursday I was still kinda feeling sick, although my fever was down (it had been up to like 102 parts of wednesday, I was using two blankets in the middle of the day in the middle of summer!! Cuz ya know, South America) so hermana Wu (mission presidents wife) sent me to the doctors... against my own will haha.
But hey! Good news! Not COVID! Bad news... I was waiting like 4 hours in a really hot waiting room while not feeling good, just for them to tell me it's not covid and to tell me I need... rest! (Wow! I didn't know!!) 
I was feeling well enough to work from the phone with hermana Sorenson and do a bunch of phone calls. 


Saturday we were pretty much back to normal except I was really weak from not having eaten almost anything of worth all week! Like literally I was just eating bread. We worked all day and it was a good time, as I've said, I'm in my happy place here!  Saturday night Maitte texted us and asked us how to give a testimony... she's so cool you guys! Like I've never met someone with such a real desire to know about the gospel. More on this in a sec. 

Sunday we had church! And we had more attendances than any Sunday before for me in Vallenar!!! And we had this beautiful miracle of Irma coming to church!!! And Maitte asked us if she can go and do missionary work with us... and we said of course YES!!! So we're super excited for that! 

I had a good amount of time to study when I was super sick and something I LOVED was the story about how sometimes we have to wait on blessings. It's incredible to me the patience that Elisabeth had waiting to have her son, but the Lord DID answer her prayers! Take courage my friends, the Lord will answer your prayers 😊 I promise 

Love you all!!! 

xo-hna griffin 










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