I Can Still Eat (8/26/2019)

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I totally put the wrong date on last week's email subject and nobody said anything!

Dear friends and family,

Another week just blazed on by. We only have two weeks left in the transfer too.

I've had an interesting week. I started feeling sick about three days ago and wondered what it was. I had some flu-like symptoms like low energy, aches, and having to pee too much. The morning after I admitted I was actually sick we shortly called the mission doctor to ask what we should do. So he sent me to a home clinic place and kept asking me if I had diabetes or if my family had a history of diabetes. I said not that I remembered. But we drove to the clinic and I was waiting in line to get checked up. Well, on the way there I remembered that my grandpa actually did have diabetes. It's been a decade so I totally forgot. (I also didn't even know that my other grandfather died from diabetes too.) I started to get a little worried. Do I have diabetes?!? Is this the end of my no-reins diet??

Turns out I don't. I just have a virus the doctor called sinusitis. He gave me a prescription and I was on my way. I proceeded to go home and sleep for about 4 hours, giving my companion a lot of study time to himself.

Other than that we had a cool miracle at church this week as Bruce was able to make it for the first time since I've been in Warren! I would have hugged him, but I was still sick. I had to refuse about 20 hands by the time church was over. Sure wish my immune system wasn't so frail.

I started a new read-through of the Book of Mormon. I did a study plan and figured out that if I read about two chapters a day I will finish on the day I go home. That's crazy.

Life is good. We're trying our best, working hard. Definitely experienced the Spirit giving me words to say in some lessons which is cool.

Love,
Elder Gallagher

PIC: A photo of the historic Warren courthouse, one of the cool landmarks of this place

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