Courtney's Week #62

Well, this week was super awesome. But I guess before I get started I should probably let you guys know about what is going on with my neck. So my headaches have gotten super strong and so I talked to the Mission President's Wife about it. Turns out that they can't find a chiropractor here in Chile, But Hermana Eulitt one of the couple missionaries that fixes all the doctor appointments for the mission knows an old lady that used to have a little business type thing fixing people, but she retired a while ago. So they suggested that I give it a try. Well, the good news and the bad news is that the grandma didn't even pop my neck. That is good news because I'm am almost positive she is not licensed to do that. She had a lot of little diplomas on her wall, but I started reading them they were for things like cosmetology and things like that. The bad news is that I am positive that the vertebrates in my neck are the source of the problem. 

But funny story about that, so we went with the Hermana Eullit to this old lady's house. I told my companion ahead of time that there was no way she was going to leave me alone in some old lady's house. But when we got there the old lady wanted Hermana Eulitt to come in too because they are friends or something. Anyways so I told her about the problem that I have with headaches and how I treated it in the past and she was like "okay, well I like to treat things for the whole body because the whole body is connected, so lets get started, take off your clothes." I was like "what in the world--I do not want to take all my clothes off, that doesn't sound very fun." So then she was like "oh well it appears as though you have lots of layers on so I guess you can leave a few layers on" So in the end of things I had my garments, my black tights, my bra, and a long sleeve undershirt that I had on, but I still felt very naked, especially for a missionary. She gave me pretty much a full body massage which I feel was very much needed after over a year of walking and proselyting in a foreign country, but I am not really sure it did any good for my neck or my headaches. My companion told me she was well-tempted to take a picture as I was sitting there, the thing is the lady kept telling me to relax, how am I supposed to relax when I don't have very many clothes on?

Anyways, other news so my companion got a "Dear John letter" this week from her ex-boyfriend that she dated for five years, but she is actually okay with that. After discussing for a while she decided "I guess that is just God's way to show me a big sign that I have something else in store for me" it was pretty cool. But I have to say, her "Dear John" was about the worse that I have ever heard. It said in the very first line. "Well, I guess I will jump right to the point. I am engaged and getting married in August." But then after that he pretty much confessed that he was still in love with her. It was pathetic. 

Also this week, my companion through a little surprise celebration for my one year anniversary in Chile. Well, almost surprise, it is kind of hard to do anything surprise when you are together all of the time, but nonetheless it was still awesome, and I was a little bit surprised. 

So as far as missionary things, this week we focused a lot on helping our investigators to actually read The Book of Mormon, the result was pretty awesome, we would read with them for a little bit and afterwards they didn't want to stop reading. It was really cool to see also the change that it make in our investigators in their countenance and everything. The Book of Mormon is True!! It can change your life, just put forth the effort to read it! 

So we had interviews with President this week, it was actually a little weird because I didn't really have anything to say because everything is going great. Changes are next week though, I really really hope that we stay the same, I love my companion and this is a really awesome sector. 

Well, I am out of time. I love you all!

Hermana Evans