Naivasha' surgery will be today
(which is tomorrow there in Taiwan) sometime. Please send your prayers to
Heavenly Father, that it will be less painful and tramatic than the endoscopy.
Thank you. We cannot wait to skype with her - this Friday evening - Saturday
there in Taiwan, because of the transfer coming up, that's why it will be
Friday.
----- Original Message -----
From: Naivasha Burrows
To: Mum & Dad
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 5:37 AM
Subject: SURGERY! MOVING! DAN JONES! HAIRCUT!!
TRAINING!!!
Mummy and Daddy!! and EVERYONE ELSE!!! :)
Also....I'M MOVING!!!! Sister Smart is going to be training this next
movecall, so she's getting a new comp on Friday! I don't know where I'm going or
who I will be with....but it won't be with sister smart, and it won't be in
Fengyuan! :( I'm super sad, nervous, excited!!! AHHHHHHHHH
SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK:
Alma 46:12
12 And it came to
pass that he rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon
it—aIn memory of our
God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children—and
he fastened it upon the end of a pole.
I know you've all read/heard this...but I love
sharing this with people. The things that we use to inspire us in this church
are amazing...it really does come down to these basic things: God, religion,
freedom, peace, and family. That's all that really matters...and if we truly
remember this....we can be sooo much happier!
QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
Thomas S Monson:
"Fill your minds
with truth.
Fill your heart
with love.
Fill you life
with service."
Love this because if we keep Alma 46:12 in mind then
we truly can do as our beloved prophet says and be filled with truth, love, and
service! It's the simple things that can bring us eternal joy! It's sad how
quickly we forget them!
So medically speaking...things are really going to pick up this week! I
will be having gall bladder removal surgery on Wednesday and the discharged on
Thursday. (Dad right now we haven't even discussed me going home! But that
possibility scares the crap outta me everyday! but everything should workout!)
We actually need to be in Taizhong city for Sister Smart's trainers meeting,
then she'll be with me for the day/night I spend in the hospital. Then our
companionship has been invited to help out on Thursday night for the new
missionaries Dan Jones experience!!! So I really hope I'll be feeling up to it,
if not I'll stay at the mission home and she'll help out :) Then she'll pick up
her trainee, and I'll either go into a threesome with the Tanzi sisters (who
live with us) or with Sis Smart and her new comp until Monday (whatever happens
though, i'll be able to skype home at the same time!)...which is when the
movecall is. The furthest area away in our mission is only about 4 hours drive
(car), 3 hours (train), or 5 hours (bus). So really no biggie where ever I
go....but I really feel like I'll be staying in Taizhong! I think that President
will probably want to keep me kinda close! Tomorrow is my last day
in Fengyuan, so we're meeting with a ton of people so I can say goodbye and bear
my testimony one last time with them.
Last week was
really rough health wise for our companionship, but hopefully that will all be
better after surgery. We weren't able to go out a ton, but were still able to
get things ready for this wednesday night's Harry Potter party for english! I'm
kinda worried about the elders being in charge of it now since we won't be
there... but I'm sure it will be fine haha. We were also able to meet some new
friends. The one I want to tell you about is Monica! We met her on the road last
week and sat down with her for a while. Turns out, she is a designer and has
been on Taiwan's version of Project Runway hahaha! She is so cool, came in with
her platform sneakers, lip pants, bright shirt and red hair. She saw our nametag
and asked if we really were Jesus Christ's church. We happily told her that we
were, and were able to share with her more about how much Christ has influenced
our lives and how He can continue to guide hers. So AWESOME!!!! i'm super
excited for Sis Smart and her new companion to continue to meet with her and
teach her!!!
Super glad
that the BYU ruggers got it in the end!!! Heard about Luke and Anna too!
Congrats to them!!! And to all my other friends who have BIG and exciting things
going on in their lives! I'm so happy for them all and pray for them all
everyday :D
That YMs
activity of getting a tour of the
football facility sounds WAY fun! I'm sure they'll all have a blast and you'll
get a huge turnout!
Oh and I got a haircut!! I love it a
lot...and it'll be really great for the summer!!! You'll have to wait until we
skype to see it though! :) Oh and if asian people are adding me on
facebook....go ahead and add them...only our investigators/RCs know my facebook
name and will be adding me :D Mum maybe you can practice your Chinese with
them!!!...or use google translate hahahahahahahaha :D
AWKWARD/FUNNY/RANDOM THOUGHTS/AWESOME
MOMENTS:
***I was making wands for our Harry Potter
English Class Party and when I was opening some of the chopsticks...I got a HUGE
(okay like .5 inch) splinter super deep into my thumb...so deep i couldn't just
pull it out, but had to make an incision down to the sliver to get it out!
Nothing like a quick home surgery!!! :D
***Endoscopy.....wow.....that was probably
the most unpleasant medical experience I have EVER had.....including the scope
of my urethra while I was awake.....It was rough! We went to the hospital and
waiting in the waiting room for a while....it's amazing the people here will
just wait for hours at the hospital! and then my number came up and I went to
the back and this nurse came at me with a small cup and opened my mouth and
poured it down my throat...then she pulled my shirt down IN FRONT OF EVERYONE
and stabbed a needle into my shoulder...injected something...and walked away. a
few minutes later she came back...told me to open my mouth and sprayed some
local anesthesia into my throat and walked away. about five minutes later she
came back, pulled me into a room, and told me to lay on my side on the bed. the
doctor came in with a huge black tube with a disco ball on the end and started
lubing it up! She put a plastic cylinder in my mouth...taped in down...and then
he shoved the tube down my throat! I could feel it the whole time and keep
gagging and burping...(and grossly thowing up inside!) He just keep saying in
broken chinese..."breathe...don't swallow." and I was
like hyperventilating trying not to swallow! i could feel the tube inside of my
stomach poking around...the whole time i was praying they would pull the tube
out. my eyes were watering and i was miserable. I felt like the world's biggest
WHIMP! I'm sure they've never had someone so weeny get a scope before! :( but
it's over now and no big problems down there!!! (I am sure I
would be crying. I am sure Naivasha is much braver than I would have
been.)
***I decided that someday I want to come
back to Taiwan and other countries to teach english...I also would like to go to
Africa and do Humanitarian work...I think that would be really
awesome!
***There is a new
church wide thing that's going on is a calling for sisters called "Sister
Training Leaders". So 6 sisters in our mission have been called to assist in
training the sisters. They'll participate in a council each month with the zone
leaders, assistants, and president, travel to go on exchanges with sisters
across the mission, and give trainings at conferences. Of our two STLs up here
in Taizhong...one is going home on Monday....so Sister Smart is convinced im
going STL....which i pray i won't!!! AHHHHHH So scary! There are the equivalent
to Sister Zone Leaders! It's insane! My dream calling on a mission would be like
a mission-wide English Leader....who went around helping English programs and
doing trainings on English Class....I would LOVE THAT!!! There is another
English training coming up, and they want me to help with it...but they're
worried if I do that they'll seem biased since I get to help out with so many of
the APs and Operation Manager's projects ahahahahahaha!
Woops!!!
Anywho....I'll let you know next week what all
happens!!! I LOVE YOU ALL and hope you have an amazing week. You're all in my
prayers! and please don't worry about me! I'm in good hands! LOVE and
HUGS!
Bao
Jiemei
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