Email: September 16, 2019 - "Oh no the car sprained its tire"

This is something Elder Kim said as we hit a pothole pretty hard and he was making fun of me at the same time since I sprained my ankle this week (which you can read about more in here) 

Well ladies and gentlemen it's been an interesting week in the life of Elder Barton. We had a good week lined up but everything just fell through. This week was also tough physically, but I still love the work and love just the mission be like this sometimes and that's okay. 

So, for physically challenging I'll enlighten y’all. On Wednesday this week my body randomly started having hot and cold flashes, so although it was 90+ degrees outside, I found myself shivering and my hands starting to turn purple. So, we got my ice cube of a person home and underneath 3 layers of blankets and I fell asleep. When I woke about 30 minutes later, I was burning hot and starting to sweat a bit. It was strange cause normally this happens if I have a bad cold, but it just came out of nowhere. 

I decided to show Heavenly Father what I'm made of and that I care so we continued to work. I also decided to rip out an ingrown toenail and my toe has swollen a lot so I may have to see a podiatrist. 

The next day (Thursday) I felt fine, so we stuck with the schedule. We went to do temple baptisms with our recent convert which was awesome. Elder Kim did the baptizing (the first time he has ever done it) and I did the actually recording of everything (which was my first time doing that). It was a lot of fun and an awesome experience for everyone. 

On our way out (and after having had a good lunch in the temple) we were walking to the mission office and had to step on the grass (a truck was unloading food for the cafeteria right in our path) well unfortunately for me, there was a random hole in the grass that I stepped in and proceeded to fall and sprain my ankle again. 

Other than that, nothing noteworthy has taken place. We cleaned the apartment up a lot and have made space for a Zen room which looks super good actually and it's pretty peaceful.