Easter-- and Still Sick :(

So Easter is celebrated on Monday here so today is Easter! Friday they celebrated Good Friday! But we only went to our area 3 days so the work is really slow.   I have been really sick ha. I have a boil growing big in my armpit from when I couldn’t shower for three days.... haha so hopefully that goes down or pops soon! I have been getting migraines since last Wednesday and my throat kills and stomach is really weak but hopefully gets better! And hopefully we get to go to our area more! I am sorry we really have just sat at our house most the week!  The reason we don’t go anywhere is cuz the zones won’t take us! I want to work but we can’t get to our area! I just study and sleep all day.

Sorry I forgot the cord again. We are netting in kolo (town) but if I can find a computer later I will try and send pictures! Or sometime this week! Sorry...

I gotta go. Talk next week! Hopefully we go out and do stuff this week so I have stuff to tell you!

"...two angels looking like missionaries"

Not much happened this week. I am now working in Popua but haven’t even been there cuz I was sick pretty much all week. I didn’t even shower 'til Thursday. The rash got super bad but again I do not have my adapter to send pictures to show you. I am feeling a lot better! Basically I’ve just been getting a lot of rest but we don’t stay in our area cuz they don’t have a house for us there.  Instead, we stay with the zone leaders and eat their leftovers.  I sleep on the floor and there are so many mosquitos! One night it was really bad.  They were out like crazy. I sleep on my side so half of my face is eaten by the bugs and the other half is fine! Ya, it’s annoying haha.  The zone leaders are in the old mission office so I get warm showers for now.  :)  We got switched out of Halaleva and work in Popua. We are just waiting ‘til they tell us we have a new house. It just sucks cuz I get stuff stolen all the time where we are now cuz we can’t lock our door and people always go in there. Stuff like a tie, my kafa(belt), a tupenu, ten bucks, my mp3 player. (This culture is really different.  They think everything belongs to everyone!) It’s irritating but I just try and find it! I have found the mp3 and kafa but not the rest. I hate locking everything up in my suitcase every time I go to a different room.

A couple days we walked into town cuz I got sick of leftovers so I have been spending more money this week. Today we were walking around in town and this guy came up to me and Haleki and was like “My girlfriend had a dream that I was carrying her cuz her feet were cut up and mine were starting to get cut too. Then two angels looking like missionaries came and took her and said that they will take her for now.” So we went and taught her and it went really good! First time teaching in forever! But it sucks cuz it isn’t in our area so we might have to pass her on to someone else. But we got a free pizza today walking around in town!

To answer your questions, Mom, I watched all of General Conference but priesthood in English. It was good but feels weird having it all in English! Ya it’s hot here but it was way hotter in Vava'u! They do let missionaries go to the temple. I think they have times where you go as a zone but I haven’t really heard much cuz I have been hundreds of miles away haha! I still haven’t gotten your package yet. Maybe later today if it is here.

Well, nothing else really exciting happened this week just chilling! Sorry haha boring I know! But I will try and get you pictures sometime this week! Anyway I gotta go. I love you all tons! Thanks for sending Elder Naeata that package!  Love you guys!

Elder Huntsman

Good-bye Vava'u. Hello Dengue Fever!

(In last week’s letter it was clear Kamden was struggling.  His response this week---Just consider last week’s letter an April Fool’s Joke!  Whatever it was, we consider it a tender mercy that he got to the main island when he did and received medical attention for the Dengue Fever. The Lord is certainly mindful of all of us.   Praying for his speedy recovery!)

So this week was really weird. Tuesday was just a typical Tuesday-- nothing wrong! Wednesday hit and my body was super sore and I had some weird bumps on my skin that I figured was just from the water because it has happened before and the pain was just cuz it’s cooling down at night.

Then Thursday we were going to go to a house at 8:30 in the morning to get our hair cut but I woke up and couldn’t walk! My legs were completely unable to support my body so the WHOLE day we stayed in and I just laid there, barely being able to make it to the bathroom when needed. The Zone leaders came over and said I was flying early the next morning to Tonga so that I could interview with President. So my comp Elder Tu'akalau packed my bags the way I told him to cuz I couldn’t move really. Friday we got up and I tried getting dressed and almost pass out but the Zone Leaders kept pushing me saying the plane was at 7 so I had to hurry. (It was 5:45!)  (The plane didn’t leave til 8:45). So I got dressed and barely walked out to the car. I was miserable. We waited for 2 hours before I can even check in and everything. I flew on the 6 passenger plane back to Tonga and when I got to Tonga I sat at the airport by myself for an hour thinking "Is anyone coming??"

I finally got to the office and they said, “Oh, get ready. We are going to a zone conference where you will be able to meet with Pres.” But I saw the mission nurse and she said “No he isn’t going anywhere!” So they gave me a room in the motel that the people stay at when they come from other islands to go to the temple and I tried my best to take a 30 minute nap even though I laid there for 3 hours. I decided to take a shower, my first warm one in 7 months, which was nice.

Then we got kicked out of the hotel cuz people were coming Monday from 'Eua to stay there. So now I got my companion and we are living in one MQ (missionary quarters) and working in a different area. But today is transfers and they are bringing Missionaries to the MQ we are staying in so since we don’t have one they are getting us a Hotel for at least a week or until they can fix one up. My new comp is Elder Jarequi (pronounced Haleky). He is from Ogden and is a Marine. His attitude and personality are very similar to mine so we get along good!

Oh, the disease I have is what they call here Tengi Fever (Dengue Fever) and my bones ache, I itch like crazy and can’t shower, a rash is all over my body that looks like a spotted lizard or something. I threw up my first two days not being able to eat anything. My joints all swelled up. It kinda sucks you know??? I can walk now. New symptoms pop up every day! I had a rash, it went away, and a different looking rash popped up last night and this morning. The treatment is rest and drink a lot.  I take ibuprofen or Tylenol for pain and Benedryl for the itch. It isn’t contagious. I have pictures but forgot to bring the adapter here so I could send them.  My hands look way cool haha! I took a shower yesterday and it was the worst decision of my life! I itched for two hours straight all over my body haha! Apparently a ton of missionaries are getting it. Mine just seems to be a little different or something cuz theirs usually went away after about 3 days but mine just keeps changing haha! I am fine though don’t worry. I am actually loving it right now haha! Anyways ya I am doing well. Don’t worry! MOM, DON'T CALL THE OFFICE! IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I WILL HAVE THEM CALL YOU!!! But ya all is well :) We will watch conference this week so hopefully I understand it more in Tongan this time than last haha!

Love you all :)

Elder Huntsman