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Semanas 55-56: Back in the Field

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  What's up everyone Made it back to the field this week! Lots of travelling and readjusting to missionary life, but it's been a great couple of weeks! Here's my highlights: Surgery recovery went well! I spent a lot of time sitting on my couch and really not doing anything. Luckily my Stake President gave me some leeway with things I could do/watch as I was recovering from surgery, so I sat down last week and watched Avatar: The Last Airbender from start to finish, which was fire It was so amazing to spend a bunch of time with my family over these past few weeks! Families are an amazing blessing and even though I never planned on/wanted to come home in the middle of my mission, I am for sure super lucky that I was able to see family right in the middle! Shoutout to everyone who made time to come and see me when I was home, you're the real ones for sure After my follow up appointment went well on Friday, I got cleared to head back to my mission the following Monday! So b...

Semanas 53 - 54: 1-Year Mark and Surgery

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  ¡Hola a todos! Here's my update from the past two weeks! Highlights: Got to go to the Denver Temple last week! There's no temple in the Resistencia mission so it was super nice to go back and visit the house of the Lord I hit a year as a set apart missionary this week! Kind of weird to hit a year sitting in my house waiting to get surgery, but it is what it is. I'm just super excited for the year to come! Week 53 was a confusing week, I visited lots of different doctors who had lots of different opinions of what was going on with me. Some said that I definitely had a hernia, some said that I had inflamed lymph nodes, and some said there wasn't actually anything wrong with me at all... so I had a fun time gaslighting myself into believing that there wasn't anything wrong with me, even though I was still in pain. This continued up until last Tuesday , when I went in to see the surgeon who finally agreed to operate on me to fix up the hernia! That week I also got two...