Hospital stay

Hermana Bracha didn't send an official email to be put on this blog, but she did send some pictures and the following information. Hopefully we will hear more from her next week.

Hermana Bracha and Hermana Goodman

I'm doing LOTS better, so it turned out to be a zillion things...

-stomach bacterial infection

-amoebas

-intestinal infection

-urinary infection which then lead to a freaking fungus growing in my colon:)

In terms of pain I am doing a hundred times better. I'm still super tired and terrified to eat anything or drink anything. I have officially lost 15 pounds... hahahah and I'm doing good because I've already gained like 5 back so we're good there.

You're never going to believe who came to my ward on Sunday!!! Hermana Lanuza, my teacher from the CCM!!! She came to visit and she's also going to go to Idaho in April. WHAT THE HECK, I'M SO STOKED, so so so happy to have been here.

Hermana Lanuza

We also got to go to the temple and take a couple pics outside so I'm a sad/happy camper. Don't worry,  I'm doing lots better and I think we're finally on the uphill of all the junk.

Hola!!

This week was cool! Me and my new comp are working like CRAZY trying to find new investigators and yesterday there was a transmission from Elder Duncan and President Ballard. IT WAS SO AMAZING!! He said the most amazing thing, okay ready, "what are you waiting for? You cannot wait until you're in the spirit world to be a missionary. Now is the time. I invite every single person that is listening right now to invite someone to meet with the missionaries or hear the gospel from today until Christmas." It was SOOO spiritual and I just thought even more than ever that there is urgency!! God is calling His people to come back to Him and we HAVE to help. I am so grateful for the opportunity that I have to be a missionary of the true and restored gospel of Jesus Christ. We have such a blessing and we need to share it!

We have the coolest story ever!!! This kid named Obed came to church yesterday with our mission leader and in the afternoon we had a lesson with him and he accepted a baptism date for the second of Dec. The lord prepares his children!! Also, Camila (the girl I was teaching with Hermana Taylor) is getting baptized on the 25th. WAHOO! So excited for the ward of San Pancho, we're seeing so many miracles! Even though Hermana Taylor and I aren't together anymore, were seeing the miracles:)

Hermana Carlile is the best and we're working hard!!! I hope I will get to stay here the next transfer though because transfers are 5 days before Christmas!! If I get transferred I'm pretty sure I will cry for like 2 days. haha, I love it here!!!!!!! Hermano Byron always buys me cinnamon bread when he knows there's an activity and he's the best. I also live with members now and it's awesome because they are literally like my moms and when I was sick they took such good care of me. I love them!

I hope everyone is doing well and that you ALL take the invitation to keep reading the Book of Mormon, EVERYDAY for at least 20 minutes, and to share the gospel with a friend BEFORE Christmas. I know that everyone can do it and we can all be missionaries. I love this gospel with all my heart and I will never be able to describe how much joy that it gives me. I hope that everyone feels this joy that I feel!!! I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and I love to read it.

Guatemala is my favorite place in the whole wide world and I never want to leave it behind. haha, today we got to push our taxi up a hill cause we weighed to much!!! Tortillas and bread are good I guess:) 

Love, Hermana Bracha

Parasites, hospitals, and new comp!!!

Well let's just say these past 2 weeks have been a rollercoaster. I found out last Thursday that I had a couple friends (parasites and a stomach bacterial infection) and I started to take a BUNCH of medications, hence the picture haha.

And then in our interviews Hermana Taylor and I found out we we're going to have transfers and we were SOOOO sad! sad sad sad (but don't worry the new comp is a cutie) anyways, last Sunday in the morning at like 4:00 I started to get super sick and I was throwing up many many times (gross) and then the whole morning on pday I was feeling super yucky. We went to a members to do facials and a hair treatment so I literally had guacamole, mayo, and olive oil in my hair, with honey and sugar on my face, and I just starting throwing up at the members house as well. I started to not feel my hands nor my feet and so Hermana Taylor got super scared and called the nurse and she wanted us to run to the hospital to see what was going on. BUT, little did I know that they were going to keep me in the hospital all of Monday and Tuesday hahahha. We got to the doctor and he instantly rushed me into a private room to get me on IV and they ended up giving me 6 bottles of IV:) I was so dehydrated. I had vomited a total of 28 times in a 10 hour period, so fun. Anyways, Hermana Taylor and I were in the hospital all of pday and Tuesday until the elders came from the office to break us out because we weren't able to leave until we had paid.

What happened was I was taking a bunch of antibiotics and I ate something infected so it gave me an intestinal infection on top of all the other things and my body was just so upset and trying to get rid of everything inside and it did! haha. So now I'm also on a ton of antibiotics but I'm doing a lot better! I've been able to work everyday this last 4 days and just drinking lots of water. I'm pretty sure I've lost a lot of weight and I'm like super white now because I can't be in the sun. Hermana Taylor told me I was as white as a ghost when we got to the hospital. I'm doing better and sorry I scared everyone!! I'm really healthy now. The parasites and the intestinal infection are gone and we're working on the stomach bacteria right now:)

And sadly I had transfers... just to the other area in the ward! So Hermana Taylor and I will still see each other lots because we're still both Hermana leaders just in different areas. I'm sad I had to switch areas just when we were starting to get Edgar's wife (the recent convert) to church!!!!!!! She prayed and believes that the church is true. AAAAHHHH!!! So happy for them and we'll see what happens.

My new comp is Hermana Carlile, she's from Payson Utah and has 6 months in the mission! She's a cutie and I love her to death. I still feel so weird talking in English and being with another white person, but that's how the cookie falls sometimes haha.

Sorry I scared the fan club, but I'm doing good and healthy and happy!!! This picture with Hermana Carlile and is a place in Guatemala that historians believe are the Waters of Mormon. HOW COOL!

I love Guatemala and I love to be a missionary!!! Read the Book or Mormon friends and your life will be happy like mine!! Love you all,

Hermana Bracha

My sweet Hermana Taylor

My Zone