Family! So this week has been very eventful but very unproductive. To start off Monday night we went to the house of the guy thats making our oars and he asked us if we wanted to eat turtle eggs, so we did, 1 cooked 1 raw ha. It was pretty good, sweet, but wasn't slimy like you would think. Then Wed. night I was cleaning my ears because here has alot of humidity so they said to, but then my ear just stopped working. Needless to say that night I did not sleep well. But then that morning I had Da Cunha give me a blessing to help me calm down. It helped alot but then we went to the doctors. Wow what an experience! haha The walls are cracked and covered in plaster. The floors were worn way down! Then we got in and he gave me an anti-inflamatory but that didn't work so after Tuesday we went to the doctors again and he gave us some new medicine. I hope it helps! I'm relaxed but starting to really freak out! I need my hearing. We'll see how they are in the morning. Da Cunha has been really great to help me out! Telling me when I need to take my medicine. He's been great but I just really need to get better! So we can go work again. ( Mom note: I am so thankful for e mail as he told me about this and I was aware of what was going on. He ended up in Manaus going to a specialist and found his ear was very infected. It got cleared up and all was good before I got this letter.) We have had to spend most the week indoors but we did teach 2 lessons with the same girl and actually marked a baptism date for her. The second lesson though she started to cry saying that she hadn't received an answer yet and was starting to get frustrated, but we explained that God works in little ways, it won't be a grand sign. We asked her how she felt when we were there, when she reads and goes to Church. She said peaceful. We said "sounds like thats your answer". She said yeah! :) It was very cool then we had another girl that all we did was give her the first lesson pamphlet and explained a little and when we saw her next she told us that she had a dream that said she needed to follow this church and she woke up crying. So we will try to mark her date as well. Then Monday we got the experience with a turtle. We showed up and the turtle about 1 1/2' in diameter was upside down alive on the table. So they set him on the ground to watch the dog play with him. The turtle stepped on an ax and the handle fell and hit the dog. Turtle 1 Dog 0 ha, but then we watched the turtle die, get cleaned, we then ate him it was pretty good! Like chewy chicken but not Kache's "chewy chicken" :) (Kache is his cousin and he calls clams chewy chicken) But that was my week. Not too productive but had alot of excitement and thats how it is when ya get sick in the mission. Health is very important. So if the medicine doesn't work I'll be going into Manaus so pray for me and by the time you get this you will already know what happened so I Love You all! Take care:) Elder Deakin
(also mom & Cambria & Dad don't forget about our little race! :) (were seeing who finishes the Book of Mormon first)
