Ambulance Driver

[from September 9, 2017]

1.) This week was kinda crazy. A couple nights ago (I think it was Tuesday night). It was the middle of the night and I was asleep. I wok eup cause my phone was buzzing. I couldn´t imagine who would be calling me. So I picked up the phone and it was the sister missionaries in El Carmen. One of the sisters told me that she had had an asthma attack and couldn´t breathe even though she was puffing on her inhaler. So I woke up my companion and we drove super quickly over there. 

When we got there the missionary was in bad shape. She was coughing and wheezing and it was kinda bad. So we´re driving top speed to the hospital, and she passes out. Her companion starts crying, and my companion´s sitting in the passenger seat trying to call people and asking me who he should call. I´m speeding around corners and running red lights. There´s nobody on the road so it´s all good. It was actually a pretty long drive. We brought her to the hospital and stuff. 

They brought her in. My companion and I were there until the early morning. She regained consciousness and she was there in the hospital until this morning. It all turned out fine, but when she passed out in the back I started to get pretty nervous. 

...So that´s not actually the end of this story. 

They called us and asked us to take them home today in the morning. It´s our p-day, but it´s fine. It´s not like I want to stick her in a rapidito bus or a taxi (most are super old toyoa corrolas). 

So we went to go pick them up and we were on the way back to their house when I got a phone call from the mission nurse who said a missionaries appendix just burst. 

So I went to pick him up. He´s in an area way out there where taxis don´t really go, so he was just as stranded as the sisters in the middle of the night. So we drove to the hospital and left him there and then we went to drop the sister off. 

Pretty crazy two times in one week. I´ve never had to drive somebody to the hospital ever before. There´s usually been taxis and stuff to get them there. This week we´ve pretty much been an ambulance huh? 

2.) I didn´t write anything else down this week... oops. Just that crazyness above ^ 
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Nicole´s mom is doing really well actually. We visited her twice this week. She´s reading the scriptures and praying, so she´s doing really well.  She went to church last week and she did really well. In sacrament meeting Nicole shared her testimony about how he had never thought her mom would come to church, but that she was really grateful to us (elder reyes and i) for visiting and helping her to come back to church. That was pretty cool. If she keeps going down this route I think she might be able to be baptized! But we´ll she how quickly she feels ready. She was already taught by the missionaries and she actually remembers a lot. 

I didn´t feel the earthquake, I had no idea until I saw it in the newspapers yesterday. The light did go out around that time. I wonder if it was related or it´s just Honduras. 

I always almost won at settlers of Catan. It´s kinda like when you lose monopoly. You put so much time and effort and then lose. So sad. Here in the mission the most popular game is a card game called "phase ten". It´s a game gringos brought with them from the US, but it´s pretty fun and universally played in this mission. Maybe you guys can try it. 

You know I always love packages, but I don´t really need anything in particular. I don´t have a big wishlist or anything. 

One thing I haven´t been able to find here, is a good USA milk shake. I have looked and looked. You´d think somewhre like Jonny Rockets they´d have some good ones, but no luck. :( 

Love You guys! 
-Elder Stoddard