Week 75 (Jan 23rd-29th 2018) & Week 76 (Jan 30th-Feb 5th 2018)
If your mission companions are supposed to prepare you for your spouse, I’m beginning to fear for the longevity of my future husband.
After making several dozen phone calls Sister Russell and I ended up in the waiting room of an after hours urgent care, outside of our Zone, with a two and a half hour wait. After weighing the options with the help of a very candid MA at the check in, we reluctantly accepted the grim fate of being out egregiously late after curfew and biding time in a den of lionous coughs and sniffles.
Sister Russell woke up Friday morning with a sore throat and inflamed tonsils. Being the diligent medical assistant, she took note and observed the symptoms and their severity throughout the day. By midday she was extremely fatigued and her tonsils were swollen and bleeding. We texted our medical senior missionary at the mission office and Sister Russell rested for a little bit to get up the strength for us to get through an upcoming lesson and dinner appointment. When we got the go ahead to go to an urgent care, we were about to go to dinner, so we decided we’d go after and make it just in time before it closed at 8pm.
Well our dinner was not as long according to our plan. We could have made it work but the members had given us a ride from their house to a restaurant to help us save miles, so by the time we finally got back to our car it was 7:50pm. We weren’t going to make it. So we looked up the nearest after hours urgent care 10 minutes away- right outside the boundary of our zone. The nearest in our zone was about a half hour away. Calls were made. Approvals were given. There we were.
When we sat down and decided to wait, Sister Russell was dissatisfied and contemplated for a moment. She then declared with power, “I. am. PEDIATRIC.” and looked up and called the children’s urgent care 2min away. No wait. So we hustled our bustles over there. Have I mentioned how exceedingly grateful I am for the sister Missionary age change and the fact that pediatrics goes up until 21?
I prefer pediatric clinics to normal adult ones now because we went from one playing 21 jump street in the waiting room to a Disney channel original starring zendaya. Not that I was watching either one anyway, I was just able to appreciate that fact.
Sister Russell said that in school, she was taught that when you do a strep swab, if the person does not gag or have tears in their eyes then you did not swab correctly and the result will be negative. The nurse definitely did not swab correctly. She basically caressed Sister Russell’s cheek with the swab like she was doing an ancestry .com genetic test or something. We feared the result would be incorrect because of it, but then several minutes later the doctor poked his head in and told us she had strep and he was prescribing antibiotics. We are convinced that it was the hand of God that the result came out positive with such an insufficient swab. Seriously a miracle.
A huge treat and an absolute delight was that I was able to see and spend time with my beloved former/return missionary companion SISTER SIERRA EVANS. She served here in Deltona twice. Her and her family rolled into town for a few days and they took Sister Russell and I out for ice cream and she came to our ward multi-cultural party which was an absolute blast made better. I am so blessed to have had time to be her companion, even if it was only for a few weeks. Those weeks were a downright riot and some of my most cherished mission memories.
The dawning of a new transfer and I’m staying! I’m so grateful to have another transfer- my last- here in Deltona with Sister Russell. I am so thankful for my life and my mission and the experiences therein that have strengthened me and my testimony and have in turn have been able to bless others. My parents have recently found old photographs of them on their missions and have been sending them to me and I LOVE IT. I love my little missionary family so much. I love my mission. I love the gospel.
Count your many blessings,
-Sister Olivia Petty🍧
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