Wow; where do I even start? I was absolutely amazed to hear about all of the crazy things you had going on this week (Graduation, Manu's Family coming, our beautiful Lexie getting married)!! I can't believe so many things changed so drastically in such little time. It's absolutely amazing how radically different life can become after just one week. I hope you enjoyed having Spencer home for the week and I imagine he loved being there alongside you all for Elin´s graduation. I am so proud of her and seeing her grow more every week. I heard Dottie is getting sick and that's super sad. Elin loves that dog more than she loves me, her own flesh and blood, and I know she is going to be ruined if it's Dotties time to move on.
In other news Lexie looked amazing and I'm sad I couldn't be there with you all! I miss that girl even though we fought most of the time. I still wish I could've been there though so that I could've been in some of those pictures with you beautiful people. You all look like you're growing so much!! Or better said that you and dad are shrinking and Alec is shooting up!! It's so insane to see you all now. I'm almost positive it's gonna be shocking to see you all once I'm home.
For now though, I'm living it up here in the mission field. I got a super sick stomach bug this week and I have zero idea why! Since Tuesday I have basically been living in the bathroom. I have 20 months here in the mission field and up to this day I have never been so sick in the stomach as I was this week.----- I'd just like to warn you and all of the other people that are reading this that I'm about to go into extreme detail now and so if you don't like that super gross stuff then just skip this paragraph. ------ So, I know each and every person on this earth knows what is is like to get a little food poisoning or something and get diarrhea. It sucks right?!?! Yea, well this week I learned there is something much less fun than getting diarrhea from food poisoning. I'm not sure what caused it but in the middle of the night Tuesday, I woke up with a wrenching knot in my stomach and I couldn't handle it. I tried to just sleep and sleep but I couldn't. It was like I went into super man mode and jumped off my top bunk and went into the bathroom and began to die. I thought to myself something like this, ¨this is just regular diarrhea, it'll be over by morning time¨. Man how wrong I was. Morning came and it began to get worse. More frequent and more runny. By the afternoon I was destroyed. It was no longer poop leaving me but straight stomach acid. If I ate anything it would come out 4 or 5 hours later in the same form I swallowed it in. Zero digestion whatsoever. Thursday night is when it truly started getting fun with me pooping my pants (for the second time this week) and me once again spending a good portion of my night on the toilet. I tried to get up once I thought I was done and thanks to the huge amount of dehydration I passed out once I stood up. After regaining consciousness I stood up and started to throw up. Let's just say, it made for a reeeaaaalllllllyyyy long night.
The following days of the week were quite similar with us working all the days everyday and making frequent stops at home so I could once again empty the tank of all the stomach acid that was in me. We worked the hardest we could and it was rough but in the end I was truly surprised with how much success we had in spite of the amount of time I spent this week on the toilet, if you know what i mean ;)
All in all, the week was really fast and I am mostly feeling better and getting over my stomach bug. Last night I only woke up once to throw up but I'm doing better because it was only once and not 4 or 5 times like the other nights. I am happy and all of you who have been praying and asking my parents about me I thank you tons! I want to assure you all that I'm going to be fine! Everyday I'm getting better and with time I'll be better than ever! I love you all and I hope you all the best in everything.
Love,
Elder Jonah McKee
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