First, I sent a picture of our branch snowman. The zone leaders put me on splits with Elder Pollister in the front. He's from Hawaii and had never seen snow before he came here. I've never seen someone get so excited about snow. It was so fun to see him light up. He was in heaven.
Also last P-day, something crazy happened. My district's service assignment is to clean up after devotionals.....kinda like what I did at UVU. We usually get back pretty late. The branch president just tells us to get to bed as quickly as we can. Dolbin Choro and I had gotten back around 10:12 and were heading to our rooms on the third floor. The snow was pretty wet that day. While we were running up the stairs, he slipped. We both laughed. He felt dumb and got up and kept walking. All of the sudden, I got a really sick feeling and looked down at his shoe. It was covered in blood. I freaked out. He pulled his pant leg up and there was blood everywhere. It was a lot of blood. I ran to the bathroom (which was a few steps away) to get some paper towels. On my way there I ran right past the branch president. He looked confused so I just yelled that Elder Dolbin had slipped. I got some paper towels and a first aid kit. The branch president said that he thought it looked ok and that we could handle it. He was right. We cleaned it up and bandaged it.
Everything was fine, but for some reason, both of us still had this sick feeling in our stomaches. I told him we should go see Elder Wirthlin because he was an EMT. We went up there and showed him the cut. He said it looked fine. We thought maybe it wasn't a big deal. Then Elder Wirthlin asked if he had hit his face when he fell. The answer was no...he just slipped. Elder Wirthlin all of the sudden got really serious. He pointed at Elder Dolbin's face at said, "You have Raccoon eyes. They only happen when the body has severe trauma." We looked and sure enough, there was bruising under his eyes. We couldn't figure it out. We cleaned the cut. It was pretty deep, but it was ok. Then things got crazy. Elder Dolbin in a matter of seconds turned white. He looked at me and said, "Elder Low! I'm going to pass out!" and he dropped. Elder Chung (one of the Elders in the room and our new zone leader) and I caught him before he hit the ground. We all got super scared. Then, the branch president walked in. He said he felt the need to come back and saw that Elder Dolbin had just passed out. He told Elder Wirthlin and I to go get help.
We ran to the front desk and got a security guard. He got there, started playing with Elder Dolbin's leg and it started bleeding like crazy.
Around midnight, we had cleaned his leg up again. He asked me to give a blessing. Elder Chung and I gave the blessing (with oil) and Elder Dolbin went to the doctor the next morning. He's ok. He apparently had cut all the way to the bone so his body was freaking out. He's fine now though.
That's the biggest thing that happened this week. I got a new teacher. Her name is sister Tingey and she served in Fukuoka. She's very nice.
I'm trying my best. Good news is Elder Dolbin and I are learning tons. I love the rest of my branch and the work is HUGE!
So, Elder Mikkola on the right from Finland and his companion Elder Lazorro from Brazil. Lazorro Choro has been here for 15 weeks. The MTC lost his visa. He's incredible.
This MTC is too full. There are too many people at meals. Everyone is always late.
Anyway, I'm out of time. I love you all and miss you.
Hope to make you proud.
Love,
Elder Randy Kazuhiro Low
