ER Adventures

This is Yuli

Hello everyone this week has been an adventure.

I am currently In Taipei right now as I email this! It is a long story so let me explain in the shortest way possible.

Ever since I had surgery in June I have had some stomach pain. I just pushed through it and was grateful for bedtimes so I could be relieved from my pain. But when I got transferred to Yuli it started getting a lot worse. I kept working as hard as I could but this week I couldn't stand it anymore. My stomach was so bad and it was really hard and painful to breathe.  A member (Xin Jiemei) offered to take me to a doctor, she is an angel. When we went to the doctor they diagnosed me with something and gave me some medicine. But it didn't help. It got so bad I couldn't eat, sleep, or even walk without feeling like I was dying. (I had to convince myself its not possible to have two appendixes lol)  So I called our mission doctor Sister Vatcher who is also an angel. She told me to make an appointment to go to a bigger hospital up in Hualien. So we were planning on going the next day when another member in our branch called (she's a nurse) and wanted to look at me. When she felt around in my stomach she was afraid that I had a hernia or something like that. (she doesn't speak any English so I was really confused the whole time) So she rushed me to the ER in Yuli. (the doctor didn't speak any English there either so I was still really really confused) They couldn't figure out what was wrong with me, so they just put me on pain medicine and kept me over night. That next morning at 5 am I was on the fastest train to Taipei (three hours). We arrived in Taipei and went straight to NTU where I previously had my surgery. I gave them the x-ray and the tests that they took in Yuli. The doctor looked at my x-ray and was really confused cause I had three metal clips in me from my appendicitis, which no one knew was there hahaha it wasn't a big deal but I now know I have metal in me. We did some tests and they still don't know what is wrong with me. Which is very very frustrating. But they set up a different appointment for today. Sister Vatcher thinks I have bad ulcers, and the doctors think I have IBS. So I am on medicine for both. I am still in pain, but It has improved a lot. I HAVE HOPE. I am praying today at the doctors we can find out more! 

But on the bright side, yesterday I was able to attend my old ward! I saw all of my member friends and my investigators! It was so much fun!! Sister Lu came to see me and told me about her mission call to Australia!! I am so excited for her to be a missionary on January 27th!!! I was hoping she would go to Temple Square so I could visit her in Utah, but Australia is just as special. She gave me my package from my family, which I loved. My family is so amazing.  I saw Zhang dx and Zhang Xuan Ye. Also Sister Xie!! LOVE HER. Also its really nice to see the temple again. 

One really funny thing that happened this week was my companion Sister Weaver on accident drank tea for the first time this week... It is really hard here because everything is in characters and when you cant read them you might mess up and eat or drink something that is against the Word of Wisdom. Like that one time I accidentally had coffee bread thinking it was wheat bread.  

Apparently there is another Typhoon coming towards Taiwan. President just called me and he doesn't know when it will hit, so we might be stuck here in Taipei for longer then expected. Who knows. All I know is that I want to get back to Yuli and start working again. We had set up with this really special investigator Ding Jiemei, but since we were not able to go the elders covered for us! Grateful for them!! 

My email is very lame this week so I apologize for that. My email might be bad, but the gospel isn't! ;-)

Be safe and have a good week! 

Sister Scharman

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Sister Scharman and Sister Davis with Lu Jiemei! 

Our Sister Training Leaders came down to Yuli at the beginning of the week!