Food Poisoning .2

Hello Everyone!

This was a very long week. To start out, we went to the waterfall last P-Day, and it was amazing. Coolest thing I've seen so far in Togo. Luckily, we got transfer calls, and we're both staying, so we can go again sometime this next transfer. I'll attach some pictures.

We walked a lot to get to the waterfall, so for the whole week we were all pretty sore. This week went by very slow, with anxiousness for the call, and preparing for our baptism, and everything else going on. We did have a baptism service this last Saturday, which went well! The water doesn't work in our building, so we had to get water out of the well, put it into buckets, and then carry it over to the font. We did most of the work, and it was pretty tiring, but everything was ready for the baptism. We got this done at 9ish am, and then went home, got ready, and got back to the branch building at 2 pm. I was not very happy to see that the water had gone down another 2 feet or so, and then we had to get water out of the well again. However, everything worked out, and we were able to have our baptism service. 

That night, a member bought us some food, just a little bag of what looked like chips. It turns out, they were banana chips, and I really liked them. So, I bought 5 more bags, because they were super cheap. I ate two on the way home, and the other three at the house, before going out to sector Sunday afternoon. We started going to our first appointment, and upon arrival my stomach was hurting really bad. It was hard to focus on the lesson, it hurt so bad. After that appointment, we walked to our second, and luckily the person wasn't there, and we booked it back to the apartment. I went straight to the bathroom. Without being too gross, from 5pm to about 8pm, I threw up 9 times. I was going for 10, double digits, but unfortunately that didn't come. I called the Jeffcoats, the couple missionaries, and they thought that it could be food poisoning, and everything that was coming out of me was yellow, like the banana chips. That's when I made the connection, that the banana chips gave me food poisoning. Its not super surprising, they weren't made in a factory or anything, but by someone on the side of the road. Street food, you win some, you lose some. This one I definitely lost.

Like I said before, Elder Mazunzu and I are staying together, to complete his training. Elder Rogers is staying as well, and training a new missionary. I'm super excited for this next transfer, and to see where I'll go the transfer after that, for my last area and last companion. Pretty crazy to think about.

Whelp, that's it for me this week. I hope everyone has a great week! Hopefully I don't get food poisoning again next week.

Elder Orchard