Well the end of the transfer has come, and that means I am heading out to my last area in Arraijan in Vista Alegre with Hermana Shirley!!! I am really excited since we served together in the same zone in David and we have probably done 7+ days of exchanges, so we are already super great friends and I know we are going to be able to work really hard and enjoy this upcoming transfer! It was funny because in our emails to President, we had been writing to be companions ("light hints") and in both our interviews this last week he was like "well it seems like you two might want to be companions". It seems like him and God definitely got the clue.
And really other than that, nothing much else happened because I got pretty sick on Tuesday with a high fever and lots of muscle pain. I talked with Hermana Forsberg (the mission presidents wife and the mission nurse) and she just told me to rest the next day. So I slept all day Wednesday, but couldn't really eat anything. Thursday I had a normal day, but still hardly ate. Friday was a little better, but in the nighttime I was really sick again and I slept all day Saturday. I got a blessing Saturday night and the next day at church everyone was telling me to go to the doctor because they thought I had dengue. I hadn't gone earlier because Hermana Forsberg was sure that I just had a fever and needed to rest. We decided to go Sunday after church, and turns out I do have dengue. It's been a pretty crummy week, but I think I am nearing the end of being sick, if my platelets and white blood cell count can go up and if I can manage to eat something. I think all in all I was just able to feel a lot of love from the ward and my companion. Friday night when I got sick again, members took me to the pharmacy and paid for my medications. On Saturday a member came to the house to give me a blessing. Sunday members took us to the clinic and made sure we had food. These are some pretty amazing sacrifices for Panamañians because they don't have money or time, but they all made the efforts to make sure that a missionary they hardly know gets better. And the whole time my companion has been helping me in every way that she can. So I am really glad to have had people to take care of me when I have been so sick.
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