A Trip to the Emergency Room!!

I thought I knew what cold was before I came on my mission.  I had no idea what cold really was til I came out here.  We got 3 inches of snow on Sunday and it stayed and it got cold here in Michigan the high this week is 35 and the low is 16 degrees and with humidity and wind it can make 35 feel like 10 degrees.  But on Sunday when it snowed that was my first time driving on my mission so I was driving in the snow in an unfamiliar place and in a unfamiliar car that tries to get control back for you which I quickly turned of because I could do better than the car could at keeping control in the snow.  We drove out on some country roads for a dinner appointment and they hadn't bean plowed very well and oh they were slick!  We didn't get above 25 miles an hour the whole time and we had to drive like 7 miles.  It took a while and at one point we were going up a big long hill and I accidentally pushed the gas pedal down too far and the turbo kicked in which spun the wheels which caused a little fish tailing.  But we got back going straight again and we made it safely to our dinner appointment.  On our way home we were headed downhill and a deer jumped out on the road from nowhere.  I thought we were going to hit that dear with the anti lock brakes going the whole way but fortunately the deer quickly got out of the way and we made it safely home!

We had an awesome week on Saturday.  We went to Chris' church service.  It was a small non-denominational service.  There were only 7 of us and I walked into there expecting to feel the spirit during the service but it just wasn't there.  I felt like I was sitting in a history class hearing about the bible and you could tell that no one else was either because everyone else just had a glazed stare.  But at one point the pastor's wife asked us some questions and it was really cool because the moment we started talking and asking questions everyone started to look like they wanted to be there and I started to feel the spirit.  We even got asked a few more questions from different people but the best part about this whole thing was that Chris agreed to go to church with us!  We were really worried that no one was going to talk to him because he is a little tough and gruff looking but it was the exact opposite of that.  Everyone loved him to death.  We almost had too much fellowship.  Chris asked a lot of questions and most amazingly of all he stayed for the full 3 hours his first time at church.  LETS GO!  He agreed to meet with us again!

Last P-day it was like 5 minutes until 8 and I picked up my Bluetooth speaker because we were about to have a Skype lesson with a member that is struggling.  I walked over to Elder Wise's desks and on my way I threw my Bluetooth speaker in the air and it just tapped the glass light cover and apparently it wasn't screwed on tight enough.  It fell down.  The first miracle of the night was when the light cover fell.  I remember I watched my Bluetooth speaker hit the light cover but when it hit my head and shattered I was looking down.  I don't remember looking down but it hit my head, shattered, and it cut just me above my right eye and my pinky finger and a few other minor scrapes.  So I ran into the bathroom and saw the cut and remembered what mom always said about head wounds look[ing] worse than they really are because of how much they bleed.  And of course that was very true, but I got the bleeding stopped and I got brave enough to take the gauze off and look at it and knew I was going to need stitches.  So we called up sister Brennan and she said to go to the ER.  Okay second miracle of the Night Elder Wise didn't freak out at all which was really nice.  He helped me get something on my finger and to the ER.  We showed up at the ER, gave them my information, and what not and I thought we were going to be there forever.  But after five minutes I got called back they took my heart rate asked some questions then took me back to a room were the doctor came and stitched me up.  I got 3 stitches just above my right eye and that was it!  Okay second miracle of the night we got in and out of the ER in an hour.  Sister Brennan said it usually takes missionaries 5 hours to get in and out of the ER.  Everything healed up nicely.  I got the stitches out on Sunday.  My pinky finger is almost done healing.  My cut right above my head still has some healing to do but it looks really good and is not infected.  We went to the ER to get my stitches out they did it for free and we got in and out in a half hour.  I could not believe it.  I definitely had some guardian angels this week!


-Sean