Fam,
So I'm still I'm manila but I believe I will be leaving in the next couple of days. I went over to a doctor that had me get a CT scan to make sure nothing serious was going on in my head. And in the mean time she gave me some muscle relaxants and the lowest dosage of pain killer that she had. I have taken that for 5 days and the headache seems to be smaller so that's good, but I have really tight shoulder muscles so she switched my medication for the relaxant and I will take that for 5 days and if that doesn't work I'll have to do some kind of physical therapy. I should be out of here tomorrow or the next day. Being in Manila has defiantly been an experience. The hospital is in someways nicer then America and others its not. The main building is defiantly nicer, but the other two towers are not as nice, but still way better then anything in my mission. I have been feed like a king for the past few days as well, which has been nice to get some great food. There is a lady that cooks for us in the MRC and funny enough her name is divine and she can cook up some mean meals. I'm pretty sure I have gained some weight while i have been here. I also got to go to the biggest chapel in the Philippines on Sunday. It is HUGE! To give you an idea, it's like a mini hotel, multi story, and the chapel is like American sized. It's giant. I was also able to go to a fabric store and by some tela for pants. I got 4 pairs of very nice fabric that would have cost me the price of one in my area so I was very happy to that. We had a mini family home evening last night and we watched the Fiddler on the Roof. It's such a funny movie! I wasn't sure if it was okay to watch, but the couple missionaries approved it and said it was okay so we watched it and then ate a huge slice of chocolate cake:). Yes that was my favorite part. We do have transfers this week but I'm not sure who will get transferred. It could be either of us. Well I don't have much time to email being that the MRC doesn't have a p-day so I'll talk to you all next week. I love you!! Have a great week
Love,
Elder Mulliner
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
1/21/2010
Well the area medical advisor decided to have me come down to manila for a couple of days and I have been here for a little over a day. It really is a great place for a sick missionary to be. Well if your not contagious to anything. I have had the opportunity to go to the manila temple and do a session, which I was so grateful for. I have forgotten how great the temple really is and how wonderful I always feel when I go in. Today I went to St Luke's hospital and I had a couple of appointments, still no results or guesses. My first one was At a doctor who gives an overall view on you sickness, then he determines where you go. He thought that I might have an infection in my ear. So I went to the Ear Throat and Mouth doc. He shoved a little camera in my nose into my sinuses, yeah that didn't feel to great ha ha, then it went into my throat and then into my ear, I don't have an infection that he saw so I will be returning to the docs hopefully tomorrow to see a neurologist or however you spell it. I know I'm in good hands and I'm going to be fine in a few days. It will just take a few appointments to get the problem solved and then get me on a medication. So enough with the medical stuff. Being here in the MRC is great! I feel like I'm in America in manila. We went to a BURGER KING today and I ate a giant BBQ burger is was so good! Then I went and got a hymn book and now I'm back at the MRC and the missionary couple here are having me email you to let you know how I am. I still have a headache but well see whats happening tomorrow. I love you all!
Elder Mulliner
Elder Mulliner
1/17/2010
So this week has kinda been a bust as far as working goes. We had splits and there was a huge confusion on who was supposed to go where when the splits were over and we just ended up playing cat and mouse the whole day. We finally ended up in bnito soluvin at one of the members house and then the elders we were on splits with were mad at my comp. because he didn't tell them the right info. So they started fighting and yelling. So I was just sitting there waiting for the hissy fit to be over, and this old lady asked where we were going and told here to baligatan and she said well there goes the last jeepney for the night to baligatan. So I ran out in the street and whistled as loud as I could and the driver slammed on his brakes and baked up to where we where, so in the meantime my comp. and the other elders were still fighting, so i decided that somebody over 4 years old had to take charge. So I grabbed my comp. and made him get in the jeepney so we could go home for the night because its about a 1 hour drive so he was mad at me for stopping the yelling and didn't talk to me the whole ride home. When we got home I asked him what the problem was and he told me so I just said that fighting is no way to solve anything, especially in front of a member, so he was like well i don't even feel the spirit anymore so we didn't go work. He was still made and being a boob so I was like I'm sick of this were going to jollibees and I'll pay for you. So then he was all happy and glad, so that's one way I guess. Not the most common way but I guess it worked. Then the next day I went to the hospital and we didn't work that day because my body was just not its self so then the next day I got your package!:) And then we had weekly planning and then we went back to the hospital to get Xrays on my head. So now I'm just waiting to see what Dr chaffin/ elder chaffin has to say about my head. I don't know what it could be but I hope that something can be found because this is becoming a big stress on my body. I just have to keep pressing on. How was your guys week? I have been praying for g-ma and her health that it will get better. I hope that the doctors can help her. I love you all and I hope that you have an excellent week.
Love, elder Mulliner
Love, elder Mulliner
1/14/2010
So I went to the hospital and got my blood tested and my ears and throat, and it turns out that I have tonsillitis and I'm allergic to something in the air here. So the tonsillitis is the reason why I have had a bloody nose and ear so they gave me an antibiotic prescription and one for the allergic. I have to take the tonsil medicine for a week and then I'm supposed to take the allergic stuff until February but the problem is they don't have any right now so ill have to wait. So I'll start taking the tonsil medication tomorrow and then well see what happens. So I'll talk to you on Monday but that's just a quick email about what happened.
I Love You!
Elder Mulliner
P.s
I got my b day package, thanks for all the great treats and the cards!:") Peyton's was the best.
I Love You!
Elder Mulliner
P.s
I got my b day package, thanks for all the great treats and the cards!:") Peyton's was the best.
1/10/2010
Hey family,
So this week was a pretty good week. One of our investigators who was supposed to be baptised on the 16th is no longer going to be because of some of his past experiences with things and we have to wait for our mission president to interview him. After that, he will give him a date and that's that. I don't think that we will have any baptisms this cycle because we are doing a harvest which means we are teaching and finding people that want to become members but they just aren't ready for it. Well I haven't git the package that you sent to me yet but I might get it on Tuesday when we have our zone meeting, but I don't really know, so well see. I hope I do because I really miss chocolate cake lol. So when you send that package don't forget to throw some black socks in it, and maybe some deodorant not the old spice though because that gives my pits a rash for some reason and maybe a big bottle of ibuprofen. So anyway this week has been good over all. On the 8th we went over to this place called Annesephs and had a pizza. It was me and my comp., and bro Mata who works with us a ton and is a really good help to us, and then Hannah Faye, a recent convert of ours back when i first got here, we didn't sing but we had a good time so that's what i did. Tonight we are going over to the Dacuycuy family and having dinner over there. They usually have some great food so of course I'm excited. So speaking of food I have come to find out that I have eaten some pretty nasty food. It's called dinugoan, its pigs blood and pork and its baked and looks like a ball of dirt. Lucky for me I didn't understand what they were saying to my companion when I put it on my plate. All they asked me is if I liked that stuff and I said "I dunno but I'll find out". It was really good though! So after we ate and went home he told me and I was like that's nasty!!! And I couldn't believe that I had eaten that haha. So on Tuesday I'm going to talk to my mission pres. wife about my health. I have had a constant headache for about a month now. I thought it might be the heat but it was fairly cold here a little while ago and there was no change. Then I was cleaning out my ear and there was some blood coming from my right ear, not a ton but still some blood. Then Saturday my tonsils were swollen and it was pretty hard to swallow anything for a couple days. And then I saw some big red bumps on the back of my throat, and last night i had a bloody nose. So I might be going to the hospital to get a check up this week. Don't worry, I'm still going out everyday and working and I'm able to do everything a missionary does I'll let you know how it goes if I end up going. Well that's my report for this week. I hope your all doing great! Peyton is really getting so big! Dang.
I love you all!
Love, Elder Mulliner
So this week was a pretty good week. One of our investigators who was supposed to be baptised on the 16th is no longer going to be because of some of his past experiences with things and we have to wait for our mission president to interview him. After that, he will give him a date and that's that. I don't think that we will have any baptisms this cycle because we are doing a harvest which means we are teaching and finding people that want to become members but they just aren't ready for it. Well I haven't git the package that you sent to me yet but I might get it on Tuesday when we have our zone meeting, but I don't really know, so well see. I hope I do because I really miss chocolate cake lol. So when you send that package don't forget to throw some black socks in it, and maybe some deodorant not the old spice though because that gives my pits a rash for some reason and maybe a big bottle of ibuprofen. So anyway this week has been good over all. On the 8th we went over to this place called Annesephs and had a pizza. It was me and my comp., and bro Mata who works with us a ton and is a really good help to us, and then Hannah Faye, a recent convert of ours back when i first got here, we didn't sing but we had a good time so that's what i did. Tonight we are going over to the Dacuycuy family and having dinner over there. They usually have some great food so of course I'm excited. So speaking of food I have come to find out that I have eaten some pretty nasty food. It's called dinugoan, its pigs blood and pork and its baked and looks like a ball of dirt. Lucky for me I didn't understand what they were saying to my companion when I put it on my plate. All they asked me is if I liked that stuff and I said "I dunno but I'll find out". It was really good though! So after we ate and went home he told me and I was like that's nasty!!! And I couldn't believe that I had eaten that haha. So on Tuesday I'm going to talk to my mission pres. wife about my health. I have had a constant headache for about a month now. I thought it might be the heat but it was fairly cold here a little while ago and there was no change. Then I was cleaning out my ear and there was some blood coming from my right ear, not a ton but still some blood. Then Saturday my tonsils were swollen and it was pretty hard to swallow anything for a couple days. And then I saw some big red bumps on the back of my throat, and last night i had a bloody nose. So I might be going to the hospital to get a check up this week. Don't worry, I'm still going out everyday and working and I'm able to do everything a missionary does I'll let you know how it goes if I end up going. Well that's my report for this week. I hope your all doing great! Peyton is really getting so big! Dang.
I love you all!
Love, Elder Mulliner
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