I've heard
that everything's melting back at home - as for here, I always feel like I'm
melting with all this extreme hotness! Thank goodness for mga panyo
(handkerchiefs[for wiping sweat]) :) To answer everyone's questions
about how big Danao is, by American standards, it is a very small city, like a
Filipino Soldotna maybe. I'm not sure how to explain it, you'd have to
see around Danao for yourself :P
One of the things here in the Philippines is so many wires strung up for hanging clothes! They usually try to prop them up with a small stick, but they prop them up so the short Filipinos can go under them - we taller Americans keep running into them at night! Usually it's not a problem, but Saturday night, it was particularly dark and we were walking towards a potential investigator (hadn't been there before) and all the sudden I ran into one and it was right at eye level! Something jabbed my eye, and it turns out that right at my eye level, they had tied to sorta thick wires together over a really long distance for hanging clothes (during the day, it was night at the time) and the knot with the wires sticking out was right over the path! we were sure there was going to be blood, but there wasn't - my eye was just super red. we texted the mission president's wife because it hurt really bad and she said to tape gauze over my eye and go to an eye specialist Monday - so for Sunday, it looked like I was missing an eye :P anyways, after spending a day and a half using only one eye (not that easy, let me tell you) I went to an eye specialist who told me that I had gotten a 1/4mm scratch on the cornea (it's only 1/5mm thick so if had only gone another 1/4 mm deeper I would've been blind in that eye) so she gave me a "bandage contact lens" to have in for three days straight and she'll take it out tomorrow - first experience with contacts!
so my eye should be good, and learning the area so that if I need to lead the area, I can after this super short 4 week transfer - it's so crazy with that and the mission getting split in July and all the missionaries coming in (president said mostly sisters are coming in).
So yeah - got to go hope everyone's doing well!
og kakuginhang misyonaryo sa Ginoo,
Gugma (love),
Si Elder Dallin Carlson
One of the things here in the Philippines is so many wires strung up for hanging clothes! They usually try to prop them up with a small stick, but they prop them up so the short Filipinos can go under them - we taller Americans keep running into them at night! Usually it's not a problem, but Saturday night, it was particularly dark and we were walking towards a potential investigator (hadn't been there before) and all the sudden I ran into one and it was right at eye level! Something jabbed my eye, and it turns out that right at my eye level, they had tied to sorta thick wires together over a really long distance for hanging clothes (during the day, it was night at the time) and the knot with the wires sticking out was right over the path! we were sure there was going to be blood, but there wasn't - my eye was just super red. we texted the mission president's wife because it hurt really bad and she said to tape gauze over my eye and go to an eye specialist Monday - so for Sunday, it looked like I was missing an eye :P anyways, after spending a day and a half using only one eye (not that easy, let me tell you) I went to an eye specialist who told me that I had gotten a 1/4mm scratch on the cornea (it's only 1/5mm thick so if had only gone another 1/4 mm deeper I would've been blind in that eye) so she gave me a "bandage contact lens" to have in for three days straight and she'll take it out tomorrow - first experience with contacts!
so my eye should be good, and learning the area so that if I need to lead the area, I can after this super short 4 week transfer - it's so crazy with that and the mission getting split in July and all the missionaries coming in (president said mostly sisters are coming in).
So yeah - got to go hope everyone's doing well!
og kakuginhang misyonaryo sa Ginoo,
Gugma (love),
Si Elder Dallin Carlson
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