It's been a crazy last three days.
We were planning on visiting Sarah's dad on Monday, however, Sarah called him to see if we could come over and she found out that her dad had fallen during Sunday middle of the night and so she asked if when I came home, that I could go check on him and perhaps take him to the hospital. I did check on him after work on Monday and found him in a dizzy state. I took him to McDonalds to get something to eat and afterwards, we went first to urgent care, but since we couldn't find his insurance card, and since they said we might have to anyways, we went to Redlands Community Hospital, to the emergency room. Sarah came later and we were in there until 11pm. He was told to wait overnight at the hospital, but we were there for all of his tests and things. The doctors think it was a psychiatric problem and there was nothing really we could do about it.
Monday and Tuesday I worked at Lewis Elementary in SDC for Mrs. Melissa Reyes. I was with Ms. Wendy and Ms. Bonnie, who are probably my two most favorite SDC aides that I work with. Also, I had told the sub manager, Julie Barrios, all about my father-in-law's admittance to the hospital on Tuesday, so she was really concerned, and at the end of the day when I turned in the keys and I had told her I wasn't feeling good, she let me know that I could take the Wednesday (today) off (which I did) as long as I let her know beforehand. She was so nice to me. On Monday, she shared her lunch with me, two ribs. The night when I took Sarah's dad to the hospital, Monday, I had the beginnings of a sore throat. But it got worse overnight. In fact, I woke up at 3am with a terrible sore throat and so I decided to go get medicine in the middle of the night. I wasn't successful. Target, CVS, and Food 4 Less, were all closed, so I had to settle with some cough drops from the local gas station. I came home, and got whatever sleep I could get left. Tuesday at work, needless to say, was a very hard day for me. I was cold so much that I needed to zip up my coat in the classroom, and the air conditioner wasn't even on.
Mom brought Lucy and Jesus' table over so we could make it a desk. Mom told me to stay at home and not get Arno sick. She got us some Dairy Queen burgers and she stayed and chatted with me and we listened to Jacob's sister missionary's talk on the radio that he sent in his letter.
I really did better today. I got to sleep in til 11am and then I cleaned up the house, putting the new vacuum together and vacumming and making some macaroni and cheese for dinner.
Then I went to mutual and a meeting with the Young Men's president and first counselor, Jesus Noriega and Adolfo (Fito) Rubalcava. The meeting was good. I volunteered my time to different things, like our Baptisms next week and a session of volleyball in two Saturdays. He gave us the lesson schedule.
Then it was mutual time and we were with Hermanos Nievas, to learn more about our family history and to sign the young men up for accounts. Brother Nieves taught us about the importance of family history and I did the translating from Spanish to English for him. I got to know the boys pretty well...at least get on a first name basis with them. There is Josh Mondragon, the boy I know well because Nahomi is his sister and best friend to my brother. Isaac Garcia, the priest and Bishop's son. Then there is Edward and Luis Guillen, and Aaron and Jojo, or Joseph Jorge Tovar, who have their family history done back to the 700s AD. And Jorge was there as well. He gets a ride from Jesus. Edward and Luis have a sister named Vivi who is going to Kaiser, and Edward is in 6th grade going to Sycamore Hills. I told him I might see him there one of these days. So very good day with the young men.
I spent my day learning Blackbird by the Beatles on the guitar because it was the prominent song of Boss Baby, a movie I watched on Netflix today.
Tomorrow I have a doctors appointment early morning.
