CRAZINESS!!!!!

HELLLLLOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Good to talk to all of you again! I got a lot to talk about this week so let us just jump right into it!

First, on Monday last week we were playing volleyball with some other missionaries and one of them said that his shoulder was hurting him pretty bad. I told him we would go get a drink and check the computers so he could rest a bit. We went and did that and he was saying his shoulder really hurt and he was getting dizzy. He stood up and tried to stretch his arm and he PASSED OUT!!! I mean out cold!! Luckily I caught him before he hit the floor so he didn't smack his head on the ground. Pretty much what happened is that he had dislocated his shoulder somehow playing volleyball and when he tried to stretch it the pain was too much and caused him to pass out. I had to take him to the Emergency Room so they could put it back into place. I was there with him for about 5 hours for the entire thing but everything got taken care of and now he is just wearing a sling.

Then on Wednesday we came back from an appointment and walked into our apartment and it smelt like someone just got done having a birthday. But in reality we forgot that we left shoe polish on top of the furnace and it MELTED ONTO THE FURNACE!!! So we were taking it off of the furnace and one of the containers broke and dumped this shoe polish all down the inside of the furnace. I tried to clean it up the best I could and went on with the rest of our day. That night at around 11:30 the smoke alarms started going off!! I got up to go look and saw the furnace just billowing smoke and filling the apartment with it. So I started opening windows to get the smoke out, but there was also a snow storm that night so when I opened them snow and cold air just came blasting in through the windows. Luckily nothing caught on fire or did any damage. I guess when the furnace kicked on that night it burned up the rest of the wax that was in it. But the craziest thing is that my companion SLEPT THROUGH THE WHOLE THING!!!!! I asked him about it the next morning and he said he didn’t even hear the alarms go off. So he is a pretty heavy sleeper.

Then finally on Sunday my companion woke up in the morning and his eye was hurting him and it was all red and watering like crazy. We went to church and one of the members was worried about him so told him to call the Tele-nurse and ask what he should do. He called the nurse and she told him he needed to go to the Emergency Room so they could check his eye for him. Once again it was off to the Emergency Room with someone else so they could get looked at. The doctor told him nothing seemed out of the ordinary but that he might have glaucoma and to go see an optometrist so they could get a better look. We will have to go and do that this week to make sure that everything is going to be okay with him. I don't know what it is but I just can't stay get away from doing EMS things. Maybe it is God telling me that this is what I need to do for a career.

Anyways that is all I got for this week. I love you all so much and can't wait to hear from you. Have a good rest of your week!!!

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Elder Murray