Remembering Mono on my mission.

I decided to share some funny moments from my mission. I remember a lot of stuff from my mission and I am going to blog about some memories that happened while on my mission. Did I ever tell you that there was a mono outbreak on my mission? It was soo strange. It was at a weird time that it even happened on the mission. It started happening right when we switched from my first mission President Friden to my second mission President. We think that it must have been the first trial that the second mission President , President Barney and his wife had to get through or something. It was weird. Okay so this is kinda all I remember with it starting. There were two Elder’s in my District. We called them the Traveling Elder’s, because they went to every Fair, or event that had a place for us to put up the table and share about Family History.
Anyway, they called us and told us that they both had Mono, LOL we were like how in the world did you guys get mono? We were like what are you Elder’s doing out there at all these Fairs, and events. Totally just joking around with them. During this time, I had been with my companion Sister Reynders. She was on her last transfer and was getting ready to go home. We bought little ice creams like Dreyers and Breyers and a bunch of different little ice creams and we shared them all the time. So I didn’t even think anything about it. She went home and found out that she had mono, but I had no Idea that she had it, then I ended up with a sister, not even kidding you. Her name is Sister Mano. Pronounced MONO, like the mono that was going around. Not kidding around at all. I was falling asleep at teaching appointments, I couldn't stay awake in the car, I would almost pass out at church. I would almost pass out during scripture reading with her. So then she was like Sister Morgan I think you have Mono. I was like I dunno. We checked and sure enough I had Mono. Then during this time, I switched companions, and I got Sister Robinson. She got Mono, and then when we found out she had mono. We got a call from Sister Barney the Mission President’s Wife and she said Sister Morgan, you and Sister Robinson are not allowed to go out and work. Don’t leave your apartment and do any of your appointments until Either President Barney or I, or the Dr. Get back to you and let you know when you can go back to teaching.
Seriously I don’t think that we would have even be able to have gone out and did any teaching, or tr-acting. Sister Robinson and I slept 18 – 20 hours a day. And then when we did get up, we would read a little bit. And a sister in the ward brought us all of her church videos and her tv/vcr combo and we would watch a few of the Church videos and then we would sleep and sleep and sleep. We didn’t hear anything from the Mission president or his wife in three weeks. Not even kidding. We had ward members that came over and cooked for us, but neither I or Sis. Robinson were even that hungry. But I remember the ward members were sooo great to us. Some of the ward members were freaked out that they thought Gosh are we going to get Mono from these sisters since we have been around them before they got Quarantined? So no one from the ward got it and we told them that they should be fine. I loved that ward so much.
Oh yeah And I forgot to mention this. HA HA. Since we got quarantined we were being funny and decided to put of a Scarlet colored piece of paper, in other words we made A Letter “M” as a joke that we were quarantined with Mono. We put this Red "M" on our Door as a joke. Well like three weeks later we were still a little weak but our bodies must have got some of the rest it needed and we got a call from Sister Barney that we were having Mission Conference and that we needed to be there, so a ward member drove us of there and when we got there we were literally sat at the back of the chapel with all the other elder’s and sisters that had gotten Mono in our zone. I don’t remember how many people that were in the back with us but I believe there were about 20 of us. Not even kidding. So all the other Elder’s and Sisters that didn’t have Mono were in the front of the Chapel and they us that had been told we had mono in the back. We had Mission Conference, and then they took us in the other room, where all of us that were sick met with the Mission Dr. and he told us that we probably got Mono through just have general contact with each other. You know that we would see the Elder’s and we would shake hands with them, and we had the sick germ on our hands and didn’t know it, and that is how we must have passed it. Ha ha ha so no I wasn’t having make out sessions with the Elder’s I Promise. LOL.
We were told to stay inside for another week and get some more rest, that was just for me and Sister Robinson. Some other Elder’s and sisters had been in longer than us, and were getting a lot better and were able to go back to work. I remember that we had to go and meet with the Dr. again and he just mainly checked up on us to see if we felt like we were ready to go back to work again. And Sister Robinson and I eventually went back out and did the Lord’s work once again.
The Mission Dr. Said that once you get Mono it never ever leaves the body, but if you take care of your body, you shouldn’t have another episode with it. When I was in college one time like 6 years a go, I did have another episode where Mono knocked me on my butt once again. But I got over it a lot quicker than a month. I remember being totally tired and unable to even keep my eyes open for a week or so. And then it passed. So I hope I care for myself so I don’t have to have another Mono episode again. It was soo not fun.