[To preface this story, I am including an excerpt from my email last week: "So I should probably let you know about this stuff. I talked to president recently about trying to do better about waking up on time and there was a few things that he was saying I might need to talk to the mission nurse about. One of those being my right ear being clogged up every morning and then recently having me go deaf in it for about thirty minutes. Another thing is I've been getting a bit sick from the mornings that I do stay awake the entire morning. So Sister Gorham directed me to go to a walk in clinic in town to see if I can get blood work done to see if my iron levels are good or something. So wish me luck and guess what? One way or another I'm getting my asthma prescription refilled :D"]
"So
I had my first experience realizing how expensive doctor visits are....
Especially if you're not a citizen and have literally no insurance.
Definitely going to look into getting a job with good benefits including
insurance. So I got my ears washed out and went to go get some blood
work. The doctor gave me some antibacterial stuff for my ears so that's
fun. The worst part about that specific thing is I got my asthma
prescription and that at the same time and they both cost like 40 bucks!
One thing is supposed to last me 7 days and the other like a month or
so IDK but they're both about the same price.. I have no idea why...
Anywho so hopefully the ear stuff gets covered by the mission insurance I
don't think the preexisting conditions gets covered by it. Going on to
the blood work.
This
one is a real doozy.. I get to the place where the doctor told me to go
and they were like "we can't do this for you cause you ain't a Canuck"
So they told me to go to the hospital...... I get to the hospital and I
walk up to the front desk and was like "Here you go" and handed them the
paper. The lady asked me a few things and then asked me if I knew how
much it would cost. I was thinking close to 160 $ because thats what the
financial secretary told me. But she goes and checks and comes back and
told me it would cost 500$ 0_o I had only drew out 200 bucks from my
debit card (hopefully I can get some of that back on to it because thats
the fund I used for the prescriptions) so I'm like "Yep nope I can't do
that" So I call the financial secretary again and she told me that the
mission could foot the bill and just call the hospital. So I go back and
tell the front desk lady that and I get happily on my way.
BTW
partway through that I left right after they told me that it was going
to be 500 bucks so I could go cry on the side of the road and call the
financial secretary. On my way out of the parking lot I didn't see this
car coming because there were cars blocking my view so I inched a little
bit too far out and they stopped and honked the heck out of me right as
a Mounty (police) drove by O_O (Thinking to myself "oh shoot...") So I
stop for a little bit and then continue driving and sure enough he made a
u-turn and flipped on his lights. Now I'm really thinking "Oh Shoot" So
I pull over to the side and try to act calm but it obviously wasn't
working because he told me right away that I seemed nervous. So he just
ran my drivers license and let me on my way :D It was a pleasurable
first experience running in with the law but honestly I shouldn't have
wished too hard for an experience with the police last week because that
is what you get.
So
I go on and go back to get my blood work done. I'm now just waiting for
that to be completed and to go back and see what's up if there is
anything up."
[Also, he said in my email this week that there was so much wax in his ears it was insane.]
[Also, he said in my email this week that there was so much wax in his ears it was insane.]
So
that was only the beginning of the week. Halfway through the week we
suddenly became a tripan for a few days with this Elder on his way to a
mission down in the states. He's waiting for his visa but I'm glad we
were able to have a few fun experiences with him :) One of those wasn't
so fun because we had a run in with this guy who was vulgar beyond
reason. It was sick how vulgar he was and a lot of it was probably
because he was wasted. But, we challenged him to go a week with out
drinking, smoking and other things and to read a chapter of the Book of
Mormon each day so we'll see what happens. It was actually Elder
Peterson's idea to challenge him to that so I'm super glad he came along
with us those few days :)
The
next night we were able to go to this "Tent Meeting" Put on by The
Living Waters Ministry. One of our investigators invited us to it about a
month ago so I'm glad that we remembered to go to it. But, from what he
was telling us it would be like I was expecting something entirely
different. When we got there we just heard this drumming, guitarring and
singing and we were like "oh boy it's basically a christian concert. We
later found out it was a little bit more than that but there was a
decent amount of "worship music". I felt bad for Elder Peterson because
he had a pretty intense migraine at the time and Filipinos basically
screaming "gospel music" was not good on him. He was glad he got to take
part in some interesting stories though :) There was some good
conversion stories that were shared there that night as well which was
nice to hear. We had a bit of a biased opinion because we do conversion
differently than what we were hearing but it was nice. I think the
highlight of the night was we got a shout out by the Pastor who was over
the whole event which was weird. Especially since the last time he
talked to us he attacked what he thought was our belief system so that
was fun :) Overall 4 out of 5 would not go again as a missionary.
I
think that's all I got for stories right now but I'll be careful for
what I wish for next time :) Potatoes gonna potate. Love youz
Elder Wilson, Elder Petersen, Elder Mikesell
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