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Finally feeling up to a P-day picnic

This week...

has been unlike any week that I have experienced on my mission or in my life for that matter.

This week marked the first time I have ever had to stay the night at the hospital! That's right ladies and gentleman, Elder Schmalz is in fact not indestructible! (although I really hoped that I was)

I was admitted into the hospital on Thursday due to an appendicitis scare. luckily for me, none of my organs exploded and I am safe back in my own apartment. Unlucky for me, I'm still feeling a lot of discomfort and they (the doctors) do not have an exact diagnoses for what is happening.

So this coming week will be filled with;

Facing some of my absolute worst fears

Needles

Doctors

CT scans

Further medical tests

Studying the Gospel

Trying to teach the nurses and doctors

Coming closer to my Savior

So i'm not having the greatest time of my life, but i'm trying to make the best of it.

Thank you so much for the prayers on my behalf, especially in the last week.

Thank you for the emails and the words of love and support!

I hope you have a great week.

Love Elder Schmalz

Yeah I'm not so good...

This week has not been the best of weeks. On Thursday I went to the
hospital with some abdominal pain thinking it might be my appendix.
Ended up staying 2 nights. Getting poked about 40 times with needles
and being completely alone.
Tomorrow I have a CT scan and I might be getting a colonoscopy on
Tuesday if they don't find anything tomorrow.
I'm freaking out! Please pray for me. I'm really not a happy camper right now.

The reason you didn't hear anything is because I was In the crappiest hospital ever. So absolutely no internet. They did an ultrasound, they saw something that seemed solid right of my navel, they have no idea what it is. Hence the ct scan and possible colonoscopy. But I am now out of the hospital and I will go back tomorrow for my tests. 

Re: Yeah I'm not so goo

P-day

We played football with the Hamburg Zone today and it was awesome fun!

I had the opportunity to return to Dresden, one of my very favorite cities in all of Germany, and tried to recreate to the best of my ability the very first picture I sent you on my very first P-day here in Germany!

Hallo!

Hallo!

This week was my first week in Forst, my new and potentially last area on my mission.....

Forst is a.....interesting place. It is extremely small but with a surprisingly big ward. The Forst ward is actually the biggest ward I have had on my mission with about 70-80 active members.

My companions name is Elder Wilkinson and he is from Kingston Upon Hull, a city in Yorkshire England. and let me tell you this has been a culture shock that I was surprisingly prepared for through the hundreds of episodes of "Top Gear" that i binged upon the summer before my mission! So that was a funny miracle that I witnessed this week.

But the highlight of this week was most definitely and without a doubt, seeing President Henry Kosak and his wife Sister Elke Kosak in Cottbus at an area conference broadcast.

He was my mission president for the first half of my mission and one of my heroes. 

So yeah, that was my week! i am doing well! 

Thank you for your emails and for your prayers.

Love 

Elder Schmalz