I am very happy here!

I hurt my finger on the fan because one of the metal spokes that are on the outside was broken, so it was shaking in the wind. So I was trying to tuck it back into another one and my finger slipped and went into the fan. It is fine now. But I thought that I would get an infection in it and that would be really bad! I kept it really clean and it looks really good now! I am very happy that it is healing well.

The past couple of days have been really bad for me I woke up Saturday with a massive headache! It hurt so bad that I could not focus on anything all day Saturday. The pain was in the back of my head behind my right ear. It was really weird to have pain there but it was awful! I thought that it would go away so I just let it be. I took some medicine but it did not help at all. So then I thought that I needed to drink some water so I spent the rest of the day drinking water and that did not help at all. So then I figured that it would just go away in the night. So I went to bed and woke up Sunday morning and it was worse! But we had stuff planned so I had to just suck it up and be a missionary. I know that the Lord helped me through that day because I actually taught members a message after lunch. But my headache was much worse than it was on Saturday! Monday morning it was still hurting really bad so I called the mission presidents wife, who is in charge of anything that has to do with our health, and she was in a meeting in Sao Paulo so she could not talk to me so she was going to have Elder Call give me a call.  So I spent all of Monday in bed sleeping waiting for this Elder Call person to call me. He called and told me that he was a doctor and wanted to hear about my headache. I explained to him what and where my pain was and he told me that I had tense muscles in my neck and they were pinching some nerves in the back of my head. I have no idea how he knows by me explaining it over the phone. He told me that I should keep my chin up during the day and put some ice on it every night for the next couple of days and prop my head up at night right before I go to sleep. He told me also to get a muscle relaxer and take one every night. The amazing thing is I did that for the rest of the day on Monday and iced it at night and woke up on Tuesday and felt a littler better. But on Tuesday I did it all day and did everything that he told me and my headache is gone! I am going to keep doing it for a couple more days just to make sure. But I am so happy now that my headache is gone! Because it was really awful and when you are sick as a missionary you feel really bad because you can’t go and help your investigators and your companion has to just sit around while you sleep! I felt really bad but I could not do anything! I am so grateful for the doctor here! And that he knew what was wrong over the phone!

Other then the headache my week has been good! Easter was really weird for me not only because I was in so much pain but because I did not even know that it was Easter until someone told me Saturday night! And here they do something really weird they make a dummy of Judas, the apostle that betrayed Jesus, and they beat him up! It’s like a party to them to beat this dummy of Judas.

I love Stephen B. Allen he is awesome! He came and talked to us while I was at the MTC twice! He is an awesome speaker, I hope you enjoyed his talk!

I am using the bug spray but I don’t think that you will need to send me more because here they have this coil stuff that I don’t remember the name of. But it’s a coil and you burn it and it kills all the bugs and I do not get bitten in the night. For which I am very grateful!

I love the food a lot! It is so good I wish that you and Ryan could have some it’s awesome! I do miss eating American candy though. They don’t have any here. They have some American stuff but it is really expensive and I don’t buy it.

I am very happy here! Thank you for praying for me to understand the language! I know that your prayers are with me and that every prayer you say on my behalf will bless me and Heavenly Father will watch out for me.  I feel your love for me though my Heavenly Father! I know what you mean when you say you feel rejuvenated by the scriptures. I feel the same way every day when I have to walk all day and teach people the Gospel every day! I know that I would not be able to do that without the help from my Savior and Father in Heaven. I know that I am not doing any good here but Heavenly Father is doing good things through me! I realized that I do not convert anybody the Spirit does and that was an important lesson for me to learn as a missionary!

Love ya,

Elder Vaughn