Crocs to Flip-Flops

So this week was incredibly fast. Tuesday was zone conference and it was the best. We all met at the mission home and it was just our zone so it was a really great time with President and Sister Koster :) They are the best and you can really tell that they love you as they do their own children. We also had MTC exchanges (which is new missionaries from the MTC for the day into our area and they work with us, and go back after work is done.) And we (Elder Cagnayo and I) were in charge of it! haha It was a really good experience and the new missionaries just had that special spirit that comes from the MTC :) This week also, we reflected on President Koster's words about having a "vision" for our area and ourselves and what we want them to become. This past week, me and Elder Cagnayo came up with a vision for our group and it is defiintly a good one, we were guided by the Spirit. We were blessed with the highest attendance in our group since I have been here! We had 30 people come to church, it was amazing!!:)  This week was good. The Lord lives.

So let me briefly explain the subject line. So I haven't mentioned this in any of my letters, but I'm sure that you have noticed that in my pictures I have been wearing crocs.. haha. So for the past month I have had ingrown toenails, and so I have been able to wear crocs as we watched them and cleaned them. So this week because they weren't getting better and weren't healing, we got to go to the hospital here in our mission, and we saw a doctor today, They said that they would have to do a "minor procedure"  on my feet in order for them to heal. So that's exactly what we did. We met with the specialist at 12 and at 3 I was wearing nice hospital clothes (the ones that dont have the backs on them) and flip flops as I was being rolled down the hall to the surgery room. I was then laid on this table with a blanket as they strapped a "safety belt" to the table so I couldnt "fall off". I'm not sure but it seemed pretty fishy to me ;) They loaded my toe up with a couple shots of anesthesia and they tried to operate but I could still feel it, so they just unloaded about 5 more shots and took something out. I'm not sure if I have a toenail still on my foot because I didn't want to watch as they did surgery. So that's my watered down story of my first operation in my whole life. It was great of course! I'll send pictures next week:)  The Lord lives, The book of Mormon is truly the word of God:)

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Elder Cody Aguiar

Philippines Quezon City Mission