Elder Roach in Atlanta Georgia North Mission

Text  message we received from Elder Nickel. : I am the physician for your sons mission. He attended zone conference today (Wednesday 9/21) and not only looks great but is feeling great just two days after his surgery. We will keep a close eye on him and make sure that he gets extra rest.

Well, this has been a weird week. Also there's a new update for apple 🍎 that has an option to put emoji s in the text automatically, so I'm going to do that. I spent Monday in the hospital 🏥 and got my appendix out.  Tuesday  I came home 🏡 and my comp went out with a member to teach.  Wednesday  I got back to work and really that was that.  Saturday  there was a baptism 🌊 for a child of record and we brought our prime investigator to it. She told us that the spirit told her that she needed to be baptized 🌊 and she cried during it and it was really cool 😎 and we were pumped ✊ and she chose October 22nd  as her date, which also happens to be my birthday 🎉. It was pretty amazing 😉. Idk 😐 really what else, it's been weird because I get really tired 😴 easily, some days I have to come home 🏡 and take a nap 😴 and that has been strange. I try to stay out as long as I can, but it's weird, I have a limit now, and it's really l...

Elder Roach was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday.  He felt well enough to go back to his apartment.  He will return to see the surgeon in one week.  He will rest and resume activity slowly.  There is a Zone Conference today (wednesday) which he will attend and rest if needed.  They expect a quick recovery.  For the first week he will see how he feels, maybe a few appointments or a dinner, no tracting or service. He is currently in a car area.  No lifting for a month, no basketball, ect..

Surgery Update We just heard from the mission nurse.  Elder Roach is out of surgery and everything went smoothly.  His appendix was inflamed and had not yet ruptured.  Some tissue surrounding the appendix is also inflamed so they are keeping him in the hospital to monitor.  9:37 AM

A lot happened this week. In fact, it was ranked top ten (even though there have only been 8) until Sunday  happened. I'll tell you the bad first. Remember how my companions appendix ruptured my first week into the mission? Well now they think that's happening to me. I'm currently writing this from a hospital bed😂. I'll send pictures. They don't know if it is my appendix for sure. Apparently the CT scan shows inflammation around where my appendix is, but the weird thing is my appendix is apparently hiding behind my other stomach stuff, so they can't see it. All in all, It was a pretty brutal Saturday  night, went into the urgent care and they told me to go to the ER. Idk I think I'll be fine, they'll do surgery later today if it is my appendix and if not I'm on antibiotics for now which might make me better. I'll give you guys an update if I get out of surgery before 6 pm. Also I got to use morphine on my mission. Anyways a lot of other good hap...

Hey all, how's the life? This week has been hectic, but also pretty amazing. Like I mentioned last week, it was transfers and my companion was leaving and I got a new companion named Elder Nadybal. I didn't realize this before, but now I'm the one leading the area, and I still don't really know how to get around. Look up peach tree road on Google maps some time, there's like 15 of them. It's been pretty dope so far though, we saw a lot of good things this week, I'll mention a few of them. So, some highlights, waking up at 5 to get to the mission office, meeting my grandpa, talking about all of the stuff elder Kirk did when he was a greenie, finding four new investigators and a few new solid guys, speaking in church on the commandments, getting an investigator to church to hear me speak on the commandments, and meeting two families that are super legit. This has been really weird. Before it was like my trainer knew exactly what to do always, but now that I...

Hey guys, p-day got moved to Tuesday this week because of the holiday on Monday.   Also this week is my first transfer. Elder Kirk has gotten  the boot and I'll finish being trained by his trainer, which is pretty  weird. Idk If I mentioned before but when you come out you're "born"  and when you go home you "die". Your trainer is your father and anyone  else he trains is your brother. So now my grandpa is my stepdad which is neat.   I have had a pretty great week, some highlights include eating  authentic Czech food (I'll put a picture), exchanging with a nice  Elder named Elder Egbert, finding a whole lot of new people,  exchanging with a crazy person named Elder Hernandez and really trying  to scramble everything together because exchanges are this week.  One of my favorite experiences this week happened when I was with  Elder Hernandez. He taught me a lesson about boldness. He talked to  everyone, and that includes peo...