Elder Daxton Starkey in Salta Argentina: Week 3: ER, Blessings, and Stuff

This week has been nuts where do I start.

I am growing to love the MTC more and more every day its becomming less like a prison and more like a home. The spanish is hard but its slowly coming along and all my teachers are awesome! Alright heres the crazy story from this week:

On saturday night we were sitting in class after dinner when all of a sudden my companion jumps up and runs to the bathroom and pukes. Since there was no doctor there anymore we went to the front desk where we called the on call MTC doctor who told my companion to go lay down for a couple hours and then to come back and call him again. So we went back to our room were my companion told me he might want a blessing if hes not feeling better when he wakes up. So I let him sleep for a couple hours and sat out in the hallway next to our door trying to figure out how to give a blessing in my missionary handbook. At 9:30 we went back and called the doctor who proceeded to tell my companion he needed to go to the ER! For a stomach ache!

Before we left we asked one of the guys at the front desk to help us and we went into a little room close by and I was able to give my first blessing. It was such an awesome experience and it was like nothing I've ever done before but it was so cool and I'm so grateful for the opportunity I had to give that to my companion.

After that we headed out the door to a van which dropped us off at the ER. They took some blood and then we sat in the waiting room for an hour. Then as they finally called us back we were walking to our room and we hear Elder Starkey! Elder Shimata! And we turned around and see the two sisters from our district were in the room across the hall from us. It turns out one of them had left sick just a half an hour after elder shimata had!

Long story short after sitting in the hospital another 2 and a half hours they told us that they had no clue what was wrong and that they were going to call the van for us and if it got worse to come back. So the van came to get us at 1 in the morning, took us to walgreens to pick up his perscription and finally we were back in our room in bed by 2.

The next day he still was not feeling good so we ended staying in our room most of the day trying to catch up on some rest. Finally he decided that he was feeling good enough to try and eat some dinner. We went to dinner and right in the middle of dinner he ran out and threw up again in the bathroom. So a kid from my district who was done eating said he'd take him back to the room while I ate. But after they left they decided to go call the doctor again and for some reason he said that he wanted him back at the ER! We were both like WHAT THE HECK!!

Again long story short after another hour long waiting room wait and another 2 and a half hours back in the room they still had no idea what was wrong with him but miraculously Elder shimata started feeling better! we got back to our room by 10 that night and by the morning elder shimata was like new again!

Sorry that was a long pointless story but I'd just like to say something quick about Temples. I'm so grateful for the opportunity i have to go to the temple every p-day here. I always without a doubt feel the spirit there and recieve answsers to questions i have and I know the same will be for all of you as you strive to make it part of week or month or however often you can get there.

I am so grateful for the comfort heavenly father has been blessing me with and i am so grateful for all of your letters and prayers on my behalf. They help more than you can understand. I love you all tons!

Hasta luego,

Elder Starkey