[Editor's Note: in lieu of his blog updates, here's an email from his mom]
Anyways, this week was probably the most craziest of my life! We were running and planning and teaching and preparing! It still hasn't quite settled down yet, but this next week things should settle at least a little bit.
My companion is such a great elder, were good friends and it maks the work so much more fun when you get along well with your companion. We have zone conferences all week long and then at the end my companion and I will drive out to the country side to do divisiones with a few elders out there and to open up a branch. Pretty exciting!
On Sunday we went to the hospital where one of our elders was sick. What happened is that he passed out in church so they brought him to the closest place. What you have to understand is that he is in the most ghetto part of the mission and the members and his latin companion brought him to the public health care or free hospital. It was inconceivable, Dirty diseased hairless street dogs walked in and out freely and I had to try to block them from entering where the patients were. It literally was just like a dirty jail. There was blood on the walls, the doctors did not care about anything and were wearing jeans. The sheets on the beds hadn't been washed obviously for months. I felt so bad for the people for whom this is their only choice.
We immediately talked to the man who was supposed to have been the doctor upon arrival and told him we were leaving, but he wouldn't take the IV out. My companion was super persistent until finally the doctor put down his ice cream and had a police officer come over to ask what we would do with the Elder and where we would take him. Finally, we got him out and everything ended up all right.
That was my story for the week. I love you!! Talk to you later! Happy New Year!
Elder Kelly
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