Week Eighty-two

Many birthday greetings from the good side of the wall.

Your birthday celebration sounds like it trumps both mine since I've been a missionary haha. Sword fish tacos sounds a lot better then potatoes and gravy. It's amazing how you stay 29.

Last week was very interesting for me! Because I was in the hospital on Monday. We were playing football with the district in Lübeck on Monday. I fell down right onto my shoulder and like couldn't move it all all immediately. I also couldn't really let it hang or it hurt a lot. So I sat on the bench and like tried not to throw up because it hurt a lot. One of the sisters in our district is an EMT or something (I always get hurt with EMT's around me) so she checked me out. We called Sister Kosak and she just told me to go to the hospital. The doctor took one look at me and told me that I broke my collarbone. So he sent me to X-rays and we got that taken care of. He tried taking my shirt off, but I just wasn't having it haha it hurt too bad.

He had to like rip it off me while I was yelling at him. Kind of like Will Ferrel in Old School...but yea the X-rays showed that I had no breaks. But I did have a grade 2 ac joint separation. Which means my collarbone is kind of sticking up and my shoulder is lower than usual. No pain, no gain. But the overall deal is that it will heal itself and there's no point in surgery or anything. I'm on pain meds and doing stretchy band therapy and doing missionary work. My life is great.!

So that happened on Monday.

Diesntag: Tuesday was fun! I like slept all day and rested. We had one appointment with E D. He is so awesome! He wanted to be baptized like 2 years ago, but totally lost contact with the church somehow. We met again and talked about baptism and how we can help him and he's totally on board to do everything to find his answer. He's from Ghana, so we teach in English, and he has a family! So hopefully we'll help these people find their answer and receive some blessings. That night we went to Lübeck and slept over. We kind of had a money crisis haha so they had to pick us up.

Mittwoch: Tuesday was more recovery, but we did have two joint teaches. One with K and M from the ward. The other was with R and K from the ward. They both went OK.....language barriers with them both are keeping us from teaching like we want to. We also had interviews with President Kosak that morning. We had a normal district meeting, but President and Sister Kosak were there. it was really cool and my interview was great too. I learned what day I'm coming home......ask president if you want to know haha.

Donnerstag: Thursday was just Bruder K from the ward. We went and taught him about receiving answers to prayer. It was a good lesson and he gave us peanut butter after. And then I went home and rested my shoulder.

Freitag: Friday was a full day of rest. That's when I bought my new meds because the ones the doctor prescribed were out. But we went on exchanges that night so I went up to Lübeck.

Samstag: The Exchange in Lübeck was tight. We didn't do too much but we had an appointment with an American! We taught the plan of salvation and it was like really powerful.

Sonntag: Last day of rest. We ate at the F's who made us mountains of food. That's the best. Then I took a nap and we planned for the week.

So, my week was pretty boring. Sitting in the apartment all day is so boring. I don't want it anymore. My shoulder is doing better and I move it all around and I can work normally with it. It hurts if I stretch it too far up or across my body. Everything is fine.

The week was good though. Like I needed to stay inside and sleep all day. My shoulder would have exploded if I didn't but being inside means like a lot of study and thinking. Which is also good. I'm excited for life and the rest of my mission.

We can totally wear khaki pants now....weird.

Well, I hope you have a great week!

Love and Miss you all!

Elder Pollard